Inspron 15R good for Battlezone II?

[FallenAngel]

Inspiron 15R
Bluetooth Dell Wireless 365 Internal Bluetooth (V2.1 + EDR)
PROCESSOR Intel®Core™ i3-380M (2.53GHz, 4Threads, 3M cache)
BATTERY OPTIONS Lithium Ion Battery (6-Cell) – Up to 4 hours, 2 minutes of battery life*
DISPLAY 15.6" High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLifeâ„¢
SOUND OPTIONS HD Audio 2.2 Support SRSâ„¢ Premium Sound
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) - w/ Roxio Burn 1.0
WIRELESS CARDS Intel®Centrino® Wireless-N 1000, 802.11 g/n
Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Adobe Reader Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
VIDEO CARD Intel® HD Graphics

2GB Shared Single Channel Memory + 250GB 5400RPM HDD edit
SERVICE PLAN 1 Year Limited Hardware Warranty (Shipping included 24x7 phone support) edit
SECURITY SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter, 30-Day Trial edit
FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam


So would it be good for Battlezone II?

[GSH]

It'll run it ok. Something with discrete graphics from ATI (AMD) or nVidia would tend to run games a bit better. Intel integrated video tends to be the bottom of the performance charts. Wish it wasn't, as it's the most popular video by units sold. Like McDonalds, a billion made is not always a billion enjoyed.

You can be sure that the integrated video will serve up a mean game of minesweeper. Rock-solid 60fps all the way.

-- GSH

[General BlackDragon]

You can be sure that the integrated video will serve up a mean game of minesweeper. Rock-solid 60fps all the way.

[PowerB]

I have an Inspiron 1525 (Almost the same specs) and it can run BZ2 without a problem. As GSH said though, my main computer with a Nvidia GPU (FX5500) tends to run it better.

[FallenAngel]

Alright well now instead my dad will give me a tower and 64 bit windows 7 and a liquid cooling thing so now with my 450$ iam buying a geforce GTX550 Ti and the ASUS mother board for it and a AMD Anthlon II processer and if I can say 4 GBS ram. I saw gameplay with the GTX550 Ti and I could get the new game Crysis 2 on it that will work smooth up to 40fps per second u can see video on it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3coIcV ... re=related

Very nice reply when you can please. Thankyou

[PowerB]

Alright well now instead my dad will give me a tower and 64 bit windows 7 and a liquid cooling thing so now with my 450$ iam buying a geforce GTX550 Ti and the ASUS mother board for it and a AMD Anthlon II processer and if I can say 4 GBS ram. I saw gameplay with the GTX550 Ti and I could get the new game Crysis 2 on it that will work smooth up to 40fps per second u can see video on it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3coIcV ... re=related

Mind if I 'borrow' that for a few years?

[Zax]

Athlon II? The crappy phenom rejects? Heh.

[FallenAngel]

phemon or Core i7 are great Quad Cores

[GSH]

BZ2 is going to use about 1.05-1.1 cores of a modern system, possibly more if your graphics drivers are multithreaded. Basically, there's the main thread, which runs full time and will eat one core. There's also a background network thread (in every version of BZ2, all the way back to 1.0) that does occasional processing of things. On 1.3pb6, the network thread wakes up 100x or 200x per second (100x if you have a single core box, 200x if a dual or more core box) to do work. 1.3 also has a background ogg decoder, which starts up 8 threads to process data, but those wake up only very occasionally.

All that to say that quadcore isn't going really going to help BZ2, which is the subject of this thread. Benchmarks done last summer (see here) suggest that 3 cores is enough for even newer games. Eventually, a quadcore might help other games, but it'll take a while.

-- GSH