I was wondering if someone can help me. I know building your own PC is best but at the moment a laptop suites me better. Ill be honest i’m not really sure what spec i need or where to start.
My budget is £900 and i was wondering if someone could help me out?
I was looking at some on Argos (for those in UK) to name a few;
I’m not fused about having optimal graphics at the highest rate possible. I would like to be able to do Ny’alotha or other 20+ raid comfortably at a decent frame rate.
First off, you might wanna kill the second/duplicate thread you created - on your Druid - to keep all the advice in one place.
My suggestion would be to go for the Asus, as it has the better GPU; that said GPU isn’t the be all & end all for WoW, the CPU is. If the Asus has a 3rd Gen. Ryzen 5 then it’ll get the job done.
Don’t forget the notebook Ryzen 3000 series are not Zen2 like the desktop ones.
You need to look for the new 4000 series, starting with 4600 for good gaming performance with 6/12 threads.
Ugh – 3550 is Zen+…? Dammit.
If this (https ://www.ebuyer.com/883129-acer-nitro-5-core-i5-8gb-1tb-hdd-256gb-ssd-gtx-nh-q59ek-006) is the machine you made reference to in your first post, Kíx-draenor, then I’d go with that one.
Looks ok-ish.
The big question here is though, does it overheat easily and thus downclock the CPU while raiding?
The biggest problem with notebooks is the cooling, even high-end ones do not run at full boost speed all the time.
GPU ok, SSD a joke to be replaced, CPU minimally-ok, 8GB RAM - minimally-ok. At start SSD would need an upgrade (you really want Windows and WoW on a SSD), then maybe more RAM. 4C CPU will manage for now but it’s low on future-proof capabilities. 1660Ti can give you fast framerate in less GPU-dependent games. For the price of 900 GBP it’s not worth it, to close to more modern gaming laptops.
Don’t go with the Lenovo, you will definitely regret. That 128GB SSD won’t hold WoW with all its updates + Windows updates, and if you move WoW to the regular HDD you will have a new machine with lower MINIMUM requirements for WoW (for Shadowlands) and your loadscreens and loading in graphical elements will be bad. All that aside, I’ve had really bad experiences with Lenovo laptops - I’d avoid at all costs.
ASUS TUF FX505 is the way to go. Personally own one of these, and can smoothly run the game at level 7 graphics with almost 60-100+ FPS in open (depending on number of players). Old world areas, such as Pandaria usually are 80 to 120 FPS, even at level 7 graphics.
Raids and dungeons are easily 60 FPS (with a few drop belows). Great laptop.
Just be sure to update the drivers upon receiving it.