Upgrade for ME2 & NMS advice.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 6:06 am
I'd love some advice for gaming...
No Man's Sky is coming out, and I'm trying to find something that will give me a fairly decent experience playing it.
Seeing as my budget is 600$, I doubt seriously that I'd find a laptop with a good enough video card, MAYBE...a used desktop...MAYBE.
I was looking into external GPUs, but would like to find a cheap laptop that can support it, any ideas?
Also, if I went the desktop route, has anyone here converted their laptops screens into a desktop screen? (gasp) I've yet to do that, but seeing as I'll have a worthless laptop sitting around, it does have a perfectly good 1080p LCD screen. (Which I've basically fallen in love with).
PS. It'd be nice if the onboard laptop route GPU could support Mass Effect 2 in all its glory
My current laptop "can" do mass effect 2, but not in picture perfect mode, still hella fun though, just bought it!
Worst case scenario, I'd likely pick up a precision with a quadro fx 3800m in it, that'd at least kick ME2's @$$...however it wouldn't be nearly enough for NMS
Current setup
E1705 Inspiron
675/750DDR3 7950 go gtx DX9 only 256bit memory bus
PCI-Express 1.1
32 bit Northbridge Intel ICH7 666Mhz
Memory 4GB 666 Mhz
2.83Ghz C2D
[Edited on 5-7-2016 by matchbox2022]
No Man's Sky is coming out, and I'm trying to find something that will give me a fairly decent experience playing it.
Seeing as my budget is 600$, I doubt seriously that I'd find a laptop with a good enough video card, MAYBE...a used desktop...MAYBE.
I was looking into external GPUs, but would like to find a cheap laptop that can support it, any ideas?
Also, if I went the desktop route, has anyone here converted their laptops screens into a desktop screen? (gasp) I've yet to do that, but seeing as I'll have a worthless laptop sitting around, it does have a perfectly good 1080p LCD screen. (Which I've basically fallen in love with).
PS. It'd be nice if the onboard laptop route GPU could support Mass Effect 2 in all its glory
My current laptop "can" do mass effect 2, but not in picture perfect mode, still hella fun though, just bought it!
Worst case scenario, I'd likely pick up a precision with a quadro fx 3800m in it, that'd at least kick ME2's @$$...however it wouldn't be nearly enough for NMS
Current setup
E1705 Inspiron
675/750DDR3 7950 go gtx DX9 only 256bit memory bus
PCI-Express 1.1
32 bit Northbridge Intel ICH7 666Mhz
Memory 4GB 666 Mhz
2.83Ghz C2D
[Edited on 5-7-2016 by matchbox2022]