Lemm said:
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)2.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor
15.4″ UltraSharp™ Widescreen WUXGA (1920×1200) Display-Brushed Metal Black
Genuine Windows Vista® Business SP1, With media
Dell Slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter
8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio and Cyberlink Power DVD™
Intel® WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card
Intel vPro™ Technology’s advanced management features
Resource DVD – Contains Diagnostics and Drivers
9 Cell Battery
That’s a decent WORK laptop. By no means is it anywhere near good for gaming no matter what OS you put on it. Below is a link to your video card stats. It should play the game fine on a decent resolution but I wouldn’t go above 1440×900 in CSS and would consider going down to 1024×768 if need be.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no…_techspecs.html
Lemm said:
anyways.. when i started it up it asked my why i didn’t connect the 90 w psu that came with it.. but it only came with the 65 w psu???
Call and ask about it. If it came from the factory with the wrong power adapter that’s something that should have been dealt with after the first power on. Having a lesser power adapter will reduce the overall effectiveness of the laptop, either lowering the clocks on your processor and video card or making it so you can’t charge the battery and use the laptop at the same time.
Lemm said:
also it has lots of dell programs on there for the hot keys and etc
Cut them off. Start-msconfig. At the services tab check the “Hide all Microsoft” box and close what you don’t want/need. On the startups do the same but be mindful as the sidebar and a few other useful MS programs are there as “Windows Vista”.
Lemm said:
the gfx is a nvidia quadro nvs 160M with 256mb on the card… it’s no high end card by any means.. but seriouslyi get 40 FPS at the most
Quadro cards have never been built for gaming and tbh I’m surprised they’d put one in a laptop. The stats on the page I linked to above are well below what I consider decent by modern standards.
Lemm said:
I seriously think I’m about to install xp over it…
By all means but keep in mind if it came with Vista you probably won’t get XP drivers. Oh btw, it won’t get much faster than it is already. If you want to reinstall, reinstall Vista with a non-Dell DVD and use your existing serial. I think you’ll find that Dell shipped the laptop with too much bloatware, which has nothing to do with how fast Vista should be running on it.