What to look for when building a laptop to play SC2 on ultra

Discussion in 'General StarCraft 2 Discussion' started by malax001, Jun 2, 2010.

What to look for when building a laptop to play SC2 on ultra

Discussion in 'General StarCraft 2 Discussion' started by malax001, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. malax001

    malax001 New Member

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    I am pretty much going to be buying a laptop for this game. A desktop is outta the question. I was interested in an Alienware Machine.

    Processor
    Intel® Core™ i5-430M 2.26GHz (2.53GHz Turbo Mode, 3M cache)

    Memory
    6GB DDR3 at 1066MHz

    Video Card
    1GB4 ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5730

    With Starcraft 2 Around the Corner, I need to start saving up.

    I am willing to boost the processor to a

    Intel® Core™ i7-820QM Quad Core Processor 1.73GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 8MB Cache)

    the video card to
    1GB ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5850

    and the memory to
    8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz – 2 x 4096MB

    I figure if i could run it on ultra with the first settings i have up here, why spend an arm and a leg?
     
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  3. Lobsterlegs

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    Still, you won't run it on ultra unless it's nigh high res.
     
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    You need to look for a big bag of money.

    I think you will be better of buying a decent desktop now, and buying an 'ok' laptop in like 5 years time. Then even the cheapest will run SC2 on ultra like a charm.
     
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  5. malax001

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    are you saying buy a ok laptop that will run instead of playing so much for upgrades?
     
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  6. McStupid

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    Get as much RAM and GPU as you can afford, the rest is less critical. Try to get a quad core CPU, but a dual core will do fine.
     
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    MSI GX640.

    I just bought this laptop, hoping to play games (especially SC2) on it, and it plays it with ease.

    I have all graphics on Ultra, Audio set to high quality, on native resolution, online even in 4v4 with massive amounts of units.. no lag whatsoever.

    For the price ($1100), it can't be beat.

    I highly recommend it

    Btw it has a Core i5-430m, ATI Radeon 5850 HD, and 4GB Ram. The processor is in no way a bottleneck. It is very powerful.
     
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  8. malax001

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    is it good for general computing as well?
     
    malax001, Jun 3, 2010
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