Will This Computer Play The Sims 3?
This is for my friend who wants to buy a laptop to play The Sims 3 at medium-high settings. Will it run? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-thinkpad-2-in-1-14-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-...
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> @igazor said:
> Createdtragedy wrote: »
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> Hello, will the lenovo ideapad y510 be able to play sims 2 and 3? It has the dual nvidia Geforce GT755m graphic card, 16gb memory, 1tb hdd.
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> Or any recommendations for cheap laptops that can run sims 2 and 3?
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> Well, it depends. The Ideapad Y510 is a model from 2008 that couldn't possibly run TS3 as its processor was too weak. It might have issues with TS2, it was a very lightweight netbook type of device.
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> Stick a "p" on the end, and we have the Y510p that is more recent and in a much higher class of laptops. This is probably the one you meant given the RAM and graphics card mentioned. This model hasn't exactly been the bastion of reliability, but if it's holding together mechanically it should be able to run both games fine.
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> TS2 doesn't require much computing power to run by comparison. TS3 does, there really isn't any such thing as a "cheap laptop" that can run TS3 with all EPs very well.
Yes, that's what I meant, I didn't know there were two versions of it. The one that I'm interested in, has a 16GB of memory, 1TB, Intel Core i7 4th gen...Processor Speed 2.40GHz. NVidia GeForce GT 750M (dual). Would that be able to run sims 3? I'm not plannin to use all the expansions, just a maximum of 4, maybe 2.
> Createdtragedy wrote: »
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> Hello, will the lenovo ideapad y510 be able to play sims 2 and 3? It has the dual nvidia Geforce GT755m graphic card, 16gb memory, 1tb hdd.
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> Or any recommendations for cheap laptops that can run sims 2 and 3?
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> Well, it depends. The Ideapad Y510 is a model from 2008 that couldn't possibly run TS3 as its processor was too weak. It might have issues with TS2, it was a very lightweight netbook type of device.
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> Stick a "p" on the end, and we have the Y510p that is more recent and in a much higher class of laptops. This is probably the one you meant given the RAM and graphics card mentioned. This model hasn't exactly been the bastion of reliability, but if it's holding together mechanically it should be able to run both games fine.
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> TS2 doesn't require much computing power to run by comparison. TS3 does, there really isn't any such thing as a "cheap laptop" that can run TS3 with all EPs very well.
Yes, that's what I meant, I didn't know there were two versions of it. The one that I'm interested in, has a 16GB of memory, 1TB, Intel Core i7 4th gen...Processor Speed 2.40GHz. NVidia GeForce GT 750M (dual). Would that be able to run sims 3? I'm not plannin to use all the expansions, just a maximum of 4, maybe 2.
