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Post by Lizard on Jul 4, 2023 9:14:18 GMT
I'm coming down with Lenovid-23 as we speak. Perfect excuse to spend a week pushing this machine to its limit with Rome: Total War. The first one? 400fps will make the game even better. Most ancient civilizations couldn't even manage a stable 30FPS, they're fucked. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 4, 2023 9:52:15 GMT
Pffft, only 400fps?! You got ripped off mate.
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Post by Buu on Jul 10, 2023 18:10:20 GMT
So turbo-boost.
Yey or ney?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 10, 2023 18:34:43 GMT
I leave mine on but my laptop is a HP Omen and the performance software allows you to manually choose your performance profile so Eco mode limits the CPU to the base clock speed which is really good for reducing fan noise, heat and all that gubbins when I'm not gaining and I don't need my CPU running at 4.2ghz looking at YouTube.
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Post by Duffman5 on Jul 20, 2023 16:01:12 GMT
Help time again please EG hivemind. I'm after an "off the shelf" gaming laptop that will play Boulders Gate 3 flawlessly (as possible), that is all the machine has to do, I know feck all about pc's. I want to get as a prezzie for wife as she is so excited about the game, but played the beta on our years old machine which was awful. I have a budget of £1000, is that enough ?
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Post by Lizard on Aug 4, 2023 23:59:08 GMT
You don't want an update about my laptop, but you're getting it anyway. Firstly, starting Breath of the Wild the week I received the laptop wasn't the best idea. It took me ten days or so to actually take it out of the box, and even then all I did was the setup and updates and then left it dormant for another week. The build quality seems very good, although this is the first laptop I've ever owned that could be called 'premium'. Metal lid, plastic body, very sturdy, chunky, but not too heavy IMO. Screen (2560x1600 165hz) and keyboard are nice. Windows 11 is more different from 10 than I expected. I haven't really played any games properly, just seeing how they perform like a fucking neckbeard. Frankly, it's far faster than I expected. Forza Horizon 5 gives a fairly stable 80 FPS at ultra settings. F1 '22 runs between 40-60 FPS on very high settings depending on the level of RT applied, and goes up over 100 if you turn RT off. I'm using the included Geforce Experience programme to optimise the games, but it seems a bit shit. Tried it on GTA V and it seemed to cause problems. I've not paid attention to PC games for a long time and clearly need to spend a bit of time learning about optimising settings and removing bloatware. Duffman5 You might be able to get a lower-spec version of what I have (Legion Slim 5) for 1000GBP... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2023 1:28:20 GMT
I've got a Legion myself (albeit with far more modest specs) and it's given me little to complain about so far. And I complain about everything.
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Post by knighty on Dec 15, 2023 9:07:18 GMT
So bought the kids a £500 Lenovo ideapad3 laptop on a whim after seeing it on hotukdeals, is it any good for the price? Been after an upgrade on their shitty one for ages and finally snapped after seeing them play modded minecraft on it at 3 chunks at about 10fps (no idea why, they play on the consoles as well).
Anyways, specs:
aMD Ryzen 6600h processor 3.3ghz up to 4.5ghz
16gb ddr
GeForce Rtx 3050 4gb
1920 x 1080 screen
Should that be good enough to play minecraft Rtx on? Appreciate it’s not going to be world-beating, just needs a reasonable 30 fps.
And would it do for stuff like warhammer total war etc (that’s one’s for me). Been so long since I’ve done any sort of serious PC gaming I literally have no idea what’s any good. I don’t need flawless graphics, just playable.
Oh, and how do I get windows from something like CDkeys on to it? Relatively easily? Never done that before either!
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Post by stuz359 on Dec 15, 2023 10:48:15 GMT
So bought the kids a £500 Lenovo ideapad3 laptop on a whim after seeing it on hotukdeals, is it any good for the price? Been after an upgrade on their shitty one for ages and finally snapped after seeing them play modded minecraft on it at 3 chunks at about 10fps (no idea why, they play on the consoles as well). Anyways, specs: aMD Ryzen 6600h processor 3.3ghz up to 4.5ghz 16gb ddr GeForce Rtx 3050 4gb 1920 x 1080 screen Should that be good enough to play minecraft Rtx on? Appreciate it’s not going to be world-beating, just needs a reasonable 30 fps. And would it do for stuff like warhammer total war etc (that’s one’s for me). Been so long since I’ve done any sort of serious PC gaming I literally have no idea what’s any good. I don’t need flawless graphics, just playable. Oh, and how do I get windows from something like CDkeys on to it? Relatively easily? Never done that before either! From the looks of it, the 3050m can run Minecraft RTX at a solidish 40-50fps, don't think you will have any problems. Warhammer you would probably have to drop the settings a bit but that doesn't sound like an issue for you. But from write ups I have seen, the 3050 hovers around 2060 territory in terms of performance, the only concern for some more modern games (again, doesn't sound like an issue for you) is the 4gb Vram, but it should be grand for your use case. |
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Post by knighty on Dec 15, 2023 12:31:30 GMT
Thanks for that, I’ve got the PlayStation and Xbox for bells and whistles stuff, just wanted a laptop for kids modded games, the oldest has always wanted to try minecraft with the Rtx stuff (Xbox for his serious worlds), and I’ve always wanted to play total war and am happy to do so on lowest settings.
