Greetings.
My Dell laptop video died recently. Dell offered to replace my Inspiron 6000 (Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS 256mb) with a Precision Workstation 6300 laptop.
The specs are the same, except they are offering me the new Nvidia Quadro FX 3600m 512mb card.
I travel a lot (usually with (3) 9 cell batteries on hand) and do mostly online gaming (Second Life, WOW, LOTRO).
I know that the 7900 GS was only 20 watts, and the 6300m is a whopping 70 watts. So Im worried about battery life and excess heat.
But my real question is, will gaming be better on the 3600m vs the 7900 GS given the power/battery trade-off? How about if I use GeForce drivers instead?
Thank you!
My Dell laptop video died recently. Dell offered to replace my Inspiron 6000 (Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS 256mb) with a Precision Workstation 6300 laptop.
The specs are the same, except they are offering me the new Nvidia Quadro FX 3600m 512mb card.
I travel a lot (usually with (3) 9 cell batteries on hand) and do mostly online gaming (Second Life, WOW, LOTRO).
I know that the 7900 GS was only 20 watts, and the 6300m is a whopping 70 watts. So Im worried about battery life and excess heat.
But my real question is, will gaming be better on the 3600m vs the 7900 GS given the power/battery trade-off? How about if I use GeForce drivers instead?
Thank you!