SymphonyX Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Hello! I just bought my Blue Cobalt (Uniwill 259EN) yesterday and I'm really loving it! I especially love the hybrid feature. Got it on sale yesterday for only 39,000 Pesos ($770). I tried some of my games like Command and Conquer Generals, Doom 3, Sim City 4 and I'm comfortably playing them at all high settings @ 1280x960 or 1440x1050 resolution. But the thing is I want to buy Command and Conquer 3 and I'm not sure if my laptop will be able to play it on med-high settings @ 1280x960 at the very least. If my laptop can't play it at those settings, I won't buy CnC3. Here are the specs of my laptop: Pentium M 1.60 Ghz / 533 Mhz / 2 Mb GeForce Go 6600 256 Mb + Intel GMA900 128 Mb 512 Mb DDR2 533 Mhz 40 Gb 5400 RPM PATA hard drive 15.4" WSXGA+ LCD screen (1680x1050) You think it can handle CnC3 at med-high settings @ 1280x960 without the game slowing down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Probably, but if I were you I would throw that hard drive out the window and get a 7200 RPM 100 or 160 GB HDD instead. How could you possibly buy a "gaming" laptop with a slow 40 GB HDD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SymphonyX Posted May 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 (edited) Sorry. I just bought it yesterday. I'm planning to upgrade to a 80 Gb 7200 RPM or 160 Gb 5400 RPM and add a 1 Gb DDR2 533 Mhz memory module soon. You think that's enough? BTW, the only laptop hard drives I see here are SATA. Will those SATA drives work on my laptop? I'll probably enclose the 40 Gb instead and use it as an external hard drive when I put the new one. Edited May 7, 2007 by SymphonyX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Upgrade your screen to a WUXGA while your at it too. :) Also, you really should have bought one with SATA drive support, your running out of upgrade paths fast with an IDE laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice-Tea Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Nice, but keep in mind that your notebook is ' previous generation' in every possible way and not even top notch at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SymphonyX Posted May 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 (edited) Sorry... I'm just a guy on a low budget. I'm only 17 years old you know and I need it for college. I was looking for an adequate all-around laptop. Luckily I remembered the image of that laptop, the 259EN and asked the saleslady if I can check the laptop out. It was actually wrongly advertised when I first saw it! :) When I was checking out the laptops, there was this "Blue Cobalt" laptop that says. 15.4" WXGA LCD Screen Pentium M 1.6 Ghz Sonoma 533 Mhz GeForce Go 6600 128 Mb 512 Mb DDR2 DVD-RW Drive 40 Gb hard drive I was running out of options for a laptop with a mid-range video card. The Asus S96J in the other shop was out of my budget. It was 59K pesos ($1180). But the specs were good though. WXGA 15.4", Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz 4 Mb Cache, 2 Gb DDR2 667 Mhz, 160 Gb 5400 rpm hard drive, DVD-RW drive. But I just can't afford it and it seemed like a power hog with only 2 hours of battery life. My budget was till 40-45K pesos only (around $880-$980) and the other option was a laptop with Pentium M 2.0 Ghz, 2 Gb DDR 333 Mhz, 80 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive, and a Mobility Radeon X600 128 Mb, which I find slow. And the other one was an Acer laptop with a MR X700 64 Mb. So I just chose the Blue Cobalt and I thought that the GeForce Go 6600 with 128 Mb should suffice at this price. I didn't know it was WSXGA+ and GeForce Go 256 Mb + GMA900 hybrid till I took it for a test run. :) Too bad for them they already gave me the lowest price at 39K just before I gave it a test run. It was supposedly 60K pesos but it was an old stock and they just wanted to get rid of it, even though they still had like 3 more of the same unit in their other branches. Putting those things aside, you think it can still run Command and Conquer 3 at medium or medium-high settings at WXGA resolution? Can I upgrade to a SATA drive or must I only settle for IDE drives? @ Bill I'm perfectly satisfied with the WSXGA+ screen. 1680x1050 is already large for me. My desktop monitor only supported 1280x1024 and the WSXGA+ seems just so big. And not to mention the added convienience when using Photoshop! :P Thanks again! ^_^ Edited May 7, 2007 by SymphonyX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sandy Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Hey i think u shld definitely be able to run it although you'll have to make a few sacrifices: My machine config is as follows: Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz,400 Mhz FSB 256 MB DDR RAM , 266 Mhz Prolink Geforce 6600GT- core clock:500 Mhz Memory clock:900 Mhz 40 GB IDE hard disk I'm using a somewhat older driver the 93.71 driver.I disable my ethernet and then stop all networking,antivirus.....services and programs. I also play at lowest settings.But I'm still able to play and it goes very smoothly.To top it all on 256 MB of RAM even though minimum is 512 MB. So I think ur laptop shld be able to run it quite well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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