I've really only purchased laptops over the past decade or so, as I'm
everywhere.  I keep a netbook in my glovebox, plus my regular laptop with
me at most times.  Graphics is not a strongpoint on most laptops, hence my
unfamiliarity with these cards.

Had to look this up, but yes this 310M is older, and I can see much faster
available nowadays.  I also found this, which is quite helpful in deciding
if any cards I come across will perform decently...
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=3DGeForce+310M

Thanks,
-Neil.



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iRacing works fine on my i5 laptop (win7 64bit) that has a GeForce 310M
card. That's about as low-end that unshared-memory video can get.

Cheers,

Bob


On Sun, Oct 7, 2012, at 12:12 PM, PICdude wrote:
Perhaps an odd place to ask, but I suspect many of you will know
still... I'm not a gamer, but I need to get a PC for setting up a
racing simulator game.  However, I'm out of touch with current PC
hardware, especially graphics cards, sound cards, etc.

I'm looking at one of a few racing games, such as LFS.  I expect I'll
go with an i5 processor, perhaps 4 or 8GB RAM, and WinXP, but can any
of you recommend a decent graphics card and sound card for this?  I
understand some mobos come with 5.1 sound on-board nowadays, so
perhaps that enough, but I expect I'd need way more than anything
on-board for graphics.

Also, though I'd prefer individual components (no case) so I can mount
directly into the simulator seat/dash, would I be better getting
something COTS/consumer from a chain store, etc?

Cheers,
-Neil.


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