PC Tech Talk

[A Baby Panda]

/HULK SMASH Well i might as well settle for a netbook then.

This is the same conundrum I have haha. I keep looking and I see these laptops with DX11 graphics but then its out of my price range. I have my epic desktop at home so I may as well just buy a netbook with a 14 hour battery life

[-=NYS=- C.O.]

Update on my VIdeo Card. Sent it to EVGA. After 20 million questions asked by the tech. His conclusion was to RMA it. Sent out today and should have a new NVIDIA 260 GTX in a couple of weeks.

As for laptops...I can never play games on one. I'm going to build my new desktop soon. Its much cheaper to build one. No more DELL desktops for me.

[ZERO]

Just an fyi there are no dx11 laptops...

[StarsMine]

Just an fyi there are no dx11 laptops...

yea I was wondering about that when he said it. As far as I know the only way to have DX11 is to have a 5000 series card until nividia pulls its head out its ass and finally release a new card.

[ZERO]

Also there are virtually no if any games that actually use DX11 or are planed to. In fact with valve looking at mac now and the announcement of opengl4 it is possible that many may be using that instead anyways. Valve especially may be making the move toward opengl4 for its new games down the road. Nvidia has said that its new cards will support opengl4 and ati has not given any word but will likely fallow nvidia.

[A Baby Panda]

yea I was wondering about that when he said it. As far as I know the only way to have DX11 is to have a 5000 series card until nividia pulls its head out its ass and finally release a new card.

There ARE 5000 series laptop graphics available though they are few and far between and range in price between $850 and $1600.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ue=402%3A54305

[ZERO]

The current gen laptop cards are always 1 gen behind the desktop even if they have the same name. However it probably does have dx11 support as the software is the same even if the hardware gen if different due to revision changes.

[mag36]

I watch a youtube show called Hak5 and the had an interresting topic on public wifi's and how easy it is to mess with people. So if your one of those people who take your laptop everywhere and connect to hotspots.
Think twice before just connecting to them.
skip to 3:00 to get the the main part of the show