[beepbeeprichie]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
Clearly you should stay off this thread........
ATI have the best pound for pound performance card which is the 6850

It was a joke. Lighten up.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by beepbeeprichie)
It was a joke. Lighten up.

It's hard to tell on tsr

[beepbeeprichie]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
It's hard to tell on tsr

BTW what GPU do you think is required to play Crysis on high specs?

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by beepbeeprichie)
BTW what GPU do you think is required to play Crysis on high specs?

Depends what you mean by that.......with AA, etc and whether you mean ultra settings or high settings?

[beepbeeprichie]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
Depends what you mean by that.......with AA, etc and whether you mean ultra settings or high settings?

AA*4 + High.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by beepbeeprichie)
AA*4 + High.

a 6870 would pretty much do that, even on a 1080p screen so around 25-30 average frames and you could push it to ultra with slightly less frames, but it also depends on your cpu.
That's why I got one, it was £120 and could handle a lot for the price.

[Hippysnake]

(Original post by hassi94)
What do you mean by you've invested in a 7970 and spent £350 but you need a <£200 GPU? I don't understand.

Also why do you have 7200 and 10000 rpm drives? They're pretty pointless to get if you're using an SSD. I'd get a 5900RPM 1-2TB Drive and a bigger SSD, you don't need speed on a storage drive.

P.S. Moved here as Tech Society is not for rig building advice.

I'll be returning the 7970 for a full refund minus stocking costs. Reason being, I think it's a tad overkill for someone on my budget to spend over a third of it on the GPU alone.

The hardrives are from older rigs. I've torn them both down and sold them for parts, but I've kept the drives, so no extra expenditure there. Might as well stick them in.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Hippysnake)
I'll be returning the 7970 for a full refund minus stocking costs. Reason being, I think it's a tad overkill for someone on my budget to spend over a third of it on the GPU alone.

The hardrives are from older rigs. I've torn them both down and sold them for parts, but I've kept the drives, so no extra expenditure there. Might as well stick them in.

Sapphire 7850 is a good choice

[Fizzeh]

Hey everyone. I'm hopefully going to be going into Web and Multimedia this academic year at UClan, and I am going to be buying myself a new laptop. I'd like some advice on what I should be looking to purchase; here are my requirements:

Must be able to easily run programs:

Adobe Photoshop CS5/6
Adobe Flash
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Media Encoder

Combined with a graphics tablet.

Also it'd be nice if it could run:

Minecraft on normal render distance

My maximum budget is £800. (Less would be great!)
I'd like a decent screen size and a full keyboard. I'm really not one for the dinky netbooks.
I don't want an Alienware laptop because they're expensive and they look very chunky, heavy and may attract theives.

Basically, its going to be doing a lot all at once. If you post, please explain the technical language and why the spec of the laptop is good for my requirements - I may be able to code a webpage but when it comes to the hardware I'm at a total loss! <3

Thankyou very much for your help.

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by Hippysnake)
I'll be returning the 7970 for a full refund minus stocking costs. Reason being, I think it's a tad overkill for someone on my budget to spend over a third of it on the GPU alone.

The hardrives are from older rigs. I've torn them both down and sold them for parts, but I've kept the drives, so no extra expenditure there. Might as well stick them in.

I'm spending about a third of my budget on the GPU, it is the most important component in a gaming PC Though I've gone for a 670 not a 7970 (it's faster and cheaper and has support for Nvidia-specific things like PhysX).

But anyway, I'd say a 7850.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Fizzeh)
Hey everyone. I'm hopefully going to be going into Web and Multimedia this academic year at UClan, and I am going to be buying myself a new laptop. I'd like some advice on what I should be looking to purchase; here are my requirements:

Must be able to easily run programs:

Adobe Photoshop CS5/6
Adobe Flash
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Media Encoder

Combined with a graphics tablet.

Also it'd be nice if it could run:

Minecraft on normal render distance

My maximum budget is £800. (Less would be great!)
I'd like a decent screen size and a full keyboard. I'm really not one for the dinky netbooks.
I don't want an Alienware laptop because they're expensive and they look very chunky, heavy and may attract theives.

Basically, its going to be doing a lot all at once. If you post, please explain the technical language and why the spec of the laptop is good for my requirements - I may be able to code a webpage but when it comes to the hardware I'm at a total loss! <3

Thankyou very much for your help.

