What's your tech specs?

SephI have had 4 different Lenovos in my time, but never had two of the same models at the same time, that'd just be a waste, these babies are expensive as fuck...

I hate laptops.

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Laptops are great because of portability. They're especially good for people on the go, like White Collar employees and Yuppies. They're also fantastic for students, especially College/University students.But if you want to game, et al what you want is a gaming computer, desktops are the only way you should go.... Unless the games you want to play are older gen stuff that a laptop can handle.

Not that I pay much attention to laptops but you'd think that laptop parts would become more user friendly to install - maybe even semi or fully modular without having to mess with screws. That would require more standards though, I suppose.

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A lot of standards. just about everything in a laptop is custom made for that specific model of laptop.

ASUS G74 ROG Laptopi7 2.20
16GB of DDR3 Ram
Geforce GTX 560m 2gb video card
120GB SSD
1tb drive
1tb drive on the side for games

Hey guys, first off this may be off topic a bit so just bear with me. I'm buying my girlfriend either a laptop or desktop that could handle skyrim and Rome 2 Total war on high settings, medium at the least. She's hogging my desktop and I can't get any work done....I'd prefer to get her a laptop so please help me out with some recommendations.

Get her a new desktop, then on the sneak slowly upgrade your computer with her parts.

a laptop that will run skyrim on high? Good luck with that. One of the top end APUs might handle medium.

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my laptop can run it on ultra at about 40fps

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yes and the heat produced by the components will kill it sooner or later.

Devon · #27Get her a new desktop, then on the sneak slowly upgrade your computer with her parts.

I'd never do that, she'd nag me and guilt trip me forever.I know how loony feels about laptops, and he's probably right...no point getting my girl a laptop that'll break down easy and she'll be back to hogging my desktop again.I got these specs from a local retailer, what do you guys think:Processor: AMD 2250x3 2.9ghz
Memory: 2gb DDR3
HDD: 500gb
Video Card: GT430 2gb 128bit DDR3Is it enough for Skyrim at medium?

no. 2GB ram is barely enough to run windows 7 properly.you want a quad core cpu of at least 3.0ghz, at least 8GB ram, and you can do better than an entry level gtx 400 series. 500GB disk won't last long either.

What's your budget?

My budget, in dollars would be about 300-500.I don't plan on spending much on this and prices seem to be going down here plus there's a few stores with promos.Here's a quote from PC Gamer:"If you’ve got a DirectX 9 card with 512MB on-board RAM, 2GB of system RAM and a dual core processor, you should be good to go."I went with that but I just found out it's only good for low settings...

This can't be right. What currency do you use?

Eadelas25 · #34"If you’ve got a DirectX 9 card with 512MB on-board RAM, 2GB of system RAM and a dual core processor, you should be good to go."I went with that but I just found out it's only good for low settings...

low and not on windows 7. 2GB ram would be an XP system.pretty much have to go for an AMD based system at that budget, try an APU system.Devon: I would imagine its USD.

Re: What\'s your tech specs?

Devon · #35
This can't be right. What currency do you use?

I used US Dollars.
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What kind of AMD or APU system? I need specifics so I can shop around for it.

I'd look at an A10-5800K.Or an A8-6600K.

Eadelas25 · #37I used US Dollars.
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What kind of AMD or APU system? I need specifics so I can shop around for it.

APU is an architecture made by AMD that combines a radeon HD graphics core and an AMD CPU onto the same chip. It's cheap and for the price the performance of both cpu and graphics is incredible

Alright, thanks loony. Hope I can get a good deal.@devonkiinI'll try to find those if they're available.