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voetius
Quiet Days in Clichy
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Posted - 2015.01.03 09:15:22 -
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Thanks Market McSelling Alt and Specialist Elric for your thoughts. |
Market McSelling Alt
Bernie Madoff Investment Services LLC
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Posted - 2015.01.03 14:24:57 -
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voetius wrote:
This is a very timely thread as I was planning on replacing my ageing desktop with a laptop. I looked at the following today:
Windows 8.1
Intel-« CoreGäó i5-4210U Processor
Memory: 8 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA-« GeForce-« GT 840M
judging by the comments above it would seem to be adequate, although the screen is only 1366 x 768. Any comments or criticism would be appreciated.
I just finished setting up my basic laptop with these specs minus the NVidia card. Just the HD4400 with all settings low/off and I get a very very very smooth 60fps in space and 30fps in heavy mission fire.
I dare say it is actually smoother than my AMD laptop, although the AMD had higher frame rates, the Intel is more consistent.
You will be very happy with that set up |
Equinnox Dethahal
Black Anvil Industries
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2015.01.03 16:13:45 -
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Laptops are a tricky beast with gaming.
I get some people travel a lot and want to try to enjoy their games on hotel wifi, or cant figure out how to transport a desktop home from college....
But a laptop for gaming, cheap or off the charts expensive, is always the wrong choice for gaming.
The graphics cards are always something like half the power of their desktop equivalent. They have horrible heating issues. And the "gaming" desktops cost upward on $2500 considering you could for like $1500-$1700 get the most powerful desktop PC for gaming avalible (single GPU, multi GPU is crap most of the time anyway) Also, its almost impossible to upgrade the laptop. In fact ive never heard of anyone even being able to upgrade the PSU so they can put a better mobile graphics card in it, im sure some exist with that capability though.
Spend that money you would have spent on the cheap laptop....get a cheap no frills gaming computer with an i5 and at least a NVidia 560-660 (something with a '60 on it) and youll have a mid to high range gaming laptop in power at a fraction of the price. Just a good i5 and a decent desktop gaming class card, you can put cheap crap in for all the other components (same thing you get from dell or best buy anyway)
And youll still have the same mobility to game 6ft from any outlet, granted set up time will be greater. |
Blobskillz McBlub
Manson Family
Advent of Fate
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Posted - 2015.01.03 22:41:40 -
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I have been looking for a new laptop and found this one, and no a desktop computer is not an option for me.
MSI GX70-3CC81FD
CPU: AMD Vision A10-5750M Quad Core
GPU: AMD RadeonGäó R9 M290X
8GB RAM
43,9 cm (17,3") Anti-Glare Full HD-Display (1920 x 1080 Pixel)
costs 900Gé¼ so it's not really cheap but if you want to find something with similar test results for graphics power with a nvidia card you're looking at over 1000Gé¼ easy |
Ix Method
Shadows Legion
High-Sec Tomfoolery
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Posted - 2015.01.03 23:12:15 -
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My i3xxx with HD 4000 and 8gb tottered along fine at Low-Medium with one client, chugged a bit with two running.
Since grabbed an old i7-26xx off ebay and runs much, much smoother with similar settings, if you're not tied to something new and shiny they can be had for the princely sum of fuckall.
Am used to shite graphics though, if that's an issue for you I'd shy away from the Intel integrated graphics. While they're better than they used to be its still night and day from a dedicated chip, even the ****** lowend laptop ones.
Travelling at the speed of love.
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Agallis Zinthros
Evolution
Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2015.01.04 09:32:14 -
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Latest-gen Intel CPU in my laptop (i5 low voltage model) runs EVE well. Can even use CQ smoothly (though not at max settings).
Some lag on the Jita undock during the middle of the day.
I ... am not sure about Fleet Fights.
Amarr Victor
Owner / operator of http://local-spike.com, an EVE-focused PVP blog
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Market McSelling Alt
Bernie Madoff Investment Services LLC
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Posted - 2015.01.04 13:36:53 -
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Agallis Zinthros wrote:Latest-gen Intel CPU in my laptop (i5 low voltage model) runs EVE well. Can even use CQ smoothly (though not at max settings).
Some lag on the Jita undock during the middle of the day.
There is always lag on the Jita undock, every computer I own does that including my desktops.
I think I remember something about Jita being on it's own server and the market and in station services being on another to accommodate 2000+ players and the market. If true we are just seeing the glitch handoff between systems. Nothing to do with the computer or connection you are using really. |
VaIefar Drekavac
Independent Sharpshooters
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Posted - 2015.01.04 20:37:58 -
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Anno 2015, is it still reasonable to have 4GB RAM or lower? |
Blake Lowe
The Icarus Expedition
The Daedalus Imperium
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Posted - 2015.01.05 01:03:21 -
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VaIefar Drekavac wrote:Anno 2015, is it still reasonable to have 4GB RAM or lower?
I can play Anno 2070 on my laptop, and I have 4GB of RAM, so yes. (Though it should be noted that I have 1gb of VRAM too) |
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