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LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 07 2012 23:19 GMT
#1
So, I was looking at getting rid of my desktop and my old laptop. I guess I'm going to need help with a few things here. What I use my computer for is mostly gaming, not really newer games, but Star Trek Online, StarCraft 2, League of Legends, etc. Currently I have a laptop and a desktop, my laptop can't really play games but my desktop was fairly good at its prime (years ago). So firstly I guess I'm looking for people who are more knowledgeable now with how much my old systems would be worth and what I should be looking for in a new system.

Laptop

Acer Aspire with 2gb ram (Unsure of the speed), AMD Turion Processor, 250 - 320GB HD and GeForce 7000M graphics, Windows Vista Home. I know it's kind of a peace of crap now, but its in really good condition, has another slot for ram, it did have 4gb but one stick was faulty. How much do you think this would go for on a kijiji / craigslist type deal?

Desktop

Intel Core 2 Duo, E6750 @ 2.66GHz, 2GB of OCZ 800/1333(?) ram, ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb, 500GB SATA HD, Windows XP. It has a 21'' Samsung Syncmaster 2000:1 906BW Widescreen monitor, NZXT Nemesis case. What do you think the asking price for this would be?

What I'm looking at is a laptop that can perform as well as my desktop, or better, but I am on a budget. I would really like to stay around $500, or $500 + whatever I can get from my two computers. I was looking at a few sites and I had found stuff such as this;

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230240

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230265

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1751549&Sku=T71-11035 CA

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_369&item_id=042471

My biggest problem I guess, since I've never really been good with laptops, is the video cards. I know onboard isn't usually as good as dedicated. Heck, I built my desktop from the ground up myself, I'm just lost with this stuff when it comes to laptops. Any help would be appreciated.

My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-07 23:32:31
March 07 2012 23:26 GMT
#2
EDIT ahh nevermind, I did a bit more reading and seen that your looking for a laptop. If you include your monitor with your desktop im sure with both the laptop and the desktop you could get $450-$500 ($200 for the laptop and $250-$300 for the desktop). Here would be a great Laptop for you after you sell the desktop and laptop:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158058

Core i7 2670QM
Radeon HD 6770m
750 GB HDD
and 6 GB of Ram

sounds pretty legit to me
ok
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-07 23:28:35
March 07 2012 23:27 GMT
#3
A laptop; it's less clutter and easy to take back and forth to work when theres down time. Is the monitor worth more? I would really have no need for it.
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 07 2012 23:33 GMT
#4
On March 08 2012 08:27 LonelyIslands wrote:
A laptop; it's less clutter and easy to take back and forth to work when theres down time. Is the monitor worth more? I would really have no need for it.

check the first post I put up again. I edited it.
ok
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-07 23:42:23
March 07 2012 23:37 GMT
#5
On March 08 2012 08:26 AeroEffect wrote:
EDIT ahh nevermind, I did a bit more reading and seen that your looking for a laptop. If you include your monitor with your desktop im sure with both the laptop and the desktop you could get $450-$500 ($200 for the laptop and $250-$300 for the desktop). Here would be a great Laptop for you after you sell the desktop and laptop:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158058

Core i7 2670QM
Radeon HD 6770m
750 GB HDD
and 6 GB of Ram

sounds pretty legit to me


Would there be a step down from that? Convincing the wife to let me spend that much, especially after just buying a house, might be hard Maybe an i5 would help reduce the price? That's a badass laptop though..

Edit: I forgot to mention my desktop has a Logitech speaker system, not sure if that makes a difference or not..
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 07 2012 23:47 GMT
#6
On March 08 2012 08:37 LonelyIslands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 08 2012 08:26 AeroEffect wrote:
EDIT ahh nevermind, I did a bit more reading and seen that your looking for a laptop. If you include your monitor with your desktop im sure with both the laptop and the desktop you could get $450-$500 ($200 for the laptop and $250-$300 for the desktop). Here would be a great Laptop for you after you sell the desktop and laptop:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158058

Core i7 2670QM
Radeon HD 6770m
750 GB HDD
and 6 GB of Ram

sounds pretty legit to me


Would there be a step down from that? Convincing the wife to let me spend that much, especially after just buying a house, might be hard Maybe an i5 would help reduce the price? That's a badass laptop though..

