It’s a pretty slim spec sheet, but if we're talking about a machine with a 500GB HDD and 8GB of RAM, it shouldn't be total junk—especially for someone who just uses it for basic browsing and casual tasks. Honestly, it might actually be worth picking up at that price.
Look, just because a company is officially registered on paper doesn't mean their actual business performance is anything more than a total joke. 😬
wanderingbison9 said:NVIDIA GeForce RTX gaming or Alienware (not the XT), both 8 GB, a $10 difference???... It's not even for gaming, it's for compute and DirectX.
Go with the Alienware for sure. Their standard "gaming" coolers are pretty mediocre—honestly, they're some of the worst aftermarket cooling solutions out there.
I'm not entirely sure how the warranty process works if it isn't handled directly by them—say, if it falls under a different region's jurisdiction—but it might be worth checking if they can facilitate it...
Then he could also try this: click, click, click (updating the BIOS if necessary) and just sell his CPU and GPU for whatever he can get. At this point, that Boeing 747 would be severely bottlenecking any decent graphics card
According to the official system requirements, you could definitely run it on low settings, provided you have 8GB of RAM available (which basically means picking up another 4GB stick)
Everything from the RX 470/570 and the GTX 1060 up to the higher-end models...
But seriously, what's the going rate for a GTX 1060 (is it the 3GB or 6GB version?) these days? I noticed that brand new RX 570/580 cards are hitting some really great price points lately.
Fans might have significantly more runtime than gaming rigs, but there's absolutely no way to tell just by looking at them. The only real giveaway is if a vendor happens to be offloading a massive surplus of models specifically popular with crypto miners 😁
redscro should probably keep a closer eye on the current market trends, but the reality is this: you either go with something newer that still carries a manufacturer's warranty, or you opt for an older, high-end premium model that lacks any remaining coverage.
Honestly, if we're talking about buying something brand new, you'd be looking at a seriously underpowered laptop. Are used options off the table? And Intel isn't an option either? Anything from AMD that isn't a Ryzen chip—especially in the low end, like those E1 pieces of junk—is just terrible.
That doesn't sound right to me. The 2600x should definitely have better multithreading performance than an i5. Either he's getting a wrong subjective impression, or there's some underlying issue with his PC or OS... Then again, I saw on another thread that you actually need better single-thread performance—in that case, go with the i5...
You don't need to blow through your entire budget. If I were in your shoes, I’d look for the most affordable 34" ultrawide with a 3440x1440p resolution. Just make sure you grab a non-TN panel with FreeSync—it actually works quite well with Nvidia setups too, provided you aren't just using an HDMI connection. For example, check out click . Keep in mind that this specific aspect ratio and resolution tend to command a premium. The next best thing on the market is usually something like the $1900 click...
I honestly don't think anyone's been picking up Vega cards for months now...
If you want to actually move some V64 units, the price has to be max $833. If you take a look at the performance summary and the performance per watt metrics, plus $267how much less you get for the flagship model here . I mean, you have the $933RTX 2060s sitting there offering roughly comparable performance, nearly double the efficiency, and even that ray tracing option—as useless as it may be. Nobody is going to lose their mind over a V64 priced at $833, but at a lower point, they might actually sell.
League of Legends isn't exactly a heavy hitter when it comes to system requirements, but stuff like this could easily tank his performance. It’s actually a solid choice for "work" if he doesn't need massive amounts of storage (unfortunately, finding laptops with both an SSD and an HDD in this price range is rare—SSDs offer speed but lower capacity, whereas HDDs give you more space at the cost of speed). He might want to consider this instead