My budget is very limited since I'm only 15, but I'll be working at summercamp this summer so that's an extra 2000 dollars. I'm saving as much of it as I can for car insurance though, and I found this laptop for around 500. It's a Dell Inspiron 15, I didn't buy it yet, but it fits my budget perfectly. It's mainly for school, and a few old games I love to play (especially Medieval 2:Total War) but I might want to buy Skyrim for it if I could. I probably won't be able to, but I'd consider it if my laptop met the requirements. (I'm getting it for the ps3 either way)

I understand it isn't out yet, but I've also heard that Beth is using an entirely different game engine than the previous FO and ES games. I'm not sure if this will raise the system requirements or not though. Anyway... here are the main specs:

Intel? Pentium? Dual Core? T4500 (2.3GHz/800MHz FSB/1MB cache)
MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
Genuine Windows? 7 Home Premium, 64-Bit
Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
High Definition Audio 2.0
8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)

Like I said before, it's sole purpose won't be for gaming.

Thanks

Why do people keep asking stuff like this? It isn't out yet how could we possibly know?

No..... just no, but to add to that,

processor - crap
ram - enough
OS - doesnt matter
Graphics - integrated..... really your asking if it will run?

But im not trying to be mean, just wait for the specs to be released like everyone else

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no. absolutely not. intel GPUs are barely even suited for running Aero on Vista/7, let alone videogames. even in the unlikely event that you manage to get the game installed, it wouldn't run.

integrated GPUs are not meant for gaming. take it from someone who played through Fallout 3 at 15fps max before he got a computer capable of maxing it out.

if you absolutely must play games on a laptop, make sure it's got discrete graphics.

what gpu would you recommend? I'm familiar with everything but these.

Btw guys, this post goes for all bethesda games in general. I prob should've just posted this on yahoo answers or something though :/

i'm personally rocking http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101230 (which seems to have been discontinued!) with a Mobility Radeon HD5650 and i can max out every Bethesda game at 30fps average (though there's the microstutter in Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but that happens on a lot of systems) and play most other games at pretty good framerates on medium-high.

i'm not expecting to be able to max out Skyrim on this, but i'll probably do good around medium-high, maybe with my resolution bumped down a bit. i got used to playing games at ~20fps on my old laptop so low framerates barely even faze me anymore, but it's still nice to get a good average speed.

it's the first laptop with discrete graphics i've had, so i'm not really very well-versed in the different cards, but if you're shopping around then categorically it's pretty much like desktop GPUs - low numbers for Facebook games, middle numbers for mid-range gaming, high numbers for enthusiast gaming. there's a couple other laptops on Newegg with the 5650 for decent prices (i got mine for $800 about eight months ago). NVIDIA's equivalent is the GT360M, i think, so if you want PhysX or just prefer NVIDIA it might be worth checking out laptops with that.

avoid laptops with Intel GPUs, they're pretty much completely unsupported by any game ever.

No it wont be able to. The intel integrated chip is far too weak.

The key is to look for a cheap laptop with amd or nvidia vid with built in memory. They were selling mine for 400 bucks a year back so its no longer sold.. but look for hp laptops as mine was cheap.. 400 buckls and yet plays fallout new vegas just fine mid details.. it has whats called an amd 4200 vid chip... By now they are likely selling something better.

I'll probably go for a refurbished product like I always do, so this HP is 520$.
Processor: AMD Phenom II 2.8 ghz, Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. Could this run games such as Fallout New Vegas? Everything else seems okay.
I'm also considering a refurbished alienwar m15x laptop

ehm. i only have an intel core i3 in my pc and i can run oblivion on medium graphics smoothly as well as Fallout 3 and NV, plus i just god DA 2 and it runs great, not really a master on pc hardware but intel isn't that bad

The i3 line is a remake of the Core series but with the features of the "i" series. Basically. Theres more to it but meh, not important to the average user.

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It should be better then mine actualy so ya id think that will work. You might even be able to use high textures on that one.

no.

might buy this one, could this run FO NV and FO 3?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Factory-Refurbished+Pavilion+Laptop+/+AMD+Phenom%26%23153%3B+II+Processor+/+14.5%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+500GB+Hard+Drive+-+Sonoma+Red/1492163.p?id=1218262981793&skuId=1492163

yes, though not overly well. Low-mid setting at best.

Don't buy any laptop/computer that you will use for gaming with a chipset. It won't do the trick.

I recently saw an amazing (sorta) Acer for only (meh) 800 euros. I'll try to find it for you if I can. (edit: was more expensive than I thought...)

But http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/laptops/352150/samsung-r720 is the laptop which I've had for a year already. I'm extremely happy with it, as it is able to run most games on high/medium-high graphics. Such as FO:NV.

Nope, not a chance, an Intel Integrated graphics card will not be able to run Skyrim.



Intel core i3 is a CPU (Central Processing Unit), not GPU (Graphical Processing Unit). The discussion is about Intel GPUs, not CPUs. There is a vast difference between the two and it's very likely you are probably using an nVidia or ATI GPU.

what about the laptop i posted a few posts above (the link)?

I'm getting skyrim for ps3 no matter what, but it would be nice to have a few games on my laptop as well.

I doubt that laptop would be able to play skyrim either, even if it's not Intel, it's still an Integrated graphics cards that's not meant to do much more then display the Operating System, it's power is highly highly reduced from that of a meaty GPUs you see inside of Gaming PC/Laptops or Games Consoles. I'd suggest maybe looking at a company that does do specifically gaming laptops, since a gaming laptop will handle simplier tasks but a simplier laptop will not handle gaming. Maybe http://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx?~ck=mn for example? They have a few cheap options now on the gaming laptop side.

*who are owned by Dell

The one alienware I could afford, the m11x, would have these specs.

these are better than the one in the link above? I'm sure the GPU is, but what about the CPU?

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SU7300 (1.3GHz, 800 MHz, 3 MB)
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
250 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz (2 DIMMs)
1 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 335 M

ty, i appreciate the help btw

"It'll do". One of the advantages of having a pure-gaming wing to something is that you pretty much can't buy an alienware that is bad, per se - but at the same time, you can't buy an alienware that isn't very expensive. If you're willing to go desktop, you can make significant savings and get much better bang for your buck, so to speak. If you're set on a laptop, though, it'll do.

I'm pretty sure my laptop has a 5650 as well actually, I could check to make sure but I am almost 100% on this. With an i7 CPU and 8GB of Ram added to the mix I think i can at least manage medium, depending on how well optimized it is. It runs Dragon Age 2 perffectly fine on medium (Which is equivalent to the quality of the 360 version judging by rough comparison).

It has the best chance of any laptop you are going to find in that price range right now of supporting Skyrim. I think it will handle it (tho I can not be certain of this), but I wouldn't expect high or even medium settings, it's very likely to be a low settings spec, since it's still short of a proper Graphics Card, but at least this GPU was meant to handle proper games in comparison to the GPUs on the other two laptops seen.

Thanks for the help, I'll most likely pick this one up. The only games I'll be playing on it are the Total War games (which can even run on the funky lenovo laptop I'm using right now). But, I might just pick up Skyrim for pc if they meet the requirements. If not, I'll get for ps3.

Thanks everyone

Yup thats definetly better then my computer and mine plays both those games rather well mid settings.

AH I see the alienware system... yup that will DEFINETLY be fine.