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Veggeta_MAX
06/06/18 5:56:53 PM
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EverDownward
06/06/18 5:57:34 PM
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*judges the heck out of you*
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DarkTransient
06/06/18 5:58:03 PM
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GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. You might get 1080p on some older / simpler ones. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.
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Veggeta_MAX
06/06/18 5:59:53 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.

It's for my nephew who I promised to buy a gaming laptop for if he scores a 4.0 this year. Fuck this kid and his good grades. All he plays is Fortnite and Steam games, I'm sure it's good enough.
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Letron_James
06/06/18 6:00:31 PM
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Veggeta_MAX posted...
DarkTransient posted...
GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.

It's for my nephew who I promised to buy a gaming laptop for if he scores a 4.0 this year. Fuck this kid and his good grades. All he plays is Fortnite and Steam games, I'm sure it's good enough.


Its more than enough.

And why would you promise that lol
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OctilIery
06/06/18 6:00:40 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.

Ehhh on the newest games maybe but it should run fine for anything else, and for the price it looks great. Though the 8gb ram is a bit low
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Veggeta_MAX
06/06/18 6:01:44 PM
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Letron_James posted...
And why would you promise that lol

To get him to get good grades.
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DarkTransient
06/06/18 6:07:02 PM
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Veggeta_MAX posted...
DarkTransient posted...
GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.

It's for my nephew who I promised to buy a gaming laptop for if he scores a 4.0 this year. Fuck this kid and his good grades. All he plays is Fortnite and Steam games, I'm sure it's good enough.


"Steam games" could be anything from classic DOS games that could run on a 486, to really fancy recent AAA titles that pretty much need an i9 + 128GB RAM + SLI'd dual Titan X's. (I may be slightly exaggerating there.) :P

But yeah, for that, should be fine.

I don't think the 8GB of RAM will be a problem either (and most laptops you can upgrade the RAM later if you want). 8GB is a bit low for heavy multitasky office usage and similar these days, but it's still sufficient for a gaming machine - the GPU and the *speed* of the RAM is more important than the quantity, within reason (you still probably don't want to go below 8GB).
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DarkTransient
06/06/18 6:08:32 PM
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OctilIery posted...
DarkTransient posted...
GTX 1050...

I mean, it's not going to be useless, but you're probably going to be limited to 720p on most games. If you're okay with that, should be a pretty solid machine otherwise.

Aside from that, seems good to me.

Ehhh on the newest games maybe but it should run fine for anything else, and for the price it looks great. Though the 8gb ram is a bit low


I'll admit I've never actually used a GTX 1050 machine; I'm basing that off performance comparisons to GPUs I have used (specifically GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 960 4GB) and what I've been able to do on those.
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Alexanaxela
06/06/18 6:10:31 PM
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get him a chromebook
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Tyranthraxus
06/06/18 6:12:05 PM
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Please don't buy a GTX 1050. It's not a gaming card. Get a GTX 1050 Ti
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Zaltera
06/06/18 6:13:59 PM
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Ebay has a 20% off deal going today up to $100 in savings.
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Veggeta_MAX
06/06/18 6:41:07 PM
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Zaltera posted...
Ebay has a 20% off deal going today up to $100 in savings.

Link?
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DarkTransient
06/06/18 6:42:31 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Please don't buy a GTX 1050. It's not a gaming card. Get a GTX 1050 Ti


The site OP linked, at least, it costs something like $500 more to get the otherwise-same laptop but with a TI. And from there, it's only something like $50 more to get a 1060, so may as well get that.
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KainWind
06/06/18 6:44:02 PM
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That's better than what I have and it's enough to get by usually.
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