Recent content by gaveitatry

I want to buy a laptop for Second Life, which uses OpenGL and not DirectX for its 3D graphics. I don't do any other gaming. --- I would have bought Laptop #1: Intel Core i5-3337U Processor 1.8GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.7GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M with 2GB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM...

@jaguarskx - Hi. Thank you for your reply. After your post, I skimmed the internet and I found this: "Almost all graphics cards support DirectX, which is what the majority of video games use. Second Life, however, uses OpenGL for 3D rendering." - Source: Just a regular person on the Second...

The only "game" that I play is Second Life. I always play it in window mode, not full-screen mode. I've been shopping for a new laptop since my old one died last month, and it has been strongly recommended to me that I get something that has 1.) a dedicated graphic card and 2.) nothing weaker...

LummusMaximus and whitecat, you both rock. You both have been superbly informative and helpful. My first favorite answer was posted by LummusMaximus, but it was slightly confusing which is why I asked for clarification. When whitecat realized that the first laptop also had a dedicated GPU...

@ whitecat - Thanks for the reply. I don't know anything about crossfiring. Will the GPUs automatically crossfire on occasion, or do I have to tweak some setting to enable crossfiring? My last laptop was a HP Pavilion dv6875se, and last week the screen kept going black even after I...

Part of the reason I am considering the first one is because I found a website that rates GPU into classes. Even though there is opinion that the HD Radeon HD 8750M is supposed to be somewhat close to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M in performance, I found a website that places the 8750M into the...

@ whitecat - I was thinking that too. But the AMD one has 2.5-3.5 GHz instead of 1.8-2.7 GHz, and it has 2 GM more RAM. So wouldn't that make it better?

AMD Quad-Core A10-5757M Accelerated Processor 2.5GHz with TurboCORE Technology up to 3.5GHz AMD Radeon HD 8750M Graphics with 2 GB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM 8GB DDR3 Memory vs. Intel Core i5-3337U Processor (3rd Generation) 1.8GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.7GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT...