Are these spec good enough for WC3 and SC2 later on?

[MrGrinch]

right now i run wc3 fine with my AMD Athlon 64 3400+ / 512 RAM / Radeon 9800+ 128MB

im shopping for a laptop for college and i stumbled upon a deal on the dell 1521 notebook

it has a AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 (1MB/1.8GHz)
(wondering if this is better or the Intel Core 2 Duo)

and 2 GB of RAM and a ATI RADEON® Xpress1270 HyperMemory™

i never owned a laptop before so i was also wondering how good that graphics card is compared to my 9800 pro

 

[cfhpantera]

Intel Core 2 Duo's are superior to AMD's offerings right now. This laptop is not for gaming. An Xpress1270 is not a graphics card, it is a chipset built into the motherboard and is going to yield very poor gaming performance. It is much slower than a 9800 Pro.

 

[ACA529]

Intel Core 2 Duo's are superior to AMD's offerings right now. This laptop is not for gaming. An Xpress1270 is not a graphics card, it is a chipset built into the motherboard and is going to yield very poor gaming performance. It is much slower than a 9800 Pro.

Umm, he's asking about WAR3 and SC2... not GTA4.

MrGrinch: Blizzard has not released the system requirements for SC2 yet... so you'll just have to wait.

 

[Gregor Lumpkus]

I have a Intel Core 2 duo and am yielding twice the performance of that processor.

 

[ACA529]

I have a Intel Core 2 duo and am yielding twice the performance of that processor.

Yes, that's fine, but he's asking if it will run SC2... not any high-end game needing a C2D.

 

[Gregor Lumpkus]

Yeah you're right. That processor would be fine for WC3, but like ACA529 said, they haven't released specs for SC2... But it's gonna be pimpin!!!

 

[ACA529]

Yeah you're right. That processor would be fine for WC3, but like ACA529 said, they haven't released specs for SC2... But it's gonna be pimpin!!!

For sure!!

 

[MrGrinch]

now im getting a dell xps m1210
with intel core 2 duo and a 256MB NVIDIA® GeForceTM Go 7400 TurboCache11 graphics

 

[Gregor Lumpkus]

Nice, nice. Though expect to have to replace your card in a year or two if you wanna stay with the new games that will be coming out. (I.E. Assassin's Creed and Halo Wars.)