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Hexess
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.03.24 15:53:00 -
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My (not so trusty) desktop decided to die on me a few days ago. Sadly it appears to have suffered multiple organ failure, and both the motherboard and gfx card are borked. As we're now a family of 5, I've decided to turn the spare room over to the kids as a play room (read - somewhere to dump all the crap) and invest in a laptop.
Just curious as to what you guys are using laptop wise, and what you've found you're able to get away with in so far as mid-range laptops are concerned. I don't have a huge budget and I'm more concerned with gameplay fluidity that stupendous gfx, so I have no problem dialling down the settings if need be.
I'm not looking to spend any more than around -ú500, and wondered if any of you are getting a decent gaming experience on something of that value, and if so, what are the specs?
TIA. |
Aspalis
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
529
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Posted - 2014.03.24 16:06:00 -
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You won't get very far with -ú500 if you are looking for a brand new laptop, especially one to play game on. Your best chance is frankly to find one on Ebay with a decent enough GPU.
Considered a mITX computer instead of your old desktop?
edit: I threw together a mITX build. I went over your budget with -ú2.45.. Sorry! :( |
Hexess
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
4
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Posted - 2014.03.24 16:10:00 -
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Yeah that's what I thought.
I could look at getting a compact I guess, but if I'm going to downsize I'd rather have the inherent mobility that a laptop provides.
I'll wait a week or two and stretch my budget a little. |
DaReaper
Net 7
The Last Brigade
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Posted - 2014.03.25 20:09:00 -
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i'm 90% sure this is my laptop (not at home so can't check) Laptop
if you have the money, it can play one account on full graphics with no issues. I have not tested it with moe, nor have I combat tested. My wife keeps borrowing it to play facebook games... sigh |
DaReaper
Net 7
The Last Brigade
277
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Posted - 2014.03.25 20:11:00 -
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from what I have noticed, the one I just posted is my 3rd laptop I keep upgrading, unless it has a dedicated ram then the performace for eve is not very good. My one before was an i5 with 4gb of ram and a NVidia chipset, but the ram was not dedicated, eve was nearly unplayable |
Spine Bastanold
Evil Monkey Asylum
Evil Monkeys Asylum
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Posted - 2014.03.27 11:26:00 -
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Just to add some confusion into the mix I play on a HP G6 notebook I bought nearly 2 years ago for -ú440, specs below
I'm a new player so have not played on anything else, I say this only to show I have nothing to compare my performance to, I have a top spec PC but the convenience of playing in my comfy chair with my feet up in front of the TV wins every time. I have not even loaded EVE up on the PC.
I was playing on full but turned it down as someone said Jita would lagg me out. Graphics are not a huge issue for me so I just never turned it back up. I think Im playing on min specs but with effects all on
If I'm getting any frame rate lag I am not aware of it
My only real issue is resolution, in so much as windows take up a lot of room, but again Im not too worried about that.
I currently fly in fleets of up to 20 people and I don't think that hardware is holding me back.
Specs
HP G6 Notebook
AMD A8-3520 with Radeon HD Graphics 1.60 GHz
6GB RAM
Wireless rather than plugged in.
The stickers say Quad core and Radeon Dual Graphics
Apologies if this doesn't help |
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