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Shaaktar
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HP is having problens to fix my machine, and they are offering me one that is superior in General, but i ma not sure about the video card, can u help me?
This is the model they are offering me now
HP Pavilion dv4-2080br Entertainment Notebook PC (WJ175LA)
Mine was a HP Pavilion dv4-1290br Entertainment Notebook PC

My sound card was a Nvidia 9200
the new one is ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4550

What can u say about this card and its game performance?

Good Highlights about this change of machine
Processor Core2 Duo -> i5
DVD -> Blue Ray

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There's nothing bad about that deal on the surface, Shaak. The processor is a nice improvement, and the other overall specs are pretty similar. You do get twice the hard drive space, and it's a faster drive as well. Both video cards are in the same general range, the primary differences being that the ATI is more advanced tech, while the Nvdia will be more compatible with Open GL games like City of Heroes.

The CoH engine has been recently updated to minimize ATI issues but I don't use ATI so I don't know if that's really true. I'm a fan of Nvidia in general so maybe you could ask them if they have an Nvidia model available.

Perhaps Omni or Gopher could offer additional advice as they're hardware knowledge is even better than mine.

It would sure be nice to have you back playing with us.
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Shaaktar
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marqaha wrote:

The CoH engine has been recently updated to minimize ATI issues but I don't use ATI so I don't know if that's really true. I'm a fan of Nvidia in general so maybe you could ask them if they have an Nvidia model available.


Have already done that, and it seen the Nvidia is haveing some issues coz there are no notebooks with Nvidia on the new series.

On Monday i will close the deal and it will take like a week for the computer to arrive, so may be back by Mid July, i will need to install the game all over again.

Anyway, on August i was planning to buy a new computer coz my desktop also died and my wife asked for another laptop instead of a desktop, so i was planning to give her this one and buy another for me I have already seen some models and there are some with BlueRay and Nvidia 310 wich is a good video card upgrade that can handle better the ultramode big grin

Thanx a lot Marq
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Finally my new laptop arrived

yeah, a lot longer than expected

But i must say i am happy coz it really is a lot better
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Congratulations, Shaak! Glad it worked out for you in the end. smile