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Offline [LSR]Ride

Help required
« on: May 31, 2014, 09:02:09 pm »
As I am going to continue my studyings in an university after highschool, a laptop is highly needed for me. But I need your help guys as I don't know much about laptops (processors, graphics cards etc) As much as I've heard, HP is crap and Asus/Dell/Acer are good brands. Is that true or not? My budget would be between 700-800 euros. Who knows, if it's a good laptop, I'm willing to go a bit higher. It should be able to run some of the newest games available and should have a long battery life. I'm not sure which one to prefer, Win 7 or 8. That's pretty much it. Any kind of help is appreciated :)

Offline ToasterMan

Re: Help required
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2014, 09:11:09 pm »
HP on küll sitt, seda teada , aga soovitan kindlasti Asus/Dell. Võib olla Acer Aspire V5-573G on suht hea , praegu ka soodukas.

Offline [MAF]Snoopy

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Re: Help required
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2014, 09:12:57 pm »
HP aren't too bad, I've had my laptop for two years. HDD died after about a year and a half so I put an SSD in it.

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: Help required
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2014, 11:45:09 am »
i don't think the brand has too much influence on the laptop itself even, the internals are made by the same companies anyway, its just that one might be bit more rugged, overheat less or have better power supply. even then, it's hard to say, as it mostly differs from model to model (and price), and not brand.

but we can't recommend you anything without you being specific about how much you can spend, what do you need in it, what are the models that you can buy, etc.

Offline [MAF]Vertigo

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Re: Help required
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2014, 12:19:15 pm »
I used this:



(Almost) no distractions!

Offline EleGy

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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2014, 12:19:37 pm »
HP cheaper laptops are crap. Dunno about higher priceranges.
win 7 is better than 8 IMO.

Offline [LSR]Ride

Re: Help required
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2014, 07:16:33 pm »
The one Toaster mentioned really caught my eyes. Any comments?


Acer Aspire V5-573G
CPU: Intel Core i5-4200U 1,6 - 2,6 GHz
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz
HDD: 1TB
GPU: nVidia GeForce GT 750M 4GB
Windows 8.1
Weight: 2KG
No DVD player
799€

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: Help required
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2014, 07:37:12 pm »
i'd say its pretty good, but there is one big problem with it - screen resolution and GPU combination.
it has a high resolution Full HD screen, but a mediocre video card.
this means that if you want to play any new games you will probably have to drop the resolution down, but that looks bad.
take a look here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-750M.90245.0.html
scroll down a little there, you can see that the ultra measurements rarely exceed 15fps for new games, which is unplayable.
you could drop the settings down a lot, but i'd guess that it still mostly wouldn't go over 30fps on full hd (if someone has experience with this, correct me please).
but as for GTA, it will probably run well, and give you 100fps on anything but the craziest SKs, and overall internals are good too.

Offline [LSR]Ride

Re: Help required
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2014, 07:49:55 am »
What about this?


Dell Inspiron 15 (3537)
CPU: Intel Core i7 4500U 1,8GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR 3 1600MHz
HDD: 1TB
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8850M 2GB
Windows 8.1
Weight: 2,35KG
769€

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: Help required
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2014, 08:33:14 am »
it has better cpu and worse screen (which is actually good for gaming). gpu itself is marginally slower than the GT 750m, but this screen demands less performance.
they are both quite good, so you have to decide what do you need more, full hd resolution and worse looking games (but they can still perform good on smaller resolutions), or worse looking screen but better performing games with normal graphics. i couldn't decide myself without trying them out tbh, do so if you are able to.

Offline [LSR]Ride

Re: Help required
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2014, 06:49:24 pm »
How big is the difference between the AMD Radeon HD 8850M 2GB and the Nvidia Geforce GT 740M 2GB?

Offline [MAF]Karlis

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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2014, 10:40:45 pm »
they're pretty simmilar, amd is within 90% of nvidia.

Offline [LSR]Jalicno

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Re: Help required
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2014, 10:04:50 am »
Take look about warranty period on Dell's model it should be 3 years instead of 2 what gives Acer. Both models are similar if we look through hardware so i would go with one what has longer warranty ;)
« Last Edit: June 09, 2014, 10:08:45 am by [LSR]Jalicno »