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Wudang

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I'm way out of date on laptop chips etc. What do you reckon is the cheapest UK laptop that would let me play something like Rome:total war reasonably well? Suggestions as to minimum CPU specs etc welcomed.
 
Wudang said:
I'm way out of date on laptop chips etc. What do you reckon is the cheapest UK laptop that would let me play something like Rome:total war reasonably well? Suggestions as to minimum CPU specs etc welcomed.
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Does it *have* to be a laptop? As far as gaming is concerned you're sooo much better off with a PC, especially from a price perspective. Here are some laptop Graphics Chipsets that are highly rated: ATi Mobility
Radeon 9700, ATI's Mobility FireGL V3200 or NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Problem is, those all come at quite a price.
 
I've already got 3 PC's, 2 of them self-builds. They're a bit bulky to carry down to the living room when I want to keep the wife company but would rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than watch her TV program. ;-)
 
"Low-end", "gaming", and "laptop" . . . you can have two of these together, but all 3 are mutually exclusive.
 
I don't know much about laptops but looking at "Rome:total war"'s requirements it seems to me that any new laptop would play it very well. A Celeron M420 perhaps ?
 
The thing that stops Laptops being any good for game El Greco is the graphics chipset. To have a machine that's going to capable of playing a game smoothly (I'm presuming there's more than R:TW either now or in the future) Wudang will probably want a non-integrated solution. These are generally only installed in the high end machines, often labelled as 'Desk top replacement' or 'Gaming'.

An SiS or Intel chipset is fine for spreadsheets and internet, games wise they're probably outperformed by a GeForce 2
 
Yes, whatever you do, stay away from the SiS and Intel Chipset if you want to play games.

I believe both don't support transformation and lighting, something 'needed' by most games these days.
 
I have a fairly high end laptop and it will not play Rome: Total War at any decent pace, even with all the graphics on low settings.

Alienware build some good gaming laptops but they are anything but cheap.

Desktop or console only, I'm afraid.
 
And in response to the actual intent of the post, in case you have already seen Bab5 (lots of romance, but in a Sci-Fi way), get a laptop that is just a disguised desktop. Toshiba used to make a few. Just look for the video chipset, and get a P4, not a Centrino. Although that will be changing now, if the laptops have caught up by now. The Core2 Duo is not nearly as power hungry, but just as powerful. Core 1 just fine for games.
 
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