If I upgrade my PC, it will certainly NOT be because of D3. Game runs fine on my 5+ year old machine. I am looking into a new graphics processor soon though, as I purposefully spent a lot of money on my MOBO and it's paid off, it is highly upgradeable. I recently installed another 2GB of RAM, 4GB is plenty for right now, I see a lot of people with 10+GB of it, that's overkill, and overcompensation for something.. probably.
oh man, i wish. i miss the days when i could just throw $ at a computer, instead of a wedding and a house. luckily our laptop broke down... *cough* all on its own *cough*, and we replaced it with a sweet little compaq that qualifies as a 'value laptop', but still has run everything from mass effect 3 to the diablo 3 beta without a hitch.
Intel Core i7-2670QM 8GB DDR3 Radeon HD6990m 2GB Seagate XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Disk
Should be all set now ;P
>gaming
>laptop
....No.
If you had any friends to game with, you might have been able to figure out the reason.
I have a work laptop that I use for that. And if I didn't, and I wanted to game with friends, I would bring my PC, as I have many times before, to LAN parties that we set up.
Good try though. Enjoy your overpriced, non-upgradeable "gaming laptop". If you were my friend you would be the butt of every joke slung at the LAN party.
Here's your 2 monitors, You'll have to excuse my war room (okay, its a guest bedroom but thats not fun to say), its a bit of a wreck.
Nice Horde sticker ;P I did the same thing with my current computer, may have to get another for the new one.
Haha yeah, I made that at work one day when I had some down time. I think I'll draw out something cool and diablo themed for my next case and do it flat black on black or something.
Nah, gaming laptops are pretty sweet imo. My current one can handle all the games I'm currently playing (like SWTOR, Skyrim, HoN, Starcraft II etc) and I always bring it to LAN's and such rather than my bigass desktop. Very convenient.
The only thing I don't like about gaming laptops is that they are a bad investment. If I build a desktop I can reuse things like my ssd, hard drives, monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse, case, power supply, and in some times even gpu(s) if i decide to upgrade. With gaming laptops you are stuck with, for the most part, what you bought it with for the life of the machine. And imo they are over priced, and that's hard for me to say about thing, as I'm always looking to justify a ridiculous purchase with my wife. (ie. the 30" Dell Ultrasharp I just bought)
I didn't upgrade only for diablo 3, but if you run with everything maxed, maxing out the graphical settings in the nvidia control panel, and using AO, I needed 580 gtx sli to maintain solid 120 fps, (I have 120hz monitors so that's the fps I require to be easy on the eyes.
Setup:
2600K @ 5ghz
Asus Max. Extreme IV
EVGA 580 GTX SLI
8gb Crucial Dominator 2133 Ram
Again this is on the extreme side but I run 3 Asus 120hz monitors so I had to get a motherboard that would support 3 cards (3rd is a 520 gt for physx and to run my 3rd monitor) and I like to watch streams/look at guides while gaming
First pick is the monitors, second is before I got my 3rd, but shows the desktop and part of my blizzard collection http://imgur.com/qLSGU,tvVxf#0
I am wondering how well my laptop will hold up against Diablo 3. I am planning to play on it on release day, taking a vacation, going to a friend's apartment and waiting for midnight. I will obviously be very much able to run the game, but I want to hear from someone who played the beta already how well will it actually run?
I do find it interesting that when people talk about their "system," 9/10 times they don't mention the monitor. In my mind the monitor is the most important piece of hardware. For gaming, speakers/headphones are a close second.
Dell U2412M here. Happy with the purchase, a slight step down from the U2410 in picture quality with a big step down in price. Would have loved to pick up a 27" or 30" but wife wouldn't have approved and I have limited space anyway...
For speakers I picked up the Klipsch Promedia 2.1--can't wait to rock the house (when the wife is away ) with DIII music/sound.
I do find it interesting that when people talk about their "system," 9/10 times they don't mention the monitor. In my mind the monitor is the most important piece of hardware. For gaming, speakers/headphones are a close second.
Dell U2412M here. Happy with the purchase, a slight step down from the U2410 in picture quality with a big step down in price. Would have loved to pick up a 27" or 30" but wife wouldn't have approved and I have limited space anyway...
For speakers I picked up the Klipsch Promedia 2.1--can't wait to rock the house (when the wife is away ) with DIII music/sound.
I have a 26 inch samsung myself with 1080 tv also.. I have had people tell me thats to big for gaming. mostly my sc2 friends. They say its proven bigger then 24 inch your play lvl goes down as you cant see the whole screen sitting at a desk.
