Gaming laptop for playing Sims 4 Uk
I'm wanting to buy a new laptop after having my old one for over 10+ years (put it this way it's hanging on by a thread on windows 7) 🥴 the trouble is I don't have a single clue about the newer laptops, I'm just looking for a good one that runs pretty well, with preferably good graphics. I will be playing the Sims 4 on it more or less all the time.
I've had a look around at gaming laptops but it's fuzzed my head as the reviews have both good and bad on them, I've looked on these questions and seen the gigabyte laptop and it's on offer ATM for about 899, which wouldn't be out of price range, but someone said theirs didn't work properly at all. If anyone could please help and dumb it down so a simpleton like me can understand I'd greatly appreciate it 😂🙏
@GingerxGirl Reviews are always difficult to parse because some buyers get a faulty units. That's what warranties are for, and the fact that a laptop is immediately broken doesn't have any relationship with how working units perform. The important details in a review are about how the laptop functions when it's running: heat, noise, how the screen looks, that kind of thing.
At any rate, the most important component of a gaming laptop is the graphics card. Since the GPU is also the most expensive component, the other hardware will be able to keep up—nobody wants to spend a lot of money on an expensive GPU only to have it bottlenecked by a cheap processor. So you can ignore most of the other details.
For the graphics card itself, an Nvidia RTX 3050 is sufficient to run Sims 4, all current packs included, on ultra graphics settings. The next step up would be the newer RTX 4050, with the older (but still new enough) 3060 being a bit faster. A 4060 or 3070 would be significant overkill for the game. Avoid the significantly slower RTX 2050. AMD GPUs are less common, but an RX 6600M or higher (6650, 7600) should be more than good enough. I would strongly recommend avoiding Intel Arc cards until Intel works out all the problems, which hasn't happened yet.
The other details that matter are having 16 GB RAM and 500 GB or more storage. But if you find otherwise the perfect laptop with only 8 GB RAM, and an upgrade would be expensive, consider installing more memory yourself. RAM is cheap and easy to add to a gaming laptop. If you're not comfortable doing it on your own, you might have a friend who could do it for the price of lunch or help moving their couch.
If you want specific suggestions, let me know your budget and any other details that matter, for example screen size. If you'd rather do your own search, you can link the options you find for a second opinion. And if you have more questions in general, please feel free to ask.
