Potential Laptop vs Current Desktop

[Baldyloxxx]

I thought there was a specific place for these kind of questions but couldnt find it so ill post here....

I currently run a pc with a q8200 cpu, nvidia gtx 460 gpu and 4gb ram, i have seena laptop i want which has an i7 2670qm , 8 gig and nvidia 540m gpu (2gb).

my question is, will the far more modern and specced laptop show a marked improvement with the game?

Cheers for any help.

[welshace]

yes... there will be an improvement....

your quad core is decent.. but the i7 is a much better chip ..

the extra ram wont make much of a difference.. only if you're multitasking while playing.. and the graphics card wont be much of a bottleneck with either system

but .... if you're buying that laptop JUST for fm... dont .. that'll no doubt cost you 700 odd quid or something.. and thats over kill for fm

[Baldyloxxx]

yes... there will be an improvement....

your quad core is decent.. but the i7 is a much better chip ..

the extra ram wont make much of a difference.. only if you're multitasking while playing.. and the graphics card wont be much of a bottleneck with either system

but .... if you're buying that laptop JUST for fm... dont .. that'll no doubt cost you 700 odd quid or something.. and thats over kill for fm

Its not JUST for fm, its for civilzation too :-D

[welshace]

haha.. same thing with civ... can get a laptop half the price that will run those fine ..

but then again.. if you have £800 sitting around spare.... why not

[Baldyloxxx]

haha.. same thing with civ... can get a laptop half the price that will run those fine ..

but then again.. if you have £800 sitting around spare.... why not

its my bday pressie from the missus so im milking it for all i can!

Got it for around 650 squids anways. Last one they had in pc world! have it on hold till tomorrow.

[Barside]

You could always push the boat out & take out the finance package to buy this

Not sure what they were thinking when they decided to add that monster to their product line or how many the expect to sell.

[welshace]

hahah 48gb ram... really?


the ssd would be nice though

so would the dual xeon processors .. wow

[Baldyloxxx]

You could always push the boat out & take out the finance package to buy this

Not sure what they were thinking when they decided to add that monster to their product line or how many the expect to sell.

That is obscene!

How could you justify spending 10k on a pc? Mind you, i bet you could run every league at max database and get through a season in no time at all. Hmmm.......

[thomit]

Or ... what about the most powerful laptop in the world? Clevo P270

[Slawbawn]

That is obscene!

How could you justify spending 10k on a pc? Mind you, i bet you could run every league at max database and get through a season in no time at all. Hmmm.......

Nope. FM doesn't utilise more than 3 (maybe 4) gig of RAM, so anything over that isn't actually gonna make a difference. Whilst the processor would be a massive benefit, FM is only gonna use so much processing power before it just doesn't need anymore.

You could get through pretty quick, but with regards to the RAM it isn't gonna make any difference if you had the same system but just 4GB memory.

[x42bn6]

Civilization V is Large-Address Aware, though, so it can address up to 4 GB of RAM.

And you can get faster PCs... 8x Xeon E7s, 256 GB of RAM, and 4 AMD FirePro cards in quad SLI...

[Baldyloxxx]

Nope. FM doesn't utilise more than 3 (maybe 4) gig of RAM, so anything over that isn't actually gonna make a difference. Whilst the processor would be a massive benefit, FM is only gonna use so much processing power before it just doesn't need anymore.

You could get through pretty quick, but with regards to the RAM it isn't gonna make any difference if you had the same system but just 4GB memory.

Did i specify that i was talking about the ram?

[r0x0r]

The Current Desktop / Potential Laptop system really needs an overhaul. While it considers the standard cases, it misses things such as your current desktop over performing and as such being worthy upgrades, like more RAM. I mean, if it can run FM and WoW at the same time, shouldn't we be upping it's stats to that of an Alienware?

And who knows how good a potential laptop will be? Sure researchers can guess, but we aren't gods. For all we know it could break in a day or out perform anyone's expectations.