One requirement: Good FPS in World of Warcraft

Porcelina

Porcelina

Porcelina

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I have been issued a sacred quest. It is a quest which many has known in general. It is the quest that starts with your girlfriend saying: 'I want to play X on my laptop, which one should I get?'

So my girlfriend wants a new laptop. Due to living situations and so forth, she needs a laptop and cannot invest in a desktop. The one and only game she plays is World of Warcraft. And she wants a laptop that will allow her to play the game on medium to high settings with high fps.

I have some experience with desktop components and I know how to read charts well enough. However I have never had a good experience with laptops; I have had two that have lasted a year and a half to two years before having so many problems that they just died, the first a Dell the other an Acer Aspire. Now, I do not think necessarily think that this is endemic to laptops in general, but I have no clue as to what would consitute a good one.

She currently has a 15.6'' that is on its last months or days and would like to go up to a true 16 or 17 inch rig. Apart from that and the WoW requirements there is but one thing, a budget of £600.

Is it possible to get a laptop that will play the game well for that price? If so, what should we be looking at for brands or specs?

The best fit I can find initially would be the OcUK Advent Gamer from this site: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-154-AC&groupid=959&catid=1828&subcat=

Any ideas about this one? Experienes or alternative suggestions?
 
TBH, you'll be hard pressed to find a decent 'gaming' laptop for that amount. Ideally, you'll be looking at a GT330M, HD5650.

That HD4670 looks pretty good.

You can get on notebookcheck and compare graphics cards performance, but ballpark would be GT330M. Then you can check the list of laptops with similar video cards. But that Advent (at least the specs) looks hard to beat for that amount of cash. Samsung has some offerings that could fit in your budget.
 
Sony E-series might also be alright, I think they offer a similar video card to the laptop you linked above, for around that price.

As above poster said GT330M will handle wow pretty well, I play WoW on a GT330M Sony F-series, cost me £850 though - a bit above your budget.
 
She ended up settling for the OcUK Advent laptop. Ordered yesterday, here today, fantastic delivery as usual.

Was really nigh impossible to find a better deal as such out there. Especially with the Dell Outlet being out of stock more or less, but still would be tricky to match the one from this site with a budget that was essentially fixed at 600.

Very early days obviously, but I have to say that so far it looks a real step up from what I have personally had in the past. Hoping that it will be to her liking once it is set up for some gaming.
 
I was thinking of getting one of those from the OcUK shop too but was a little bit unsure because they're "open box" products.

Could you tell me what the condition of the laptop is like? Does it look new?
 
big tom 83 said:
are Advent seen as poor quality?
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As I understand it Advent is basically the laptop chassis and is assembled/branded by a number of computer suppliers (PC World/ECS/Medion/OcUK), pretty much anyone. OcUK used to supply a premium laptop based on the Clevo chassis, I have one of these and cannot fault it, pity they seem to have stopped this line.

The Advent line is the value end of the market so expect it to be quite basic and a little plasticky, hoever it will have been assembled and tested by OCUk so I would expect it to at least be well built and reliable.
 
Quick update. The laptop has already been sent back. There was not much wrong with its performance, but it felt cheap and the build quality was nothing special, so my girlfriend basically made the choice that it was ultimately not worth the money.

Personally, I might have kept it in her situation, but I was not really impressed with it after the first glimpse.
 
A Toshiba Satellite Pro L650-165 would suit your requirements. This has an i3 cpu, an ati 5650 1gb, 2gb ram, win7 for under £600.

I have a similar spec laptop acer aspire 5740g with the i3/5650 and play wow with high settings, only difference is mine has 4gb ram.
 
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