Hello, does anyone know of a laptop that would be good for gaming that's reasonably cheap, really I want something that will run tf2, minecraft, and at low graphical settings skyrim, my budget isn't very much (max about £600 if I can persuade my parents) as its conning out of my savings. Also any general advice on what brands are good would be nice.
thanks.
You'll most likely have to pay at least 1000$ for a good gaming laptop. Unless you buy a used one.
Alienware
:v:
Dont buy Alienware.
dont buy a gaming laptop
building your own gaming PC would be cheaper than buying a new gaming laptop
The reason I "have" to get a laptop, not a pc is because of the size, my room is a tiny cluttered shit hole as my mothers so elegantly put it, a pc would heat up a lot, and they are noisy, and I don't know enough about pcs to give an argument that's better than "but it won't run skyrim"
If anyone has ideas on a laptop or a decent arguement, post away.
Edit I live in the uk, and my parents get iffy about handing large amounts of money over the Internet unless they know they can trust the site.
Go to Hardware section, they can help you a lot better than FT.
There's even a subforum in there called PC building.
If you really want a laptop, i would recommend you a Asus N53S, pretty good for your price.
You'll be able to Run Skyrim in medium (or high) nicely with a constant 30 fps. same for BF3 in low/med.
I'd avoid the hardware section, they're hellbent on telling everyone that laptops are awful devices that should never be used for gaming.
Eh, even though it's kinda true. Laptops are more of an office friendly portable solution unless you go over the $800 mark.
[QUOTE=Nanamil;34650051]If you really want a laptop, i would recommend you a Asus N53S, pretty good for your price.
You'll be able to Run Skyrim in medium (or high) nicely with a constant 30 fps. same for BF3 in low/med.[/QUOTE]
Looked it up and it has similar specs to an acer laptop for about £499.99
I used to have a Sony Vaio that could run Minecraft (had to change view distance every now and then to make it stop lagging) and TF2 (Low settings, lagged a tad bit)
No idea about Skyrim though, Fallout wouldn't even start and was laggy as hell if it did. (I assume fallout and skyrim have about the same requirements)
You'll very likely need a bigger budget if you plan to get a decent laptop. I believe my Vaio cost somewhere in the $800ish range and it really wasn't all that special but it was above the average laptop.
$800.00 is about £507.76 just so people know I can spend about that much.
[QUOTE=absolalone111;34650272]$800.00 is about £507.76 just so people know I can spend about that much.[/QUOTE]
For that dosh, provided you have the will and know-how, you can get a very decent, stationary PC that can run Skyrim on max. Do you REALLY need a laptop? Cause a shittyer laptop costs twice as more.
[QUOTE=Panz3rfaust!;34650334]For that dosh, provided you have the will and know-how, you can get a very decent, stationary PC that can run Skyrim on max. Do you REALLY need a laptop? Cause a shittyer laptop costs twice as more.[/QUOTE]
Read my earlier posts about pcs being to big for my room, as well as generating large amounts of heat and noise.
[QUOTE=absolalone111;34650354]Read my earlier posts about pcs being to big for my room, as well as generating large amounts of heat and noise.[/QUOTE]
Well, I don't know in what apartment you live, so I can't tell about the space, but surely enough I can tell you that you're wrong about the heat and noise part. I've had many different gaming PC's and laptops too, and if assembled and configured properly, my gaming PC's have always been as silent, if not more silent than my laptops.
That being said, the heat hasn't been a problem for me neither. I've had two powerful PC's running games on them and a laptop turned on in my room, yet the room temperature went up just by some two degrees.
Then again, I don't know your exact conditions, just pointing out that the sound is not that bad.
[QUOTE=Panz3rfaust!;34650402]Well, I don't know in what apartment you live, so I can't tell about the space, but surely enough I can tell you that you're wrong about the heat and noise part. I've had many different gaming PC's and laptops too, and if assembled and configured properly, my gaming PC's have always been as silent, if not more silent than my laptops.
That being said, the heat hasn't been a problem for me neither. I've had two powerful PC's running games on them and a laptop turned on in my room, yet the room temperature went up just by some two degrees.
