Best laptop Specs

[abdull3593]

Hi everyone. Just wanted a second opinion.
What are the best specs for a gaming laptop for strategy games (like total war and frostpunk).
Currently I have
CPU: i7-7700HQ
GPU: GTX 1050
Ram: 12 GB

[Gabi]

Depends what your budget is. You can play all strategy games with that but in some games will need lowered settings and won't have the best fps.

[abdull3593]

Originally posted by Gabi:

Depends what your budget is. You can play all strategy games with that but in some games will need lowered settings and won't have the best fps.

How about these specs:
HP Victus
CPU: i7-11800H
GPU: RTX 3060
RAM: 16 GB

[TheAlmightyProo]

Originally posted by abdull3593:

Originally posted by Gabi:

Depends what your budget is. You can play all strategy games with that but in some games will need lowered settings and won't have the best fps.

How about these specs:
HP Victus
CPU: i7-11800H
GPU: RTX 3060
RAM: 16 GB

Pretty good and current. I'd probably go a tad higher, even for 1080p, with at least a 3060ti but that's just me... I tend to have longer upgrade cycles.

Edit: I'll go even further fwiw. Your initial specs are a little better than my older laptop (i7 4720HQ, GTX 970m 3Gb, 16Gb 1866MHz RAM) which ran Warhammer at about 30 fps average medium preset with tweaks. The latter specs you commented are a comparatively larger bit better than my newer laptop (i7 8750H, GTX 1070, 16Gb 2600MHz RAM) which runs the game at about 65 fps ultra with tweaks. That 3060 laptop will do better overall but to keep the average up and mitigate fps drops under load, high thermals and fan noise, definitely tweak the heavier settings and maybe cap fps a bit under the in game benchmark average for that. Finally, if it can run Warhammer 2 at 60 fps it can run just about anything at least to similar standards (but always run through and tweak settings) It's a shame TW games don't yet have DLSS (or FSR) as it would help a lot.

[abdull3593]

Well I only want a laptop that could soomthly play tactical and strategy games with no problems at high setting.

[Witski]

Go for the new amd certified gaming laptops, somewhat"cheap" and made for gaming,high refresh rate,free sync ,better cooling yada yada yada.
(from asus)
Go for 6700m or higher,i suggest a rx 6800m one,there are ones with nvidia cards aswell,be sure it have the "certificate" ,such as the lenovo legion etc.

(great for all other things you want to do with a laptop but butter in games over all).

Im telling you that because most of the times you find laptops with crap monitors and good hardware and bad cooling systems.

[abdull3593]

Originally posted by Witski:

Go for the new amd certified gaming laptops, somewhat"cheap" and made for gaming,high refresh rate,free sync ,better cooling yada yada yada.
(from asus)
Go for 6700m or higher,i suggest a rx 6800m one,there are ones with nvidia cards aswell,be sure it have the "certificate" ,such as the lenovo legion etc.

(great for all other things you want to do with a laptop but butter in games over all).

Im telling you that because most of the times you find laptops with crap monitors and good hardware and bad cooling systems.

So how about this one:
HP Pavilion
CPU: i7-11370H
GPU: RTX 3050 Ti
RAM: 16 GB

[Eldi]

I would always advise you do some research too.
Check YouTube for reviews.

People will give opinions but some aren't always right for you.

3050ti review.
https://youtu.be/FBL6skkk38Y

So this is saying 3060 is better than the 3050ti.


The Victus is a better pick from a CPU/GPU point of view.
But that's not to say you can't do better depending on budget.

[Witski]

Originally posted by abdull3593:

Originally posted by Witski:

Go for the new amd certified gaming laptops, somewhat"cheap" and made for gaming,high refresh rate,free sync ,better cooling yada yada yada.
(from asus)
Go for 6700m or higher,i suggest a rx 6800m one,there are ones with nvidia cards aswell,be sure it have the "certificate" ,such as the lenovo legion etc.

(great for all other things you want to do with a laptop but butter in games over all).

Im telling you that because most of the times you find laptops with crap monitors and good hardware and bad cooling systems.

So how about this one:
HP Pavilion
CPU: i7-11370H
GPU: RTX 3050 Ti
RAM: 16 GB

go for rtx 3060/ti -rx 6700 or higher less than that nothing is worth for gaming purposes really...cpu i advise to use the new ryzens 5000h

[Hieronymus]

I would wait and see how good or badly optimised warhammer 3 is. Warhammer 2 is very badly optimised and getting good hardware will not increase your mileage where it matters (big battles).

A SSD is important, if you can afford a 3060 then I would definetely go for that setup.

[Witski]

Originally posted by Hieronymus:

I would wait and see how good or badly optimised warhammer 3 is. Warhammer 2 is very badly optimised and getting good hardware will not increase your mileage where it matters (big battles).

A SSD is important, if you can afford a 3060 then I would definetely go for that setup.

Is not badly optimized,it's a cpu bound game, the more you go on ,the more units you add ,the performance will tank regardless on how good your cpu is,obviusly powerfull cpu's will manage more but there will be always a limit,we need a threadripper thinked for gaming and games developed to use it for that,which..will still be a long way.

Same for every cpu bound game.Actually im impressed with how some old cpu's manage this game with ultra size units etc.

[Hieronymus]

Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by Hieronymus:

I would wait and see how good or badly optimised warhammer 3 is. Warhammer 2 is very badly optimised and getting good hardware will not increase your mileage where it matters (big battles).

A SSD is important, if you can afford a 3060 then I would definetely go for that setup.

Is not badly optimized,it's a cpu bound game, the more you go on ,the more units you add ,the performance will tank regardless on how good your cpu is,obviusly powerfull cpu's will manage more but there will be always a limit,we need a threadripper thinked for gaming and games developed to use it for that,which..will still be a long way.

Same for every cpu bound game.Actually im impressed with how some old cpu's manage this game with ultra size units etc.

I have a I-9, this game is badly optimised. You can tell how bad it really is when you disable blood and see your FPS skyrocket.

[Witski]

Originally posted by Hieronymus:

Originally posted by Witski:

Is not badly optimized,it's a cpu bound game, the more you go on ,the more units you add ,the performance will tank regardless on how good your cpu is,obviusly powerfull cpu's will manage more but there will be always a limit,we need a threadripper thinked for gaming and games developed to use it for that,which..will still be a long way.

Same for every cpu bound game.Actually im impressed with how some old cpu's manage this game with ultra size units etc.

I have a I-9, this game is badly optimised. You can tell how bad it really is when you disable blood and see your FPS skyrocket.

you don't say....at this point turn off other options aswell.