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Sep 15 2015 11:15am

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or INTEL Core 2 Duo E6750
CPU Speed: 3.2 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 or NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT
Free Disk Space: 25 GB

These are the minimum specs I need for the laptop in order to run certain games.

I don't know a ton about laptops and as far as specs go but I wouldn't mind if the specs are a bit better than this and in a fairly decent budgeted price. Also I know a big problem for gaming on a laptop is overheating so any suggestion with that as well would be awesome

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Sep 15 2015 04:02pm

to keep things simple just look at graphics cards in laptops! That will pretty much gauge the performance for you.

To start, whats your budget?

secondly, the only suggestion for overheating on a laptop is to buy a desktop.
Laptops are generally not good gaming machines, they are mainly if you absolutely require the portability.

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Sep 15 2015 04:08pm

Quote (Rapture @ Sep 15 2015 05:02pm)

to keep things simple just look at graphics cards in laptops! That will pretty much gauge the performance for you.

To start, whats your budget?

secondly, the only suggestion for overheating on a laptop is to buy a desktop. :lol:
Laptops are generally not good gaming machines, they are mainly if you absolutely require the portability.

For a budget I was going to see if $400 can cut it. Won't need anything really fancy, just good enough to run those specs for sure

For cooling I saw maybe some of those lap pad things with the fans in them for circulation might help.

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Sep 15 2015 04:21pm

Quote (Knicks24 @ Sep 15 2015 06:08pm)
For a budget I was going to see if $400 can cut it. Won't need anything really fancy, just good enough to run those specs for sure :)

For cooling I saw maybe some of those lap pad things with the fans in them for circulation might help. :)

They will lower your temps a bit in some cases but theyre usually not a very effective solution for long term and may often be completely ineffective if you're really stressing your hardware.
400 in the USA?
If you can stretch to 500, i'd grab this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315065

it meets the minimum requirements and i didnt find anything cheaper, at least on newegg.

If its really not doable, I'm not sure you'll be able to meet those minimum requirements without buying something refurbished.

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Sep 15 2015 04:25pm

That one looks good. My only question is the CPU speed listed is 3.2 ghz. The one you linked is 2.2 ghz. Will that have a major effect?

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Sep 15 2015 04:30pm

Quote (Knicks24 @ Sep 15 2015 06:25pm)
That one looks good. My only question is the CPU speed listed is 3.2 ghz. The one you linked is 2.2 ghz. Will that have a major effect?

Nope. Unfortunately the speed is really vague as two processors running at say 2.0 ghz could be completely different. [say an intel dual core from 2008 vs a dual core from last year at the same ghz would be almost 100% less powerful)

You can actually see how the laptop will perform on various games here. If you want to further check, you may be able to check youtube such as Gt 940m on diablo 3 or whatever game you are trying to run. [could also post it here!]
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940M.138027.0.html

This is the best alternative you have at 400 dollar budget, an intel integrated gpu which is quite weak and gets very hot while gaming because it is not really meant to game. As you can see for 100 less dollars you get quite a lot less graphical performance and it will run much hotter.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500.125586.0.html

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