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Would this laptop be sufficient enough to run EVE well?

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Vertinox
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-12-17 15:05:04 UTC
I am not really new but was not sure where to post this...

I am thinking of getting a laptop this Christmas and saw this on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B010SBAJDS/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450363745&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=laptop&dpPl=1&dpID=51f%2BD2Fv3-L&ref=plSrch

It has 8 gb of ram but the graphics card is meh.

Would in your opinion this be good enough to run EVE? Or any better deals you can think of?

I just mine, trade, and manufacture mostly.
ISD Fractal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#2 - 2015-12-17 15:37:42 UTC
The graphics leave a little to be desired but those specs aren't much different than the Surface Pro 3 I believe, which people run Eve on. Considering that you don't do big fleet battles and spend a good amount of time in a station, my guess is that it would be fine to run Eve.

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Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#3 - 2015-12-17 16:04:11 UTC
My second laptop is an Asus Zenbook prime with an intel 4400 chip. It runs eve fine. It actually tries to run on high settings across the board. But I put mine at performance because ultra-books are not designed to dissipate that much heat.

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Paranoid Loyd
#4 - 2015-12-17 18:15:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
Vertinox wrote:
I just mine, trade, and manufacture mostly.
It will be more than sufficient for these activities.

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#5 - 2015-12-17 22:32:53 UTC
Toshiba is still alive?

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Silver Dagger Kondur
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-12-17 22:38:50 UTC
Bumblefck wrote:
Toshiba is still alive?


Ha! Yeah, I have a 3 year old Toshiba Portege that I crank Eve up on from time to time. - I'd not recommend my laptop for PvP or PvE, however.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2015-12-18 00:35:27 UTC
The intel graphics are not great and at one stage caused known issues with gate animations and stuff but I think that has been fixed.

As for the rest of the setup, i have run EVE on an 8GB i5 laptop though it did get rather hot and I ended up needing to use a cooling pad.
Mephiztopheleze
Laphroaig Inc.
#8 - 2015-12-18 01:37:37 UTC
I play on a 2009 model i5 laptop, so yes, that will run EVE.

Running multiple accounts is another story.

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Kaska Iskalar
Doomheim
#9 - 2015-12-18 04:15:01 UTC
I wouldn't try to game on a whole computer that costs less than my GPU. If you want to game get a gaming laptop.
Dornier Pfeil
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-12-18 21:59:15 UTC
My laptop doesn't even have a graphics card and I get by ok. As someone mentioned above, heat is a problem though. I keep my control panel open to the power screen so i can toggle quickly back and forth between high performance/high power and low power/low performance. Any activity that involves large numbers of ships in space is very frustrating.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2015-12-18 23:56:57 UTC
Kaska Iskalar wrote:
I wouldn't try to game on a whole computer that costs less than my GPU. If you want to game get a gaming laptop.



Even gaming laptops tend to have heat issues.

It is best to invest in a good quality cooling pad with fans. Makes a surprising difference.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#12 - 2015-12-19 16:25:39 UTC
Well, I still have that ancient PC up and running (approx 6 years old with a 4 year GPU) and it still 'runs' EVE.

Keep in mind, that is just 1 single account, at very low settings and don't jump into any busy system with it unless you want to fry it.

So, my guts say, you'll be fine.

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