You may want to read on another forum, www.notebookfourms.com and scroll down to the Dell notebook section, and read on what other's are saying about that video card, and games.  Sometimes the forum is very slow to appear so be patient.  If you are not happy with the gaming with that video card, you have only 21 days from the ship date in order to return it for perhaps the 9300 inspiron.   Good luck with it...

I've been using a Toshiba Satellite with an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go 32MB video card for some 3 years now.

Games I've played on it that it handled just fine:

• Battlefield 1942
• Age of Empires II
• Command & Conquer: Generals
• EverQuest (with new models turned on and moderate settings or better)
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (settings nearly maxxed)
• City of Heroes
• CSI series

I tried to play World of Warcraft on it, but it couldn't handle the graphics. I never researched it to find out why. I just assumed it required hardward T&L or something.

Anyway, the reason I mention this information on my old graphics system is to make the point that it does a decent job for what it is, so I would expect the x300, which implements two to three years newer technology, to offer performance that is quite acceptible for a low-power-consuming, non-hernia-causing, non-spermicidal heat-generating notebook. ;)

 

Message Edited by RCarp711 on 06-15-2005 12:23 AM