Question on Laptop GPU

[Silencedelta]

I am a College Student that travels back and forth from home a quite a bit. A year and 3 months ago I bought the Asus G74SX with the specks in my signature. It has a GTX 560M 3GB. I run 2 screens 99% of the time. The thing I am interested in is peoples thoughts on how long this card and the CPU in the machine will last before I absolutely need to upgrade. No worries about burning them out I clean it every few weeks with air and the temps max out at 72C on full load. With the current graphics progression rate do you think in a year and a half it will still be able to play almost all games and most on medium. Right now it Plays most games on medium if not better, I can get 30-45fps in SC2 on ultra, most things run 30-60 on high, the only exception was Crisis 3 witch ran at 30fps on low if I put it any higher it stayed at 30 but would get frame dips... but it looked better then most games on high still. In a year and a half I will have the money to upgrade to a solid high end rig but for the moment I need the mobility 

 

Do you think I will be able to have acceptable graphics till I can upgrade.

[vkadurin]

If you don't turn AA on and keep the details on low or medium where possible, i think you will be able to make through this year and a half. But there is no guarantee. Maybe you won't be able to play some yet to come AAA games that will be as demanding as Crysis 3 is now. 

[Levent]

as i read from the internet GTX560M is soldered to your motherboard you have 2 options

1-) you overclock that card with afterburner

2-)you can use ghetto way and buy a pc graphics card if you have onboard pciE connector on your motherboard

[Morfy]

as i read from the internet GTX560M is soldered to your motherboard you have 2 options

1-) you overclock that card with afterburner

2-)you can use ghetto way and buy a pc graphics card if you have onboard pciE connector on your motherboard

That solution is pretty expensive and it will kill his mobility a bit, but is a very good way to throw horsepower at your laptop, i can confidently say that you will make it through the next 2 years no problem.I still have an old Acer laptop, and my brother just finished Metro Last Light on there, it has an i3 and an ATI 5470 with 500 mb of vram, so you'll be fine, this laptop has 3 years of usage, and yes, you can overclock your GPU no problem.

[Silencedelta]

Thanks for the Comments and reassurances :) I don't expect it to be a perfect experience but if its functional I find it acceptable. That's the reason I dropped a lot on the laptop in hopes it would get me through till the end of college. 

[Guest Gazzer96]

I am on the same path as you; I have a Dell XPS17 and it has 3GB 445M. It can play most games at next to highest at like 20-40 fps and it can run off two monitors (but I am not going to with gaming), but it is stating to struggle and I do need a new tower.

 

I would recommend a getting a proper PC if you can.