alienware 13/CPU 6700hq

[Termix]

anybody tried playing this game with the new alienware 13 (6700hq with gtx 1060) notebook or with a notebook in general with a 6700hq CPU or higher ?

 

what's the performance, what are your settings ?

 

yeah I know nothing beats desktop, but I can't be mobile with my desktop

 

thanks :joystick:

[mx22]

Some food for thought...

 

4 years ago when we had a daughter, to save space, I replaced my desktop with a then nicely spec'ed laptop (not top of the line, but with enough power to drive any game back then on high settings) and I regretted that decision ever since. My laptop is 17" and is just too heavy to be really mobile; and yet 17" is just not enough to enjoy games on daily basis - so I ended up bringing back my monitor. Monitor meant I needed at least some kind of a shelve nearby to connect laptop to. So much for space saving (to be honest, current setup is nowhere near as bulky as my old PC table, but it is big enough to house small desktop)... Another thing I did not initially think of - upgradability (or to put it better, the lack of it).

 

I've just bought one of the small gaming desktop chassis (MSI Aegis) and while not a perfect solution (it's using proprietary MSI motherboard so I know down the road neither case, nor MB can't be upgraded), I added to it just the hardware I wanted (and can upgrade everything as needed) and it cost me easily $1000 less then a similar spec'ed laptop would have.

 

Perhaps not the answer you are looking for, but think hard before getting a laptop.

 

P.S. From what I understand, 1060 is not much (if any) better then 970/980 - perhaps try going for at least 1070? Remember, you won't be able to upgrade it and it will be the first thing that will 'age' on your laptop.

[Dudikoff]

P.S. From what I understand, 1060 is not much (if any) better then 970/980 - perhaps try going for at least 1070? Remember, you won't be able to upgrade it and it will be the first thing that will 'age' on your laptop.

 

Err, it is both somewhat better than 980M and the laptop graphics can be upgraded :) - it comes with a Alienware graphics port for external graphics so it can be upgraded later on with a desktop card (their special case is required of course which is an extra investment).

 

The 13 doesn't come with 1070, the 15 and 17 do and they can also be configured the stronger 6820HK CPU which has higher frequencies and can be overclocked.

Edited December 1, 2016 by Dudikoff

[mx22]

I stand corrected then (just for kicks I looked up of how it looks - that can no longer be described as laptop and wont be very 'mobile'). My opinion however is still the same, go with a small desktop - footprint is not much bigger, but cheaper and more flexible.

[Dudikoff]

I stand corrected then (just for kicks I looked up of how it looks - that can no longer be described as laptop and wont be very 'mobile'). My opinion however is still the same, go with a small desktop - footprint is not much bigger, but cheaper and more flexible.

 

I don't see how these new Alienware's can't be considered laptops? What are they then? :) We're not talking about some thick and heavy desktop replacement models here (though the 17" has a large footprint and is rather heavy).

 

I'm not saying your recommendation doesn't have a point, but it's up to the OP to know what he needs exactly. E.g. an ITX desktop system can be rather small and still relatively powerful, but you still need to move a monitor and a keyboard which are not.

[mx22]

Obviously it is OP's decision what to get - I merely shared how the whole laptop/mobile thing evolved for me.

[BitMaster]

What you look for is IPC, that's the corner stone you are tied to once you get this CPU.

 

Look it up on google and compare to a desktop CPU, roughly a good CPU yields above 2600 IPC points in Passmark ( many threads here with those numbers to refer to ).

 

Once you know how much ooomps your CPU has you can choose a GPU that will ride that horse as a jockey. A bad horse cant win with the best jockey and the worst jockey will never get a winning horse over the finish line....what I wanna say is, keep it balanced...as you cannot change ANYTHING but RAM in those laptops.

 

Been there with 3 laptops ( SLI and all that stuff built in ). In the end...they never worked as intended.

 

just my 2 cents about gaming laptops.

[Gladman]

I've been there with Alienware. Just don't man, just walk away.

[OldE24]

I own a older Asus G74SX 2600QM 12GB ram and 560M 3GB it runs DCS fine but i had to change to a SSD with the latest DCS as it would run good FPS untill you looked around.

 

I would not recommend a laptop for DCS but it can be done.

 

how do you plan on being mobile with a laptop and DCS without a joystick?