What's a Good laptop that can run 14?

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

No, of course not. But good luck playing more than an hour or two at a time before your laptop turns into a smoldering slab of semi-solid lava.

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Lol. Not true.

I have a Battalion 101 P151HM1 from iBuyPower and I can play the game just fine by turning down the settings just a tad bit.

the radeon hd7970 vid card runs this game like a champ, if you're willing to throw down that sort of money

60fps on max settings (amb occlusion off) in uldah

I got a ~500 dollars HP laptop with quad core amd and (sadly integrated) a8 vision graphics card. Game runs just fine on 8/10 on all settings. I just wish I had gotten some more memory with it.

I'm playing on an ASUS G73S laptop with an intel CORE i7 chipset, and nvidia Geforce GTX 460M graphic card. Game runs fine on standard settings. (also the laptop has twin fans, so it runs fairly quiet.)

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Originally Posted by Volsung

I got a ~500 dollars HP laptop with quad core amd and (sadly integrated) a8 vision graphics card. Game runs just fine on 8/10 on all settings. I just wish I had gotten some more memory with it.

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I also have a HP Laptop which can run the game on medium, not for big PT stuff tho, some of the content patches were brutal on it, i used a PC with a 5770 atm and some random quad core i5, runs game on high at 60 easily, 5770 is like 50bux now and u could get a phenom 2 for same price.

Can spend near nothing to run this game on high.

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

No, of course not. But good luck playing more than an hour or two at a time before your laptop turns into a smoldering slab of semi-solid lava.

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I can play for 10 or so hours a day if I wanted to. Sure it gets hot but most laptops shut down before they get to a certain temp. Also laptops are just naturally incredibly hot. Ventilation is a nice thing to have, you know. ASUS makes some pretty robust laptops.

I support the cooling pad idea for sure!

I have an i7 laptop with 8GB of DDR3 and a 460m and the game looks like crap. I can say that because I have a desktop with a 28" monitor and a GTX 580 which looks absolutely stunning. So really its in the eye of the beholder. If you've never seen FFXIV running as it should then you'll probably look at it on a laptop and think its really pretty nice. But.... its not.

As a sidenote, I can't even run the game on my desktop on 'high'. I'm not sure what people mean by 'high' but all the settings at maximum will pretty much choke any pc unless you have some 580/680 sli/trisli nonsense to throw at it

My mom has a HP Laptop here are her specs let me know your view.
AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M300
2.0 GHz
Windows 7 64-Bit
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

Depending on what you can recycle, you're looking at:

$100-250 for a motherboard
$180 for a video card
$150-200 for a processor
$40-80 RAM
$50-80 for power supply
$100 for case.

Motherboard, video card, and processor are the things most likely in need of a replacement, while the RAM, power supply, and case can usually be recycled.

Look around http://www.tomshardware.com/ for articles and comparisons. You'll want some mid-range hardware, no more than the prices I listed. I have a computer from a year and a half ago (was mid-range when I bought it, and I made it specifically for FFXIV) and it's still good enough to play everything on max settings.

What I have now:

MB: Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7
Video: ATI 5770
Ram: 8 GB
Processor: AMD Phenom II 945

The rest is all stuff I recycled (case, DVD drive, monitor, power supply, etc). It cost me $700 for all those parts.

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What are your settings in CCC, and are you running in FS @what resolution?
I can't for the life of me get consistent 60fps @max settings course I play in 1080P windowed but still.
My rigs in my sig.