Course they can also do scratch coding and other school stuff on it as well. Sounds perfect for my needs to be honest!
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Post by killerbee on Jun 28, 2024 7:30:41 GMT
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Post by grey_matters on Jun 28, 2024 8:23:06 GMT
Prime Day is in a few weeks. It's rarely that good but there might be some kind of deal that pulls you in one direction over another.
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Post by killerbee on Jun 28, 2024 9:57:12 GMT
Cheers. Prime day is a good shout actually… I will need to be patient!!
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Post by grey_matters on Jun 28, 2024 12:46:21 GMT
Cheers. Prime day is a good shout actually… I will need to be patient!! Don't forget about camelcamelcamel when you are shopping. |
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Post by malek86 on Aug 11, 2024 11:20:21 GMT
I have half a mind of upgrading my Swift X laptop. The relatively weak 5500U and GTX 1650 is starting to feel quite limiting, but even more than that, the soldered and unupgradeable 8GBs of memory is becoming a serious pain in the ass in almost all modern games. I should have made my research before buying this thin-and-light. There's always a drawback, I guess.
My budget would be about 900 euro at the most, because I really don't play all that many modern games. At that price, I don't have too many options. Low-quality displays seem most common (my current one was ridiculously good for less than that), a measly 512GB SSD is a given, and the most powerful choice is usually a RTX 4050. There's also an Erazer major X10 with better display and 1TB SSD, but heh, I'm suspicious about its Arc 730M.
If possible, I'd prefer a quiet-ish laptop, of course within reason. The MSI Cyborg 15 seems interesting in that regard, but I'd have to sacrifice some power for it.
I don't suppose modern Nvidia laptop GPUs let you choose the maximum TGP in the control panel, right?
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Post by malek86 on Oct 27, 2024 7:56:25 GMT
A few months later, I'm still tempted to get that new laptop, but... could it be that the budget gaming laptops market has stagnated so much?
Like, I can get a TUF with Ryzen 7735HS and Rtx 4050 for 999 euro, and we are talking about two years old tech at this point. Is it even worth considering?
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Post by Henriksen on Oct 27, 2024 12:19:34 GMT
I don't know if it's the same for mainland Europe, but in the UK Lenovo LOQ/Legion laptops seem to get semi-regular discounts. A little while back I managed to snag a 15" LOQ for my brother in law with i7-13650HX, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD for £600 (720 Euro). Would've preferred a Ryzen CPU, as I expect it would be better with fan noise/temps, but very difficult to argue at that price.
Lenovo themselves seem to do some decent discounts on their own website for machines with No O/S. Worth keeping an eye out around Black Friday.
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Post by malek86 on Oct 27, 2024 19:10:27 GMT
I don't know if it's the same for mainland Europe, but in the UK Lenovo LOQ/Legion laptops seem to get semi-regular discounts. A little while back I managed to snag a 15" LOQ for my brother in law with i7-13650HX, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD for £600 (720 Euro). Would've preferred a Ryzen CPU, as I expect it would be better with fan noise/temps, but very difficult to argue at that price. Lenovo themselves seem to do some decent discounts on their own website for machines with No O/S. Worth keeping an eye out around Black Friday. I think it's a little harder here in the continent. I can find something for 800/850 euro, but you have to compromise on either the CPU, or fan noise/temps, or crappy display. I think a TUF is still the best all-around performer, but you do pay extra for it. That said, 1000 euro is at least for the 1TB nVME model, so that's not too shabby. The cheapest gaming laptop available right now is 700 euro for an HP Victus 15 with 12500H and RTX 4050, but the old CPU and subpar display are a big bummer. For 800 euro there's a LOQ similar to the one you got, but it's a mere i5-13500H instead of the i7. Overall, slim pickings. |
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