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| 1340017 | 2013-05-08 14:12:00 | not so much. the 6470 is basically a newer version of my card. you'll not be able to expect too much out of it. League of legends shouldn't be too hard to run, nor should CS GO. Battlefield 3 and 4 I don't know though, I would imagine they'd be the trickier ones to get a decent performance out of. That aside, Acer is a brand you should try to avoid if you can. What are you using this for anyway? Constant gaming, a thing to have a quick play around on or what? |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1340018 | 2013-05-08 21:46:00 | If you want to game @ $1200 you have 4 viable choices 1. buy a console 2. have a gaming PC built by carefully choosing parts to fit your budget but adding the cost of a monitor it'll still be not great - better than a laptop though. 3. go second hand 4. buy the best laptop you can and accept that the graphics will have to be set for minimum on a lot of games and may not look or run well - laptop gaming @ < $2k will never be great. Laptops with a 7670M or 630M graphics card are available around that price, might be as good as you can do and will play older games ok, just with newer titles don't expect great things. I understand you want or need a laptop I wanted one myself. I was prepared to up to $2k so it could play games reasonably and I could take it to my monthly LAN group instead of lugging the PC, after searching all around and comparing hardware I gave up and built an itx gaming PC for around $1k with no hard drives or monitor (I have those spare). It'll seriously destroy the performance of any gaming laptop I could have bought for twice the price; i3 3220, 8Gb RAM, 650Ti boost = 1080P gaming at high settings for most games. I don't understand why no one specs laptops like this that I can find, for gaming a good i3 with a reasonable graphics card will outperform all these i5 & i7 laptops with low to mediocre graphics cards most of the time and is powerful enough for most other things people use computers for. I suppose it's the marketing appeal of "i7" that compels them to put it in mid range laptops. That $1699 MSI laptop I linked is the closest to budget gaming laptop I could find and was quite tempting other than the slightly weak CPU. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1340019 | 2013-05-09 03:30:00 | Lol is supprisingly badly optimisedoptimised to get 60fps at full settings is more difficult than it should be | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1340020 | 2013-05-09 07:30:00 | www.gpforums.co.nz Spend the other $550 on ice cream. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1340021 | 2013-05-09 10:11:00 | www.gpforums.co.nz Spend the other $550 on ice cream. Will that laptop run what I want? |
LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1340022 | 2013-05-09 10:11:00 | If you want to game @ $1200 you have 4 viable choices 1. buy a console 2. have a gaming PC built by carefully choosing parts to fit your budget but adding the cost of a monitor it'll still be not great - better than a laptop though. 3. go second hand 4. buy the best laptop you can and accept that the graphics will have to be set for minimum on a lot of games and may not look or run well - laptop gaming @ < $2k will never be great. Laptops with a 7670M or 630M graphics card are available around that price, might be as good as you can do and will play older games ok, just with newer titles don't expect great things. I understand you want or need a laptop I wanted one myself. I was prepared to up to $2k so it could play games reasonably and I could take it to my monthly LAN group instead of lugging the PC, after searching all around and comparing hardware I gave up and built an itx gaming PC for around $1k with no hard drives or monitor (I have those spare). It'll seriously destroy the performance of any gaming laptop I could have bought for twice the price; i3 3220, 8Gb RAM, 650Ti boost = 1080P gaming at high settings for most games. I don't understand why no one specs laptops like this that I can find, for gaming a good i3 with a reasonable graphics card will outperform all these i5 & i7 laptops with low to mediocre graphics cards most of the time and is powerful enough for most other things people use computers for. I suppose it's the marketing appeal of "i7" that compels them to put it in mid range laptops. That $1699 MSI laptop I linked is the closest to budget gaming laptop I could find and was quite tempting other than the slightly weak CPU. Already have a console, don't have any room for a desktop so yeah :) |
LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1340023 | 2013-05-09 10:12:00 | not so much. the 6470 is basically a newer version of my card. you'll not be able to expect too much out of it. League of legends shouldn't be too hard to run, nor should CS GO. Battlefield 3 and 4 I don't know though, I would imagine they'd be the trickier ones to get a decent performance out of. That aside, Acer is a brand you should try to avoid if you can. What are you using this for anyway? Constant gaming, a thing to have a quick play around on or what? Constant gaming I guess |
LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1340024 | 2013-05-09 10:53:00 | Will that laptop run what I want? heres the gpu: www.notebookcheck.net Showing that it gets 22fps at medium with the gpu + old i5, that laptop has a quad core I believe, (i7 720qm = 720m?) which is one of the first generation i7's. The extra cores should see the fps jump up a bit, if you balance the settings right, turn down some filters and get the latest gpu drivers I reckon you could get 30+ fps with most things on medium. Not sure about Battlefield 4 however, I believe it also runs on the Frostbite 3 engine so the specs required I would imagine to be similar. I would expect to lose a few fps though. That laptop isn't quite up to the standard that you're after, but for $650 it's a steal. Note: if you click on the fps's on that site it will show you the specs of the laptop used. For comparing CPU's I'd look here: www.cpubenchmark.net |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1340025 | 2013-05-10 06:23:00 | if it's for constant gaming I would strongly recommend saving more to get something better or considering a mini PC build. | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1340026 | 2013-06-06 10:52:00 | Which of these would you recommend and why www.trademe.co.nz www.trademe.co.nz Thanks |
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