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Hello i'm looking for a new computer (preferably a laptop) That can run starcraft 2 on max settings getting 50+ FPS

If this is not possible high is fine, if thats not possible medium is the BARE minimum

here's one that i found: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

here's another on i found: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
both of these look good if they're are not the best i can get please suggest another one.
Im starting to lean towards the laptop but i'm not sure please help!

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Raiddinn said:
I am sure you could probably do medium OK with the laptop and high OK with the desktop if you went with one of those.

I can't guarantee better than that, though.


Are you sure because Starcraft 2 isn't very graphics intensive more CPU so i thought to go with the i7 processor

dom8111 said:
Hello i'm looking for a new computer (preferably a laptop) That can run starcraft 2 on max settings getting 50+ FPS

If this is not possible high is fine, if thats not possible medium is the BARE minimum

here's one that i found: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

here's another on i found: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
both of these look good if they're are not the best i can get please suggest another one.
Im starting to lean towards the laptop but i'm not sure please help!


Also i was wondering around newegg and found a laptop looking very similar but 100 dollars cheeper take a look:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submi...
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This post on the SC 2 boards

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3870808524

has a lot of people that are complaining about the game being borderline unplayable on their i7 2.2GHZ processor laptops.

Just because something says i7 doesn't mean it is super awesome, by the way. In case there was anything unclear about that point.

This game can only use 2 cores, so you really want to have a processor with two cores that are much faster rather than 4 cores that are much slower. The i7 you are interested in has ultra slow cores. 2.2 GHZ is about as slow as it gets for new'ish Intel processors. Ideally you would want to be above 3.0 GHZ.

The i5-2430 has the same problem, being barely faster than the i7 per core.

No matter what laptops you get, they will have slow cores. That is just inherent to laptops in general. If they had fast cores they would overheat.

The desktops, however, have better fans for their CPUs and they can run their cores a lot faster.

A desktop with an i3-2120 or a i5-2500k would be a lot better than any laptop will do.

Raiddinn said:
This post on the SC 2 boards

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3870808524

has a lot of people that are complaining about the game being borderline unplayable on their i7 2.2GHZ processor laptops.

Just because something says i7 doesn't mean it is super awesome, by the way. In case there was anything unclear about that point.

This game can only use 2 cores, so you really want to have a processor with two cores that are much faster rather than 4 cores that are much slower. The i7 you are interested in has ultra slow cores. 2.2 GHZ is about as slow as it gets for new'ish Intel processors. Ideally you would want to be above 3.0 GHZ.

The i5-2430 has the same problem, being barely faster than the i7 per core.

No matter what laptops you get, they will have slow cores. That is just inherent to laptops in general. If they had fast cores they would overheat.

The desktops, however, have better fans for their CPUs and they can run their cores a lot faster.

A desktop with an i3-2120 or a i5-2500k would be a lot better than any laptop will do.


What about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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