Looking to buy a Laptop

[cpullins]

Hello, i have been searching to find a decent laptop that can run PSO2. I have found a few from ebay, Bestbuy and newegg but just cant seem to decide on one.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Pavilion-...item416755c48b


http://www.ebay.com/itm/280905281277...84.m1423.l2649


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP---15....=1218631400987

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834246308


I can only afford around 400 dollars right now and kinda only looking for a laptop.
Suggestions will help too.
Thanks

[Aeris]

Make sure it says dedicated/discrete video ram before buying one and might want to avoid getting a intel based intergraded gpu one too.

For the laptops showing, i rather go with the top one since that one has a i5 with a better cpu than that quad core AMD one since it might be 1.6 or 2.0Ghz, the last two has intel intergraded gpus which might have to set everything on low settings.

[cpullins]

Thank you, was getting a little confused. Wanted a new laptop but all the new laptops i searched had integrated, then i started looking for dedicated graphics cards and it seems to go over my limit unless i buy one used.

[ProphetOfTears]

The Lenovo with 6650 is the best of that bunch.
At that price, you can get a discrete (like dedicated) graphics card, but it will require hunting around and it may not up to so much. Low seetings and some framerate issues in some games. Shame you can't go up to 900 bucks as Lenovo have an awesome deal on right now with a great gaming laptop for that price.
Still, for 400..try to get a Radeon 5650 or 6650, or a GT540 or 630. This would be lucky, though and likely refurbished.
This site
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Rad...M.41143.0.html
has a list on the right to help out. The radeon 6550m I've linked there is good for a lower priced laptop too.

If you can go to 500, or 550, your options open up. I wouldn't recommend any lower than a 5650 if you can, though, as I have one of those and it runs things so well, but is starting to be pushed, and often I get similar performance on low or high, so can't improve , say, Spec Ops the Line by dropping details down; it still runs jut under playable rates.
So using that site I just linked for you, check any gpus for fps in games you want to play.

I've tried looking but baragins are hard to find for 400.

500 gets you this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834246328

The same, I believem, as the refurb in your list.

The cpu is weaker, but I don't know if it will bottle neck you too much. Most games are GPU dependant. Still....

If you get the refurb and it has a warranty for 1 year...may be your best bet. Research that cpu for bottlenecking, though.
Good luck.

[Clessy]

Just throwing this out there. The only intel integrated chip thats even remotely decent is the HD4000. Avoid anything else like the plague if you wanna do real gaming

I mean you could get a i7 turbo with hd 3000 and just brute force a lot of games but, a more balanced pc is better. Your cpu is probably one of the least important components that people always seem to want to over buy in.

Its all about your gpu and balancing each one of your parts in your pc to work well with others.