2012-12-29 15:02 UTC
tl;dr - New laptop, ready to get back into things, I'm pretty much as active as a chipmunk again.
Not really that big of a deal since CSGO servers have been about dead lately, but other than periodically checking the forums, for the last month or so, I have been fairly inactive, mainly due to my old shit dell with an integrated ATI card finally giving up the ghost. It's still usuable, but almost everything is broken. The right hinge, the touchpad, sound card and ports, a couple usbs, network card, I could go on forever. Not to mention I got about 25-35 FPS on lowest possible settings on CSGO and not much better on source.
So, I've been saving up for a while, and shelled out on a cyber monday sale on an HP dv7t quad, the highest performance laptop HP offers (Would have gone custom, but just too expensive), It was about a $2600 laptop that I got for around $1800.
Why a laptop, you may ask? Because not only do I like the convenience of being able to use it anywhere, I am at a university and need it to go from class to class.
So far, it's amazing; it's taken everything I can throw at it so far; Ran at about 110-120 fps on GO with full settings (8x anti-alias, 16x anisotropy, full textures, etc). I then decided to turn triple buffered v-sync on to reduce the horizontal tearing, and that limits it to 60 fps, but that's fine; most displays (including mine) only have a 60hz refresh rate (which is what vsync tethers its speed to; the refresh rate), and on top of that, the eye can only percieve about 58-62 fps, depending on the person.
For those of you wondering about the specs, here:
1 TB 5400rpm HDD (Faster rpm really doesn't do much, so I really dont care that its only 5400)
i7 3rd gen cpu, @ 2.7ghz base, can safely and automatically overclock/boost up to 3.7 ghz.
16gb DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce GT 650m GPU, with 2.0 GB DDR5 video RAM
Fancy HD or whatnot Webcam
Stereo Mic
Beats audio with 4 speakers and 1 subwoofer (Really could care less about the beats brand logo all over my laptop, is really overrated; just came standard)
Backlit Keyboard
4 USB, 1 HDMI 1 RS232 Ethernet, Headphone/micport, and a Bluray player and writer.
Fingerprint scanner
Full HD anti glare 1920x1080p display
Windows 8 (D: Virtually unusable without buying Start8; if you are looking into an upgrade from win7, STAY WITH SEVEN.
That's pretty much it; hope to see you all in game.
Not really that big of a deal since CSGO servers have been about dead lately, but other than periodically checking the forums, for the last month or so, I have been fairly inactive, mainly due to my old shit dell with an integrated ATI card finally giving up the ghost. It's still usuable, but almost everything is broken. The right hinge, the touchpad, sound card and ports, a couple usbs, network card, I could go on forever. Not to mention I got about 25-35 FPS on lowest possible settings on CSGO and not much better on source.
So, I've been saving up for a while, and shelled out on a cyber monday sale on an HP dv7t quad, the highest performance laptop HP offers (Would have gone custom, but just too expensive), It was about a $2600 laptop that I got for around $1800.
Why a laptop, you may ask? Because not only do I like the convenience of being able to use it anywhere, I am at a university and need it to go from class to class.
So far, it's amazing; it's taken everything I can throw at it so far; Ran at about 110-120 fps on GO with full settings (8x anti-alias, 16x anisotropy, full textures, etc). I then decided to turn triple buffered v-sync on to reduce the horizontal tearing, and that limits it to 60 fps, but that's fine; most displays (including mine) only have a 60hz refresh rate (which is what vsync tethers its speed to; the refresh rate), and on top of that, the eye can only percieve about 58-62 fps, depending on the person.
For those of you wondering about the specs, here:
1 TB 5400rpm HDD (Faster rpm really doesn't do much, so I really dont care that its only 5400)
i7 3rd gen cpu, @ 2.7ghz base, can safely and automatically overclock/boost up to 3.7 ghz.
16gb DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce GT 650m GPU, with 2.0 GB DDR5 video RAM
Fancy HD or whatnot Webcam
Stereo Mic
Beats audio with 4 speakers and 1 subwoofer (Really could care less about the beats brand logo all over my laptop, is really overrated; just came standard)
Backlit Keyboard
4 USB, 1 HDMI 1 RS232 Ethernet, Headphone/micport, and a Bluray player and writer.
Fingerprint scanner
Full HD anti glare 1920x1080p display
Windows 8 (D: Virtually unusable without buying Start8; if you are looking into an upgrade from win7, STAY WITH SEVEN.
That's pretty much it; hope to see you all in game.
Oh, you play CoD, so you must be good at CS? Let's see how that works out for you.
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