long time no see!

Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
in Gaming
So, I doubt you guys remember me as I haven't been on these forums in YEARS. But, if I remember right, you guys were some of the most helpful guys on the web when it came to gaming :) so, I have a question. I haven't upgraded my Laptop in years, and I was wondering how good this one was. Keep in mind I'm only going for casual; low to medium graphics settings on games.

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  • SignalSignal Icrontian
    Here are the specs for someone that knows laptops.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    I'm afraid it's a very poor laptop for gaming, and the integrated graphics would not even be good for low settings. In addition, they've paired a 17" panel with a resolution better suited to an 11" display? Very strange choice, and a poor display for you were you to make this purchase.

    Can you identify your budget? Perhaps we can find something more suitable.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312829

    For $500 that is going to be hard to beat. Good APU, 6GB of DDR 1600, Lenovo build quality is usually pretty good. For some light 3D gaming it will be very serviceable.

  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    My MAX budget is 800. Maybe 850. I just want one that can give me a good steady 40+fps on most games at low to medium settings :) if it helps, the games I play most often are strategies such as LoL and StarCraft, with some Guild Wars 2 and first person shooters on the side. And yeah Cliff, I was looking into the Lenovo G505s, but wanted something slightly more powerful as I've had bad experiences with AMD processors in the past
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    The only place up from there is to consider product with good integrated graphics with it's own DDR5 for frame buffer. I'm afraid finding an i5 or i7 CPU with good dedicated graphics will be a bit more than $800.
  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    Hmm yeah you might be right, AMD usually is much cheaper than Intel. Is there a more powerful lenovo machine similar to this one?
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131487

    I keep hitting about 1K to do something a little more high end gamer centric. It's like there is a weird little gap in the market between the better APU's and laptops that support good dedicated graphics with an Intel i5 or i7. I do see some offerings in that price range for the Nvidia 740m but I don't think that's going to perform any better than AMD's A10 and keep in mind the AMD APU will probably be more efficient since you are packing it all onto a single chip and eliminating several other chips on the board. Heat and power consumption the APU system should beat the dedicated GPU so you would be best to make sure if you are getting something less efficient in that regard that you are getting a real performance gain.

    There is this weird gap though, I can find some pretty serious looking gaming notebooks for about 1K, but between $500 and $800 things are all pretty similar performance wise.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    I've found a few options. I'd have to agree with Cliff on this one, if you want to do light gaming under $850, you're going to want to go with an AMD APU. The Intel integrated graphics at that budget just don't cut it and at that price a dedicated GPU is probably not an option (at least not a passable one).

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834256497
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131408
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216037
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231521
  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    Hmmm. I'm liking the look of that last link, the Asus, but again I'm not THAT tech-savvy so I'm not sure but it doesn't really appear to be that much more powerful than the Lenovo g505s, is it worth the extra 200 bucks?
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    Dead_Frozen said:

    Hmmm. I'm liking the look of that last link, the Asus, but again I'm not THAT tech-savvy so I'm not sure but it doesn't really appear to be that much more powerful than the Lenovo g505s, is it worth the extra 200 bucks?

    I haven't kept up on the specifics lately, so you might want to wait for other people to chime in as well, but the Asus has a much better resolution display and a slightly better GPU. For me, that makes it worth the extra 200 bucks, especially since it still comes in under budget. Then again, I absolutely cannot stand 1366x768 resolution screens, they're just so dated and pathetic.
  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    Gonna have to agree there haha, I didn't see the resolution. I'm not seeing what kind of RAM it has though, is it Gddr3 or gddr5 or lower?
  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    Scratch that, found it. Damn phone. I'm gonna wait for a couple more opinions, but I think this might be just the thing I'm looking for :)
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    8670m is ddr3
    http://products.amd.com/en-us/MobilityGPUResult.aspx
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    It uses DDR3 VRAM: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-8670M.87211.0.html
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    That's interesting, I wonder if the dedicated 8670 crossfires with the APU? If it does that should perform pretty fantastic.
  • Dead_FrozenDead_Frozen Tilton New Hampshire Member
    So what do you guys think, good buy? Better than g505s?
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