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    Will MSI MS-1013 play...

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by HRT, Feb 2, 2006.

  1. HRT

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    Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory??
    Civilization IV??
    Rome: Total War??

    Sharing 128mb with the Xpress 200m (or more if possible) of course.

    Benchmarks would be ideal (pics would be great to), I couldn't find anything on google.

    Ohh, BTW, with a Turion MT-30 and 1GB of ram.

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    and, I've heard the MSI MS-1013 has a noisy fan... is that true? How much noise?
     
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    increasing the shared RAM doesn't help much - in some benchmarks, it didn't help at all. i'll try to find my benchmarks, or run them tonight.
     
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    I found out that Civ4 will play, at decent settings maybe. I'm not sure about Rome, and Enemy Territory (ok, this will run, but I need to know how good).

    TIA
     
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    Let's see:

    with 64mb enabled:

    530 3dmark05, obviously not great due to integrated graphics.
     
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    Hmm, should I get more points using 128?? How much +-?

    Ohh, what is the best looking game that you can play on your notebook?

    TIA
     
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    With 128mb enabled, the 1013 scored a 558 in 3dmark05. As I mentioned previously, not a big difference.

    I don't run games on it, so I'm not sure what it can handle, but I don't think anything more than a mid-level game run on very low settings will run very well.
     
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