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Ultrabook - Sony VAIO T Series [SVT13112FXS]
Tatsujin:
First time buying a laptop. Amazon - Newegg.
I didn't get this laptop from either of the mentioned sites. I got it from Wal-mart for 598 USD, and I got that reduced below 540 dollars (60.xx+ discount). Once again, this is my first time purchasing a laptop - I did a layaway for it and I can get it in 2 months.
I'm looking at the memory and it's a DDR3 @ 1333MHz and I can expand that to 8 GB rather than staying with 4 GB. Which type of memory do you guys recommend? As for the graphic capabilities, it has the Intel HD Graphics 4000 from the processor. How good is it?
Thanks. I may have more questions later on. I just came from work.
Saras:
Integrated graphics are integrated graphics, you won't have issues while surfing the web or watching movies. But those are the specs for a work computer, it will work perfectly for that, but gaming, encoding or rendering shouldn't be considered.
I can see very few applications, wherein that laptop would use up 4gigs of ram, it isn't speced up for those jobs. It's not impossible to saturate the suggested 8 gigs, but it's unlikelly. I'd save my money and keep it at 4gigs.
rostheferret:
^Internal graphics cards are getting surprisingly good these days. Granted, the i5 won't hit these specs but it looks like Skyrim will be playable. Don't go expecting it to play the latest and greatest or on the best settings, and it should run most games a year older or more without issue. Agreed on the RAM though I've never hit 4GB gaming or not...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,review-32428-5.html
Saras:
--- Quote from: rostheferret on September 17, 2012, 04:45:58 AM ---^Internal graphics cards are getting surprisingly good these days. Granted, the i5 won't hit these specs but it looks like Skyrim will be playable. Don't go expecting it to play the latest and greatest or on the best settings, and it should run most games a year older or more without issue. Agreed on the RAM though I've never hit 4GB gaming or not...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,review-32428-5.html
--- End quote ---
Getting there =/= there. Skyrim is a game that's mostly cpu relient. While the HD4000 could run it on low, that CPU won't.
kitamesume:
based on the link you just quoted, an even slower CPU llano A8 is scoring higher than an i7-3770K on skyrim, think again that skyrim is CPU heavy.
do note that we're talking CPU+IGP. also with that mindset of yours, with a mobile i5 being about the same as a desktop i3, you're saying that a mobile i5 will not play skyrim then as far as logic goes a desktop i3 is junk.
say hi to skyrim on a celeron
--- Quote from: Saras on September 17, 2012, 04:25:15 AM ---Integrated graphics are integrated graphics, you won't have issues while surfing the web or watching movies. But those are the specs for a work computer, it will work perfectly for that, but gaming, encoding or rendering shouldn't be considered.
I can see very few applications, wherein that laptop would use up 4gigs of ram, it isn't speced up for those jobs. It's not impossible to saturate the suggested 8 gigs, but it's unlikelly. I'd save my money and keep it at 4gigs.
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which year are you living on at the moment? intel HD4000 is on par with a GT520m, which is completely capable to game at 1366x768res low although 30+FPS, this is on mainstream games like metro2033 or BF3.
as far as encoding goes last time i checked intel did it the fastest, with intel quick sync.
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