What's a Good laptop that can run 14?

I'm looking for a good laptop to run this game can anyone point me to a link that has it. or has the specs able to hold this game?

The current client? You're looking at dropping $1800+ for an Alienware M17x or M18x and another $100+ for some cooling pads. It's a horribly optimized engine running on some ancient deprecated version of DX9.

Eww cooling pads sound like 14 will blow up a Laptop. How about a Desktop thats not 2k? but can run the game at high-Standard setttings?

What hardware do you already own? Monitors, keyboards, case, CD drives, etc.

I have 22 Inch Screen, Wireless Keybored Mouse. speakers and a old old Ailenware beileve to be Auroa. I can afford least 1500$ should that be euff to get a runable PC?

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.

I have a "gaming" laptop, and it won't run it unless everything is lowered until you can't tell what is going on :(

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Originally Posted by MoonKeeperr

I have 22 Inch Screen, Wireless Keybored Mouse. speakers and a old old Ailenware beileve to be Auroa. I can afford least 1500$ should that be euff to get a runable PC?

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Absolutely. ZAM has a ton of threads on building a PC for FFXIV. Here's one:

http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?foru...44493172432128

Otherwise, this should suit you fine:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...277091&CatId=6

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

The current client? You're looking at dropping $1800+ for an Alienware M17x or M18x and another $100+ for some cooling pads. It's a horribly optimized engine running on some ancient deprecated version of DX9.

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ITT we're in 2009

laptops come in with i7s and GT540s now. It's not impossible to play this game and not look like ass.

I'm playing on a HP HDX 16 laptop with cooling fans. I think the only reason why I can play is the large amount of v memory I have. Its not the best but I can play with the geforce 130 M graphic card just below standard because I fear my laptop will blowup in my face even with the help of cooling fans. the graphic card usually go up to 70ish degrees C which is a ok temp.

so anything better than this should do you good lol. but you cant go wrong with a desktop.

Please don't spend the money on an Alienware, you could get an equally good computer for a much lower price.

You can get a good iBuyPower machine for that price of $1500 that you've set as your limit. And to boot, they also have weekly specials where you can get free upgrades on things such as RAM, HDDs, and Free games and what-not. Just check it out at www.ibuypower.com.

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Originally Posted by Ruisu

ITT we're in 2009

laptops come in with i7s and GT540s now. It's not impossible to play this game and not look like ass.

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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.

Been running FFXIV on this, high settings np

Sager NP9150 - i customized the specs which brought it to $1400

it runs better then any Alienware in that same price range.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np9150-...em-p-4341.html

My roommate bought this laptop and it runs the game currently on standard to high settings. Not to mention the speakers are pretty awesome. For $1200, I was pleasantly surprised.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00713...4975663&sr=8-2

I'd honestly suggest going with a Sager Reseller over using Alienware like one person suggested.

I play FFXIV smoothly on my $450 Toshiba Satellite, stock.

You have to play on medium graphics and disable a couple things, but it looks good and runs smooth. xD

I see. Can someone please explain to me what is overclocking i don't plan on doing it. Just wanted to know

Short answer: supplying more voltage and making your hardware have higher clock speeds than factory defaults and factory recommended so you get more processing power at more unstable rates and higher temperatures.

Shorter answer: you don't need it.

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Originally Posted by MoonKeeperr

I see. Can someone please explain to me what is overclocking i don't plan on doing it. Just wanted to know

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http://www.xoticpc.com/

If you know you want it.

When you customize your computer with this site you can request that they overclock your computer for you, BAM no need to try and understand that confusing mumbo jumbo.

That's good to know. o.o; What is medium settings on FFXIV just trying to make sure to understand everything. I do play the game but only when i go visit my ex roomate and hang out. So i want my own setup tried of wasting gas to go and play XD

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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.

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Originally Posted by MoonKeeperr

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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I'd step up a tad, the vid card could prolly handle it, but in high traffic areas your gonna grind to a halt. But with your settings toned down enough ~5s across the board you can probably get away with it.

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Originally Posted by Bled

http://www.xoticpc.com/

If you know you want it.

When you customize your computer with this site you can request that they overclock your computer for you, BAM no need to try and understand that confusing mumbo jumbo.

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That's actually where I bought my NP7280 Desknote about a year ago.

If you don't mind a 17 inch laptop the ASUS gaming notebooks can run the game on medium settings for ~$1200.

^-^ Thank you guys for so much help best place to ask is always the forums of the game itself else where i'd get native replys.

This game runs surprisingly well through a remote client. If your tech savvy enough to set one up, i recommend giving it a try before shelling out big bucks on a restrictive platform.

I have no idea what you mean by remote client. So i guess i'm not. lol

need to spend big bucks on a i7 gen 2 with a nvidia 500 series graphics 2gb and you still wont be able to max the game out on a laptop, unless you get a top of the line alienware which which has more then any other laptop you can buy will run you way too much.
beware cooling in a laptop sucks and you may kill it before its time. i would guess the specs to run the game will be cut way down when 2.0 launches.

FFXIV runs very nicely on the Asus G74Sx. Its a solid system that can even play the game in 3D (which is totally worth it btw)...

Only spent $800 AU on a PC specifically to run this game (super awsm GTX360+RAM is capped and cooling optimized)

Wish this game would run on a laptop but its buggy enough on PC. Maybe 2.0???? *cross fingers*

Asus G74 laptop is what I recommend, plays the game really well and is not overpriced. Also can go to best buy and you can 18month for 0% financing on it as well. So if you cannot spend alot at once can break it down into $70-75 payments each month.

Not the best but for the price it will play the game very well. Cpu and Gpu both tend to only hit 58-62C when playing this game on a solid mid setting and for a laptop that is really on the coolside for a graphic intensive game.

I would avoid alienware completely honestly. The laptops are good but you are paying alot more for a name without really better parts or performance. I would take the increase in cost for the Alienware name and go somewhere else and buy a better laptop all together at the same cost.

If you have some money to spend a good Sager gaming laptop will be hard to beat, really powerful well built gaming laptops but it will cost you for it.

To crank the game to high on a laptop and play it really well... you are looking at $1800+ laptops.