What performance can i expect with this laptop?

[Voodoochild7742]

I'm about to buy a new laptop and i'm not sure if the specs are decent enough to play Skyrim on high settings. Skyrim "Legendary edition" is just round the corner and i don't want to wait another year (or perhaps even longer) until i buy a proper desktop machine.

 

These are the specifications:

- intel core i5 - 3210m

- 8 gb ram

- geforce gt 730m

- 17 inch screen : 1600x900

 

I've done some research and the graphics card should in theory be as fast as a geforce gtx 260 while the i5 is a dual core cpu.

 

Are these specs good enough or should i wait until intel releases the new Haswell chips

(fourth generation core i*)?

 

 

On a slightly different note: pan B is playing Morrowind with Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 mod but i have no idea of the system requirements of that combination. Comments?

 

What is the concensus concerning modded Morrowind vs Skyrim anyway? Which do you think is best ?

 

 

 

[DanielMM6]

You should get at least 30 fps with those specifications in High Quality Settings.

 

Haswell chips are going to be much more reliable performance-wise, but the biggest question is the Graphics Card which I think is the bottleneck of every laptop because it is mobile.

 

If I were you, I'd choose a desktop PC for more performance. But if you want a laptop, I think that one is fine. That i5 supports hyperthreading meaning that it works like a quad-core chip. However, check if the RAM runs at 1600mhz/s and not 1333mhz/s.

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It depends on what you are willing to do. You can make Morrowind look and feel like Skyrim - you just need some combat overhauls and retextures. However, if you mod skyrim, you can take the game to the next level, but don't expect to have that immersion you would have with Morrowind unless there's a quest and character diologues overhaul outhere that I am not aware of.