wburton Jan 9, 2016 @ 3:19am
Should I buy a laptop with an Nvidia GT 540m?
I found a great deal on a i5 laptop with a GT 540m and I recently sold my worn out core 2 gaming desktop that I cobbled together with a bunch of used parts in favor of a new gigabyte Brix. It has an AMD a8 5557m. I have not played any games on it yet but it does not seem like its much of a gaming device. The most intensive games I own is Killing Floor 2/ space engineers and that's what I would like to play. I'm not looking into playing anything newer unless it goes on sale for a very low price. Is that card ok? Would that laptop be a decent buy?

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Alexalmighty Jan 9, 2016 @ 3:24am 
that card i doubt it could play much
SundownKid Jan 9, 2016 @ 3:25am 
Erm, no, I doubt you can call that a gaming laptop either.

You should consider just building a mini sized budget desktop as it will be half the price of an equivalent gaming laptop.
wburton Jan 9, 2016 @ 3:32am 
It is a 1gb dedicated card. I would not be looking high rest/ fps faster than the refresh rate. Just enough to get my gaming fix. What would be a minimum mobile gpu for those games listed above?
Alexalmighty Jan 9, 2016 @ 3:32am 
Originally posted by wburton72:
It is a 1gb dedicated card. I would not be looking high rest/ fps faster than the refresh rate. Just enough to get my gaming fix. What would be a minimum mobile gpu for those games listed above?
gtx 950m-960m if you want 60 fps medium highish
Glistening Jan 9, 2016 @ 9:18pm 
Guys, he's not a hardcore gamer. He just wants to play some basic games. Look at the requirements for Killing Floor 2: it certainly doesn't require a GTX 950m (lol)
Alexalmighty Jan 9, 2016 @ 9:19pm 
Originally posted by ><FISH'>:
Guys, he's not a hardcore gamer. He just wants to play some basic games. Look at the requirements for Killing Floor 2: it certainly doesn't require a GTX 950m (lol)
its ancient and even when it came out it was a poor computer
Glistening Jan 9, 2016 @ 9:37pm 
I wouldn't recommend that laptop either, but a 960m is overkill for what he wants.
NathaN Jan 9, 2016 @ 9:53pm 
i have an old laptop with that card and a 2.2 ghz I7. It will run basic games but you wont get hi fps or high graphics settings. It used to run arma 2 at 15-35 fps. Playable but not great.
Arma 3 was basically unplayable even at lowest settings so the tanks looked like they were from atari 2600. lol
wburton Jan 9, 2016 @ 10:08pm 
Originally posted by NathaN:
i have an old laptop with that card and a 2.2 ghz I7. It will run basic games but you wont get hi fps or high graphics settings. It used to run arma 2 at 15-35 fps. Playable but not great.
Arma 3 was basically unplayable even at lowest settings so the tanks looked like they were from atari 2600. lol

Thats dissapointing. I used to own a laptop with amd integrated graphics and it would run arma 2 well on low but at high temps. I think it had Radeon hd 6620g or 6480g graphics with only 512mb shared ram.
wburton Jan 9, 2016 @ 10:09pm 
:/ Mobile computers suck and desktops are big. Maybe I should save for a Alienware Alpha or rig up a egpu or something...
NathaN Jan 9, 2016 @ 10:11pm 
i havent fired it up in a while. ill run a few games today and let you know the fps. havent used it since i built a desktop
Alexalmighty Jan 9, 2016 @ 11:36pm 
Originally posted by wburton72:
:/ Mobile computers suck and desktops are big. Maybe I should save for a Alienware Alpha or rig up a egpu or something...
this is a noob trap alienware is very overpriced unless you have a lot of money to spare dont buy from them
wburton Jan 10, 2016 @ 12:20am 
ebay.
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wburton Jan 10, 2016 @ 12:27am 
Originally posted by Alexalmighty502:
Originally posted by wburton72:
:/ Mobile computers suck and desktops are big. Maybe I should save for a Alienware Alpha or rig up a egpu or something...
this is a noob trap alienware is very overpriced unless you have a lot of money to spare dont buy from them

You're right.
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