Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure which forum to ask this on. My old laptop died and I’m not very good with computer knowledge. Is this laptop any good?

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GL72-6QF-405-NOTEBOOK-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01AC40ODQ

For GW2, it will do, though I’d miss a solid state drive (ssd).
Since I have no personal experience with MSI machines, I can’t tell you how well it is quality and cooling wise nor how well their customer support is.
Price wise it seems to be somewhere between ok and a good deal.
If you play (or plan to play) any other games, it might be a totally different story though and you might want to reconsider to get a customized gaming laptop.

€: somehow the profanity filter thinks fast harddisks are something bad lol. wrote it out to prevent confusion

why not put together a custom build? is a better investment future wise.
anyways, if your not into that, you should check out this laptop i been keeping a eye on.
is called dell 7559, it has the same specs except for the processor and it comes with kitten instead of a hdd. later down the road you can add a hdd for extra space as it already has a slot.

I was actually looking at Dell/Alienware originally. I have nothing against a custom build (other than not understanding what everything does). I just didn’t want to wait forever for it to ship.

well aside of putting together the tower, keep in mind you still need a mouse, keyboard and monitor. there’s tons of youtube videos like this one that can tell you the parts you need to build it. there’s nothing hard about screwing small bolts here and there, and plugging in some cables. but i do think the hardest part is installing and fixing small driver errors and what not. doing the research and reading tons of forums to find a solution can be time consuming and can be frustrating. of course, if you want your system to be fully perfecting working. in the end is pretty rewarding, knowing that you have full control of your entire system. instead of having small bubbles popping from the task tray every 5 minutes. i’m not tying to scare you if you decide to go down that path, just be aware.

if you decide to go with a laptop then its much easier to use and get started. you dont have to worry much about software or drivers as most companies offer a 1 year technical support. maybe disable and uninstall some of that junk software manufacturers include to increase boot speed and free up some space. but you dont be able to upgrade any parts later in the future beside the typical ram memory and storage memory.

I think I’ve got one picked out now.

Thanks for all your help guys, I really appreciate it!

darkaheart.4265:

well aside of putting together the tower, keep in mind you still need a mouse, keyboard and monitor. there’s tons of youtube videos like this one that can tell you the parts you need to build it. there’s nothing hard about screwing small bolts here and there, and plugging in some cables. but i do think the hardest part is installing and fixing small driver errors and what not. doing the research and reading tons of forums to find a solution can be time consuming and can be frustrating. of course, if you want your system to be fully perfecting working. in the end is pretty rewarding, knowing that you have full control of your entire system. instead of having small bubbles popping from the task tray every 5 minutes. i’m not tying to scare you if you decide to go down that path, just be aware.

if you decide to go with a laptop then its much easier to use and get started. you dont have to worry much about software or drivers as most companies offer a 1 year technical support. maybe disable and uninstall some of that junk software manufacturers include to increase boot speed and free up some space. but you dont be able to upgrade any parts later in the future beside the typical ram memory and storage memory.

OP said laptop in the title. facepalm

videoboy.4162:

I’m not sure which forum to ask this on. My old laptop died and I’m not very good with computer knowledge. Is this laptop any good?

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GL72-6QF-405-NOTEBOOK-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01AC40ODQ

Very good, spec-wise.

My current laptop is Acer (VN7-572G) with slightly lower specs than that, and GW2 handles nicely for me under Linux. That MSI laptop on Windows (what I assume you’re going to use) should have no problems at all with GW2.

As for MSI, their RMA process was a little tricky for me. At least with the GPU department, they don’t read your notes most of the time and it’s a slight gamble as to what you’ll get back.

I had a PE 7850 card, RMA’d it, got a worse card back. RMA’d it again, was told there was no more in-stock and they downgraded it to a regular 7850. I requested another RMA and specifically asked if they had any more PE cards in-stock and to swap it if so. Made sure to even ask RMA support if the request could be warranted before shipping the card out; they said yes. Got a regular 7850 back… RMA’d it a final time and got swapped to a R9 380.

The notebook and GPU RMA departments are different if I understand correctly, so maybe MSI’s RMA process for notebooks is way different.