NP9150 General question

How would this laptop run for the occasional gamer for strategy and simulation games? Such as Civilization and the total war series? Also would it be better to spend the 100 on the graphic card or the processor?

 

Very well. Id say graphics as the cpu is very easy to upgrade later where as the graphics is more costly.

 

You'll see more of a performance gain for gaming by stepping up the GPU then you will the CPU.

 

So long as you have the 3610qm at least as your base cpu.

 

Agreed as long as its the 3610QM, i think most places have the 3630QM as the standard CPU on the NP9150.

 

Agreed with the others: very well.

Civilization system requirements

Latest Total War (Shogun 2) system requirements

 

Thanks for all your help! This is the model I plan on getting everything at the base except the graphics I am contemplating upgrading to the GTX 680M. Being a complete novice at this. If I am going to stick with the 3630 is there anything worth upgrading. Is the 680M even worth the upgrade?

 

Yes the 680m is a card that will remain relevant for a long time and offers oodles of tweaking in the future.

 

You're very welcome. It really comes down to the games you play. To play the most demanding games out right now and maintain good FPS on top settings only the 680M will be able to do that currently. If you go with that check out the Special Edition as it comes with the 680M as the standard GPU. I always recommend a SSD as the primary drive as well. You'll see a big improvment on how the computer responds to you. Programs/games start pretty much instantly and Windows boots much faster. Dont forget to add Windows as most Sager resellers dont have it by default.

 

totally agree about the ssd.

just for example
5400rpm - 35-40 seconds boot up time
7200rpm - 20-25 seconds boot up time
ssd (mine below) - 12-15 seconds boot up time
samsung pro ssd - dont blink or youll miss it

 

Lol, 12 seconds to the desktop is about the best you can mange, I have a single BIOS splash screen, windows logo and then the desktop.

 

but how many seconds Meaker, this is the question

 

This many actually

That's with a 4.2ghz I7 and a Vector 512GB.

 

Looks like Meaker got you beat by 1-2 seconds. Are you on Windows 7 MrDJ, that could be the reason you're a tad slower.

 

My machine also has the splash screens for network booting and Raid controller disabled.

 

tbh ive never actually timed it properly so it could be a tad faster.
me on windows 7 and also have finger print reader counted in that so me check later without finger swipe and with a stopwatch

that is fast thought Meaker.

 

I hate to wait around

 

same as me then.

i give up, you win.
i just tried to turn of my finger swipe log in so as to get a true log in time and its deleted the whole ruddy software except the authen tec website log in swipes which ive never used

DOH!

 

ahh the things we do to get faster speed

 

now that was a bit of a nightmare. had to do a system restore in the end as no matter what i tried i couldnt get the reader to turn on again.

ok deep breath and back to normality.

 

See what you created, Meaker?!

 

and i thought it was a simple driver.
somehow the restore has corrupted my avast internet security and it says i dont have a licence. software wont switch on now at all.

last time im ever turning anything off ARGHHH!

 

I should put a permanent tagline on any my videos and say copy this at your own risk lol, be it boot times or FPS

 

god knows what happened. couldnt turn fingerprint reader on again even after loading the drivers again. it opened the page where you can set up various website log ins using finger but the register page to link up to computer log in had gone.
done a system restore which brought it all back to working again but then i noticed avast was turned off and it wouldnt turn on. my 267 days left of licence was gone. tried the licence which said it was invalid. went to their website to request another copy of my licence and they said my email is not on their database so only way around it was to download the free version again and then enter my licence key which finally worked.

you win Meaker as my boot up time is now 37 minutes me goin to bed. night all.

 

Awww that sucks, I hope you get it sorted

 

will find out tonight mate as got a manic full day of blue light hospital casualty work today. oh joy.