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looking to purchase the Warthog - I am thinking I would like a new laptop to run it on, Any ideas what would be a good spec system, looking to spend £500 - £600 in the sales after christmas. Any ideas would be welcome. I only want a laptop though:)

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Speaking personally, I think you'd look for a bit more than that kind of money.

 

The problem with the laptop market is that there's a pretty hard market segmentation going on: below a certain price (roughly £800-900) the segment becomes the "definitely non-gaming" one, and you'll end up with crap graphics cirquits.

 

Best advice I could give would be to look for ASUS "Republic of Gamers" laptops, if any of those dip down there during holiday sales, but even then you want to make certain to really doublcheck the specifications first.

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If that helps I'm using Dell XPS L702X, with i7 2670 QM, 8GB RAM, GeForce 555 GT (3GB VRAM).

 

I upgraded RAM for higher clock speed, and put there OCZ Vertex 4 SSD as primary drive. Without SSD and new RAM it costed me about 1500 bucks about year ago.

 

It runs DCS but not maxed out. Medium to high settings, cockpit shadows off, grass rendering off. Works very smooth for LockOn though.

 

Besides it rules in almost any other modern game.

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I currently run a MSI GT60. Specs below. It is above ur budget but, DCS runs at ~24-30fps almost always maxed out with TSAA off, 256 res mfd displays and 4x msaa. Personally, I would recommend the ivy bridge line of I7 CPU as your top priority. Most vid cards nowadays can run DCS alright. But its the CPU that matters...the faster the better....anything less than 3ghz and you can't max it out.

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look into alienware for a nice game laptop. Deducted a bit due to the name alienware but mostly you should be looking into the 1500-2000 euro.

 

I run the M17x R3 with the HD6990m and it runs smooth. Some FPS lag near airports. I even beat some desktops setups but i am looking into a desktop system also around 1500 euro for triple head because the laptop screen is so little with all those gauges and switches =)

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look into alienware for a nice game laptop. Deducted a bit due to the name alienware but mostly you should be looking into the 1500-2000 euro.

 

I run the M17x R3 with the HD6990m and it runs smooth. Some FPS lag near airports. I even beat some desktops setups but i am looking into a desktop system also around 1500 euro for triple head because the laptop screen is so little with all those gauges and switches =)

 

The only reason I want a laptop is so that I can play the game on ANY screen via a cable - so when the misses is watching tv on our 42" I can take it to the other room and play on the 32"

 

i am just trying to get a heads up on what is a good system before the christmas sales start:thumbup:

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I have a maxed-out Alienware M18x and A-10C (and Arma2) works just fine for me. The laptop was quite expensive but I use for other things other than sims. I have the RAID SSDs (512), HOTAS TM, etc...

 

ps - Am not using my TrackIR/Pedals as the wife won't let me have that much hardware in the dining room area (my current man-cave)... LOL

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for that sum of money, you can get a decent desktop that will virtually run anything without worry from lag/stutter. However, since I had Charlie running before my AMD FX8150 purchase on a Vaio EA16FA (2010 model), I recommend you purchase Alienware M14X or as smurf gested, M17X. But then again, a desktop is my first choice advice to you.

 

Look for a minimum of 2.9 GHz cessor, 4 gigs RAM minimum, nVidia GPU minimum 1.5-2 GB VRAM, and a good 2 TB HDD for smooth performance.

 

My system specs:

 

AMD FX8150@3.6GHz

ASUS Evo R2 socket AM3+ mobo

8 Gigs G skill Ripjaws RAM 1600 bus

2TB seagate HDD

Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 2GB GPU

 

 

and I run the heavy 1.1.1.1 and the light world, along with rise of flight, F4AF and Ubi's Clefts of Dover fiasco flawlessly without any lag. Hell, I have both TGP and maverick on during flight and no lag whatsoever. Pretty cool system.

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The only reason I want a laptop is so that I can play the game on ANY screen via a cable - so when the misses is watching tv on our 42" I can take it to the other room and play on the 32"

 

i am just trying to get a heads up on what is a good system before the christmas sales start:thumbup:

 

 

Well if you ask me .. make a movable system then. Get a LAN Party PC Case with handle on top and your kinda set. It is cheaper and you get more power. Plus if you really want to do some case modding yourself build your PC into a Peli water proof and shock proof case. And no worry of the moving compontes just get a SSD (because you ahve the money left) and nothing to worry about. For storage you setup a NAS anyways tucked somewhere out of sight

 

Something like this could suit your need in moving just your case from point to point =)

 

http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=3099

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looking to purchase the Warthog - I am thinking I would like a new laptop to run it on, Any ideas what would be a good spec system, looking to spend £500 - £600 in the sales after christmas. Any ideas would be welcome. I only want a laptop though:)

 

Go for IdeaPad Y580. In configuration with GTX660M/2GB, 4GB RAM and i5-3210M (dual-core) you can get it for ~700€ (~£560). That imho is reasonable minimum worth to think about using it for DCS. If you have a few bucks more, pick the one with i7-3610QM (quad-core).

 

But GPU is definitely the parameter you should look for in the first place! Forget all those GT5/GT6... crap, they are very low-end GPU. You need GTX and even that will not be too much! Remember, GTX***M (mobile) is not the same as GTX*** (non-M, aka desktop).

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i think with any labtop u'll be disappointed.

 

small screen

no upgrade potential

no cooling= no overclocking

limited usbs

and so on

 

bad idea

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