Skyrim performance on a 6650M/6750M

My friend is buying a laptop, and the only real gaming he is going to be doing is playing skyrim. How would a 6650M or a 6750M fair? I was thinking maybe medium at 1366x768? That would be his native res. He is just torn on whether or not to spend extra when all he wants is to be able to play it at console or better quality.

 

I would say yes....the 6650 will be fine.

I've heard of people playing it on a 520m.

 

I play it maxed @ 1360x768 with 4x AA, 16x AF, HD textures and many other mods on my 9800m gts 1gb @35-40 in exterior areas, 45-60 in indoors... If I had a 6750m on my hands who knows what kind of fps I could pull out.

 

With a 6750M it should be MORE than fine, since on the notebook check website has the same performance as my 445M GT.

I play skyrim with the latest nvidia drivers on high settings 8x AA, 16AF, 1600x900 resolution, with 35/40 fps, and no lag at all.

 

Skyrim is apparently very cpu intensive, and mid range gpu's are producing very good results. I play the game on high, 2xAA and 4xAF @1920x1080 and usually stay at or around 30fps with a 540m and 2670qm.

 

Well lol, that 445M sounds like about the same performance as my 560M... I'll look into that later. Anyway, the 6750M seems more powerful than consoles for sure. But as for CPU intensive, how would an A8 quad core 1.5/1.4GHz fair? I'm guessing OC is necessary?

 

No unfortunately is not similar in performance, I wish..

 

I assume you're talking about the GPU, not the CPU? Anyways, it must be something wrong with mine because i get 30-40 FPS in outdoor areas on high with AA turned down and textures turned up.

 

Yes, talking about the GPU.

According to this video, this guys can reach 45fps with my same laptop..
Well... I didn't OC yet my card..

Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim on Dell XPS L701x - YouTube

 

I almost bought a qosmio, and after having done a bunch a research one of the things I discovered was a throttling issue with all but 2 versions of the bios. The latest version, 1.6 I believe, solves the problem I understand. Being that skyrim relies so much on the cpu, any throttling is bound to slow you down.

 

I'm still rather unclear with BIOS'.. , but I'm pretty sure I have 1.2. And it's not that bad with Skyrim, but I get the same 30-40 FPS in TF2, which is totally NOT right... could you PM me more about this? Because I get playable but low frame rates in L4D2, TF2, and Skyrim.. maybe this has been the problem this whole time..

on topic: The A8 anyone?

 

The members over in the qosmio x775 owners lounge on this forum have said that the throttling issues that showed up in all the bios versions after 1.1 were solved when Toshiba rolled out 1.6 . You need to go to Toshiba's support website for your x775, and update to bios version 1.6 . No, your frame rates are not bad, but you paid for an i7 with a 560m for a reason; why not take full advantage of its performance potential?