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sorry if in wrong spot, but it wouldn't let me post in any other section. looking to buy a laptop from best buy to play this game so please help me pick the cheapest one that i can get from best buy that meets or exceeds the recommended stats. my desktop is a p4 2.4gig with 1gig of ram and a ati 9550 video card. would that play sto?

thanks for any and all information
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Feeboa wrote:
    sorry if in wrong spot, but it wouldn't let me post in any other section. looking to buy a laptop from best buy to play this game so please help me pick the cheapest one that i can get from best buy that meets or exceeds the recommended stats. my desktop is a p4 2.4gig with 1gig of ram and a ati 9550 video card. would that play sto?

    thanks for any and all information

    Your desktop will play it, but at very very low settings. If you can get a dual core that fits your motherboard, and another GB of ram, you should be able to bump it up to medium settings.
    Theres not too much more that can be done really to your desktop , as i suspect that GPU you have (which is prob an nvidia, not ati) runs on an AGP or PCI slot.

    If your GPU was a pci-e card, then for around $£150-200 i could easily find you a motherboard, ram and processor, (depending on your country), Which would probably be able to play STO on 3/4 settings. for around £$300 i could get you the afore mentioned hardware, plus a good GPU. But then it would depend if you had a factory built system, such as dell, hp etc, as for soem reason they make their systems extremely hard to upgrade.

    Anyway, It'd be cheaper than buying a laptop, which at sub $£400 will give you the same performance you would have with your current desktop.[

    But whatever you do, do not buy from bestbuy. Go to a website like www.newegg.com they are cheaper, more reliable and have people working for them who actually knopw things about computers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    well my mobo cannot support a dual core processor and i want a laptop anyways so im not stuck in any one room of the house to use it. so a dual core processor and at least 2 gigs of ram? what about a video card?

    what about this one how will it perform?
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Laptop+with+AMD+Turion%26%23153%3B+II+Dual-Core+Mobile+Processor+-+NightSky+Black/9739334.p?id=1218164387626&skuId=9739334
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Feeboa wrote:
    well my mobo cannot support a dual core processor and i want a laptop anyways so im not stuck in any one room of the house to use it. so a dual core processor and at least 2 gigs of ram? what about a video card?

    what about this one how will it perform?
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Laptop+with+AMD+Turion%26%23153%3B+II+Dual-Core+Mobile+Processor+-+NightSky+Black/9739334.p?id=1218164387626&skuId=9739334

    Badly,as in very poor quality, and will probably be very jerky.

    What you need to remember, is almost all laptops under a certain price range will not be suitable for gaming. You'd be able to play games like WoW or HL2, which run on old engines, thus requiring less power, but for modern high shader games, you would need a good desktop, or be willing to spend a lot on a laptop.

    With laptops, unless you are extremely lucky, the golden rule is, if it seems to be too good to be true, it definitly is.

    You'll see a lot of laptops with I3 cpu's, or I5 cpu's and 8 gb ram. People see those specs, and race to buy them. thats what the manufacturers count on. What people do not realize is that the graphics chip that comes with those laptops, are nothing short of terrible.

    I'm sure, if you look on a few sites, you MIGHT find a good bargain, but almost all laptops advertised now, are as i said before Good CPU, Good Memory, terrible graphics chip, medium to high price.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    "Cheap" and "Game" and "Laptop" do not belong in the same sentence unfortunately. You're looking at spending at least $699.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Eihort wrote: »
    "Cheap" and "Game" and "Laptop" do not belong in the same sentence unfortunately. You're looking at spending at least $699.

    /nods. You can get a latop with a nice CPU and memory under that price, but the graphics card is going to suck.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    tedgp123 wrote: »
    /nods. You can get a latop with a nice CPU and memory under that price, but the graphics card is going to suck.

    But you'll have a built in webcam and mic! :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Opaserv wrote: »
    But you'll have a built in webcam and mic! :p

    Careful now, you'll have the 40 year old guys pm'ing ya again :P



    Seriously though, if you need a laptop for gaming, be prepared to spend a lot. It is very rae you will get one that can play a modern game in good detail at more than 20-25 fps
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    tedgp123 wrote: »

    Careful now, you'll have the 40 year old guys pm'ing ya again :P


    yeesh... I hate it when you're right :eek:

    tedgp123 wrote: »

    Seriously though, if you need a laptop for gaming, be prepared to spend a lot. It is very rae you will get one that can play a modern game in good detail at more than 20-25 fps

    MacBook Pro for the win!!!! *does a happy dance*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    tedgp123 wrote: »


    Seriously though, if you need a laptop for gaming, be prepared to spend a lot. It is very rae you will get one that can play a modern game in good detail at more than 20-25 fps

    My Dell can do it, and it was less than $700. Studio 17, C2D 2ghz, 3gb, HD3650.


    Edit for the OP:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115674 will play the game.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115727 will do it better.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If you can find it elsewhere for a little cheaper this should be decent:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220699
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    thanks for the links. i have ordered stuff through new egg before, but prefer to get a laptop through bestbuy because i plan on getting a tv, lu ray player too so it be easier if i need to make an exchange. ill look for a laptop with the same specs and see what kind of price difference there is.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I may be getting a mac book pro later this year, currently with a toshiba laptop, i bought my game thru ebgames in australia, do i need to buy a mac version of the game ? and how good will the game be on a macbook pro?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    O.o...... rawr
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