Advice for upgrading gaming laptop or waiting

[Swampyseifer]

Hi all,

So I have a pretty old gaming laptop. A Lenovo with the below specs...brought back in 2014 I believe!

17.3" screen, i3 2.4ghz CPU, 8gb ram, nvidia gt720m (1gb dedicated gddr3 ram) with 1tb ssd.

Anyway, tbh I mostly console these days but two games I'd really want to play on PC would be the remastered Diablo 2 coming out later this year and then Diablo 4 maybe end of 2022, certainly by mid 2023. Thing is I might just about manage D2 with the setting down low but I won't be able to have d4.

Is it worth just upgrading now to be d4 secure? Would that sorta spec be significantly cheaper if I waited till d4 comes out? Baring in mind there are nonofficial specs for d4 yet. Perhaps I should limp along and pray D2 just about works?

Expected d4 specs....
Intel Core i5-9500 3.0GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 2500X 3.6GHz
8Gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB

 

[Swampyseifer]

An entry level laptop with RTX 3060 and an i7 11370H (quad core vs your dual core) for £1k will be hundreds of % points faster and more usable than your machine from 2014. The GPU difference in particular is huge.

If you don't need it, don't get it yet though. Wait till nearer the time to get the best possible hardware for the money. Availability is tricky with most laptops except some with Intel CPUs.

I'd personally say the experience is what wins for me. If I can afford to pay for a PC that will run the games I want at decent settings, I'd do it. Lowering settings to make games playable gets old fast.

Apologies for the delay, thanks for your response