Over at LaptopMag the folks benchmarked the HP Mini 311 with 3DMark06 along with trying Far Cry 2 on the ION powered netbook. Users asked for more specific tests to be done which relate to very popular games. They asked for the netbook to be tested with Spore, Call of Duty 4 and World of Warcraft. Call of Duty 4 has already been demoed on the HP Mini 311 which you can view here.

Laptop Mag listened to their readers and have videos of the netbook playing both World of Warcraft and Spore. Overall they were pleased with the results. They even made use of the 1080p HD Video out and connected it up to a Samsung HD TV and the results are very impressive. While doing their tests, they’ve also played the HD trailer of “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” back, which apart from some motion blur, had smooth playback. You can view their videos of the games and trailer tested here.

Well, this certainly brings a new meaning to gaming on the go. The recently announced HP Mini 311, which falls into the CULV category, features an NVIDIA ION chipset, which can bring gaming to the netbook world and not just solitaire or similar. As the video below shows, Call of Duty 4, one of the top games of 2007/2008 (and still very popular) runs very smoothly on the CULV netbook. The settings are naturally set to the lowest settings but, considering it packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor it certainly impresses.

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Frustrated that your netbook won’t allow you to play games that need a little more graphics ‘power’ to run them? Well, Asus could be just about to take gaming on their Eee PC’s to the next stage.

Asus have said that they could be releasing a netbook in the near future that could possibly have dedicated graphics that would allow gamers to run more resource intensive games. The spokesperson also said that this netbook would definitely be an Eee PC and is not to be confused with the Asus N10 which also has dedicated graphics.

This is all just a rumor right now, nothing is confirmed and Asus already have the 10 inch N10 for small screen gaming but, we’ll keep you informed of any news of the Eee PC becoming an oversized handheld console as it comes in.