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| Thread ID: 118249 | 2011-05-26 07:03:00 | best notebook for gaming | TiTaN2TeN (16390) | Press F1 |
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| 1204921 | 2011-05-26 07:03:00 | i would like a notebook with: 11 - 16 inch screen - I would like a portable notebook not a desktop replacement :D between $1000-$2000 decent battery and to be able to play recent games like the witcher 2 on atleast mid lvl settings what notebooks would you guys suggest? also usb3 is a plus :) |
TiTaN2TeN (16390) | ||
| 1204922 | 2011-05-26 07:08:00 | dicksmith.co.nz This looks like best bang for buck at the moment. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1204923 | 2011-05-26 07:17:00 | notebook, gaming, recent games and portable should never be used in the same post imo. Notebooks are just bad news for gaming. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1204924 | 2011-05-26 08:21:00 | notebook, gaming, recent games and portable should never be used in the same post imo. Notebooks are just bad news for gaming. knew somone would say that lol, i dont mean unrealisticly good i just would like to know good notebooks that would be viable for playing recent games and not a 4kg 17 inch desktop replacment notebook |
TiTaN2TeN (16390) | ||
| 1204925 | 2011-05-26 23:02:00 | any notebook with a decent CPU and expresscard slot can become a gaming machine. You'll need an expresscard to pci-e adaptor and then you can use a desktop graphics card with it. It won't be as portable as you'll have more to lug around. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1204926 | 2011-05-26 23:49:00 | any notebook with a decent CPU and expresscard slot can become a gaming machine. You'll need an expresscard to pci-e adaptor and then you can use a desktop graphics card with it. It won't be as portable as you'll have more to lug around. IIRC, ExpressCard is PCI-E x1 rather than 16x as on a desktop, which is slower than AGP... What kind of performance could anyone expect from that?? There are plenty of under 2k laptops that have Nvidia 540Ms or AMD 6770s - most games will be more than playable at laptop resolutions... If you want something better than the 540s or 6770s, it will cost you a pretty penny regardless if you're after a laptop or a desktop. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1204927 | 2011-05-27 00:09:00 | Even with a 1x link, you can expect this kind of performance: a Dell XPS 15 with a desktop 5870; 3dmark.com a Sony 13" VPC-Z11 with GTX580: 3dmark.com Here is a desktop for comparison www.techpowerup.com So with a 1x link, its about 70-80% of the full performance. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1204928 | 2011-05-27 13:19:00 | Even with a 1x link, you can expect this kind of performance: a Dell XPS 15 with a desktop 5870; 3dmark.com a Sony 13" VPC-Z11 with GTX580: 3dmark.com Here is a desktop for comparison www.techpowerup.com So with a 1x link, its about 70-80% of the full performance. That's not bad at all! Any idea on how much the GPU enclosures cost? I can't seem to find any thing in pricespy... |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1204929 | 2011-05-28 01:39:00 | thats relaly good! | gretag34 (16372) | ||
| 1204930 | 2011-05-28 01:50:00 | You can get them from here www.villageinstruments.com Or you can make your own which is much cheaper, using parts from here: www.hwtools.net For comparison, a 5870M gets about 13k 3dmarks www.kobaltcomputers.co.uk With a desktop 5870 over the adaptor, it is about 18k, standard 5870 is about 22k. So it is about 30-40% faster, but I think a notebook with a decent CPU + integrated graphics + desktop radeon will be cheaper than a notebook with a 5870M in it. More speed for less price (at the expense of portability) is always a good thing. And a notebook with integrated graphics only will likely be more portable than a notebook with a discrete GPU. |
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