• Aight, getting a new netbook inbetween $300-400 and some kinda desktop that can run games
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Netbook criteria: Preferably cheaper and with a higher resolution but I'll leave it to you guys how important the resolution is Preferably with an ATI card so I can still run Garry's Mod fine Like four hours of battery life or more would be preferable Desktop criteria: less is more and I don't think more than 600 or 700 on the tower is neccesary but don't care if you go overbudget just keep the whole build under like 1500 monitors keyboards speakers included I don't care if it's preassembled or not but just get all the neccesary tidbits like cable ties, thermal paste, fan filters, fan controllers etc Used for light gaming occasionally maybe something heavy like gta4 but don't need to have 60fps on highest with 100xAA Please no flashy LED shit preferably white or metallic case don't care if it costs a lot as long as it looks nice Show me what you've got hardware forum Thanks in advance
There's only a couple of netbooks with discrete graphics and they cost a fortune. They drain power a lot, and you're not going to get one for $400. It's a netbook, unless it's browsing the internet and playing music, you've missed the point completely. How much do you plan to spend on the desktop, do you need a monitor/mouse/keyboard/Operating System, and can you salvage parts from your current computer like a DVD drive or hard drive?
[QUOTE=Dr Nick;27002855]There's only a couple of netbooks with discrete graphics and they cost a fortune. They drain power a lot, and you're not going to get one for $400. It's a netbook, unless it's browsing the internet and playing music, you've missed the point completely. How much do you plan to spend on the desktop, do you need a monitor/mouse/keyboard/Operating System, and can you salvage parts from your current computer like a DVD drive or hard drive?[/QUOTE] Aside from an OS I can't really salvage anything from my laptop I just assumed that there were some netbooks that could run source games fine after looking at newegg and seeing some 300-400 range netbooks with HD 4250 cards (a bit better than 8400M cards) and noting that my friend who had a Mobility Radeon X1250 (It was slightly faster than a GMA 950 but was completely outclassed by the GMA 4500) in his cheap laptop he bought a few years ago and it ran Garry's mod and Half-life fine on -dxlevel 8
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