Sharpie_Syndicate

The CPU intensive games are the ones with a crap ton of entities. So, a game with a lot of NPC's, for example, Skyrim, is CPU intensive.

Guys, guys. I specifically say that I require the keyboard to have Cherry MX Blue switches.

Corsair has MX Blue keyboards?

So, I've been itching for a new keyboard as I am still using a membrane. But I don't want to spend too much on a keyboard, because after all, it's only a keyboard. The only requirement is that it has Blues. I don't care about aesthetics, I don't care about backlight, and I don't care if it's tenkeyless or not.

Sleeping Dogs is VERY GPU intensive. It's a lot brighter than GTA 4, and the textures are much more high quality. There are also neon lights everywhere...

b1ack1otus, The laptop itself is a low end model. AMD V140 CPU. I'm not doing anything intensive. Mostly just Redditing or I'm on the forum. And it works for like, 10 minutes. And then I literally cannot do anything due to the performance decrease.

So, I have a Compaq Presario CQ56. I know, I know. Not a very good laptop. But recently it's been having this problem of slowing down after a few minutes of usage (more or less 15 minutes), to the point where it is unusable. At this point I can't even bring up task manager, so I'm forced to restart it. I've dropped this laptop a few times, but it hasn't shown any signs of damage. What could be the cause of this?

Tight budget, I know. I just desperate for and upgrade because I am still running a GT 520. I'm looking to play games like Skyrim (with the better texture pack, of course), and relatively new games (Dishonored, Battlefield 3) at max settings. I am looking at an XFX Radeon HD 7850 2GB card that's about $210. Do you any of you have suggestions?