i have a few laptops at my store that are clearance and that i am thinking about getting, but wondering if this would be good for gaming? not looking to run things on ultra or anything. but maybe run witcher 3 or evil within on medium settings with little to no lag?
was thinking of probably getting this anyways and reselling since i’ll be getting this for about $50 more than another laptop i was looking at after rebates and coupons plus its clearance price. so over all $250
It has integrated graphics which I wouldn’t suggest gaming on. It basically means the CPU handles the graphics instead of a dedicated card. You could probably do a little lightweight gaming though at medium/low settings on older games. Not so sure about The Witcher 3…
I’d see if you can find one with an i5 instead of an i7 so you can get a dedicated GPU like Smiffy said.
The one you linked doesn’t have a 1080p screen either which I don’t think would be very good for games. Also has atrocious battery life.
it looks good except for the graphics chipset which is where your main graphics proccessing comes from, but with that setup it should handle a few decent games at low to medium graphics options.
if you want high level graphics options with newer games you would have to find yourself an external graphics GPU but i’m not sure where to find a decent one though.
and battery life sucks at only 4 hours it would drain it fast as it’s being used for gaming so change that to maybe 90 mins at full power.
Buy this I have one although I went with a SSD also yes I know its WAY MORE than $600. However, I overclocked the 970m and everything I throw at it I can run at ultra at 1080p at 60 frames with no issues. Just a suggestion.
trouble is that most laptops that are not specificly built for gaming have built in chipsets for low level graphics so you probably wouldn’t find any decent gaming laptop for less than around $750 or so that could handle modern games at high specs that a cheap $300-$500 laptop just wouldn’t do.
@ svt merc
from what i understand solid state drives draw more power than standard hard drive are can hold less data and are extremely expensive at the moment.
Well that lenovo I linked to in the original thread is like a $700 laptop with a 5th gen i7. Was manufactured 2 months ago. But yeah the intergrated graphics sucks. Just wasn’t sure if maybe it could still work. How about that asus I link into the post above yours?
That ASUS at least has a dedicated graphics but its a 8670m which is umm well pretty bad. To be honest you’re not going to get a laptop that can run any games that well in this price range.
im just looking to run newer games at medium settings. nothing more. this laptop won’t be just for gaming strictly, but would like to occasionally game with it. i already have a desktop that is pretty much strictly gaming
SSD’s draw significant less power then your standard HDD they are lacking on space but they are getting there but my laptop also came with a 1TB HDD and 250GB SSD.
However, Aden if you’re still looking look at these sites.