Dota 2 on an ultrabook?

[Major Konkelbär]

My question is how good dota 2 would run on an Asus Zenbook, and if somebody with experince with Ultrabooks/Laptops has any inputs. Im going away to study and that means leaving my old gaming desktop. And moving on to a portable pc for my studies. I began looking at the big and bulky gaming laptops but was put of by their weight and size and god awful batteryLife. Then i found a Ultrabook with decent gaming potential. Whats your input on this Pc?

Specs of the UX303LN

*Display - 13.3, 3200x1800, QHD+ touch (It's to my understanding possible to get "good" gaming performance (Fps) on light games like Dota 2 if i crank down the resolution to 1600x900 ingame and use medium to high settings with low AA)

*Cpu - Core i7, 4710HQ, Quad core, 2 GHz, (Turbo 3.1 GHz)

*Gpu - HD Graphics 4400, Dedicated GeForce GT 840M, 2 GB, DDR3, 1029 MHz

*Ram - 8 GB, (1 x 4GB OnBoard + 1 x 4GB), DDR3 1600Mhz

*weight 1,45kg, 3.2 lbs (I wrote this beacuse im a little afraid of how hot these things would run under a gaming session beacuse of their small size. But maybe im getting old and the technology is advancing so fast that its not as a big of a problem anymore?)

I know that Dota 2 is able to run on this Ultrabook (It would even run on my 10 year old crappy acer laptop with horrible results intel hd graphics 2000 ftw) im asking if it is possible to get close to steady 60 fps gaming with it. I dont know much about the GT 840M but im hoping that anyone with real world experience could tell med their option on the Gpu since it is pretty new on the market. Im coming from a pretty beefy Desktop and have got used to a steady 60 fps gameplay and im prepared to tune down the graphics if needed to reach a steady fps.

[76561198065412717]

Nonononononono. Reason is Temperature. Best an ultrabook can is at 25-35 max on ultra settings. Even if you tweak them settings you can't get a steady 60 with a notebook/ultrabook

[Major Konkelbär]

Originally posted by Zuetonwing:

Nonononononono. Reason is Temperature. Best an ultrabook can is at 25-35 max on ultra settings. Even if you tweak them settings you can't get a steady 60 with a notebook/ultrabook

I think it could do better on medium setting seing as it has a Dedicated GT 840M and i dont se any benefit by doing ultra settings on a laptop since that alone makes the laptop hotter :). Not that i has anything agianst the master race, myself have tweaked Dota 2 on my desktop with Nvidea inspector to force some amazing AA and filtrering and i also have a beatiful Sweetfx custom shader that makes the colors richer and booming. With a rock solid 60 fps of course.

[76561198065412717]

Well, that could prolly work but there could be some slight dips depending on hero drafts.

[Major Konkelbär]

Back on track will I be able to play some light games like Dota 2 with my friends; it dosent have do be on ultra in fact it wont be on ultra :). But i dont want to be dipping below 50- fps alot in the bigger battles. Thats why i made this thread to se if anyone that have a similar laptop has tried it in the real world, I dont put to much trust in benchmarks since drivers and workload differs.

[Major Konkelbär]

I saw an review on this laptop think theres only one on the whole internet at the moment but the reviewer said that the gpu dont throttle and thats good, no fps dips beacuse of heat atleast :P. I think that i will buy this one it seems good for its size.

[76561198065412717]

Originally posted by meisterkoff:

I saw i review on this think theres only one on the whole internet at the moment but the reviewer said that the gpu dont throttle and thats good, no fps dips beacuse of heat atleast :P. I think that i will buy this one it seems good for its size.

That's good news. That's the only thing I'm concerned about.
Well, have fun. Hope the ultrabook won't fail on you.

[Major Konkelbär]

I thought to buy this one first
specs - ASUS G750JS

*Display - 1920x1080, FULL HD

*Cpu - Core i7, 4710HQ quad core 2.4 GHz, (Turbo 3,4GHz)

*Gpu - GeForce GTX 870M, 941 MHz, 3 GB, GDDR5

*Ram - 12 GB, DDR3 1600Mhz

weight 4,5kg, 9,9 lbs

It seems to have really nice perfomance for a Laptop but its not really something that you would want to carry around. Its "movable" not "portable". And the battery hold up to 3h, up! to 3h :( "facepalm". Whats the gamingtime on battery mode then 30 min? It seems that im very negative on this laptop but thats the only bad aspecs that i found about it it seems like the perfect gaming laptop at the moment for its price, you can always find better if you have the money ;). But i wont buy it beacuse of those negative aspects that i mentioned and I now that msi and razer have there offerings like the blade and ghost. But razer isn't available where i live (sweden) and the ghost seems to have bad battery time aswell, probably packaging to much performance for today's batteries.

[torteeque]

да все норм поц. сам играл пойдет

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i think it will be fine to play bro overheating is a problem but i think asus will be fine

[Major Konkelbär]

bump

[Ragnak]

i play this acc flawlessly in an office desktop i5-2400@3,10GHz (Intel HD Graphics 2000)
win7-32bit
4GB ram(2,92GB usable because of 32bit)
i think whatever you choose from todays laptops/ultras etc will be capable for dota2
you should pick it more for your studies needs if any...