Well in your laptop:
Processor: you'll be looking at an i7 due it's hyper threading which makes editing much quicker
Ram: You'll need around 8gb to meet your editing demands when your seriously at it
Graphics: You'll probably need a pretty good one to meet your graphical demands on your screen.....so no integrated ones like Intel HD 3000, etc.
SSD: Solid state drives are much faster than a normal hard drive could be beneficial but that the problem is that it would push it out of budget.


http://www.ebuyer.com/290627-lenovo-...laptop-m556cuk
Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 Laptop
- Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.2GHz
- 8GB RAM + 750GB HDD
- 15.6" LED + Blu-Ray Reader
- Webcam + BT + NVIDIA GT540M
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64
£718.98 So you got £80 for the graphical tablet.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/ran...ckedition.html
Novatech nSpire 2760 - Black Edition - 15.6" Intel i7 2760 Mobile Processor - 8GB DDR3 Memory - 500GB Hybrid SSD Hard Drive - DVD Writer - NVIDIA GT 555M Graphics
£680 without an OS

[Hanvyj]

(Original post by Fizzeh)
Hey everyone. I'm hopefully going to be going into Web and Multimedia this academic year at UClan, and I am going to be buying myself a new laptop. I'd like some advice on what I should be looking to purchase; here are my requirements:

Must be able to easily run programs:

Adobe Photoshop CS5/6
Adobe Flash
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Media Encoder

Combined with a graphics tablet.

Also it'd be nice if it could run:

Minecraft on normal render distance

My maximum budget is £800. (Less would be great!)
I'd like a decent screen size and a full keyboard. I'm really not one for the dinky netbooks.
I don't want an Alienware laptop because they're expensive and they look very chunky, heavy and may attract theives.

Basically, its going to be doing a lot all at once. If you post, please explain the technical language and why the spec of the laptop is good for my requirements - I may be able to code a webpage but when it comes to the hardware I'm at a total loss! <3

Thankyou very much for your help.

Depends 100% on your graphics tablet requirements! What are you going to be doing on it? If you are looking at Intuos4, pretty much the minimum for digital art the cost is £250+... A Bamboo will be much cheaper but its not really suited for drawing etc

[Fizzeh]

Iqbal007, thankyou very much for your reply and suggestions. I am typing from a Lenovo now; they are very reliable laptops indeed! I've bookmarked both of the laptops that you suggested and even if they aren't available by the time I get my student finance, I will look for similar specs. Your advice was excellent!

Hanvyj, thankfully I already have a graphics tablet; I was more talking about the laptop being able to run my tablet and the above programs simultaneously. Thankyou for your reply, however!

[Arron17]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
Sapphire 7850 is a good choice

Gotta agree with this, I've got one and it overclocks like a beast.

[bananarama2]

Any suggestions for a £500 laptop. Used for a mixture of gaming, programming and work.

[und]

Can anybody advise on when the new Ivy Bridge laptops are going to come out? I'm looking to get a laptop with a good processor, at least 6-8GB of RAM and an SSD with a budget of around £800-1000. I'd like it to be fairly portable because I'll probably take it to university next September, and obviously good battery life would be a plus. I've been looking at ultrabooks but I wouldn't mind something slightly bigger if it means I can get better specs.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Fizzeh)
Iqbal007, thankyou very much for your reply and suggestions. I am typing from a Lenovo now; they are very reliable laptops indeed! I've bookmarked both of the laptops that you suggested and even if they aren't available by the time I get my student finance, I will look for similar specs. Your advice was excellent!

Hanvyj, thankfully I already have a graphics tablet; I was more talking about the laptop being able to run my tablet and the above programs simultaneously. Thankyou for your reply, however!

Just come back on TSR when you do have the finances to buy it, by then specs should be slightly better.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by und)
Can anybody advise on when the new Ivy Bridge laptops are going to come out? I'm looking to get a laptop with a good processor, at least 6-8GB of RAM and an SSD with a budget of around £800-1000. I'd like it to be fairly portable because I'll probably take it to university next September, and obviously good battery life would be a plus. I've been looking at ultrabooks but I wouldn't mind something slightly bigger if it means I can get better specs.

There likely to come out within the next 2 months or so.
When they do, just make a thread in the laptop section and we'll reply as soon as possible.

[quotidian]

What was that website I found last night that was like a pc build wish list.

It gave you all the different components and then you clicked on each one and selected what model you wanted. Then when you went to pick another component it hid the ones that didn't work with what you had picked so far.

Then when you where finished you could see a price breakdown for each different supplier, dabs, ebuyer, novatech etc.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by wcp100)
Any suggestions for a £500 laptop. Used for a mixture of gaming, programming and work.

Well for programming and work, under £500 is doable, not sure about gaming, I'm a skeptic of the intel HD integrated graphics.

Have you got your own Windows cd?