Is my next to be laptop good enough for PCSX2?
#1
So, finally, i will have a new laptop after some money i received in Christmas.

The one i have in mind considering it´s price/quality relation is an ASUS with the following specs:

RAM:4 GB DDR3-1600
Processor: Intel I7 Dual Core-3537U 2ghz with 3.1ghz turbo boost/burst
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M with 2 GB DDR3 dedicated.
Hard Drive: 500GB

So is this able to run PCSX2 quite good?
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#2
Laptops are not the ideal machine for emulation as they lack a good enough processor for emulation. Especially if you want to run PCSX2 or Dolphin. Get a desktop instead and you can get a decent processor that will run emulation way better.
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#3
in addition your i7 has a U w/c means you can't run your laptop at full-top-speed. since the power usage is marginable.
if running batteries getting more worsen.
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#4
Yeah, that GPU especially isn't going to do you many favours.
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#5
Laptops arent good enough for it? Will my one work? It apparently has a desktop CPU. Its the Omega from PcSpecialist (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/omegaII/)

Processor: Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor Extreme i7-3970X (3.5GHz) 15MB Cache
Memory: 32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: 2 x AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Hard Disk: 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
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#6
well,yeah. i play in a laptop and it works fine. but games are large. most of them are GB's
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#7
(01-03-2014, 04:52 AM)cgar Wrote: Laptops arent good enough for it? Will my one work? It apparently has a desktop CPU. Its the Omega from PcSpecialist (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/omegaII/)

Processor: Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor Extreme i7-3970X (3.5GHz) 15MB Cache
Memory: 32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: 2 x AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Hard Disk: 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)

Please create your own thread instead of hijacking this one.
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#8
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he wasn't hijacking he wants to recommend a desktop instead playing in a laptop to get results
anyway @cgar unless the author can afford that monster desktop i think he is not....
need to post a well-balanced specs. that can able to afford the author to buy.
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#9
(01-03-2014, 06:31 AM)smartstrike Wrote: ^
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he wasn't hijacking he wants to recommend a desktop instead playing in a laptop to get results
anyway @cgar unless the author can afford that monster desktop i think he is not....
need to post a well-balanced specs. that can able to afford the author to buy.

Um... it looks like a laptop to me. The GPU is a dead give-away. It has an "M" at the end.
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#10
if i had to buy a laptop
my choice would always go to AMD apus
probably for the cpu part intel is better and less battery hungry (17W TDP)

but actually.. why use (and pay) for two GPUs (which eat energy, 25W) when you could go for a single and equally powerful one?
buy an A10 powered laptop (25-35W) and you won't have to worry for nvidia optimus technology too Tongue
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