They never showed me any proof of that but i do know i love playing on my desktop over my 17 inch laptop screen. I just need to hook my moniter up to my laptop lol.. desk top is a amd quadcore 3.4 ghz. Laptop is a sandy gen 2 i7 3.0 and runs circles around my desktop. both have 8 gig of ram and close to the same vid card. laptop is a bit better vid card
I did the same thing .. Back in Sept 09' I anticipated D3 coming out somewhat soon, so went all out and built a powerhouse. Here we are 2+ years later, and I still consider this a 'new pc' and it was built as an upgrade from my old one specifically for D3.
I do find it interesting that when people talk about their "system," 9/10 times they don't mention the monitor. In my mind the monitor is the most important piece of hardware. For gaming, speakers/headphones are a close second.
Dell U2412M here. Happy with the purchase, a slight step down from the U2410 in picture quality with a big step down in price. Would have loved to pick up a 27" or 30" but wife wouldn't have approved and I have limited space anyway...
For speakers I picked up the Klipsch Promedia 2.1--can't wait to rock the house (when the wife is away ) with DIII music/sound.
to adhere to your quote ill start by saying this, im gonna use my hdmi hookup from my pc laptop to my 55inch lg tv can you imagine what d3 would look like on an hdmi 55inch tv haha
I know it is gonna be perfect on my moth eye Philips 46". This tv has no reflection (I have it so I know what I say). Blacks are perfect thanks to it. Eyes don't get strained. It's a dream come true tv. But I would like to have in the feature OLED + Moth Eye + 2160p + 3D without glasses + 70" one. Need to start saving before such TV comes out
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I'm hoping the Hawk edition will be available at launch (March 19th).
Latest rumors have Kepler paper launch scheduled for March 13th. Exciting times if you are in the market for a graphics card.
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Audinst HUD-mx1 DAC > Sennheiser HD600
Razer Blackwidow Stealth mechanical keyboard (cherry brown switches)
Logitech G400 (just had to replace 10yo mx500)
>gaming
>laptop
....No.
I have a work laptop that I use for that. And if I didn't, and I wanted to game with friends, I would bring my PC, as I have many times before, to LAN parties that we set up.
Good try though. Enjoy your overpriced, non-upgradeable "gaming laptop". If you were my friend you would be the butt of every joke slung at the LAN party.
Nice! I like the short katanas.
The only thing I don't like about gaming laptops is that they are a bad investment. If I build a desktop I can reuse things like my ssd, hard drives, monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse, case, power supply, and in some times even gpu(s) if i decide to upgrade. With gaming laptops you are stuck with, for the most part, what you bought it with for the life of the machine. And imo they are over priced, and that's hard for me to say about thing, as I'm always looking to justify a ridiculous purchase with my wife. (ie. the 30" Dell Ultrasharp I just bought)
Any way that's just my take on it
Setup:
2600K @ 5ghz
Asus Max. Extreme IV
EVGA 580 GTX SLI
8gb Crucial Dominator 2133 Ram
Again this is on the extreme side but I run 3 Asus 120hz monitors so I had to get a motherboard that would support 3 cards (3rd is a 520 gt for physx and to run my 3rd monitor) and I like to watch streams/look at guides while gaming
First pick is the monitors, second is before I got my 3rd, but shows the desktop and part of my blizzard collection
http://imgur.com/qLSGU,tvVxf#0
Intel® Core™ i5-2410M (2.30 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache)
500gb 7200 rpm HDD
8 GB Kingston 1333MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6490M ( 1 GB dedicated GDDR5)
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.
Dell U2412M here. Happy with the purchase, a slight step down from the U2410 in picture quality with a big step down in price. Would have loved to pick up a 27" or 30" but wife wouldn't have approved and I have limited space anyway...
For speakers I picked up the Klipsch Promedia 2.1--can't wait to rock the house (when the wife is away ) with DIII music/sound.
I have a 26 inch samsung myself with 1080 tv also.. I have had people tell me thats to big for gaming. mostly my sc2 friends. They say its proven bigger then 24 inch your play lvl goes down as you cant see the whole screen sitting at a desk.
They never showed me any proof of that but i do know i love playing on my desktop over my 17 inch laptop screen. I just need to hook my moniter up to my laptop lol.. desk top is a amd quadcore 3.4 ghz. Laptop is a sandy gen 2 i7 3.0 and runs circles around my desktop. both have 8 gig of ram and close to the same vid card. laptop is a bit better vid card