arilen 3 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) OK so I have a older desktop that I built in 2010, it has been upgraded a few times over the years. My kids have all but kicked me off of it and I'm tired of fighting with them to get in game time. What I'm looking for is a laptop that I can play here with, I know that almost any laptop today will work on this old game but just wondering if anyone has purchased one lately and was happy with it. I all so play rift from time to time and some other MMOs. It doesn't need to run on highest settings for other games, just not laggy. And I am on a budget the cheaper the better Edited February 1, 2017 by arilen 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mike1097 2 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 Im using multiple systems as well. One desktop pc and one laptop. My laptop is 3-4 years old and it was not a new device on the market back then. It has an old I5 Intel CPU, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 760m. Though it runs WoW on ultra settings with 60+ fps. A device like this can be bought for 400-600 euros 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andarath 1 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 I bought my laptop like two years ago and it still works well with most games out there. AMD Quad A10-5745M, 12GB DDR3L RAM, AMD Radeon R7 M260, 1TB HDD. Just some of the specs. It was cheap aswell. Around 550€ I think. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormhart 12 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 I could run wow just fine on my 6 year old laptop with i3 and some Nvidea m card and 2 GB RAM. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smokeit 26 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 Find a cpu with high clockspeeds. a 2core 4.5ghz will do you WAY more than an 8 core 2.8 ghz. And probably any simple videocard 512MB or higher should do the trick. (Small tip: Try running the game on SSD) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 7 hours ago, mike1097 said: Im using multiple systems as well. One desktop pc and one laptop. My laptop is 3-4 years old and it was not a new device on the market back then. It has an old I5 Intel CPU, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 760m. Though it runs WoW on ultra settings with 60+ fps. A device like this can be bought for 400-600 euros Don't listen to this guy. I have a laptop with an Intel Skylake i5 Dual Core 4 Thread CPU and a decent mid-tier AMD GPU, I am running the game at 1600X900 and I don't see anywhere near 60 FPS everywhere. In fact, I get around 30-35 FPS with everything maxed out. I am guessing that in order to get 60 FPS everywhere with such a system, one has to run the game at 1024X768 or 800X600 or 640X480. Dunno if you enjoy playing at these resolutions. To be exact: CPU: Intel Core i5 6200U@ 2.3 GHz - 2.8 GHz Turbo (Skylake 6th Generation) GPU: AMD Radeon R5 M330 2GB As WoW Vanilla only run on a SINGLE CPU CORE, you need a laptop with a CPU with STRONG SINGLE THREADED PERFORMANCE. For this reason, you should avoid AMD CPU's because they fail in single thread performance compared to Intel CPU's. You should buy a laptop with an Intel Core i5 CPU (Skylake or Kaby Lake) NON-U and a discrete GPU. Compare CPU's single threaded perf below: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html I'd recommend that you buy a laptop with a CPU onboard that has a single threaded performance of around 1700. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mike1097 2 Report post Posted February 2, 2017 I dont know why you're saying he should not listen to me. I have no reason for lying? I play on 1920x1080 on max graphics with 60 fps. This game is over 12 years old. If this does not run smoothly on your system you did something wrong. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xinit 1 Report post Posted February 2, 2017 i got 2.1 ghz i3 2310M and intel hd 3000 with 8gb ram. i play on 1336x768 with high settings ( no aa , low weather effects ) i got 60 fps most of the time.(drops to 35-40 and goes back 60 on crowded places time to time.) so +1 to @mike1097 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
