Help with system requirements :0

10-24-2011, 03:31 PM #1

Hey there's only one game I'd like to play and I just want to know if my laptop would be able to run it before I get my hopes up, any reply would be greatly appreciated!
I'm hoping to play Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy and the specs of my laptop areeeee...
2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3-2310M Processor ( 2.10GHz 1333MHz 3MB ),
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6550M 1GB, and 8gb of RAM...
So what do you think? :-\

**NaturalViolence** · 10-24-2011, 04:03 PM #2

It will likely run OK, I'm not sure how heavy that particular game is but with that clock rate I would expect slowdowns in certain areas.

10-24-2011, 04:17 PM #3

(10-24-2011, 04:03 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: It will likely run OK, I'm not sure how heavy that particular game is but with that clock rate I would expect slowdowns in certain areas.

Would an i5 running at 2.3ghz with turbo boost available run any differently?
I think i might return this one i just bought and go ahead and pay $120 more for the i5, would it be worth it? Performance and graphics wise, what do you think?

**admin89** · (This post was last modified: 10-24-2011, 08:24 PM by admin89.)

i5 is far better than that i3 as long as it pairs with a decent GPU (Nvidia GT 540M, Ati 6650m)
i5 2410m @ 2.7Ghz (2 core) http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i5/Intel-Core%20i5%20Mobile%20I5-2410M.html
i3 2310m = hopeless

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 10-25-2011, 01:11 PM by NaturalViolence.)

Since the OP decided to PM me I'll post my reply here as well.

Quote:It's pretty simple to calculate. They are both the same chip just clocked at different frequencies so all you have to do is (100/2.1) * 2.3 = 109.5%. In other words the 2.3GHz chip is clocked 9.5% higher so it will perform 9.5% better.

You won't notice the difference between the two. GC games will run ok and wii games will run poorly on both.

However in my PM I forgot that i5s have turbo boost since he just said 2.3GHz and made no mention of the turbo boost frequencies.

Without turbo boost that's a 9.5% increase. With turbo boost on two cores that's a maximum increase of 27%.

2.7GHz with turbo boost is still not enough to run the heavier wii games at fullspeed. As for whether it's worth it or not that depends on how much of a price increase $120 is (I don't know how much the laptop costs initially).