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Rainbird on 04 December 2011

What hardware do you have in your laptop?



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Andrespetmonkey on 04 December 2011
Rainbird said:
What hardware do you have in your laptop?

  •  Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200 2GHz
  • Memory: 4GB
  • HD Capacity: 250GB
  • Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD4530

    It plays tropico 4 at medium settings at 15-30 fps, CIV5 runs for about half an hour on low settings, then crashes, I think that's also just a problem with the game itself since everyone seems to have that problem with it, but it's probably patched by now. I'll be using this laptop for most other things, the PC will be for gaming and other software that needs better hardware.


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Rainbird on 04 December 2011

In that case, I'd say you should wait for the Vita to release. I can understand why you want to upgrade, but it doesn't seem like a really huge difference (maybe that's just me), so I'd definitely wait until reviews and what not start coming in for the Vita and its games.



Andrespetmonkey on 04 December 2011
Rainbird said:
In that case, I'd say you should wait for the Vita to release. I can understand why you want to upgrade, but it doesn't seem like a really huge difference (maybe that's just me), so I'd definitely wait until reviews and what not start coming in for the Vita and its games.

It would be a pretty significant upgrade, but I think I will probably get the Vita anyway. I might wait until E3 to see what else gets announced for it or gets a release date. Thanks.



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Kantor on 04 December 2011
Andrespetmonkey said:
Rainbird said:
In that case, I'd say you should wait for the Vita to release. I can understand why you want to upgrade, but it doesn't seem like a really huge difference (maybe that's just me), so I'd definitely wait until reviews and what not start coming in for the Vita and its games.

It would be a pretty significant upgrade, but I think I will probably get the Vita anyway. I might wait until E3 to see what else gets announced for it or gets a release date. Thanks.

It's a pretty huge upgrade. You're going from a Pentium Dual Core to an i3.

Though do yourself a favour and go with an AMD Athlon if you do decide on the gaming PC. AMD CPUs tend to be better value, even if the best are still Intel.



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Andrespetmonkey on 04 December 2011
Kantor said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Rainbird said:
In that case, I'd say you should wait for the Vita to release. I can understand why you want to upgrade, but it doesn't seem like a really huge difference (maybe that's just me), so I'd definitely wait until reviews and what not start coming in for the Vita and its games.

It would be a pretty significant upgrade, but I think I will probably get the Vita anyway. I might wait until E3 to see what else gets announced for it or gets a release date. Thanks.

It's a pretty huge upgrade. You're going from a Pentium Dual Core to an i3.

Though do yourself a favour and go with an AMD Athlon if you do decide on the gaming PC. AMD CPUs tend to be better value, even if the best are still Intel.

Thanks



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Kudistos Megistos on 04 December 2011
Kantor said:

Though do yourself a favour and go with an AMD Athlon if you do decide on the gaming PC. AMD CPUs tend to be better value


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youarebadatgames on 04 December 2011

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dr3b on 04 December 2011

Go with the third option and just play whatever you have right now.....



Monteblanco on 04 December 2011

Considering how much Sony is asking for the necessarily Vita's memory and the cost of each game, do yourself a favour (and save some money) by going with a PC. After you assemble it, you can get some excellent games for a low cost at Steam or yours favourite online dealer.