Sugesstions for budget gaming laptops.

Timalay

Timalay wrote: »

Great, it now out of stock, how does this fair?

Hmm, very tempted to buy the i7 version for the extra (more than my orignal budget I know).

Mirno

The main problem with a budget gaming laptop is the screen.
If you get a high resolution so it's useful for non-gaming, games will suck as they run at non-native resolutions, or at too high a resolution for a budget GFX chipset.

If you get a low resolution screen, then normal work may suffer as you have less screen real-estate.
Budget, gaming, and laptop don't go together unfortunately.

Personally I wouldn't go for an i7 - the extra cost tends not to be worth it in my opinion. Not many bits of work people do at home are CPU bound anymore.

Mirno

Timalay

Mirno wrote: »

The main problem with a budget gaming laptop is the screen.
If you get a high resolution so it's useful for non-gaming, games will suck as they run at non-native resolutions, or at too high a resolution for a budget GFX chipset.

If you get a low resolution screen, then normal work may suffer as you have less screen real-estate.
Budget, gaming, and laptop don't go together unfortunately.

Personally I wouldn't go for an i7 - the extra cost tends not to be worth it in my opinion. Not many bits of work people do at home are CPU bound anymore.

Mirno

I've read a few reviews of those two laptops, and they don't rate the screens to badly.

andydiysaver

trouble is the words gaming and laptop usually go together about as well as the words performance and fiesta


.... don't let my humour stop you there are plenty of rigs out there capable of it, but it won't be the real thing it'll be more quorn than a big fat steak


if you're ultra serious about gaming get a desktop and realise that the edge these days lies in the high end graphics cards then CPU then a distant third on board RAM

Timalay

andydiysaver wrote: »

trouble is the words gaming and laptop usually go together about as well as the words performance and fiesta


.... don't let my humour stop you there are plenty of rigs out there capable of it, but it won't be the real thing it'll be more quorn than a big fat steak


if you're ultra serious about gaming get a desktop and realise that the edge these days lies in the high end graphics cards then CPU then a distant third on board RAM

And as I said before, I'm not going to use it for heavy gaming (Grand Theft Auto IV at most).

Weird_Nev

andydiysaver wrote: »

trouble is the words gaming and laptop usually go together about as well as the words performance and fiesta


.... don't let my humour stop you there are plenty of rigs out there capable of it, but it won't be the real thing it'll be more quorn than a big fat steak


if you're ultra serious about gaming get a desktop and realise that the edge these days lies in the high end graphics cards then CPU then a distant third on board RAM

I've had a lot of fun driving Fiesta ST's, and I've played games on laptops for 4 years now.

No, they will never rival a desktop PC -- heat issues see to that. But they will play many games very well, and you can have plenty of fun with them.

I played Portal 2, MEtro 2033, and Deus Ex HR on my old laptop, (i5, 8Gb, GT420m) and all were perfectly playable and enjoyable.

I've just taken delivery of my new laptop - i7 ULV version, GT750m with 2Gb GDDR5, 8Mb Ram and a HD IPS Screen, and it's pretty amazing to be honest. PLays War Thunder at Full HD and high graphics at 50fps+, Deus E:HR a Full HD, 50FPs plus on high, Civ 5 at Full HD very smoothly.... That's a £700 laptop

So, as a laptop gamer (albeit not a serious one) I get sick and tired of people saying 'you need a desktop'. No, you don't. We don't all want SLi'd set ups, we don't all want to pay the premium in space and conveience for Ultra Graphics. Some of us just need a laptop that plays games.

Thankfully, so long as you don't mind spending a bit extra, there are now plenty of laptops that do the job admirably.

katty1166

I agreed that Lenovo G505s is a good option for your price

Timalay

Weird_Nev wrote: »

I've had a lot of fun driving Fiesta ST's, and I've played games on laptops for 4 years now.

No, they will never rival a desktop PC -- heat issues see to that. But they will play many games very well, and you can have plenty of fun with them.

I played Portal 2, MEtro 2033, and Deus Ex HR on my old laptop, (i5, 8Gb, GT420m) and all were perfectly playable and enjoyable.

I've just taken delivery of my new laptop - i7 ULV version, GT750m with 2Gb GDDR5, 8Mb Ram and a HD IPS Screen, and it's pretty amazing to be honest. PLays War Thunder at Full HD and high graphics at 50fps+, Deus E:HR a Full HD, 50FPs plus on high, Civ 5 at Full HD very smoothly.... That's a £700 laptop

So, as a laptop gamer (albeit not a serious one) I get sick and tired of people saying 'you need a desktop'. No, you don't. We don't all want SLi'd set ups, we don't all want to pay the premium in space and conveience for Ultra Graphics. Some of us just need a laptop that plays games.

Thankfully, so long as you don't mind spending a bit extra, there are now plenty of laptops that do the job admirably.

Can 8mb of ram still run any games?

Weird_Nev

Yes.

I've got Dizzy on it, and if I swap the discs over I can play Chuckie Egg.

(Actually, I remeber playing ELite II frontier, and Simcity 2000 on 8mb Ram. POssibly less).

prowla

Weird_Nev wrote: »

Yes.

I've got Dizzy on it, and if I swap the discs over I can play Chuckie Egg.

(Actually, I remeber playing ELite II frontier, and Simcity 2000 on 8mb Ram. POssibly less).

8 millibits of RAM is an extremely small amount of memory!