looking for cheap new laptop to game

[mrcaptain]

so im looking for a laptop that can play world of warcraft low settings for under 600 bucks. i havent been keeping up to date with technology for the past couple years so im looking for some help thanks!

[ShyguyXPC]

gaming and laptops generally don't mix.... Well.

Sure there's Alienware and others, but those are more or less Mobile Desktop systems, battery power can be drained in very little time.

for under $600 your not going to get much IMO.

Recertified: Newegg.com - Recertified: ASUS UL50 Series UL50VT-RBBBK05 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300(1.30GHz) 15.6" 4GB DDR3 Memory DDR3 1066 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce G210M

Newegg.com - Recertified: HP Pavilion DV7-2043CL NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T6400(2.00GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

Newegg.com - Recertified: HP Pavilion dv7-3160us NoteBook AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core M620(2.5GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530

The Latter 2 are probably your best bets, since the GPU's a bit more capable than the one in the 1st link, not to mention the CPU's are vastly better, and since WoW can be pretty CPU intensive, the more CPU you can get the better as well.

[adobetony]

have you looked into Acer?

[quickoldcar]

I was also gonna comment...."Is there such a thing as a cheap gaming laptop?"

I agree with shyguy.

For the record even if the laptop could play the game, it might not be very enjoyable.

[stroyal]

I also agree, Cheap Gaming Laptop is an oxymoron.
No such thing.
Even Gaming Laptop, is almost an oxymoron.
At least for the high demand games.

[nemowolf]

just throwing my two cents in ... CPU is the choke point for WoW. If you don't have the CPU you cant enjoyably play the game. period. This means that in general you will always get a sub par experience. Nothing worse then entiring a city and having your game crawl when you hit the auction house and other larger gathering areas so you can spend 15 minutes trying to turn around and zone out.

Gaming on a laptop should be equated to Solitare as my personal opinion.

[Jason_Borne]

If you want a laptop that will play just about any modern game then look for the compaq nx940 - I got mine on ebay for $275 with a docking station

Though its an intel core 2 duo @ 2.3 ghz or so it has a whopping 4MB L2 cache that will put away an AMD @ 3.0ghz any day (because most amd around 3.0 ghz have a total of about 2mb L2 cache on average)

It also comes with a removable video card but comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 @ 256MB video (dedicated). I play GTA:4 on it so you could play wow with ease. Probably on mostly high settings..

Oh and it has a 17inch screen, loud speakers, full keyboard, and even a fingerprint reader for security, w00t !

[ShyguyXPC]

Nevermind, aside from this pointless comment, its not worth my time.

Though its an intel core 2 duo @ 2.3 ghz or so it has a whopping 4MB L2 cache that will put away an AMD @ 3.0ghz any day (because most amd around 3.0 ghz have a total of about 2mb L2 cache on average)

CPU cache is NOT going to make that big of a Difference in gaming going from 2MB to 4MB L2 Cache, CPU Core speed, Bus speeds, GPU bandwidth, System RAM bandwidth/speeds, etc are all going to be more important and noticeable than 2MB vs 4MB L2 cache would.