A little known fact, laptops made with centrino before the core 2 duo were the most durable computers ever made.
You should get a new adapter, screen hinge and power button for it form ebay and save money on buying a new laptop.
aaand, STAY AWAY FROM DELL.
well, that is a little tough to do sometimes when buying a laptop.
custom building a laptop is muuch different and riskier and more fun :reatard: just for the record
Is this Any good?
Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz
2 GB of RAM
Nvidia 9600gt
video card is decent. The processor and the RAM will probably be the bottleneck in games though.
Here’s mine. Its an ASUS G72gx-rbbx05
Basic specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53Ghz
nVidia GTX 260M 1GB
17.3” Widescreen LCD 1600x900
6GB DDR2 RAM
500GB HDD
More info:
https://www.overclock.net/laptops-notebook-computers/614274-asus-g72gx-rbbx05-review.html
Cost me $999 USD at Best Buy. Plays Crysis Warhead on Gamer at no lower than 30fps. handles GTA4 maxed out easily. I upgraded to this recently from an Asus G50vt-x5
With your CPU you can play GTA4 on LOW
If you upgrade the CPU and RAM you can play gta4 on HIGH
Hmmmm never really taken a picture of my PC before… 
Showing its age now hardware wise but I still like it! 
Case - Antec 300
Mobo - EVGA 680i SLi
RAM - 8Gb DDR2
CPU - Q6600 running at 3Ghz
GFX - 2 x 8800 GTX
SB X-Fi Extreem Gamer
Monitor - 22" Samsung
Seem to play anything I throw at it - hence I’ve not upgraded…
At work:
[COLOR=‘Black’]Gasp, not a Mac… Actually, there is a Macbook Pro, but it’s in my backpack[/SIZE]
8GB of DDR2! Bit OTT is it not?
GTA4 is kinda a horrible thing to benchmark against. Its horribly optimized and requires way more resources than it really should.
No offence.
Well most other games he can play fine with the exception of Crysis and a few others.
This Is my desk top. I found it in a dumpster a 2 years ago…
Its has 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 hyperthreading, 2 gb of ram, ATI x-800 with 128 mb of graphics ram, and 1.5 Tb of internal storage on Segate barracuda 7200 rpm drives
https://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/masterofthecowbell/?action=view¤t=IMGP7544.jpg
The top one was my old desktop, It died from a static discharge
https://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/masterofthecowbell/?action=view¤t=IMGP7545-1.jpg
Theres another desk top in there…
https://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/masterofthecowbell/?action=view¤t=IMGP7546.jpg
pretty good for fishing out of a dumpster
On the subject of motherboards:
That’s less than half of my stuff, too lazy to go in the basement to get the rest.
My desktops:
Hey, those look fairly complete… I de-soldered out all of the capacitors and other miscellaneous components out of mine and sold them in large bulk bags on craigs list for A net whopping total of $5
It wasnt like that when i found it… It had a large amount of nacho cheese in the floppy drive and there was a dead rat where the heat sink should have been… i sunk $100 in it and… yeah 
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And that is pretty damn good for dumpster diving, but how did u manage to get 1.5tb for $100?
You’re lucky, the best I managed to get on the street was a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 with HT (socket 775) but it was missing a cpu cooler/fan, hdd, ram, cd drive, powerbox, graphics card, sound card, network card, floppy drive and CMOS battery.
Basically it was a CPU+Mobo in a case, but as bizarre as that was, both work perfectly.
my trespassing sign > sersofts 
I once found a 9800GTX in the trash, I sold it for $100.
did it work?