what is a good laptop for gaming?

Question

i want to play WoW and left for dead kind of stuff. what would be a great running laptop for hardcore gaming?

Answer 1

The other guys are right, WoW and L4D are not considered hardcore games and most newer laptops will be able to play them. I say most because you should completely stay away from a laptop that says "intel GMA HD 4500" or anything to that nature because those graphics chips are not for gaming. Also stay away from any nvidia chip lower than a geforce 8400m, stay away from radeon chips lower than 3200 series. Nvidia GT 130 and up will serve you just great.



If you are looking for a true hardcore gaming laptop just go online and find one that has a intel core i7 720qm processor. Any laptop with this beastly processor will have a beastly gaming chip to compliment its raw unearthly power.



These laptops should suite you just fine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157113



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157114

Answer 2

WoW and left for dead don't take much graphics. You can almost pick up a newerish laptop and play. My friend has a crappy Toshiba and plays both on there.



I have an ASUS G71GX with GTX 260M and 12 gigs of ram.. I paid 1300 for it.. You DO NOT NEED this kind of laptop in order to play those games. I would say ASUS is a good company..

Answer 3

you don't need a gaming computer to play WoW. I believe any of today's PCs would play it well.

Even my 7 years old computer can play WoW just with it's integrated graphics card and the shared graphics memory.



WoW (2005) :

# Config minimum : Win 98/2000/ME/XP, PIII 800 MHz, 256 Mo de RAM, carte 3D 32 Mo, connexion internet 56K

# Config conseillée : Win 98/2000/ME/XP, PIV 1,5 GHz, 1 Go de RAM, carte 3D 64 Mo compatible vertex & pixel shader, connexion internet 512K



WoW The Burning Crusade (2007) :

# Config minimum : Win 2000/XP, PIII 800 MHz, 512 Mo de RAM, carte 3D 32 Mo, 10 Go de libre sur le disque dur, necessite World of Warcraft pour fonctionner

# Config conseillée : Win 2000/XP, PIV 1,5 GHz, 1 Go de RAM, carte 3D 64 Mo



WoW Wrath of the Lich King (november 2008) :

# Config minimum : Windows XP/Vista, processeur 1,3 Ghz, 512 Mo de Ram (1 Go sous Vista), carte graphique 32 Mo gérant le transform & lightning, 15 Go d'espace libre sur le disque dur

# Config conseillée : Windows XP/Vista, processeur dual core, 1 Go de Ram (2 Go sous Vista), carte graphique 128 Mo gérant les vertex et pixel shaders, 15 Go d'espace libre sur le disque dur



conseillee = recommended (it's in frensh, but I think you are clever enough to understand it, I just translated one word for you, except that the rest is similar to english)



In case you want a real gaming laptop (but it's gonna cost ya) check AlienWare LapTops Made just for real gamers ;)

Answer 4

i play wow on my pc and i only got a 512 ram,n it plays g8,but if u really want hardcore gamin laptop try an alien ware,recommended 2gb ram or more,here is the hardcore stuff http://computers.toptenreviews.com/gaming-laptops/

Answer 5

ok u should be able to play those on the simplest laptops..but alienware is the gaming laptop if u want a good one

Answer 6

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndzzb2&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&kc=laptops_great_deals

Answer 7

asus