Solved! Gaming laptop

[6Lunar6Strain6_52]

Hello,
Im looking to buy a laptop for 400 to 650$ I just want to be able to play a couple of gamess n ikt nothing fancy. Thank you!

 

[bignips]

yo buddy good luck with that 😉 i posted my own thanks though,

 

[WR2]

Lenovo IdeaPad Y470 14-inch "Sandy Bridge" Laptop $615
Core i3-2310 2.1GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD 14" 1366x768 LCD w/ GT 550M graphics

 

[jaguarskx]

The following Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 with a Core i5 and nVidia GeForce 520M is probably your best best for $650.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246156


If you want to spend less then the Acer Aspire AS5750-6438 comes in at $580. It has a Core i5 CPU and the integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics core.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215115


I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y470 with the same Core i5 CPU as the above laptops, but it comes with a nVidia GeForce GT 550M i(t is out of your price range). I am in the middle of writing a review for and I have tested Crysis using the Intel HD 3000 graphics core.

As you may or may not know Crysis is a pretty demanding game. With all graphics options set to low and no anti-aliasing, the Intel HD 3000 graphics core was capable of playing the game. I was playing the game for around 90 minutes. The lowest I've seen the frame rates go was 16FPS, but that does not happen very often. The highest I've noticed is about 29FPS, but again that does not happen very often. On average during that 90 minutes the frame rate ranged between 19FPS and 25FPS.

Setting anti aliasing to x2 kills the frame rates to between 8FPS and 11FPS during the few minutes I was testing it. Needless to say, that is definitely not playable at all.

The testing was done during the 3rd Chapter in Crysis; Relic.

 

[jaguarskx]

Lenovo IdeaPad Y470 14-inch "Sandy Bridge" Laptop $615
Core i3-2310 2.1GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD 14" 1366x768 LCD w/ GT 550M graphics

That's a good deal. I have a Lenovo Y470 with the faster Core i5 and the same nVidia GeForce GT 550M video card.

To continue my previous post. Setting every graphics option to medium and anti-aliasing to x2, I was able to get consistent frame rates in the mid 30's. At best the frame rates would peak at about 41FPS and at worse drop to 29FPS. Keeping anti-aliasing at x2 and setting all graphics options to high resulted in frame rates ranging on average between 19FPS and 26FPS. At best the FPS was 30 and at worse it was probably around 16, but that generally did not happen very often.

Going with the slightly slower Core i3 would mean slightly lower FPS, but Crysis should be playable with AA set to x2 and all graphic options set to medium.

Most games are not as demanding as Crysis.