GPU update

[ivailo95]

Hello this is my current laptop specs:
Windows 10 Home 64
8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor
Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (8 GB)
8 GB memory; 256 GB SSD storage

With this I am playing world of warcraft and I can feel the fps the task manager shows the gpu going up to 100% (not all the time)
If I update to this:

Windows 10 Home 64
8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050Ti (4GB)
16GB onboard memory; 256 GB SSD storage

Am I going to feel fps spikes on those settings? Am I going to be able to play on higher settings? Considering I am playing on recommended specs with little spikes. I was thinking of buying an external GPU but i need it only for WOW so if this is good enough I am fine with it?

[NelizMastr]

Well I could've told you a while ago that gaming on a laptop with Intel onboard graphics wasn't going to work well.

Shouldn't have bought that laptop for that purpose to be honest.

 

I'd say that buying a new laptop for an occasional WoW session is a bad investment, since you're not getting your old laptop's

investment back 100%. If your laptop has a thunderbolt connector (not just USB-C mind you, it really needs to be thunderbolt)

an eGPU would be the "cheapest" solution possibly.

[ivailo95]

Yes, it is thunderbolt. I got that laptop for coding, but then decided to play a little and it was fine. The laptop is new one and I want to give to someone. It is the absolute same model, but better specs so if the gpu will make difference its the better choice for me.

 

[NelizMastr]

Yeah it makes an enormous difference. The UHD graphics are meant to display Word and Excel and the likes, not play games.