Gaming on Laptops – Notebooks, PC gaming and more

So, after the rumours of an Alienware M18x, now comes a supposed 14-inch model, the Alienware M14x. There is very little information about specifications, but Nvidia GeForce GT 555M, AMD Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6830 have been mentioned as possible GPUs. And this time, at least, there is a picture of the laptop. If we are going to believe all the rumours, Alienware is going to have 5 different lap... more.

I'm amazed about how well the Crysis 2 Demo runs on older hardware. It runs very nicely (around 30 fps) on my desktop (Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3 GHz, ATI Radeon HD 4670) at 1440x900 and Gamer settings. I can even go up to Advanced settings and 1280x800 and get around 25 fps (as in the original game, it's very playable at 25 fps). If you have graphics card with a similar performance, you can easily ... more.

Asus announced at CeBIT the update of their G-series of laptops: The Asus G74SX is the new flagship of the brand. This 17-inch 3D gaming laptop gets the new Intel Huron River platform with Sandy Bridge processors and the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M, that seems to be an overclocked version of the GTX 460M. For 3D they stick to Nvidia 3DVision, 120 Hz display and 3D glasses. If you'd like to a... more.

Finally, a side-by-side comparison between the Nvidia GeForce GTX 485M and the ATI Radeon HD 6970M, with the same processor (an Intel Core i7 2920XM), courtesy of Tom's Hardware. They only test 4 games: Crysis (of course), F1 2010, Just Cause 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, but as both cards are tested in the same laptop (a Clevo P150HM assembled by MALIBAL), the comparison is very inter... more.

This seems a site devoted to the Radeon HD 6970M lately... But Tom's Hardware has published an interesting set of benchmarks of the AMD Radeon HD 6970M CrossFireX, putting it against the GeForce GTX 470M SLI and 480M SLI (no 485M, sadly). They don't test a lot of games, only COD: Modern Warfare 2, DIRT 2, Crysis and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, but you get the idea. Source: AMD's Mobility R... more.

This time the benchmarks are from Notebookcheck and, contrarily to the benchmarks published at Notebook Journal, they DO compare the 6970M against the GTX 485M but... Oh wait! The processor is quite different: an Intel Core i7 740QM in the laptop with the 6970M vs a Core i7 2630QM in the one with the GTX 485M. The difference between these processors is not small: the 2630QM is 40-50% faster in som... more.

The guys at Notebook Journal have benchmarked a Clevo W860CU by Eurocom with the all-new ATI Radeon HD 6970M. Sadly, there are only a few benchmarks comparing it with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M, and none against the newer GTX 485M, but in most comparisons the ATI wins at high resolutions. The site is in German, but you can go directly to the benchmarks. Source: Notebook Journal. Via: Portables... more.

I have just added some new laptops to the site, all of them with Intel Sandy Bridge CPU: First of all, the new gaming laptops from Clevo, the 15-inch P150HM (Sager NP8150) and the 17-inch P170HM (Sager NP8170), both of them available with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 485M. According to the GTX 485M benchmarks by Notebookcheck, this is a huge improvement over the GTX 480M. This card is also available... more.

Many manufacturers have launched their laptops updated to the Intel Sandy Bridge at CES 2011 and MSI is one of them. One of MSI's featured laptops at CES has been the MSI GT680R, a 15.6-inch gaming laptop that's meant to be one of the fastest on Earth. As I have already told you,  MSI Iberia was kind enough to send us a review unit, so here you have the resulting review. The review unit I got ... more.

Maybe you were disappointed by the GPU options of the Alienware M17x R3, but wait, there is more: Eric from Dell News, Tips & Tricks reports there is an upcoming Alienware M18x with dual 6970Ms available (dual GTX 460Ms are also mentioned, but that's not so great, is it?). While it's only a rumour, many news in Eric's site have finally become true, so I'd give it a good amount of credibility. ... more.