Hi.
I need to purchase a somewhat "good" laptop for gaming purposes. My needs are not particularly high, but I'm having a hard time finding info on which GPU I should shoot for.
To be precise, I definitely must be able to run one game in particular, which is Age of Empires II HD (with associated Steam running in the background), which shouldn't take too much resources to run, but I'd also like to be able to run PCSX2 on it. The problem is, I know that, for example, my desktop Nvidia GTX 670 is good for it, but I can't find the "equivalent" of the GTX 670 for laptops. I suspect the price will be too high for me anyway, but long story short, is there some sort of table out there that lists laptop GPUs performance on various games, and maybe also a table that shows us some comparisons between laptop GPUs and desktop GPUs?
On a related note, my laptops often have cooling issues, middle-to-long term. What can I do to improve the cooling of a laptop in a significant way, and what can I do to prevent it from having overheating issues? During the last months of my last laptop I tried using one of those "fan pads", and didn't really notice much improvement; then I had to resort to laying it down on the monitor's back (!) instead of on the keyboard's back because this would dissipate more heat...needless to say, if I'm going to invest into a somewhat decent laptop I'd like to keep it in better shape than my last one.
I also heard that there are some brands of laptops that are more or less notorious for having dust accumulation/overheating issues: is there anything I should look out for?
Thanks.
I need to purchase a somewhat "good" laptop for gaming purposes. My needs are not particularly high, but I'm having a hard time finding info on which GPU I should shoot for.
To be precise, I definitely must be able to run one game in particular, which is Age of Empires II HD (with associated Steam running in the background), which shouldn't take too much resources to run, but I'd also like to be able to run PCSX2 on it. The problem is, I know that, for example, my desktop Nvidia GTX 670 is good for it, but I can't find the "equivalent" of the GTX 670 for laptops. I suspect the price will be too high for me anyway, but long story short, is there some sort of table out there that lists laptop GPUs performance on various games, and maybe also a table that shows us some comparisons between laptop GPUs and desktop GPUs?
On a related note, my laptops often have cooling issues, middle-to-long term. What can I do to improve the cooling of a laptop in a significant way, and what can I do to prevent it from having overheating issues? During the last months of my last laptop I tried using one of those "fan pads", and didn't really notice much improvement; then I had to resort to laying it down on the monitor's back (!) instead of on the keyboard's back because this would dissipate more heat...needless to say, if I'm going to invest into a somewhat decent laptop I'd like to keep it in better shape than my last one.
I also heard that there are some brands of laptops that are more or less notorious for having dust accumulation/overheating issues: is there anything I should look out for?
Thanks.