Edit: I forgot to mention my desktop has a Logitech speaker system, not sure if that makes a difference or not..

Here are a few more around the $700-$800 range that are pretty good as well:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215294CVF

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158246CVF
ok
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 07 2012 23:56 GMT
#7
What type of graphic settings are you looking to play the games on?
ok
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 08 2012 00:27 GMT
#8
Ive been playing SC2 on low, smoothly, as long as I could do that I would be happy. I think thats the most graphic intensive game I've played.
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 08 2012 00:48 GMT
#9
here is a another that is less than $600:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246215
ok
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 08 2012 00:55 GMT
#10
On March 08 2012 09:48 AeroEffect wrote:
here is a another that is less than $600:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246215


How would that compare to my desktop? Just posted them for sale. Lets see if this works.
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 08 2012 01:11 GMT
#11
On March 08 2012 09:55 LonelyIslands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 08 2012 09:48 AeroEffect wrote:
here is a another that is less than $600:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246215


How would that compare to my desktop? Just posted them for sale. Lets see if this works.

The cpu is a little worse but thats not a bad thing because the core 2 duo was a good cpu to begin with. The cpu in the laptop is a quad core also so multitasking should a be a little easier even if its not as fast as the C2D. The cpu is alot better though imo because if I remember correctly, the x1950 didnt even support direct x10.

Either way, the laptop should handle all of the games you mentioned at medium quality (at the least) with good framerates (prob around 40-50). If you play on low in all of the games mentioned, you should be well over 60fps
ok
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 08 2012 01:16 GMT
#12
On March 08 2012 10:11 AeroEffect wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 08 2012 09:55 LonelyIslands wrote:
On March 08 2012 09:48 AeroEffect wrote:
here is a another that is less than $600:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246215


How would that compare to my desktop? Just posted them for sale. Lets see if this works.

The cpu is a little worse but thats not a bad thing because the core 2 duo was a good cpu to begin with. The cpu in the laptop is a quad core also so multitasking should a be a little easier even if its not as fast as the C2D. The cpu is alot better though imo because if I remember correctly, the x1950 didnt even support direct x10.

Either way, the laptop should handle all of the games you mentioned at medium quality (at the least) with good framerates (prob around 40-50). If you play on low in all of the games mentioned, you should be well over 60fps


And one of the more expensive ones would be even better.. I just got an offer for $250 for my laptop. :D
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
March 08 2012 01:20 GMT
#13
The A8 3500M with the 6620g would only be capable of handling most games on low, unless of course you don't mind dipping below 30.
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 08 2012 01:50 GMT
#14
On March 08 2012 10:20 skyR wrote:
The A8 3500M with the 6620g would only be capable of handling most games on low, unless of course you don't mind dipping below 30.


So, http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215294CVF would be a good get?
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
March 08 2012 01:59 GMT
#15
Yes, a GT540m would be superior. You can see the difference between the two along with various others in this article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444//11

I'm not familiar with the notebook pricing in Canada but Newegg might be terrible, just like they are for desktop components.

NCIX's weekly sale goes up tonight and lenevo often has recurring coupons for their notebooks as well.
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
March 08 2012 02:26 GMT
#16
http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=67870&vpn=NP-Q460-JS01CA&manufacture=Samsung&promoid=1009

Would be comparable?
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
March 08 2012 03:08 GMT
#17
On March 08 2012 11:26 LonelyIslands wrote:
http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=67870&vpn=NP-Q460-JS01CA&manufacture=Samsung&promoid=1009

Would be comparable?

Yes, that laptop would be great. I would get that over the other ones that I mentioned as that seems like the best value atm
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