Is this laptop good for gaming?

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Woody is right I think, Neverdie was the first to kick off clearly.

How was me telling him no one's omniscient and not to worry about it 'kicking off'?

Why do some people look for an argument or antagonism in everything? That's a depressing outlook. Moreover, why would I then want to argue with such a person? It's not like they're actually doing it to talk things over or learn.

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GiantKiwi

Original post by Zargabaath

So? I've never seen student accommodation without a desk in each bedroom. It's also going to be much cheaper to get a desktop with the same spec.

This. My current desktop (sig) has a smaller footprint on the desk than most larger laptops. As a student, I had 6 desktops in my room, along with 4 monitors. No such thing as not enough space for a desktop.

As for the OP's laptop? Gaming on that will leave you disappointed. Those 40fps avg readings are working on the assumption of 1280x720 resolution on low settings with no Anti-Aliasing. Running that on a 4K panel will look horrific. Soon as you start getting into reasonable scaling (1920x1080) you average out to about 20fps, which is virtually unplayable.

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Reply 42

Jammy Duel

Original post by somemightsay888

If you've gotten that for £660 then that's ridiculously cheap, you'll not find anything better for that price. Although, the GPU is a bit weak imo. Shame it's not a 960.

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusVII-15/

Get rid of the OS (You can get a legit Windows 8/7 code for £19 off Reddit), and it's £660, £680 overall with an OS. The GPU has better DDR5 Memory instead of DDR3 and the general performance is better.

Stat sites are generally patchy, but real world tests say you can run Fallout medium-high on this one at 40fps, whereas your GTX 950 will be low to medium at the same.

What has to be remembered for that last bit is that if it's going off the game description of advanced settings it is medium high given that there generally is no low, and 950M seems to do better than that, unless the marginally slower clock than a 850M makes massive framerate differences, which I'm pretty sure it won't based on friends with absolutely woeful hardware.

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Reply 43

JokerPepsi

I have a Fangbook from cyberpower with a NVIDIA GTX 870M 6GB PCIe Video.

It runs most games, but it well never get them on ultra settings.

The laptop specs look good for the one you posted, but a 950M is the slowest of the new cards so just make sure you know that before jumping in.

Reply 44

Formless

Original post by blitzchika

I'm getting a new laptop and I would like it to be able to run games like Fallout 4 on at least medium settings. On ebay I saw a laptop which seemed quite cool. Here are its specs:
5th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-5200U 2.20 / 2.70 Turbo GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX™ 950M 4GB Dedicated Graphics

Screen resolution: 3840x120

1TB HDD+8GB SSHD

16GB memory

I'm wondering if this meets the requirements. Thanks (if you have any recommendations I have a budget of £660)

Very good Laptop however i think that a PC would be better, you can get a decent rig for 660 that would run fallout on high 60fps, i can try hit you up with a build if you want brah

Reply 45

united2000

Original post by blitzchika

Anyone wants a gaming laptop i firstly ask, can you do with a desktop?
Secondly i point them in the direction of the new Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series machines.
Ok its £100 more expensive than yours and doesn't have as high screen res and half the RAM, but has a 960M and a i7 6700hq CPU.

To compare to yours...
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4720HQ-vs-Intel-Core-i5-5200U
As you can see, no contest.

Plus the GFX comparsion.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Fallout-4-Notebook-Benchmarks.153924.0.html

As you can see on Fallout 4 at 1080p the 960M has 10 frames on the 950M.

However what you can also see from the chart is the 960M struggling to get 30FPS at 1080p.
Which brings me to the point about laptops vs desktops for gaming.
Look at the comparison for a 980M to a GTX960.
A mid range desktop card against the top of the line £1000+ only laptop graphics card.
Fallout 4 Ultra settings 1080p
960 44.8 FPS
960M 56.
Only a 10 frame difference for a huge increase in price.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/GTA-V-Benchmarked.140881.0.html
The GTA5 bench here, 970 beats a 980M, you get the picture. A lower tier desktop card always beats a higher tier laptop card.