TOSHIBA QOSMIO X305 REVIEW

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Gaming Laptops have been around for a few years now and getting a high-quality one has been trouble-free assuming you have stacking piles of cash. For those of us on a financial plan, we were fixed with mid-range GPUs and large compromises in the illustration settings of our games until Gateway's FX line was revealed out last winter. Today we'll be glancing at Toshiba's response to higher recital on a budget, the Toshiba Qosmio X305/300 gaming laptop.

Design
Beginning with the Satellite P30 series a few years ago, Toshiba has been slackening them into the gaming laptop segment. Last year's X200/205 was planted with dual GPUs in SLI and was a appealingly huge hit. The X305 has gigantic shoes to fill in order to make the right intuition – so Toshiba initiated by ramping up the looks.

Performance
First let's peek it at the CPU. Toshiba employs Intel's Core 2 Duo P7350 CPU. This is a Penryn-3M intermediate voltage chip.

• It's completed using 45 nm processes making it slighter and cooler while sprinting.
• It has 3 MB of level 2 caches versus 2 MB in last year's value processors.
• Profiting from the Penryn architectural developments makes it about 15% quicker than last year's Merom-based financial plan CPUs clock for clock.
• The most recent front side bus velocity of 1066 MHz is employed.

Next up is the chipset, in this crate Intel's PM45 (Cantiga) north bridge and ICH9-M south bridge. First the PM45; In toting up to supporting the quicker Front Side Bus velocities it also bring support for DDR3 which is both quicker and utilizes lower voltage. Although not significant in this particular assessment, PM45 also appends AMD Crossfire X support. Possibly Toshiba could modify things up a bit in the upcoming with a Crossfire proffering – 2 mobile 4850 GPUs would be pretty amazing.

DRR3 memory is not effortless to find in stores and moderately pricey (even though this will change swiftly). Toshiba endows the X305 with 4 GB of DDR3 sprinting at 1066 MHz - virtually double last year's 667 MHz customary. This laptop should be able to switch a sum of 8 GB when the 4 GB modules instigate to ship. When comparing gaming laptops are weary of variants that be sparing-with, by using the older DDR2 RAM.

Overall
In terms of presentation the X305 does extremely well. The CPU and GPU are well poised and it seems to be contained by 10% of last year's value gaming champion, the Gateway P-6831FX. The Toshiba triumphs in synthetic benchmarks but falls a tad short in actual games. The cooling and audio arrangements are appreciably better though. Less heat equivalents peace of mind to many people.

Pros
+ Extremely good gaming presentation
+ Rock-hard construction
+ Obtainable as an SLI planted giant killer for $500 more.
+ Feasible substitute to Gateway and ASUS gaming laptops accessible in same price range

Cons:
- Appalling keyboard in Canada
- User serviceability cooperated
- You know you truly wish for the SLI adaptation

Value For Money

Our Rating