Solved! WoW Gaming Laptop

[Emelth]

Hello everyone hopefully you can help me out real quick with a Gaming laptop for World of Warcraft.

1. What is your budget? 600-900 (alright if it goes over 1000 a little bit)

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? As big as possible for gaming

3. What screen resolution do you want? Ummm....?

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable

5. How much battery life do you need? A lot Im gonna be in Afghan so hopefully they will be able to ship it out to me

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? WoW on high or medium settings

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing,watching movies, Etc.) Video chatting

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 4gb

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. use what you got

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 1-2 years

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? I dont want bluray

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. I dont care

13. What country do you live in? USA but deployed in Afghan right now

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. a full keyboard with number pad, no vista

 

[Emelth]

World of Warcraft has 6 default resolutions.
800x600
1024x768
1280x768 (Wide)
1152x864
1280x960
1280x1024

hopefully that is what your looking for, found it on the net

 

[WR2]

I found another source.
What is missing is 1680x945. And I would guess the same is true for a lot of games.
You could either run 1440 x 900 or 1366 x 768 in a window or run one of those full screen.
That would cause the video card to do extra work to figure out what pixels to use to make 1680x945 pixles act like 1440x900 or 1366x768.
It would cut into your FPS performance a bit.

WoW Supported Resolutions:
1280 x 800 (16:10)
1440 x 900 (16:10)
1680 x 1050 (16:10)
1920 x 1200 (16:10)
2560 x 1600 (16:10)
1024 x 576 (16:9)
1280 x 720 (16:9)
1366 x 768 (16:9)
1920 x 1080 (16:9)

 

[Emelth]

Well I usually run it in in window mode i hate full screen. So i need a screen resolution that is in the list above?

 

[Emelth]

God why is it always the graphics card that gives me a hard time i know WoW doesnt rely on it that much, its harder on the memory. Just need to find one that gets me about 60fps while raiding

 

[WR2]

It's the graphics card that makes a laptop into a game-capable machine. GT330M and GT425M should both do WoW at good FPS on medium settings. Can't say you'll always get 60+ since that's also dependent on network performance.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M review
NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M review

I think WoW is more sensitive to CPU speeds than memory amount once you're over 2GB of RAM.

 

[Emelth]

Well guess I'll keep looking around for more laptops checking to see if I can find a good one for a great price. Thanks for all your help WR2 and the others that have put in their advice

 

[Stevo222]

MSI GX640-260US (MINT, w/ Extras)

The laptop is used, but in LIKE NEW condition. By that I mean it is absolutely mint. No noticeable scratches, scuffs, dings, chips, dead pixels, nothing. . I will include all the original packaging to the buyer as well. It will also be triple-boxed when shipped.


http/cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160534446447&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

 

[Emelth]

Alright i was looking at my laptops Windows Experience Index it was a 3.3, is there a way to figure out what WEI is need to run WoW smoothly at medium high settings?

 

[WR2]

WEI is not a good indicator of gaming performance.
Look for a WoW specific forum and see what types of laptop GPUs other users are using and what performance they get. They'll probably understand 'medium high settings' better than people around here.

 

[Klosteral]

Have a look at these. I think the very first one on the list (Sager NP5160) should be ample for running your WoW games and it is only $770USD (more for a larger hard drive).
http/www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-clevo-sager-notebooks-ct-95_51_162.html
Sager is supposed to have excellent build quality, the laptop is light and it supposed to have a battery life of up to 5 hours.

-Klosteral

 

[Emelth]

Would this one work like i wanted it to?

http/www.amazon.com/N61JV-X4-16-Inch-Versatile-Entertainment-Laptop/dp/tech-data/B004071TO0/ref=de_a_smtd

 

[WR2]

Probably not. The GT 325M video card is about 18% less powerful than the GT 330M.
The GT 425M is about 2%, maybe 6%, more powerful than the GT 330M.

 

[Emelth]

So which one is adequate for WoW? God im such a handful for you guys lol always trying to figure out new things

 

[WR2]

Any or those, including the GT 325M, is adequate for WoW on medium setting with decent frame rates. ~60FPS might not be possible though.

 

[marcvazquez]

i Just got this MSI fx700 for about $870 shipped.
i-5 480m
gt 425
led tft 1600/900
4gigs ddr3
500ghdd
802.11b/g/n
THX dynaudio surround 4/spkr
BD/drive
2xusb 3.0
2xusb 2.0
hdmi out
multi card reader.
chicklet keybord.

With afterburner software and nvidia tool i can run row on high ultraish settings and keep 60 plus fps
thats with cpu @ 2.9ghtz and gt 425 overclocked to 730 core/1460 shader/930 mem.Doesnt get ridiculously hot for the specs its running at and also on AC power only of course.i think cpu tops out around 50-55 C and Gpu around 70 after an hour or so running those clocks and gfx settings but it levels off.
And the four speaker system on this thing is awesome best sound from a notebook i have ever though possible with on board speakers.Just shy of seven pounds and pretty decent battery life with the optimus and balanced windows settings.Could sustain 60 fps on med/high settings or high with shadow low with out tweaking.Would probably see more gains with a higher cpu over clock though will have to mess around.But really with the screen and the sound this thing has im greatly satisfied with fps and playabilty for wow and other things this can handle.And it can run ultra just not a 60 but about 30-50 depending on area this intel can really be a beast of a cpu to get it done.What ever your choice definitely go with an intel i series chip dont settle for the amd on your laptop.I dont mind and actually like amd for desk tops but intel is the way to go for mobile.
Good luck and i hope you find the right one that meets your need and price point.