To add to Aemon's point - Edit 1
Before modification by Roland00 at 26/04/2011 03:36:56 AM
Some people are not aware on how small you can make an awesome gaming desktop.
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Pretty much the best video card you can get in a $999 laptop is a nvidia gt550mobile or a radeon hd 6770mobile. (These cards are roughly the same performance but the amd card is 20% or so faster) In notebooks they use different names than they use in desktops, a laptop gt550m (the m behind the number stands for mobile) is the same thing as a desktop gt440 (actually the desktop card is running the gpu 10% faster.) The 6770m in a laptop is the same thing as a desktop 6670 (the desktop card is actually running 10% faster.)
Here are two benchmark website that will compare the desktop cards.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4278/amds-radeon-hd-6670-radeon-hd-6570/4
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GT_440/12.html
You can find the geforce gt440 desktop card for $80 to $100 and the desktop 6670 for about $100.
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Pretty much the best video card you can get in a $999 laptop is a nvidia gt550mobile or a radeon hd 6770mobile. (These cards are roughly the same performance but the amd card is 20% or so faster) In notebooks they use different names than they use in desktops, a laptop gt550m (the m behind the number stands for mobile) is the same thing as a desktop gt440 (actually the desktop card is running the gpu 10% faster.) The 6770m in a laptop is the same thing as a desktop 6670 (the desktop card is actually running 10% faster.)
Here are two benchmark website that will compare the desktop cards.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4278/amds-radeon-hd-6670-radeon-hd-6570/4
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GT_440/12.html
You can find the geforce gt440 desktop card for $80 to $100 and the desktop 6670 for about $100.