What spec will run Sims 3?

Nick1881 · 6 Nov 2011 at 11:30

Hi guys, my girlfriend is after a laptop for uni but she also wants to run Sims 3, then she will stop using my pc.

Budget £400 - 500

Found this so far

MSI FX600 MX i5

Intel Core i5 460M.
2.53GHz processor speed.
4GB memory.
500GB hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce G310M graphics card with 512MB memory.

Will this run Sims 3 ok?

If not what graphics should I be looking for?

Thanks

Jay794 · 6 Nov 2011 at 11:37

http://gb.thesims3.com/game/systemreq

Nick1881 · 6 Nov 2011 at 11:49

Yea I saw that but it doesn't say how well it will run it, she is used to playing it on a 24" screen with all settings maxed out, she will be pretty disappointed if it barely runs it on the lowest setting.

Fallen god · 6 Nov 2011 at 14:59

Maxes out fine on my old laptop with c2d and a 8600gt @720p and iirc its most just cpu with sims so that laptop should do fine.

If not then best you can get for that price is i5 with a 5650 or similar from the dell outlet which should have no problem at all