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Looking for an Old High Powered laptop

  • 11-04-2019 09:19AM
    #1
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭


    Hi All

    Im looking for a high end Laptop that I can buy cheap for gaming.

    I dont mind going back a few years.

    Something around the 150 euro mark.

    Where is the best place to find these second hand laptops and any recommendations?


Comments

  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,434 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    adverts.ie often has stuff like that.


  • #3
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    spurious wrote: »
    adverts.ie often has stuff like that.

    Yeah I know Adverts but i dont know what im looking for

    It lists Notebooks Laptops and so on but Im looking for someone with a tech background who can recommend something


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    What sort of gaming? For something like The Sims or whatever, an old i5 for €150-200 would do, but for actual proper games, you'd have to spend at least €300-350 to have any hope of getting something 2nd hand that would run newish stuff beyond lowest settings.


  • #5
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    What sort of gaming? For something like The Sims or whatever, an old i5 for €150-200 would do, but for actual proper games, you'd have to spend at least €300-350 to have any hope of getting something 2nd hand that would run newish stuff beyond lowest settings.

    Games Like City Skylines so yeah.


  • #6
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Honestly, a laptop for even €200 2nd hand would struggle to run it at lowest settings.


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  • #7
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Honestly, a laptop for even €200 2nd hand would struggle to run it at lowest settings.

    OK Thanks


  • #8
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    would it be better to get a second hand PS4?


  • #9
    gibgodsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭gibgodsman


    Wait, your trying to buy a laptop, that can run games, and only budgeted €150? You would struggle big time to get a laptop that doesnt take 50 years to load a web page for that price. Gaming Laptop, min spend would easily be €600, and thats for the low of low end


  • #10
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    Ive changed it.

    Im going to do a PC build for around €1500.


  • #11
    gibgodsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭gibgodsman


    Duane Dibbley wrote: »
    Ive changed it.

    Im going to do a PC build for around €1500.

    We go from a €150 laptop to a €1500 PC, ok then :rolleyes:

    Welcome to the Master Race , PS. I own, PS4, Xbox One and Switch and I will still say that


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  • #12
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    gibgodsman wrote: »
    We go from a €150 laptop to a €1500 PC, ok then :rolleyes:

    Welcome to the Master Race , PS. I own, PS4, Xbox One and Switch and I will still say that

    I don’t know what you mean by your post.

    I don’t have a gaming pc. I was going to start with a cheap laptop. But instead I will build a quality pc that I can keep upgrading.

    I have a 2018 15” MacBook Pro but I don’t plan to start gaming on it.


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