Will this run games?

[Kiingzz]

Hi guys will this be able to run games at an entertaining/not frustrating level?


i7 2670qm 2.2GHz - 3.1GHz turbo
4GB RAM
gt525m nvidia geforce 1 GB Memory
500 GB HDD

Games like Dawn of War 2, Uncharted, Shogun 2......

 

[Kiingzz]

NP. For $700 bucks it is a very nice machine.

674$AU to be precise 😉

 

[Kiingzz]

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[PCgamer81]

...Shogun 2 stresses the GPU but not near as much as say Skyrim, Battlefield, etc...

Everyone knows that Skyrim is a CPU hog, which is a problem made even worse by the fact that only two threads can be enabled at any one time. I don't know of anyone who has ever seen even close to 100% GPU usage in Skyrim. Just about the entire environment is assigned to the CPU.

...560 is only about half as strong as the desktop version. This applies to everything.

You are so far off it is sad.

It is a known fact that mobile GPU's are minus 10 for GTX/GTS and minus 100 for Radeon when compared to their desktop equivalent. My 5870m is the equivalent of a 5770, the 6770m the equivalent of the 6670, the 570m is the equivalent of a 560, the 580m the 570, and so on.

OP: You can upgrade that laptop to 8GB of DDR3, and that would help somewhat. Don't listen to the people who tell you that your laptop isn't for gaming. I posted links that say otherwise. It seems that some people just blather forth for the sake of having an opinion when they don't know anything about computers. A lot of Tom's Hardware users see that slogan up top that says, "The authority on tech", and think that it applies to them.

They also deliberately miss the point of your inquiry. The moderator says 60fps is needed to have fun, although he didn't say that until I showed the 525m doing well in demanding games. The other user raises a bar that isn't there and brings up how this GPU is not "high end", even though not a single person said it was. On the contrary, it was stated rather clearly that it is mid-range. This isn't about 60fps, and it's not fair to hold a laptop to desktop standards when advising a user concerning a laptop, nor is it fair to unnecessarily claim what the laptop isn't, just for the sake of having something to argue about and insult someone's new laptop that they're excited about. And to do all this when user only wanted to know whether or not he could have fun indicates some serious immaturity by those two, as well as total ignorance.

Hey, enjoy your laptop. It is a helluva nice one, that's for sure. You got a bargain.

 

[Kiingzz]

Everyone knows that Skyrim is a CPU hog, which is a problem made even worse by the fact that only two threads can be enabled at any one time. I don't know of anyone who has ever seen even close to 100% GPU usage in Skyrim. Just about the entire environment is assigned to the CPU.



You are so far off it is sad.

It is a known fact that mobile GPU's are minus 10 for GTX/GTS and minus 100 for Radeon when compared to their desktop equivalent. My 5870m is the equivalent of a 5770, the 6770m the equivalent of the 6670, the 570m is the equivalent of a 560, the 580m the 570, and so on.

OP: You can upgrade that laptop to 8GB of DDR3, and that would help somewhat. Don't listen to the people who tell you that your laptop isn't for gaming. I posted links that say otherwise. It seems that some people just blather forth for the sake of having an opinion when they don't know anything about computers. A lot of Tom's Hardware users see that slogan up top that says, "The authority on tech", and think that it applies to them.

They also deliberately miss the point of your inquiry. The moderator says 60fps is needed to have fun, although he didn't say that until I showed the 525m doing well in demanding games. The other user raises a bar that isn't there and brings up how this GPU is not "high end", even though not a single person said it was. On the contrary, it was stated rather clearly that it is mid-range. This isn't about 60fps, and it's not fair to hold a laptop to desktop standards when advising a user concerning a laptop, nor is it fair to unnecessarily claim what the laptop isn't, just for the sake of having something to argue about and insult someone's new laptop that they're excited about. And to do all this when user only wanted to know whether or not he could have fun indicates some serious immaturity by those two, as well as total ignorance.

Hey, enjoy your laptop. It is a helluva nice one, that's for sure. You got a bargain.

Sure is a bargain and if I was to upgrade the RAM to 8GB would it make a difference in the games performance or only if I had other tasks running at the same time; Playing Shogun 2, using fraps and browsing the internet all at the same time RAM would make a difference? (If I was to play Shogun, it would be the only thing running for sure)

 

[nbelote]

I game on a i5-2450m laptop with 8GB RAM and a GT 540m, it hits about 65fps in ME3 in 1920x1080 and 30-45fps in Skyrim. Both games on High (not Ultra) and look beautiful. The GPU is more than a tad overclocked, though.

It just goes to show that, if you know what you're doing (or can learn), laptops can make good gaming machines.

 

[Kiingzz]

And don't know much about overclocking but would it be necessary with my specs to overclock the GPU to play Shogun 2?

 

[whyso]

I have a dell laptop i7 2630qm, 4 GB ram, and a gt 525m. There really is no point spending extra money for a 540m (its the same chip clocked about 10% higher so you generally see less than a 10% difference in games).
I overclock my gt 525m (stock 600 core, 900 memory) to 700 core and 1000 memory easily--I can go higher (between 540m and 550m) and get about 25-35 fps on skyrim at 1366 x 768 on ultra (no aa but fxaa, shadows medium, distant object detail high, everything else maxed). Mass effect runs at 50+ fps. I am not running the latest drivers so I assume performance would be better with current drivers (well I could also update the game).
The 525m is not that bad a card for a laptop and you would have to go to a 555m to a noticeable change is speed (by noticeable i mean more than 30%).

 

[PCgamer81]

I have a dell laptop i7 2630qm, 4 GB ram, and a gt 525m. There really is no point spending extra money for a 540m (its the same chip clocked about 10% higher so you generally see less than a 10% difference in games).
I overclock my gt 525m (stock 600 core, 900 memory) to 700 core and 1000 memory easily--I can go higher (between 540m and 550m) and get about 25-35 fps on skyrim at 1366 x 768 on ultra (no aa but fxaa, shadows medium, distant object detail high, everything else maxed). Mass effect runs at 50+ fps. I am not running the latest drivers so I assume performance would be better with current drivers (well I could also update the game).
The 525m is not that bad a card for a laptop and you would have to go to a 555m to a noticeable change is speed (by noticeable i mean more than 30%).

Thank you. Hearing it from someone who has firsthand experience put the nail in the naysayers coffins. I knew good and well that the 525m was a capable card for the modern era. But, some people are desktop elitists and, quite frankly, make me more than a little sick.

 

[PCgamer81]

I game on a i5-2450m laptop with 8GB RAM and a GT 540m, it hits about 65fps in ME3 in 1920x1080 and 30-45fps in Skyrim. Both games on High (not Ultra) and look beautiful. The GPU is more than a tad overclocked, though.

It just goes to show that, if you know what you're doing (or can learn), laptops can make good gaming machines.

I have this...

...with some serious hardware...

...but I actually prefer playing on this...

Not only do laptops make great rigs, but they are actually a lot more fun.

 

[nbelote]

I have this...

...with some serious hardware...

...but I actually prefer playing on this...

Not only do laptops make great rigs, but they are actually a lot more fun.

You, sir, have nailed it.

 

[Maziar]

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