How are you upgrading?

[DTPleeoswald]

Re: How are you upgrading?

I thought I could get away with having a nice gaming rig/something strong enough for the engineering software for my dorm and then take a cheap netbook to class to just take notes on and do basic browsing and email on. They then corrected me and told me I actually have to have a laptop instead so I can take my laptop to class to use the engineering software, not work on it back in my dorm. Therefore I need a powerful laptop instead of the powerful desktop/cheap netbook combo.

So should I drop the money on an Alienware gaming laptop or should I just try and find one that's comparable that meets the i5 and 6 gigs of RAM requirements?

[DTPleeoswald]

Re: How are you upgrading?

I think Alienware is way out of my price range and it's hard to find one with a big screen that isn't $2000+

Would this one suffice for BF3?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157639

But if anyone else has any suggestions/ideas the minimum requirements are:
Intel Core i5 Processor
6GB DDR3 SDRAM
500 GB Hard Drive
10/100/1000 Network Interface
Wireless 802.11g/n

And I'd personally like to have a Blu-ray drive.

[muffinmn100]

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899$ laptop isn't going to be that great. Go for the HP envy line if you want HP. For a good laptop that plays bf3 well your going to have to pay 1k+.

EDIT: Don't buy alienware, your paying for the name not the hardware.

[Vreki]

Re: How are you upgrading?

I think Alienware is way out of my price range and it's hard to find one with a big screen that isn't $2000+

You could have a decent sized monitor at home, and then just connect it to the laptop when you want to play.
Just make sure that the laptops external vga port support the monitors resolution.

[DTPleeoswald]

Re: How are you upgrading?

You could have a decent sized monitor at home, and then just connect it to the laptop when you want to play.
Just make sure that the laptops external vga port support the monitors resolution.

Not a bad idea. That way I could get one that also doubles as a TV and use it for my Xbox. I might go that route. So I can save a bit of money.

[alecs36]

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I had the same problem as you not too long ago before i started another semester at college, i needed a new gaming rig but also a laptop for when i was at class, i decided on this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214177&cm_re=Qosmio-_-34-214-177-_-Product

So far it's done wonders, i can play newer games like crysis 2 perfectly fine. Now i'm not saying that it's going to run battlefield 3 perfectly once it arrives, probably more towards the medium/low range to be honest (perhaps some high settings, i'll have to tweak it haha) but it will still run the game and you'll be able to have a laptop for college.

If you can afford a little more, this version has an i7 and 2 more gigs of RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214279&cm_re=Qosmio-_-34-214-279-_-Product

I'm very pleased with my Toshiba gaming laptop though, hasn't failed me yet.

[DTPleeoswald]

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I was messing around on hp.com today. Here's what I came up with and it's around $1400 (pretty much my price limit if I'm getting an extra monitor)

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/load_configuration.do?destination=review&email_id=2110162&jumpid=in_r329_emailconfig

I don't know a whole lot about gfx cards to be honest so can anyone tell me if this particular one would run BF3 well. I sent it to my uncle and he said I should look to see if I could find one with a better gfx card and he's a computer guru.

[signa]

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I've finally sorted my computer issue, so it looks like i can wait till the Sandy Bridge-E is out before i need to upgrade.

[WolfAlmighty]

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Hopefully I won't need anything more than a video card. Since BF3 is pretty much the only modern PC game I plan on buying in the near future (as I just found out first-hand yesterday that The Witcher 2 runs just fine on high on my system :thumbsup: ) I can't justify spending a king's ransom to play just one game. I have a lowly GTX285 right now so with luck a new card will have it running well.

That's assuming the game ends up being worth buying. We'll find out soon enough I guess. I'm flying down to SoCal for business on Monday...you think they'd let a lowly pleb like me sneak into E3??

[Amaranthuse]

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I think my rig is fine for now.

AMD Phenom II 965 stock
6950 XFX stock
4 GB DDR3.

Yup think I am good.

[5t3v0]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Just got my i7 930. Need the mobo, power supply, ram (going 8gb of ddr3. Current setup only has... 2gb of ddr2...) and a new grapics card. Its so sad to see my i7 stuck in its box... motionless...

[signa]

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Before anyone starts spamming BF3 minimum specs, the ones circulating right now are fake.

sorry but the #bf3 system requirements that some blogs posted are FAKE, we haven't announced anything yet

http://twitter.com/#!/repi/status/78157818745720832

http://battlefieldo.com/?p=1033

[SgtMattBaker]

Re: How are you upgrading?

i7 2600k
8gb ddr3 ram
And the GPU still deciding gtx570 or higher

[imported_Delta9]

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Hi Guys!

Well, back to Karkand i guess

But to this i also need an upgrade. My rig has a few years and my last upgrade was a 8800gts.

I have an asus m2n sli deluxe so after some reading im thinking in these parts:

AMD Phenom II X4 3,2 955
Radeon HD6950 2GB
8GB DDR2 800

So i question the experts: can i go back to Karkand?

Thanks guys :thumbsup:

[ExplodingSilver]

Re: How are you upgrading?

My system is mid range and can play BC2 on max, so i am assuming it can play BF3 on medium at least