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OfflineHorizon
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Can you help me?
    #18748776 - 08/23/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Let me start off by saying I don't know anything about video games. I usually don't play them or buy any systems. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me the cheapest laptop I can buy that will run games well. I would be playing games like Skyrim and Assassins Creed. I'm not sure if its possible but I would like to spend around $200. But I'm not sure if that's realistic, again I don't know anything about this stuff.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Horizon]
    #18749003 - 08/23/13 08:59 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Laptops don't really run games well, some of them advertise they do, the store will say it, but the graphics will be low and the frames will be bad, if you want something bearable it'd be at least 300$.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749023 - 08/23/13 09:03 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I got my laptop for 300 bucks in 2010 and it does not play gamesl lol


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749031 - 08/23/13 09:04 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

crap thats not the right video my bad


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749077 - 08/23/13 09:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

So it would be cheaper just to purchase an Xbox or something? How much is an average desktop for gaming?


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749083 - 08/23/13 09:17 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312830

I've seen no hiccups in video with this laptop and the settings are actually at high, I'm sorry but I'd suggest getting this one.

A decent laptop is 300, a decent laptop that plays games is 450. This is reasonable since it's current gen...



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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749119 - 08/23/13 09:26 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

It's whatever you want, personally I'd always want current gen hardware over other stuff, because they always come with better features for cheap due to the fact game manufactures lose money to try to recoup in game sales eventually.

Last gen wasn't so good. There were good games but the functionality with the hardware wasn't great, xbox 360's were crapping out, ps3 required you to install games and the wii wasn't meant for flatscreen t.v's really.

If you need a laptop or pc, the one I put up is pretty decent.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749184 - 08/23/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

A ps3 now wouldn't be a bad investment, buy one new, perhaps the one that's coming out with GTAV bundled for 250$
and you'll have a gaming system for awhile, they won't charge you for online play.

I got a ps3 last year and I used up 100gb, the bundle I'm talking about has like 500gb.

But yeah the games you mentioned will be there, though skyrim would probably look better on p.c. and if you like minecraft or fps you'd probably have more fun on p.c.

I don't know exactly how you could piece together a gaming pc for less then 400 though, but people do it somehow.  At that low of a price there could be some trial and error involved, it wouldn't be as easy as those new egg videos make you believe it is to build a p.c. the lowest I could get you a gaming p.c. prepared all together for is almost 700 dollars because they don't work with old technology really.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18749221 - 08/23/13 09:50 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Like I said you could find a laptop for 300 but it may not even run multiplayer correctly with other games and that'd be pretty face palm.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Horizon]
    #18750059 - 08/24/13 02:53 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Sorry but you aren't going to find a laptop for 200 or even 300 or under that will run any modern game at decent settings.

For any new laptop expect to shell out at least ~500-1k for anything halfway decent with a mid-range dedicated mGPU and decent enough CPU
For a high end 'gaming' laptop expect more like 1k-2k.
2k is about what I paid for my SLI 'high end' gaming laptop back in the day.

You could probably find a pretty good gaming laptop on craigslist or something, something used for a cheap price, around 300 might get you something good if lucky.

Laptops are more expensive. If you are on a budget try to a find a used gaming desktop for 300-400 maybe, your money will go a LOT farther with a desktop


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Shroomism]
    #18750078 - 08/24/13 03:05 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

my 650m plays skyrim quite decently at high settings at 1080p hooked up hdmi to tv... it's not a gaming laptop but granted it was retardedly overpriced 2880x1800 2.7ghz/512gb ssd/16gb ram... :lol:

anyways, if you just want to play skyrim on a new laptop on the cheaps, my advice would be to get a haswell craptop with HD 4400 @ 1366x768p, which will still run you $500

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314150

reasonably playable at low/med settings it looks



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Re: Can you help me? [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #18750125 - 08/24/13 03:28 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

That's "good enough" I guess. If it can handle skyrim then it can handle most games.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Shroomism]
    #18750152 - 08/24/13 03:43 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

yah, one man's trash is another man's treasure i guess... but craigslist is a really good idea.... you just gotta wait until some tweaker is ready to hawk their lappy to buy an eightball and be ready to strike :lol:


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If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.

I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too.  If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #18750645 - 08/24/13 09:10 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks for all the help shroomerites, I don't think I'm going to go the computer way. Now the real question for you gamers is what is better? Xbox 360 or PS3? All I want to do is play Skyrim.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Horizon]
    #18750691 - 08/24/13 09:27 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Like I said ps3 has free online


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18750694 - 08/24/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

but the xbox version of skyrim might run better:strokebeard:

hold on lol


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18750705 - 08/24/13 09:30 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

all systems have gliches
only pc has the ability to fix most with the unoffcial patch mod


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18750710 - 08/24/13 09:32 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Do you need Internet to play Skyrim?


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Horizon]
    #18750770 - 08/24/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Nah but Skyrim is kind of a heavy game dude, their graphics render far distance's, but the graphics card isn't THAT great.

The game was really intended for p.c. users I'm sorry, but the skyrim experiance isn't for you right now it seems lol

Some people will tell you but I dunno, you're probably better off buying a ps4 with current tech that includes a sizable memory for saving or perhaps installing games, a good cpu for characters to take up the screen, a decent graphics card that can handle lots of special effects and lots of RAM which is what loading screens are loading into basically

I'm sorry but open world RPG's weren't done in the past for a reason and the ps3 and xbox360 tried to do this but there was a lot of tricks that they needed to do and it still isn't a seemless experience at this point.

Elder Scrolls IV probably works great though and Dark souls and eventually dark souls 2 is cool and requires a bit of fortitude.

Like I said though open world epic gaming is really going to take off on the ps4, because of the hardware limitations of this generation, it comes out 11/15.


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Re: Can you help me? [Re: Konyap]
    #18750779 - 08/24/13 09:49 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

You would probably want one anyway. Just save up some money and invest in it...


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