Notebooks Can this laptop run any games on lowest settings

i cant afford a £1000 gamnig laptop i may be able to get my hands on this dell laptop

the specs are

Intel® Celeron™ 743 (1.3GHz/800MHz FSB/1MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Edition SP2
11.6" High Definition WLED Display (1366x768)
2GB,DDR2,800MHZ,1 DIMM
160GB* SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Intel® GS45 Integrated Graphics, WLAN
No WWAN
28WHr Lithium-Ion Battery (3-cell)

it looks really bad but can it atleast run old games and and games with lowest settings

 

Some good info on the gfx hardware HERE. Some kind of REVIEW and HERE. I would heavily suggest checking out On Demand Game Streaming (Onlive) and 1 review of it HERE but there should be plenty more.

 

May I ask, out of pure curiosity, how much you're paying for it, and where from?

 

Have you thought about something like a PS Vita instead, as that will play games at much higher quality.

 

It'll barely run Windows Vista, let alone any games! You don't have to spend £1000 dude, I built a gaming PC for £100 not so long ago!

 

This is not suitable I assure you for almost any game especially on vista - first half life will be okay most likely but personally: Do not buy this if you want to play games, that is a netbook it is only 11.6 inch. That is TINY for games. This also means that the device will not hold any good hardware - that is such an out of date equipment you may only pay sub £100 and the battery will probably be worn down too if you get it from ebay.

_--Recommendation

Gaming low settings on a notebook is possible without spending £1,000. I currently have a notebook which is a 15.6" i5 notebook which has a ATI graphics card and a power saving 15 GPU, decent DDR3 RAM and I picked it up on ebay for £300. That laptop can play games like starcraft 2, left 4 dead 2, team fortress 2 etc on low/mediums happily.

Now, you won't be able to get that much of a bargin every day however if you go for a 15.6" laptop around the £200-300 range you can get a nice i3 core laptop which has a decent onboard GPU to run old games. The main concern is your budget - the more specific the better as say £250 vs £350 is a lot more laptop.

Is there any main reason why you are going for a notebook over desktop?

 

Id like a netbook so i can game anywhere i want, im fine if its gaming on even 640x480 yes it wont look good but gaming laptops are so expensive

my only other option is a mini itx pc but i cant take it around

and parge i saw your thread that was really good that you managed it but i dont think i casn do it, i dont think i can get good quality parts for those prices and i dont think anyone is going to be willing to give out freebies of course if i can do it for that much then thats awesome

 

Err, yes you can, I could do that again tomorrow easily, and now it’s a year on, with better quality parts.

You can get a case from the tip for free, there are loads. Radeon 4850 for £20, PSU for £20, Core 2 Duo E6300 for a tenner, cooler for a fiver, any old HD for a £10 (easy to find), 2GB of RAM for £15

That’s £80 all in. Leaves you £20 for an old 15” LCD monitor (if you live in London, I have one you can have here)

 

you see that sounds amazing but where do i get those parts for that price dont need the monitor or OS but a radeon 4850 is amazing for £20 on ebay i saw one going for more than that though i think

I really want to do this, now the case thoguh if its in a skip isnt it gonig to be covered and smell of garbage?, and this pc for £80 is better spec than mine which i paid over £400 for...

now if only someone shot one of these in the skip

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/silv...ended-e-atx-aluminum-with-side-window-w-o-psu

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/cool...um-case-ultra-performance-with-usb-30-w-o-psu

i suppose there will be some actual pcs in skips some crap pre builts where would i be able to find one of these 'skips'

 

The last 3 or 4 that came up on the Marketplace here in Bit Tech went for £20 a piece. Hell, I think even two 4890s went for £25 each the other week.

Just checked ebay and there are loads that have gone for £20-£25. Like this one

And no, the case wont be. There are specific metal recycling bays. You might have to climb over an old TV to get it, but they will be fine. Either that or look on gumtree which is where I picked up mine.

 

wow thank you, why would someone sell their 4850 for £20 though, that card is way better then £20 cards, £20 gets stuff like 5450s

there is an incinerator not too far away shall i go look there went long time ago and saw a bunch of tvs

 

http://www.gumtree.com/search?q=gra...rth+Yorkshire&category=all&search_scope=title

this is all that comes up

someones selling a 4890 for £65!!!

what about this 4890

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATI-Radeo...raphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item337749bbaf

is that 8800gts any good

what about this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Inno3D-Ge...raphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item1c2801d4a7


also where am i to find a decent psu



hahahahahaha what the hell is this voodoo 3000

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3dfx-Vood...raphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item19d1cdde17


hmm maybe a few years later the GTX 580 will be going for £20

 

4850 5750 6750 7750 9800gtx gts250 gts450 4870 5770 5830 6770 gtx260/275/280 gtx460 gtx550TI. These are all very good cards which may now be found for bargain prices, all are of a relatively similar speed and still very capable. Perhaps you could get a deal on a Shuttle, esp an older 775 based one? That would give some portability and most of the advantages of a regular desktop.

 

MSI B75MA-P45 mobo - £53
4gb corsair - £19
G620 CPU - £44
500gb hdd - £58
coolermaster 330 - £29
corsair CX430 PSU - £36
AMD 7770 GPU - £105

total is £355 with £8 postage all prices from scan.co.uk
or gain some posts on here and get free postage

did this for another recent thread. i know its abit over budget but its a cracking pc for price all you need to do is swap out the case for a m-atx one they start at £24 on scan.co.uk

so thats a brand new PC for £350 that plays all the games at 1080P and is small in size

note this doesnt include monitor but all branded parts and full warranty on every part

 

Have you got access to the marketplace here yet? Think you need 75 posts or more. Things come up on there.

In the meantime what about this?

The most important thing when building a cheap PC is to have a little patience and wait for the bargains to come up.

 

Maple, someone from the Marketplace is going to be getting in contact with you about a 4850 - keep an eye out.

 

How much do you have to spend?

I have been thinking about one of these for an in bed / around the house gaming laptop.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASUS-X53T...t=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item3f189f7298

Would that work fo you? Anyone else have any thoughts on that Laptop?

 

Exceptional price! I'd go for that.

 

That laptop nimbu will be fine for simple portable gaming no problem. Battery life will probably be cack though.

However, It doesn't come with Windows, and the keyboard is ANSI layout - different enter key, a few symbols moved about compared to UK ISO layout. Just bear that in mind but otherwise a good find (I think so anyway, although the last time I really researched budget gaming laptops was about 3 years ago so get a confirmation)

 

Os wont be problem, have a retail W7HP somewhere here.

The two things that are putting me off are:

1) CPU, though from what I am reading in theory it will be faster then the desktop im using as im between builds atm (E8300 and GT), though im going to be playing eve and maybe some d3. I'm no stranger to running everything at low to squeeze a few more FPS.

2) Keyboard layout: This is the big one for me, though a friend seems to think that the X53 keyboards are the same and I have found one of those for 20 on ebay too.

Gonna mull it over for another day I think. It was on HUKD but at £279.00 I think, but the interest tailed off when the price went up.

I have been looking about and I cannot find anything with a similar GPU at that kinda price.