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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.

pb wrote:
How long is this lovely sunshine going to last? Is this summer now?

Not here pb ... drizzle this morning and now overcast and cool.

Afternoon.

How long is this lovely sunshine going to last? Is this summer now?

Going home at lunch time today, I've done enough extra hours over the last few days so I need some time back.

Yeah, heating can be an issue. Seems to be the same with most laptops though, air vents placed on the underside, probably the worst location for them. I just make sure that it's well ventilated and it runs fine (laptop cooling pads tend to help too).

In terms of game settings, I've played the likes of Far Cry 3, Guild Wars 2, GRID 2, Skyrim, Assassin's Creed 3, all on medium-high settings (including shadows and water effects). Can even run Fraps while playing some of them. Can be confident it will run any modern releases.

Not 100% on what exact model I got. It features dual graphics, 6gb RAM and originally came with a 500GB hard drive, which I upgraded to 1TB.

Well worth the price though.

Morning.

Chris - I believe it was probably the HP Pavilion g6-2213sa. They have a refurbished one for £329 at the moment, which is tempting, but it's the old llano AMD A8 rather than the newer Trinity A8 with about 2Ghz difference in speed (confusing stuff, these AMD processors).

If so: Does it run hot on games? What sort of settings can you get games running on and what recent games have you tried? I'd be tempted by a quad core laptop, but I'm not sure this can run everything andi it's not going to be easy to upgrade (8GB maximum memory, already used).

Yeh, I was initially just browsing for a laptop a few months before my birthday, and stumbled on it on PC World's website. Had to get in there quick, they were gone within a week! As I said though, the build quality is questionable, but it doesn't bother me too much, I'm distracted by having a portable game system with me everyday :-)

I'd imagine with a desktop PC, the build quality will matter less due to it not being carried around everyday.

EDIT: Had a go on GRID 2, the controls are certainly different, but I can see what people are complaining about. The handling seems to be similar to that of GTA 4; very heavy. However the AI racers don't seem to be lumbered with the same handling issues.

An A8 would be fantastic. that's a quad core processor. If I could get a decent priced one of those from a reputable source I'd be happy.

Came with Windows 7, and an AMD A8 1.6GHz processor.

Sonic Chris wrote:
I got a HP Pavilion G6 laptop for £399 last year, can run modern games on medium settings so for a laptop it's ideal. Although the build quality is incredibly shoddy, probably where the price comes down. Can't argue with the specs though!

Windows 8 or 7?

and what was the processor in that?

I got a HP Pavilion G6 laptop for £399 last year, can run modern games on medium settings so for a laptop it's ideal. Although the build quality is incredibly shoddy, probably where the price comes down. Can't argue with the specs though!

It came with Vista {shudder} and perhaps still has the backup on the hard drive somewhere. Not sure if I wiped that partition or not.

Edit: but the Windows 7 retail is just the upgrade version