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ndnvtd8at77z
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10 months ago
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Gaming laptops

What are some laptops specs you recommend for sims 4? I want my stuff on the highest setting
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    9 months ago

    ndnvtd8at77z  This is the same Lenovo Legion Slim, except with an RTX 4070 and a terabyte of storage:

    https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/948984/lenovo-legion-slim-5-16arp9-83ex0027mh.html

    This one has a brighter screen, with the same high resolution, and is a good quality laptop as well:

    https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/922149/asus-rog-zephyrus-g16-gu603vi-n4015w.html

    If you want a very pretty screen—no brighter, no more pixels, but even better colors—this one is essentially the same model laptop (one generation newer, but the same idea) except with an OLED panel:

    https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/943420/asus-rog-zephyrus-oled-g16-gu605mi-qr038w.html

    And again, all of these are wildly excessive for Sims 4, as is the first one I linked.  It's of course your choice whether you want an overpowered laptop; I just want to reiterate that to be totally clear.  You wondered about the processor, but all of these can more than keep up with the graphics card, which would be the limiting factor if Sims 4 didn't have its own limitations.

    Graphics power is significantly more expensive than CPU power, at least in this class of computer.  So laptop manufacturers will always pair a GPU with a processor that can match and exceed its capabilities, since no one wants to spend a lot of money on a GPU only to have it held back by the other hardware.  Sims 4 is also not particularly demanding on the processor, at least not by modern standards.

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puzzlezaddict
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9 months ago

ndnvtd8at77z  You don't need a stronger laptop for Sims 4, no matter how much content you pile on, and you won't really see any benefit.  But sure, if you're still looking (and I realize this reply is a bit late, sorry about that), I can make some other suggestions.

You also don't need more than a terabyte of storage, or even nearly that much, for Sims 4.  If you're asking about doing your own upgrade at a later date, you can add whatever drive you want at whatever size you want.  I've seen drives up to 8 TB available to end users (not just businesses), which would of course be wildly unnecessary, but the point is that you wouldn't be constrained on that end.  There's nothing about this laptop, or any other that takes a standard-size drive, that would limit how much storage it could use.  And they all take standard-sized drives if the drives are user-accessible at all.

  • ndnvtd8at77z's avatar
    ndnvtd8at77z
    Rising Rookie
    9 months ago

    Hmm okay! I appreciate it, thank you, a lot. Do you have some more recommendations? And also no worries /gen. It's very sweet to help

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