Is this a good laptop? - Printable Version

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Is this a good laptop? - Arastair - 08.09.2015

Hello,

Is this a good laptop?

CPU: Intel Core i7 5500U 2.40GHz up to 3.00 GHz
Ram: 8GB - DDR3
HDD: 1 TB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M 4GB

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Diabloa - 08.09.2015

Yeah, it is good for playing medium games. What's the price of this laptop?

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Arastair - 08.09.2015

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Originally Posted by Diabloa

Yeah, it is good for playing medium games. What's the price of this laptop?

$700 but I can get it for $600

EDIT: Actually, I don't know the exact price but the place I'm buying it from is selling it for $600, some place is selling it for $1000 though

Re: Is this a good laptop? - SickAttack - 08.09.2015

Of course it's good.

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Arastair - 08.09.2015

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Originally Posted by SickAttack

Of course it's good.

Will the graphic card support directx 12?

Re: Is this a good laptop? - XBrianX - 08.09.2015

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Originally Posted by Arastair

Hello,

Is this a good laptop?

CPU: Intel Core i7 5500U 2.40GHz up to 3.00 GHz
Ram: 8GB - DDR3
HDD: 1 TB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M 4GB

Dayum!

Hell yeah man this is a great laptop actually you can run GTA V on it.

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Vince - 08.09.2015

It's not that good. Keep in mind that it's an U series processor. They're designed for ultrabooks and severely mangled in performance to improve power consumption and heat production. This processor is only a dual core and my own Core i7 desktop processor from 2009 (!) still outperforms it.

The same goes for the GPU. Being of both the GT (Multimedia) and M (Mobile) series, it is massively outperformed by the now ridiculously cheap GTX 750 Ti.

tl;dr if you want to enjoy PC games to the max, buy a desktop.

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Arastair - 08.09.2015

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Originally Posted by Vince

It's not that good. Keep in mind that it's an U series processor. They're designed for ultrabooks and severely mangled in performance to improve power consumption and heat production. This processor is only a dual core and my own Core i7 desktop processor from 2009 (!) still outperforms it.

The same goes for the GPU. Being of both the GT (Multimedia) and M (Mobile) series, it is massively outperformed by the now ridiculously cheap GTX 750 Ti.

tl;dr if you want to enjoy PC games to the max, buy a desktop.

Thanks for helping, I have some other laptops in mind, I'll try to contact you when I found another laptop, because currently I can't buy a desktop

Re: Is this a good laptop? - ]Kurence[ - 08.09.2015

I have alienware 13 with i7 5500u and nvidia gtx 960m
-runs GTA V with all settings on high.

CPU is not the bottleneck, it is GPU

Re: Is this a good laptop? - Mauzen - 08.09.2015

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Originally Posted by Arastair

Will the graphic card support directx 12?

Newer nvidia cards miss hardware support for dx12 async compute (making it run slow as hell). They announced to fix this with a driver update, but Id wait if this actually reaches normal performance with the patch, If your focus actually is on dx12.