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Stein0r
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Posted - 2006.02.26 18:52:00 -
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Gaming laptops tend to be pricey and top end. I'm looking for the opposite - the cheapest laptop that can just about run Eve OK (I mean *just*, no fancy quad AA gfx options).
Has anyone got any suggestions?
thanks,
Stein0r
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Malpine Walis
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Posted - 2006.02.26 19:41:00 -
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Well, if you want to go really cheap, you could pick up a used lappy somewhere. But then you have to pay attention to the system specs or you may get caught with a buy that will not work.
As an example, I tried to install the game on my lappy, which looking at the minimum specs I got ther idea that I was a good deal past them. However, it turned out that I had one single part that was not up to snuff for the game and that alone killed any plan of doing that install.
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Xanthia DiMakir
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Posted - 2006.02.27 04:41:00 -
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I run Eve on my Sony Vaio VGN FS 790. Set me back about $1600 to $1700 at Comp USA a few months ago.
It runs Eve just fine - you might get away with something a hunded or two cheaper. The main thing that I bought that model for was the 1G of memory, 512 MB just doesn't cut it any more.
But at the least this ought to give you some idea of the ballpark to be looking in.
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Cisplatin
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Posted - 2006.02.27 14:51:00 -
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I run Eve on a Compaq Presario V2312 US which has a AMD 1.6 Ghz Turion processor in it. I've run it with as little as 512 MB RAM.
It runs just fine and this bugger cost me around $800 at Circuit city.
Cisplatin
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X2CaUsTiC2X
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Posted - 2006.03.07 15:26:00 -
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Compaq R4000 - AMD 64 4000+ with a gig and 256 of RAM
Sucks for graphics intensive games...such as Farcry with graphics on high. lol. but besides that things are pretty managable, I play BF2 with low-med settings. can get a bit laggy though :(
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Ciara Daag
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Posted - 2006.03.09 19:29:00 -
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I play on the $387 dollar black friday walmart HP pavilion laptop. (with an extra 512M sodimm I had sitting around thrown in) It has a ATI chipset. Its graphics are the Xpress 200M (embeded chipset). Usually embeded chipsets are useless,but the 200M is based on the x300 (at least so Im told) and works ok for many games. (Ive played FFXI on it as well) It doesnt compare to the X850XT I have in my desktop,but it does the job in 1024x768. My freind bought higher end HP laptop,with a widescreen LCD. It had the same chipset,and a turion chip. Other than the larger amount of memory,and the performance of the turion chip (I have a sempron,but I could upgrade it if I wanted to) the two (my laptop and hers) are very similar. Of course hers had things like a DVD burner (mine has only a CDR) and bluetooth. A basic laptop like mine is available from the HP website for around 6-800 if I recall. It is a very stable machine which is suprising for AMD systems. Ive allways suspected that the AMD chips were solid,but the problem was in the junk SIS and VIA chipsets that were used in many of them. (Ive allways been willing to beleive that Nvidia chipsets might be ok,but have never tried them,so I dont have any experience with them) The ATI chipsets seem solid and stable,and Intel even makes a board with an Xpress 200 (the desktop version) which was enough to convince me that ATI knows how to make a decent chip.
There have been a few complaints early on that some flavors of Linux and BSD have trouble running on the ATI chipsets,but thats mostly been solved and was just a driver issue.
There was an issue with the Express 200 and Intel embedded graphics. It seems to have been fixed now in the latest patch however. Its nowhere near the greatest on these,but if you turn all the settings down,the game is playable. (Although,large fleet engagements that tax even the high end systems mightbe a problem)
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Spahn X
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:27:00 -
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I picked up my Dell 6000 for $1000. i skimped on the HD and memory, I knew I could upgrade those myself much cheaper through newegg, but I got the X300 graphics (using regular catalyst driver, not the dell drivers). I run eve with zero issues.
512 ram 40 gig HD pentium M 1.6 x300 64meg pcie graphics xp MCE
Oh, and one this I will definitely vouch for, is the integrated wireless. I have very few drops, and I connect to dozens of diffent routers. My wireless card in my desktop however, that thing drops all the time. Getting close to saying SO LONG netgear and getting a linksys a/b/g card.
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Da Death
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Posted - 2006.03.13 09:35:00 -
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Edited by: Da Death on 13/03/2006 09:35:35
Toshiba M30 1.6Ghz M Centrino Chipset Geforce 5200 GO 32MB Grfx Card 768MB Memory 40GB HDD
about $1500-$1700
can run 2 clients on it
Selling: Absolution - Curse - Gleam S - BPC's - check my bio
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Aquemini Amarr
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Posted - 2006.03.13 14:01:00 -
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Compaq presario 2100 - 192mb ram - bought it for ú600 a few years back. Runs fine for the most part...
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Emperor D'Hoffryn
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Posted - 2006.03.13 19:01:00 -
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I play on my work laptop, so for me it was free
Biggest thing to look for is graphics ability. EVE is a directx 7 game, and thus requires a directx 7 capable vid card. The lowest laptop chip that can play EVE on the ATI side is the mobility radeon 7500, which happens to be what my latop has. with only 32mb of vid ram, I can play eve just fine at 1024x768...30 fps is quite common, but it can slow down in spots.
EVE isnt too big on vid needs, its processor that seems to count more for all those database transactions that eve basically is. My laptops 1.6 ghz pentium M and 1 gig of system memory makes sure that my only limitation is the vid card.
Originally by: Drayce
Between the learning skills and the tutorial, Eve is like a firewall against the attention deficit kids I like it this way
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Athlonman
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Posted - 2006.03.15 22:02:00 -
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I use an eMachines M6810. Contains and Athlon64 3200+, 512M, Radeon 9600 64M. Works like a dream and only set me back $650 on eBay...
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