There are a lot of options out there for $1000 and up that looked like they wouid meet my needs (decent i5 processor, decent graphics card, 16GB of memory). I am fortunate to have a decent gaming desktop, so I didn't need something that would do everything I needed, just decent performance at Ultra or a step down in Firestorm. I was hoping to spend ~$1200 (US), so I knew I was not going to get a killer machine, but I hoped to find something acceptable. So, as others have said, it would help a lot to know what your budget is, and what you consider acceptable (properly lies in the eyes of the beholder), but I went through a similar exercise a few months ago (maybe even a year now.), so I thought I would share.įirst, along the lines of previous suggestions, I personally started by googling 'best gaming laptops' and 'best budget gaming laptops' and so forth. In particular, do have a look at this, which refers to the total shambles that the LL System Requirements specification has become. Second Life can throw a graphics demand that will totally overwhelm all but the highest specs ones. *Forget the lure of a "Gaming Machine". Buy on specifications, not on flashy sales-talk! A lot of "gaming machines" are expecting to be running fully optimised graphics from the off-the-shelf games. * The quality of your internet connection is critical. Ok, not part of your computer's specifications, but don't expect good results over a bad connection. That's a pretty damned good specification, and it will still struggle with some scenes in Ultra graphics. With a cable connection to my modem/router, I can max out graphics and sometimes stay over 20fps. ![]() You can fry eggs on it if the fans and vents don't stay squeaky clean, and a cooler tray is a must! Maybe not as portable as I'd have liked, and its set me back around £2k in total. That's fine unless you need a laptop, as I do. I'm running a purpose built laptop with an i7 8750H (2.2GHz, 4.1GHz Turbo), GeForce® GTX 1070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR5, 32MB of RAM, SSD Drive 256GB (With only Windows, programs and SL's caches on it) and a 2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 2.5" SSHD for all the other junk that we need storage for. A glance through the first few pages of that forum will reveal several very useful threads of similar queries. ![]() all of this sort of thing has been well thrashed out on the (far more appropriate?) Technology Forum that Solo pointed to in post #2. The 600$ card is a 2070 super which is just the 3rd step on the high end product lineup.Īnd. In comparison the current top end RTX Titan is 2500$. Accounting for inflation that’s almost exactly 600$ in 2019. High end gpu prices are at an all time historical high and aren’t worth buying if you have any sense of “value in your build plan.Įxample, The Nvidia GTX 295 was a top end dual gpu card from 2009 with a 500$ price tag. The optimal budget gpu is generally considered to be an RX 570 since they’re like 120-130$ new or 80-90$ used. The current midrange gpu market is absolutely retarded with the 1650, 1650 super, 1660, 1660ti, 1660 super and a billion variants of each. ![]() RTX 20ti are still kinda uncontested but the upcoming Radeon 5800/5900/XT are supposedly going to fill that gap. GTX 1650 or Super or GTX 1060 3gb = RX 570 Unrelated to OPs question, as I tend to avoid these topics now and just suggest people go to the Linustechtips forum, tomshardware, Reddit or 4chans /g/ technology board if desired for the sub thread /pcbg/. GTX1060/1070/1080 for example (I don't know the Radeon alternatives), which are much less expensive anyway than the High-End graphics card NVidia RTX2080, for example MSI GT75 9SG-268 Titan (43,9 cm/17,3 Zoll/4K UHD) Gaming-Notebook (Intel Core i9-9980HK, 64GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD + 1TB HDD, Nvidia GeForce RTX2080 8GB, Windows 10 Pro) ![]() That's why I'd go with Lindal, because with a desktop computer, you'd get way better performance for less money invested.ĮTA: Here's one of the best Gaming Laptops (as far as I know of): That said, I agree that you'd likely want a designated Gaming Laptop with more RAM and a much better graphics card. However, I don't run Windows 10 on this laptop (because it is pretty resource hungry), but a Linux distribution (Kubuntu 19.10) instead - and I don't use Firestorm on it, because that would give me very low FPS. I have a cheap HP laptop (about €399 when it was new, 4 years ago) which I use when traveling to my family's, also with 4GB RAM and with integrated graphics only, but SL runs just fine on it (when using the Cool CL Viewer, on medium graphic settings, although with 128m draw distance).
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