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binary solo on 25 December 2014

I'm considering a post Christmas sale for a laptop that I would like to be capable of playing games at medium to low settings. I'm not after a gaming laptop, but I don;t want a dog that won't be able to play any recent titles.

I don't know the exact specs as the ad is only on TV and I haven't taken note of all the spec. But what I've spied so far is i7 2GHz CPU, Nvidia Geforce 840M 2GB graphics card. I didn't see main RAM but I'm guess it'll be DDR3 whatever it is. List price is $1250NZD ($962US, GBP625), special price is $750NZD ($577USD, GBP375). So it's a big price reduction, but is it going to meet my expectations? My expoectations aren't for amazing gaming performance, just need it to be good enough to run games at a reasonable and consistent frame rate. I didn't catch the brand, but I think it may be HP.



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riderz13371 on 25 December 2014

Screen resolution?

Meh GPU...Honestly doubt you'll be able to run any game at low/medium, at least not the majority of 2013/2014 games and beyond.

The CPU is not very specific so I have no idea and do you remember how much RAM exactly? 6 GB? 8 GB??



binary solo on 25 December 2014

I don't recall the RAM, but I would be very surprised if it was less than 6GB.



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riderz13371 on 25 December 2014
binary solo said:
I don't recall the RAM, but I would be very surprised if it was less than 6GB.

Do you know the screen resolution?



binary solo on 25 December 2014
riderz13371 said:
binary solo said:
I don't recall the RAM, but I would be very surprised if it was less than 6GB.

Do you know the screen resolution?

No idea, TV ad was nowhere detailed enough to show that information. It was just one product in a series of products flashed on screen for about 1 second each. The only reason I got the info I did was because the ad was being spammed almost every ad break last night; while watching the obligatory Christmas Eve movie Love Actually.



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Arkaign on 25 December 2014

It will do okay. Hard to beat for the price. A desktop will offer better value but not always doable with every person's needs.



Arkaign on 25 December 2014

http://youtu.be/WUSn7LpLruA



vivster on 25 December 2014

This is always a good place to start.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html

 Scroll down to the game benchmarks. Looks like it can play current games reasonably well on low resolution 1024x768.



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Dusk on 25 December 2014
binary solo said:

I'm considering a post Christmas sale for a laptop that I would like to be capable of playing games at medium to low settings. I'm not after a gaming laptop, but I don;t want a dog that won't be able to play any recent titles.

I don't know the exact specs as the ad is only on TV and I haven't taken note of all the spec. But what I've spied so far is i7 2GHz CPU, Nvidia Geforce 840M 2GB graphics card. I didn't see main RAM but I'm guess it'll be DDR3 whatever it is. List price is $1250NZD ($962US, GBP625), special price is $750NZD ($577USD, GBP375). So it's a big price reduction, but is it going to meet my expectations? My expoectations aren't for amazing gaming performance, just need it to be good enough to run games at a reasonable and consistent frame rate. I didn't catch the brand, but I think it may be HP.

The GPU is pretty basic. It's pretty much starter level. It'll be low setting graphic quality for some games. Newer ones it probably won't be able to run very well at all.

Likely 6 or 8 GB of RAM, either will be sufficient. 

The CPU isn't bad, but with lowish clock speed, for some games that have built in spec analysis, they might now allow the game to run. Should be fine though.





Gotta figure out how to set these up lol.

sc94597 on 25 December 2014

Here are a few benchmarks with your card. Your CPU won't be a bottleneck. It likely has turbo-boost bringing its in-game speeds up to high 2.x GHZ.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Benchmarked.131101.0.html

Dragon Age Inquisition

1024*768 low - 51.2 fps
1366*768 medium - 35.7 fps

Assasin's Creed Unity

1024 * 768 low - 26.6 fps

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Far-Cry-4-Benchmarked.131069.0.html

Far Cry 4

1024*768 low - 49.3 fps
1366*768 medium - 33.2 FPS

And some other benchmarks.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html