Good laptop for <= 450$

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a laptop that can run games like Europa universalis 4, hearts of iron 4, and other paradox games rather well. I am ok with the setting being on low as long as there little to no frame lag. for all other purposes it just need to be able to run the internet at a normal speed. thanks for any help

 

*note if you have a much better laptop at 500 i can go for that.

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Currecny and location?

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3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Currecny and location?

america, north dakota (USD currency $)

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9 minutes ago, cookiethecrumb said:

america, north dakota (USD currency $)

Seems like a low budget. Mind going used? Maybe there are some skylake at that price new. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834266989

 

I have same config for my laptop  The above one

Does CS GO on low at 50fps

L4D2 at 30fps medium/high

 

So maybe fine. Though 400 is bit small 

 

HEre is a bit more to go with 6th gen. iGPU is better on that so gaming would be somewhat better (But less RAM)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R44D13149

 

Any i5 comes at 600 and more so you might not interested in that

 

Latest KAby Lake at 450$ with 8GB RAM, i3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9JJ5444104

 

This one has touchscreen and i3 6th gen. HAven;t checked other sites like Amazon or something yet. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R44MZ8123

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4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Seems like a low budget. Mind going used? Maybe there are some skylake at that price new. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834266989

 

I have same config for my laptop 

Does CS GO on low at 50fps

L4D2 at 30fps medium/high

 

So maybe fine. Though 400 is bit small 

 

HEre is a bit more to go with 6th gen. iGPU is better on that so gaming would be somewhat better (But less RAM)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R44D13149

 

Any i5 comes at 600 and more so you might not interested in that

 

Latest KAby Lake at 450$ with 8GB RAM, i3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9JJ5444104

 

This one has touchscreen and i3 6th gen. HAven;t checked other sites like Amazon or something yet. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R44MZ8123

I'm purchasing it for a friend who's budget is 400-500$ he wants Europa 4, and hearts of iron 4, as a decent frame rate ~30 he doesn't care if its on low settings. This is all he wants from the laptop. he also extremely prefers the price is in the 400 range, but if he has to he can buy it if its 500. (and as long as it achieves that goal he doesn't care if its refurbished.)

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1 minute ago, cookiethecrumb said:

I'm purchasing it for a friend who's budget is 400-500$ he wants Europa 4, and hearts of iron 4, as a decent frame rate ~30 he doesn't care if its on low settings. This is all he wants from the laptop. he also extremely prefers the price is in the 400 range, but if he has to he can buy it if its 500. (and as long as it achieves that goal he doesn't care if its refurbished.)

Those seems nice. The game you mentioned are not demanding and hitting 30 fps all low should be possible. CS GO is more demanding that all of those (a first person shooter) and I still manage 50 on low settings

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Those seems nice. The game you mentioned are not demanding and hitting 30 fps all low should be possible. CS GO is more demanding that all of those (a first person shooter) and I still manage 50 on low settings

well the problem with europa is it becomes very cpu intensive later in the game if ran at speed 5. i have two gtx 970's and a i5 4460 and i strugle with it later in the game. i dont expect him to compete with that, just aslong as he can hit speed 5 for a wile. and also csgo is a very refined game, so it cinda a hard benchmark compareison point. because you can run that game at great setting with a intergrated gpu if you have a good cpu.

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7 minutes ago, cookiethecrumb said:

well the problem with europa is it becomes very cpu intensive later in the game if ran at speed 5. i have two gtx 970's and a i5 4460 and i strugle with it later in the game. i dont expect him to compete with that, just aslong as he can hit speed 5 for a wile. and also csgo is a very refined game, so it cinda a hard benchmark compareison point. because you can run that game at great setting with a intergrated gpu if you have a good cpu.

the one with i3 6100u there? i5 starts at 600 sorry

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20 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

the one with i3 6100u there? i5 starts at 600 sorry

This look good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16834315422

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3 hours ago, cookiethecrumb said:

This look good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16834315422

oh how did you manage to find one even with dgpu. that is sick

get it