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motbob
United States12546 Posts
It can, but you'll have to run on the lowest settings and placing buildings and stuff will be sluggish. Follow Fragkrag's advice.
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integrated graphics baaaad
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It'll run on low settings but may lag a bit during large battles. My laptop has almost identical specs. If you are planning on using your laptop as your sole computer then you may want to pay for one with a discrete video card.
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You might need a video card, your frame rate will drop a lot on large battles.
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Ares[Effort]
DEMACIA6550 Posts
Alright thx for advice guys, also thx for link FragKrag. So the one you linked does AMD Turion II M520 mean dual core or number 2 lol? Sorry I'm pretty newbie with this stuff. Anyways would that be able to run sc2 on high setting?
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It can run it, I have lower specs than u actually, but the thing to note is that your graphics card will kill the game, you'll have to use lowest settings and it will lag occasionally.
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motbob
United States12546 Posts
On March 22 2010 05:52 Ares[EffOrt] wrote:
Alright thx for advice guys, also thx for link FragKrag. So the one you linked does AMD Turion II M520 mean dual core or number 2 lol? Sorry I'm pretty newbie with this stuff. Anyways would that be able to run sc2 on high setting?
I really doubt any sub-$1000 laptop would run SC2 smoothly on high.
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I was going to say it'd probably be ok on high but I guess it may be close. It'd definitely be smooth on medium.
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On March 22 2010 05:47 Mindcrime wrote:
integrated graphics baaaad
Yep, your videocard seems to be the bottleneck. im playing sc2 on 2gb 800mhz ram and i have no problems and can set the settings on ultra^^
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On March 22 2010 05:52 Ares[EffOrt] wrote:
Alright thx for advice guys, also thx for link FragKrag. So the one you linked does AMD Turion II M520 mean dual core or number 2 lol? Sorry I'm pretty newbie with this stuff. Anyways would that be able to run sc2 on high setting?
yes it's a dual core.
I doubt you can find a laptop that runs sc2 on ultra (why would you anyway) with that budget
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I'm not 100% sure about high (medium should not be a problem), but yeah, the AMD Turion II is a dual core. The kicker is that it only sports 1MB of L2 cache (512KB/core) whereas the Core 2 Duo has 3MB of L2. I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make, but it might be noticeable.
However, the AMD 4570 is light years ahead of the Intel X4500HD, and most games are GPU bound so you'll see better performance in games with the ASUS.
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Germany2896 Posts
One important thing about notebooks is getting warranty. At least two years, and three years is better. Unlike a desktop you can't simply replace a broken part.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
On March 22 2010 05:55 motbob wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2010 05:52 Ares[EffOrt] wrote:
Alright thx for advice guys, also thx for link FragKrag. So the one you linked does AMD Turion II M520 mean dual core or number 2 lol? Sorry I'm pretty newbie with this stuff. Anyways would that be able to run sc2 on high setting? I really doubt any sub-$1000 laptop would run SC2 smoothly on high.
It could but you will have to go for a 17+ inch laptop for that price range
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There should be laptops which can run SC2 at high at sub $1000. At around the $800-900 range there is the ATi HD 4650M/5650M and the Nvidia 240M line.
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like mine, lol. 1200$ for a laptop but i can run sc2 on high quality and stream hd quality and not lag at all.
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On March 22 2010 05:58 MasterOfChaos wrote:
One important thing about notebooks is getting warranty. At least two years, and three years is better. Unlike a desktop you can't simply replace a broken part.
This, I got crazy use out of my warranty, 3 HD replacements 2 screen replacements and a battery replacement for a Thinkpad.
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On March 22 2010 05:58 FragKrag wrote:
I'm not 100% sure about high (medium should not be a problem), but yeah, the AMD Turion II is a dual core. The kicker is that it only sports 1MB of L2 cache (512KB/core) whereas the Core 2 Duo has 3MB of L2. I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make, but it might be noticeable.
You can't compare cpu caches like that, the cpu architectures are completely different.
They have different latency, algorithms to decide what to save and are used differently.
The only way to determine which is faster is with benchmarks
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I would never buy a intel gpu. This would probably run sc2 on medium settings, maybe even high but if you plan on playing other games, know that your gpu uses shared memory and will consume a large portion of cpu/ram resources.
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