Guild Wars 2

Hello forum, I’ve decided to buy a new laptop for HoT since my FPS drops to 1 every time I enter any of the new zones. I don’t know much about laptops, so I was wondering if you guys could help me find a laptop with the following prerequisites (or as many of them as possible).

First, I’d like it if no matter where I went in Guild Wars 2 I could keep at least 30 fps (hopefully more), even if I’m at the top of Verdant Brink fighting the wyvern at max graphics settings.

Second, the computer room in my house unfortunately is next to the heater, which makes it rather warm throughout the day. Because of this, I need a laptop with a very reliable and powerful cooling system.

Third, I’d like to spend as little money as possible on this laptop after buying it. In other words, a laptop with a good charger/battery that won’t bust in a few months.

Fourth, and here’s the tricky one, my budget is $1500.

Alright, that’s just about it for my brand new laptop. Sorry if I sound a little pushy about what I need, I just really want to get this right the first time :P thanks in advance!

Heck, I get a steady 60+ fps at 1920×1080 on my new Dell Inspirion with an i5-6200 and SSD, and it only cost me $700. It has dedicated nVidia with 4gb.

Edit: I’m running with all graphics options on.

Was it prebuilt or custom built?

Keep the laptop you have now for everything outside of gaming, and build yourself a nice desktop/buy monitor with that 1500 =)

Never need to buy another computer for gaming again, just upgrade individual components as you see fit.

I’d agree with wetpaw, if you want the best gaming experience, go desktop

Nilkemia.8507:

Was it prebuilt or custom built?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYYDMQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

For those of you telling me to build a desktop, I’m on the move a lot. Like, a lot. I probably should have specified, but please don’t recommend desktops.

Sytherek.7689:

Nilkemia.8507:

Was it prebuilt or custom built?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYYDMQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

Oh thank you, I’ll look into this one! Other suggestions would be appreciated as well.

A laptop is never good for gaming, buy a tower – cheaper and better components, upgradable. To play GW2 with max details on you don’t need a good pc anyways.

Well, some of us have to move around a lot, or prefer the option. A “tower” is probably a pain to move around.

Seriously guys, it needs to be a laptop, I’m on the move a lot. I can’t lug around a big tower and monitor every day.

ProtoGunner.4953:

A laptop is never good for gaming, buy a tower – cheaper and better components, upgradable. To play GW2 with max details on you don’t need a good pc anyways.

op said he needs laptop
you recommend desktop anyway
and then say he doesnt even need a good pc for the game he asked for
you’re a bad bad bad kind of person and dont even know it

I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 7559 during the holiday sales as a present to myself after my previous laptop broke down. So far working very well. Doesn’t weigh too much and the screen size isn’t too large so I can actually take it to class as well

I recommend this site http://www.xoticpc.com/

it’s where I got my gaming laptops. I havent been in the market lately so I dont have a specific model to give you. But go for Sager brand. You can customize. They are good and reliable: lot of options to customize, 2 fans, dedicated GPU, easy to open up to reach components inside (some famous brands laptops are hard to open to clean or change inside), pretty backlit keyboard….

If you do get one, I recommend choosing SSD (for OS and some games/softwares) and a 7200rpm HDD (in place of a DVD player) for storage and other softwares. You can have 2 drives like that. You can buy a portal DVD/Bluray Reader somewhere else.

$1500 is more than enough for your needs I would say.

I know, no desktops. Maybe “middle ground”? http://www.cooltek.de/en/cubes/coolcube-mini/14/coolcube-mini You can pair mini-ITX boards with quite powerful graphics cards. Probably sounds like a turbine during a hot summer, but at least they won’t overheat so quickly.

As for laptops, I have made good experiences with MSI gaming laptops or if price is less of a problem Schenker gaming laptops. You are in the 2000€ range with the later though. Whatever laptop it will be, specs should probably be along the following area: intel i7-something HQ at around 2.7 GHz base. i5 are mostly dual cores which do make a difference in modern games. Probably not that much in gw2. Geforce GTX960M and SSD, but you can hardly buy high-prices laptops without SSD anymore. Display should probably be HD “only” instead of 3200×1800 variants.

Make sure you get a fast cpu. A core I5 seems like best middle ground (no Hyperthreading – aka virtual extra cores, but Gw2 doesn’t use those well). Gpu is less important, but do not get an onboard chip (to slow most of time). Make sure it has SSD and adequate Ram (8gb+).

Make sure you get a fast cpu. A core I5 seems like best middle ground (no Hyperthreading – aka virtual extra cores, but Gw2 doesn’t use those well). Gpu is less important, but do not get an onboard chip (to slow most of time). Make sure it has SSD and adequate Ram (8gb+).