Laptop for Skyrim

[Gallusis]

Looking for a laptop that can play Skyrim well at Ultra settings. My budget is 900-ish. Is that possible?

 

[jaguarskx]

Yes, it is possible, but you will not be running at 60FPS. For under $1,000 you are basically looking at a laptop with a GTX 860m or 960m which have very similar performance; the 960m is marginally faster.


See below for some 860m benchmarks including Skyrim.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-860M.107794.0.html

 

[Gallusis]

Do you think I could get 50-60 fps on 1366x768 resolution?

 

[Tom Tancredi]

NO. Gaming laptops cost minimum $1500, for ones to play Ultra settings on graphically intensive games (as everyone adds mods to Skyrim for example) then your looking at LEAST $2400 for a rig to play on ULTRA.

 

[jaguarskx]

Do you think I could get 50-60 fps on 1366x768 resolution?

Should be possible. If you clicked on the link I provided you can see that the GTX 860m + Core i7-4710HQ manged to get the following results:

1366x768 - High = 84,5 FPS
1920x1080 - Ultra = 49.6 FPS

I would say 1600x900 ultra should possible for 50 FPS - 60 FPS. That excludes any mods that you install which could lower performance.