Quick Question, I'm makin a laptop with an Athlon processor, and the only thing they offer in Video Card RAM is an GeForce4 440 GO with 64MB of RAM. Is that enought to last me with some good games for a few years?? Right now in my notebook I have a GeForce 420 Go with 16 MB of RAM and it can play games that require 32 MB of RAM just fine with no noticable framerate decrease and most of the texture and settings pretty high up. So is it logical to assume that a 440 Go with 64 MB of RAM could play things that require 128 MB of RAM (down the road) just fine (with an Athlon 64 BTW)?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Probably not. I hear the ATi mobility are good, like the 9600 Mobile. Avarik ~

Ok well assuming I get a laptop with a the Radeon Mobile 9600 with 64 RAM (which is all I can find for my price range, would I be able to run good games for like the next two years, and then when they start requiring 128 RAM, to overclock it to play them just fine?

Overclocking your video card wont help if you dont have enough memory. The memory is needed to store all the textures on the screen, overclocking will just make games run faster at quality settings that require less texture memory [i think]. With regards to games, I doubt if you'll get acceptable fps on current games, let alone future ones. [have you SEEN the unreal engine 3.0 screenshots?!] DOOM3 will be unhappy playing at lowest possible detail on a 64Mb card i'd imagine. However, if your not into games like these, there is a chance you MIGHT be able to squeeze a year or two out of a card like that. p.s. Dont take my word as gospel, i'm not a laptop guy, just trying to help as much as I can Athlon XP 1800+ 512Mb DDR266 RAM Leadtek Geforce 6800 Thermaltake 360W PSU 56X CD-ROM 52x24x52 Samsung CD-RW 20 GB Maxtor HDD 80 GB Hitachi HDD Gigabyte GA-7DX+ mobo

I have a Dell 600m with a Radeon mobility 9600. I can play games like Warcraft 3 flawlessly, I can also play UT2K4 with on mid/high settings. I tried installing Doom 3 and set everythign as low as possible, but couldn't make it through the first few screens. As long as you aren't expecting a bleeding edge card, they are really nice.

And I'm correct in saying that there's no way to add VRAM to a laptop video card right?