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Anyone recommend a laptop that sims games will work on.
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15-08-2011 7:59pm#1
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Hello and welcome to boards,Hi
I could do with some advise on what kind of laptop would I get that sims games would work on,
PC World has quoted me €750, surely there are cheaper that the games will work on.
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It depends on what you actually need as opposed to what will actually do it. Did the salesman suggest something based on what you needed? Probably. Sims games will run on a lot of things with the right GPUs in them but the kicker is will they run Well? You're looking at 4GB of RAM, an i3 Processor and some description of AMD GPU, of at least an HD4200 or higher. Anything less and you might be able to launch the game, but might not be willing to play it at the piss poor settings. You also have to reckon you'll want to run say, Sims 3, reasonably well. And perhaps have the foresight to be able to run Sims 4 on this laptop whenever that inevitably comes out.
People often come into my store and demand the best for little to no money without a concept of what Value actually costs you. The only thing wrong in this picture is that you don't see the Value in the €750 you seem to have been quoted. And that's probably a failure on their part. But, 4 years ago I got a $1200 laptop. It's still working today, in spite of defects and everything else. It ran everything I needed it to and I've retired it like a racehorse. It's a fantastic Netflix machine now. But it used to be the machine I relied on to play Crysis and WoW on. And Oblivion. And a bunch of other games I don't care to mention. But I suspect as a Netflix device it will last me several more years, it's already lost the ability to play modern games at reasonably enjoyable settings (and playing crysis at fun settings is probably what shortened her life on the first motherboard, actually
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I think, sure, you can do cheaper if you really want to save money now but in the long run you're just accelerating the point in time at which you'll have to/ want to shell out for another upgraded unit. The salesmen I assume, showed you something that's going to satisfy your desire to play sims games (and more) for at least the next couple to few years.0 -
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Here is the PC world pricelist for you guys fight with
. (May not exactly match retail I guess)
/gets popcorn
http://www.pcworld.ie/category/All-Laptops/3010 -
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TBH for the games she wants to play the integrated gpu of the new 2nd generation i3s would be more than capable
If you go into Start > Device Manager, and click on Display Adapter, if it says "Intel HD Graphics" - immediately rule out 3D games. Sorry.
I've seen enough returns from customers, from other people on my sales team telling them what you just said, and returning the thing when they found out what I would have told them in the first place: That's bullsh*t. The OP will want some description of an AMD Radeon GPU on the laptop.
I googled the ASUS laptop model and got zero hits beyond this thread. ASUS are great laptops but even they would suck at sims without some dedicated graphics involved.0 -
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