A computer to run beamng

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by Guydude, May 2, 2017.

  1. Guydude

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    I know this might be a repetitive question and I'm sorry if I'm contributing to the massive hoard buuut... I'm looking for a laptop under $600 that could of course run beamng. I had an HP pavilion with a 8gb ram and a 1.8ghz quad core processor that's all I know about it (I know I'm not very educated when it comes to computers) I played beamng on it for a couple of months on the lowest settings and disabled collisions and worked great... until I got windows ten. Then my computer got really slow and often crashed I sent it to a computer shop to fix it and when I got it it worked except for the fact that I couldn't play ANY game on it. Bottom line if anybody could recommend a laptop under $600 that is capable of running beamng.drive on normal settings that'd be great thanks.
     
  2. BombBoy4

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    Good luck, those things aren't common, if they even exist. Either:
    1. Get a PC instead of a laptop
    2. Up your budget a few hundred
    3. Keep looking, but no guarantees.
     
  3. Mr_Awesomeness12 2

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    dont buy a laptop, get atleast 8GB of ram 750 and i7 i5 is also posible but not as good
     
  4. BombBoy4

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    750? As in, GTX 750? No. Go for atleast a 750Ti if you can.
    But I'm not sure if he/she can get a PC, he/she might travel a bit, making a PC worthless.
     
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  5. Mr_Awesomeness12 2

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    Bomb you are right with traveling you cant use a desk top so that would be useless as you said sorry
     
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  6. holographicdreams

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    I know lots of people that hesitate to get desktops because they're afraid that desktops are too complex for them.
     
  7. BombBoy4

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    Why are desktops complex? It's expensive Legos.
     
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  8. holographicdreams

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    Things like it being to hard to setup, cable management, not enough space, and not having enough surge adapters
     
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  9. Rolph

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    If you want a cheaper laptop which is at least going to be useful in modern games with okay settings, this is the thing: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/acer-aspire-vx-15-gaming-laptop,5002.html
    The bottom end version is 799$ and it is a good price for what you get.

    But at 600$ range I doubt that you can find a new laptop, which will run any games normally. In that range, there are mostly models with 940m/940mx graphics(maybe even 950m, not sure about that) and usually paired with some dualcore hyperthreaded i5. Well, that can run BeamNG somehow, but I wouldn't say that it is an enjoyable experience.

    I have a laptop with i5-5200u and 840m graphics and 4gb of RAM and 1366x768 display. Low settings , around 25-30 fps on maps with more vegetation. More than 2 vehicles and things start going choppy.
     
  10. Guydude

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    To answer some questions. the reason I want a laptop is because I live in a 900sq ft house with my parents and a home business, so as for finding space for a pc, that would be nearly impossible. and I do travel a few times a year so the size and portability of a laptop would really help there, and as for the price I'm checking out laptops refurbished on Groupon so price wise I could do fairly good. so there a couple things to work with sorry I didn't get back to everyone earlier.
     
  11. Michaelflat

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    I will keep you guys posted, on Wednesday my sister gets her Clevo laptop, I will find the US $ of it but its pretty cheap for the spec, its got a GT-940MX (GDDR5 , the memory type makes a difference) and Core i3 7100H (not the 15W U version) it will run BeamNG.drive at 60fps with low settings (not lowest) @1080p but I think that you would be better off running at medium/higher @720p
    Acer Aspire E5 is good for the money (low power CPU tho, but is roughly equal to the Core i3)
     
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