Is this laptop good for gaming?

Hi! I wanted to buy a new laptop.. I'd use it also for gaming, also recent games. I'm about to buy this Asus A53SV-SX487V. For 579 euros it's ok I guess, what do you think about the graphic card? Thank you in advance.

Processor: Intel CoreTM i5-2410M (2,30 GHz with Intel® Turbo-Boost 2.0 up to 2,90 GHz, 3 MB Intel® Smart-Cache)

4 GB DDR3-1333MHz (1x 4096MB)

Hard drive: 640 GB S-ATA, 5.400 rpm

Nvidia GeForce GT 540M with 2 GB DDR3 VRAM

 

The 540M is not a strong gaming GPU if you want games to max out at 1080p. If you accept gaming at 720p at medium settings then you are fine.

 

It is good for any game made atleast 1 year ago but within two years you will be at the dreaded minimum requirements state as I am now

 

lol he said exactly what you should know. medium 720p

 

depends on your standard. i would say 540m is only good if you play older games on lower settings. i cant manage to play sc2 ladder on 19*12 on lowest everything even with a big oc. it just drops to 15-30fps in fights and if i cant micro i lose and i dont like losing so i just dont play lol

 

Something is wrong with your computer.

I run it on Ultra at around 30-50 FPS and I have a 6750 + i7 2720.

I used to run it on medium-high with a GT 330m + i5. 30+ FPS. (That computer broke).

My resolution is not 1080p (900p), but it shouldn't make that huge of a difference (i.e unplayable).

Starcraft 2 is pretty low on GPU requirements its more about CPU. You should be able to run it on low/medium with just an i5 or an i7. I've seen people run it at medium with a Sandy Bridge i5, and it has good FPS even in large battles.

SC2 actually ran on a computer witha 2ghz AMD dual core + 8200 GS. I could play campaign + 1 v 1/2 v 2 games, but I had the micro trouble in large fights. However.....that is with an 8200......integrated card.I would get like 3-25 FPS on that computer, on lowest settings with res slightly below 720p. But 3 v 3 and 4 v 4 were "unplayable".

 

id like to see a screen shot of ur 6750m running it on ultra and having 50fps.

i get 9k in 3dmark06 after oc.

you either have really low expections and is bad so you dont mind low fps.

 

No something is legitimately wrong with your computer if you can't run SC2 on low. Starcraft 2's low setting is designed to be playable on computers that can run Warcraft 3 (or its almost that low). If you look at the low setting in SC2 it basically looks like what SC2 would have looked like 4 years ago. Blizzard designed the low setting to run on barebones computers with pretty bad hardware. Like I said, I was actually able to run it on a computer with an 8200 GS. Not well, and barely playable, but it ran and I got 10 + FPS in campaign.

I said 30-50 FPS with 50 being absolute max I've ever seen. Anyways, I just double checked and on Ultra I was getting 36 on Spawn. For some reason my FPS is lower near the spawn area, but 36 is great. My experience in SC2 is that since my GPU is what is weak if my computer can run it on spawn it can run it in a 4 v 4 because the 4 v 4 is more CPU dependent and my CPU can handle it.

On high, I got 50 FPS. High looks about the same as ultra in SC2.
Settings:


Ultra:


High (just default "high setting")


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Anyways I looked up your CPU I thought it was an i5, but its an i3. That might affect it, I know you can run the game on low/medium at 30+ FPS with just an i5, but I don't know about an i3. I would assume you can run the game on low fine with an i3 considering how much a drop low is over medium. Anyways go here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-540M.41715.0.html......from what I can see your issues are not common with the GT540 and SC2. Maybe you have a virus.

For my card they have this: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6750M.43958.0.html and they say its medium, but its wrong for sure because they only tested it on high with a really bad CPU. My CPU + GPU gets 4* the FPS on low (they have a comparison), and because SC2 is CPU dependent you can definitely run it on high, and ultra is for people who are cool with some dips to 25-30 FPS. But very rare in my case, and I run it at 900p not 1080p so my FPS is higher. (The 17" MBP has a 1080p screen, mine is only 900p, and it has the same specs as my computer). They got 24 FPS on ultra, going down to 900p boosts you up over 30FPS.

 

is that 9k at 1366*768 or 1280*1024

anyway I don't understand the point of playing the latest games, whenever I look for a gaming PC I consider that I will only play games from a at least a year before the parts were released. That way i'm never disappointed. When I got my laptop in my sig in late 2009 I was happy with it because it was relatively cheap for a gaming laptop back then and it could play the latest games at medium and high detail for most 2008 and older games

 

36 fps at starting screen and u call that playable? i get 90fps on starting screen with everything on lowest 19*12. and when any fight that involves more than 20units it drops way down.

the 9k is on 1280*1024. im using a external 19*12 monitor. also i didnt buy this laptop to play this latest games. i was just saying that it cant.

 

xfiregrunt might be talking about when he's at the zerg spawn. that creep really lags some ppl for some reason.

i'm currently playing SC2 @ 1080p on ultra/ultra. according to SC's FPS monitor, my FPS stay around 60-50 all game. what's the highest FPS anyone has seen from that SC2 FPS monitor? i don't think i've ever seen a number higher than 60. i've yet to check my FPS with a 3rd party program though.

 

he was terran as you can see from the screenshot.

sc2 fps monitor goes above 60 maybe you just have vsync on.

 

I don't understand the point of not wanting to play the latest games...

 

Using the 540M @ 1920x1200 is silly. Of course you get extremely low fps, using a 1280x720 GPU at such a resolution.

 

This x1000000. Why would you ever want to buy something if you can't even play the games that are already out. That sounds pretty asinine to me.

So that means you won't play any games from a year before your laptop hardware was made or any future games. I bought my laptop specifically waiting to max out future games (GW2 in particular).

 

do you not see what im trying to communicate to the OP? he wanted to know if the 540m was enough for gaming. im saying no.

i bought my laptop mainly for school. and the occasional hon game which it runs fine at 19*12.

 

No my FPS never goes below that.

My GPU is much weaker then my CPU. Because of this I can handle large battles just fine, I don't get any drops in FPS in large battles. Maybe because your GPU is much stronger you have a large drop in FPS. But I have no drop in FPS in large battles. Unless I get something like that desert storm with 1000+ units in the middle I run it at about the same FPS level all of the time.

And I was getting 50 FPS on high...

Like I said SC2 low is designed to run on basically nothing. If you have an i3 + 540 and it is unplayable something is wrong, and its not with what your computers specs are.

 

But the answer is clearly yes, at the right settings and resolution.

 

ok not going to bother arguing with you guys anymore. but the op will be disappointed if he buys that laptop for gaming.

 

This I agree with. It *can* play games, at the proper resolution and detail. But I wouldn't buy it if you are a hard core gamer or buying it primarily for gaming.

 

If that's the best GPU his budget affords, what can you do?

 

nevermind, can't find it.

 

The the question is, is there a better laptop for < 600 Euros that can best this machine for gaming?

 

Yes, there is. Newegg.com - Recertified: HP Pavilion dv6-6135DX Refurbished Notebook AMD A-Series A8-3500M(1.5GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 640GB HDD Blu-Ray Drive AMD Radeon HD 6750M

 

Turliin in outside of NA. Is the cheap DV6 available in Euros?