Sony VGN FE21B

From Leicester, 1 post

Hello. Does anyone know if the VGN FE21B is any good for gaming, as I've checked it out and it looks like a good buy, butI'm not suite sure about its performance. If anyone owns one or has seen one in action, could you tell me about how it copes with games and stuff. Thankyou.

From Portugal, 1 post

Originally posted by sakurachan17 on 10 May 2006 8:22 PM


I own one (FE21B) and I'm very proud off my beauty....my precious.....lol...and yes it's able to run games with good performances. For example i´ve played "Sin Episodes: Emergence" (the game that uses the same game engine that Half Life 2) at the higher level of graphic details and it did pretty well, and i also tried Need For Speed Underground-Most Wanted ). My advice don't by "core 2 duo" series 5000 because it has the same performance that "core duo", but costs more because it runs with a little less power (like...3w less), saving you a little bite baterie. Now...the 7000 series of core 2 duo...that is another story. it has 4mb of cache instead of 2mb (core duo and core 2 duo 5000 series), and therefore a higher performance. So Resuming....by the vaio ("FE ****" series, "AR **** " series with core 2 duo series 7000 if you can afford it) and you will not regret it because, you may pay the fact that it's a beautiful laptop and the fact that it a "SONY" product but you will be proud of your...precious. The game performance issue...in the present it runs all games with "medium benchmarks", some with really good performances and others like F.E.A.R or Half-Life 2 (i didn't tryed these in my laptop yet) you may have medium performances. Remember that it has a "Nvidia Geforce Go 7400" 256MB Ram(ddr2) it must have good performances. I know that you can, in the future when the prices of the better processors become lower, upgrade your processor, because the chip it's compatible, you just need to update your BIOS, so for now you have this "coreduo 2300" and later when the higher series archive a better performance/price relationship you buy one...like from now to 3years. You can also upgrade you Ram memory, about the graphic i don´t know but i think that in the present you can replace it too. So i say goodbye and sorry for the really long talk. PS: If you mostly want to play games buy a desktop with a top motherboard, so you can upgrade it a lot in the coming years...