[XxBlaKOuTZxX]

Yep well I dunno much,if anything about PC gaming as you can tell. I asked about wow and Diablo and was told I'd need a decent PC to run it at a decent speed or something along those lines. Perhaps I should have read up about what was needed before I went looking

I guess i'm looking for advice on PC gaming as i'd very much like to give it a go but don't know where to start.

[Fowl Fax]

Originally Posted by XxBlaKOuTZxX

Gaming Laptop's are expensive as hell as are some desk top's. My brother in law plays WOW and he is forever having to upgrade his PC just to have the game running smoothly. I looked into a gaming laptop a few weeks back and the prices started from around £1200 upwards for a decent one. No such costs with consoles.

Why are you comparing a gaming laptop to a console, they're not even the same thing.

Desktop PC's are not that much more expensive than consoles and the games can be quite a lot cheaper.

WOW does not need that much power and even runs smoothly on the older mainstream graphics cards.

[XxBlaKOuTZxX]

Perhaps I should start again. I would like to get into gaming on PC but I don't know ANYTHING about it nor what's needed, hardware wise. i have an acer aspire 5750 i5

[Fowl Fax]

Originally Posted by XxBlaKOuTZxX

Perhaps I should start again. I would like to get into gaming on PC but I don't know ANYTHING about it nor what's needed, hardware wise.

An AMD 6670 graphics card and AMD quad core is a relatively inexpensive way to start, won't max out all the latest games but will certainly give you enough for the majority of releases.

[XxBlaKOuTZxX]

Sorry. I should have said which PC i had. what is this max out ?. do you mean running at max speed ?

[Fowl Fax]

Originally Posted by XxBlaKOuTZxX

Sorry. I should have said which PC i had. what is this max out ?. do you mean running at max speed ?

What PC do you have?

By max out I mean have the graphic settings and resolution on the highest.

[XxBlaKOuTZxX]

it's a laptop I have. an acer aspire 5750 i5-2430M 2.4GHz with turbo boost to 3.0GHz. 3gb ram and 500gb hdd. if that helps

[Fowl Fax]

Originally Posted by XxBlaKOuTZxX

it's a laptop I have. an acer aspire 5750 i5-2430M 2.4GHz with turbo boost to 3.0GHz. 3gb ram and 500gb hdd. if that helps

Gaming on a laptop is not really my fortay, last laptop I bought cost me £1200 which was about 10 years ago, it spent more time in the cupboard than actually being used.

[XxBlaKOuTZxX]

oh right. I gather a desktop would be better then. oh well. it was worth asking about. Thanks anyway.

[whoever,hey]

Originally Posted by XxBlaKOuTZxX

oh right. I gather a desktop would be better then. oh well. it was worth asking about. Thanks anyway.

If you want to see what some games are like on your laptop, you can install steam and download some demos. Click the green install button at the top of here
http://store.steampowered.com/

Heres battlefield 3 on your laptop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5h1fO0A1s4