What graphics card?

[missacs1984]

i am on a bit of a budget and there are two laptops ive seen. they have both the same spec, other than graphics card. one has a NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G and thew other has a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. what would be the better one? i like playing games such as roller coaster tycoon 3 and the sims 2. please don't recomend other graphics cards, as these are the only two. thanks

[ChuckFickens]

There is not a huge amount to choose between them performance wise, I would go for the ATI, firstly because it has it's own memory and doesn't steal from the system memory, secondly, ATI are making more reliable laptop cards than Nvidia at the moment. Some Nvidia cards are suffering when they get hot (the internal soldering fails)

Keep in mind neither of them are really gaming cards at all, but they will both play the games you mentioned, probably on medium quality settings.

[missacs1984]

thanks. i forgot to mention, the one with the nvidia card has 500gb of memory wheras the other has 320gb. would this make the nvidia card the better choice since you said that the other had its own memory?

also, on a seperate note, could anyone tell me if any of the following information means that it is wireless enabled as this is all it says and i don't really understand it. thanks again

Networking
WLAN Draft-N 802.11 b/g/n
LAN GbE LAN

[daffy654]

the 500gb and 320gb refers to the size of hard drive,not the graphics card memory.320GB is plenty of storage space for the average home computer user.I would stick with Chuck's suggestion of the ATI graphics card,dedicated graphics memory is generally better than shared or on-board graphics.

[missacs1984]

ok thanks. sorry to throw another into the equation but what about a
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M with up to 1759 MB of Intel®
Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0 (64 MB of dedicated video memory,
up to 1695 MB of shared system memory)???

(i copied and pasted from the website)

[ChuckFickens]

WLAN Draft-N 802.11 b/g/n means it is wireless (but you can't buy a laptop these days without wireless as far as I know)

the intel card you've just asked about is by far the lowest spec one out of the 3 you've listed

[Austyn]

Graphics Card Comparative Hierarchy:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-graphics-card,review-31661-7.html

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