Then again, I don't know your exact conditions, just pointing out that the sound is not that bad.[/QUOTE]
I live in a room right at the back of my parents house, I have the smallest room in the house, my parents used to use it as a storage room. Mould has started to appear in the corner of my room near the window, as my room gets stuffy and isn't well ventilated. I have almost no roomin my room due to the amount of crap I own. The only place I could fit a pc is in a little compartment in an ikea shelving unit made of 4 squares, in the bitten left I keep my xbox360 elite, the other 3 have boxes of clothes in. In the one wher my Xbox is I have little horizontal room, and the height of it is the height of my Xbox with a hard drive and an inch, so not very high, this may also cause the pc to overheat. It would be harder still to find a pc the right size.
gaming laptops are hotter and nosier than desktop computers no discussion
about the size, with a desktop you'll probably need the space of about 1 and a halfish xbox 360's standing on top of each other.
I bought a gateway laptop last summer for school for $749.99
I can play all source games maxed out, MW3 on medium, BF3 on medium, crysis 2 on high (don't ask me), and UT3 on high. Specs are a core i5 SB, 1Gb GT540M, 6Gb memory. The reason I can play these games as well as I do (no FPS drops below 60) is because it has a small 14" screen and has a resolution of only 1366x768. The bottleneck for me when I play games (usually in boring classes) is that because it's a very slim laptop, it literally overheats within 5 minutes and therefore the CPU is throttled mercilessly. I bought a mains powered cooling pad for it which fixes this issue.
If you're going for a gaming laptop, you don't necessarily need to buy a gaming grade system. You pay a premium for that (along with a decent cooling system lol). I bought my laptop in the summer, and I know that for the same price you can get similar laptops (even from Gateway) with i7's now.
GT540M
bf3 medium
umm????????
If you are so worried about space get an mATX case
Get a xbox 360
I remember seeing an Acer laptop on tigerdirect that was about $579.99 it's called the Acer Aspire AS5750G-6873. The specs are pretty nice and if you look up the graphics card it is equipped with on youtube it seems to play games fine.
Macbook Air
cheap, gaming proficient, and durable
I have a topish spec desktop with 2 5970's etc and also a top spec laptop for mobile gaming when I can't be with my desktop. definitely try to find space for a desktop and if you can't you can always put it in another room and run cable extensions. If you really want to get a laptop then get it where I bought it.
I bought my laptop at [url]https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/[/url] great delivery time and the prices are really cheap compared to other sites. a GT555m should do all the games you need decently if you are willing to turn the resolution down.
If you are able to squeeze a bit more money out of them then try to get a 560m. that will pretty much run almost all games on high at 1920x1080. I'm using a 580m on my laptop and I get 60fps in skyrim in most areas with max resolution and mostly max settings except shadows which is on medium and AA which is on 4x.
Cooling is no problem either. the case and fans are brilliant. my laptop practically never gets hot even when gaming for hours and hours.
Good luck
[QUOTE=Ultraleet;34651035]I bought a gateway laptop last summer for school for $749.99
I can play all source games maxed out, MW3 on medium, BF3 on medium, crysis 2 on high (don't ask me), and UT3 on high. Specs are a core i5 SB, 1Gb GT540M, 6Gb memory. The reason I can play these games as well as I do (no FPS drops below 60) is because it has a small 14" screen and has a resolution of only 1366x768. The bottleneck for me when I play games (usually in boring classes) is that because it's a very slim laptop, it literally overheats within 5 minutes and therefore the CPU is throttled mercilessly. I bought a mains powered cooling pad for it which fixes this issue.
If you're going for a gaming laptop, you don't necessarily need to buy a gaming grade system. You pay a premium for that (along with a decent cooling system lol). I bought my laptop in the summer, and I know that for the same price you can get similar laptops (even from Gateway) with i7's now.[/QUOTE]
I call so much bullshit on this...
Why don't you get a little Mini ITX board with an 1155 socket, 8gb DDR3 ram support, and a PCIe16 bus?
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You could build a microcomputing box and play games from it! It'd be like having a hot running normal gaming PC, and it wouldn't even be half bad.
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unless of course you actually need to take it around to public places, then I guess that wouldn't be entirely practical...
Back when I asked this same thing, someone replied:
[quote]
-Cheap
-Gaming
-Laptop
Choose two.[/quote]
And I think it rings with truth.
You'll only end up buying a £1000 laptop that can just about play the games you want, and then have to buy another a few years down the line because you cant upgrade.
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;34653169]Back when I asked this same thing, someone replied:
And I think it rings with truth.[/QUOTE]
beat me to it
It's true really
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