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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Chalenge on September 03, 2016, 06:05:20 PM
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Has anyone got AH3 running well on a laptop? We have a squad guy going off to Korea on duty and he would like to have something to keep him in the game.
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I do. I'm running a 980m in my sager and it works well. I just use default settings but could probably bump some stuff up.
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They can put a 1080 in a laptop? Who knew?
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It's a 980m, which is comparable to a 960 in a desktop.
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Yes, however this is what I was referring to:
https://www.sagernotebook.com/GeForce-GTX-1080/
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Yes, I just read that both 1070 and 1080 are available for laptops. What's even better according to the article, they suffer less from the mobility than their predecessors, being only slightly slower than the desktop versions.
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That's one pretty crazy laptop!
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Scroll down to the bottom of http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/notebook#shop (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/notebook#shop), choose your favourite vendor and see the multitude of options available.
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I've got an MSI with a 1070 in it, you can find them for under $2k USD. I'd have bought the 1080 but they weren't in yet when we sold our 980 unit. MSI aren't anything special, but work well enough for a factory laptop IMO. SteelSeries RGB mech keyboard, 17" or 15" lcd, SSD, 1070 or 1080...any of them will run AH3 and most other games just fine. I run full settings with the environmental at 1 notch and it's pegged at max FPS on the LCD display on the notebook offline, I haven't tried it online yet.
I compared our 1070 6700Q to our 5960 with a Titan(older not the Pascal) before we parted it out, and it was at least as good FPS wise with every game we tried up to 60hz/fps.
Finding a used 970 or 980 unit should be easy now too, and cheap, I see them going for under $1000 Canadian all over right now since the Pascal mobile ones came out.
Scroll down to the bottom of http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/notebook#shop, choose your favourite vendor and see the multitude of options available.
Hey, my hometown vendor is now on that list, MemoryExpress, I've dealt with them since the P2 450 was king of the hill for a PC, they had one little 2 room shop in Calgary right off the TransCanada Highway going through the city. Now they have a dozen shops across Western Canada. I got my 1070 MSI laptop from them.
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I've got an MSI laptop too. I like mine.
It's Intel Core I5 4210M (2.60 GHz) with 8 Gb DDR3 and an 820M (2 Gb). $700 a couple of years ago. Although I never intended it to be a gamer I did test it in AH2 and it did fine so I suspect anything above about a 960M would do fine with AH3.
One thing to note with laptops is screen size relative to the video card. I had the choice within my budget of going with the 820 and a 15" screen or the 840 with a 17" screen and chose the 820 as it pushed more power per pixel than the other unit.