Would you buy this?

[gryzor4444]

Hi all.

thanks for having a look at this thread.


My girlfriend has asked me to help her buy the best sub £500 laptop. (at todays roe its $801)
We live in the UK. I have seen this laptop and it seems likely to handle any thing she throws at it. ( skyrim, youtube, music, and the occasional movie)

Is this laptop an worthy purchase http/www.johnlewis.com/231395770/Product.aspx

I have copied the following information.

Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor Fusion Quad-Core A6-3410MX - Processor speed 1.6GHz to 2.3GHz Turbo-Core
RAM 6GB (dosnt seem to specify a speed) please note the in shop one is 6gb where as the website says 4gb i think is 1066 ddr3
Graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6490M & 6520G 512MB

She wants to be able to play Skyrim. this will be the highest level of usage.

Skyrim has the following:

Minimum System Requirements

* OS: 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
* CPU: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
* Graphics: 512 MB card
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Recommended System Requirements

* OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP (32 or 64 bit)
* CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
* RAM: 4 GB
* Graphics: 1 GB Graphics Memory
* DirectX: Version 9.0c


Supported Graphics Cards:

Minimum Recommended -Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher



Any ideas are welcome, or if you can find a better one please feel free to suggest.

Best Wishes

GryZor

 

[nordlead]

Mobile/integrated graphic cards just don't work as well as discrete graphic cards if you look at the numbers.

The 4890 was a fairly powerful GPU and is on par with the HD6770. The 6520G isn't close, and I think the 6490M is roughly as powerful as the 6520G. If you can crossfire them it might work, but I really don't think it will.

Also, the CPU is slightly under the minimum recommended. The turbo puts it over, but it is a concern.

I probably wouldn't buy this laptop if I wanted to play Skyrim unless I saw a good review showing how it performed on that mobile graphics combination.

 

[AntiZig]

well she'll be able to run Skyrim for sure on lowest, but I don't know how much eye candy she'd want.
6540G review - here, found some info and benchies

alternatively I could suggest to look for an A8 processor, that comes with integrated 6620G. Toshiba, Acer and Gateway have such models, I'm sure you'd be able to find something as well.

 

[gorlacon]

i have a laptop with the exact same specs, and skyrim runs flawlessly using only the 6520g (cant hybrid crossfire on dx 9 games) with only a small o.c on the cpu. the o.c i use is to 2.5ghz with turbo dis-abled. cpu runs at about 65-70 degrees under load. without o.c game runs at med at about 25 fps.