In the market for a new laptop, advice on this one welcome

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I've been looking for a decent laptop and I came across this one from Tiger Direct.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1306296

I thought the specs were pretty good, especially for the price. Since it's a refurb, I'd be buying a warranty with it. Right now I'll be playing a lot TF2, Dota 2, Civ 5, and D3. I'm also a fan of FPS, but I don't need to play them on the highest settings.

I'd like to know what anyone else thinks about it and if you have any suggestions on any others feel free to post them. Thanks!
 
I don't know how the price compares to other laptops with those specs, but it would run any of those games pretty well. The integrated video is about the equivelent of a Radeon 6570, which would easily get 60fps on medium settings in Diablo 3 or Civ 5.. Probably even more in TF2, which means you could tweak the settings up even higher.
 
Being that's a refurbished and some of the comments were like 'This model is known for having faulty chips' id only get that if it had a good 1-2 year warranty.
 
[quote name='Tuxedo38']I've been looking for a decent laptop and I came across this one from Tiger Direct.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1306296

I thought the specs were pretty good, especially for the price. Since it's a refurb, I'd be buying a warranty with it. Right now I'll be playing a lot TF2, Dota 2, Civ 5, and D3. I'm also a fan of FPS, but I don't need to play them on the highest settings.

I'd like to know what anyone else thinks about it and if you have any suggestions on any others feel free to post them. Thanks![/QUOTE]

That laptop will BARELY run any of the game you run on low setting if you want full FPS from them. Current FPS games will most likely have problem running smooth on that. What is your budget anyway? Since Ivy bridge is coming out the sandy brigde laptops should have a price drop soon. You should hold out a bit more and get one of the i7 sandy bridge laptop with a Nvidia chip.
 
[quote name='luan87us']That laptop will BARELY run any of the game you run on low setting if you want full FPS from them. Current FPS games will most likely have problem running smooth on that. What is your budget anyway? Since Ivy bridge is coming out the sandy brigde laptops should have a price drop soon. You should hold out a bit more and get one of the i7 sandy bridge laptop with a Nvidia chip.[/QUOTE]

Um..that's not very accurate. That laptop has an AMD 6750M chip; for $500ish bucks that's really good. It'll run most stuff on medium; it's not going to struggle on low settings. You can check out some benchmarks here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6755G2.57278.0.html
(It will run in dual graphics mode with the integrated graphics.)
 
[quote name='fullmetalfan720']Um..that's not very accurate. That laptop has an AMD 6750M chip; for $500ish bucks that's really good. It'll run most stuff on medium; it's not going to struggle on low settings. You can check out some benchmarks here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6755G2.57278.0.html
(It will run in dual graphics mode with the integrated graphics.)[/QUOTE]
I have the same chip on my laptop with the i5 (2.5ghz) and I don't think I can run those game he listed on medium without major frame drops. I couldn't run MW1 on medium without being laggy. That chip is horrible for gaming.
PS: TF2 will run fine on this chip on highest setting though. But if you want to play something like BF3, or MW3 then it will still lag even in low settings.
 
Thanks for the input on that laptop.

I was leaning towards it with a warranty, but I noticed this pop up on Tiger Direct the other day: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2008029&sku=A180-156130

If I'd get this one, I'd upgrade the RAM to 8GB. The graphics card seems to be roughly the same in terms of FPS from what I could gather, but it does have a smaller hard drive and no bluray player(not a big deal for me whatsoever). It seems pretty good for the price, $399, though it is an Acer.

The games I tend to play aren't overly graphically intensive, but I'd like to have one that would work better for more graphic intensive games, like BF3 and whatnot, should I want to play them.
 
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[quote name='luan87us']I have the same chip on my laptop with the i5 (2.5ghz) and I don't think I can run those game he listed on medium without major frame drops. I couldn't run MW1 on medium without being laggy. That chip is horrible for gaming.
PS: TF2 will run fine on this chip on highest setting though. But if you want to play something like BF3, or MW3 then it will still lag even in low settings.[/QUOTE]

BF3 and MW3 aren't exactly the best benchmarks for a laptop. Desktops that are just a few years old can still struggle with either of those.
 
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