Too much game

[Cranyx]

I went to a testing site (Here: [link]http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/[/link]) to see if my old hunk-o-junk 2003 laptop would be able to handle Portal 2, and it said my graphics card and CPU are not powerful enough. Well, just out of curiosity, I checked if my computer could run Spore, and it said it couldn't for the same reasons, well, I've run Spore on this computer without any problems.

What happens if your CPU or Graphics cards are not up to stuff? How much is too much for your computer to handle?

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[Cranyx]

On a similar note, after looking further into it, Portal 2 requires 3.0GHz and mine is, well, 1.8. I'm looking to upgrade because that's a pretty big difference, and I actually found a good dual core 3.4GHz processor for about 60 bucks, but what I want to know is would my 2003 laptop even be able to upgrade to a chip like that, or even at all?

Obviously you don't know for sure until I had the motherboard looked at, but I was just wondering if you might be able to guess, since that is a lot of trouble to go through if I'm wasting my time.

I checked my computer, and I believe it says that my socket type is t2300 Socket, and all I can find for that is processors under 2GHz, bad sign, or am I reading the socket type wrong? (Because it looks like it might be a specific type of processor, due to the fact that I'm only seeing one type)

 

[Archangel768]

Well, I looked up T2300 socket and all that comes up is a core 2 duo processor that came out in 2006. So obviously what I'm looking at is different to what you are.

Anyway, from what I know, laptops are very hard to upgrade and usually the only thing that could be upgradeable is the hard drive and ram. I have never heard of someone upgrading a processor in a laptop. I hear the processor is usually fixed to the motherboard in laptops.

Also if you even could upgrade the processor, I'm pretty quite sure that no laptop in 2003 could support a dual core processor.

If I were you, I'd give up on that laptop and get something that's MUCH better. I saw a topic on this forum earlier that someone was building a computer for $350. That computer from what I saw would most likely be waayyyyyyy better than that laptop and would probably run portal 2 well enough. Hopefully you can come up with that money.

BTW: CPU = Processor