Latitude Owners: How's your gaming?

My XPS has been back ordered for an entire month now, and I am growing increasingly frustrated as my priority for a laptop increases.

I am considering a Latitude E6500 from the Outlet instead of completing the order. It comes with the nice WXGA+ LED screen and an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics.

My research shows that this puts out a 3dmark score in the 2000 range. Is that acceptable for light gaming, and modern games with low/medium settings?

 

modern games- max wxga and low-med settings

old games- wxga med to hi

 

it'll perform the same as a geforce 9300GS

so modern games on low, games 2 years old on high

 

For gaming, the Precision M4400 has a much more powerful graphics card than the Latitude E6400/E6500.

The Latitude's nVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M is basically a twin to the GeForce 9300M GS. The Precision M4400's standard nVIDIA Quadro FX 770M is equivalent to the GeForce 9600M GT and the optional Quadro FX 1700M is on par with the 9700M GT.

 

the FX1700m is much more expensive and gives barely any more performance than the 770, as has been extensively benchmarked on this forum. probably best to avoid it.