Gaming Laptops

[CTS1990]

Hi all,

I’m considering buying a gaming laptop for Train Simulator and/or Train Sim World. My budget is roughly £900-950 ish.

Can anyone recommend a reasonably decent laptop that might be up to the job? I saw this advertised on the Curry’s website, just as an example:

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/msi-katana-gf66-15.6-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-rtx-3060-512-gb-ssd-10230338.html

Thanks folks!

 

[Silver Cobra]

I would say that a laptop with a spec like that would work perfectly fine for both Train Simulator Classic and TSW3. Though if you can push your budget up just a little more to £1000, I would suggest this laptop:

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/acer-nitro-5-15.6-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-rtx-3060-512-gb-ssd-10238558.html

The highlight of this laptop is having a 12th-gen Intel i7 processor. The 12th-gen Intel laptop processors, like their desktop counterparts, have special 'efficiency cores' ('e-cores') that help to lift the more basic processes away from the main performance cores such as operating system background tasks. This means that games can make full use of all the performance cores without the OS background processes bogging them down.

Comparing the CPU in the laptop in your link against the one in my link, there's around 25% more overall performance gained with the 12th-gen versus 11th-gen:

Intel i7-11800H vs i7-12700H [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

 

[bspahh]

I would read some reviews to see the issues that get highlighted. If you are only going to use it when its plugged in, then you don't need to worry about the battery life. If you plug it into an external monitor, then you don't need to worry about the screen etc. If you want a high performance laptop, then it will generate heat, which either means the speed gets throttled, or cooling fans kick in. The high performance will also use power, which kills the battery life.

These are linked from https://www.notebookcheck.net/

MSI Katana GF66 12UE-077

This page provides reviews and other infos about the MSI Katana GF66 12UE-077 of the series Katana GF66 laptop.

www.notebookcheck.net

Acer Nitro 5: la recensione del portatile con Intel Core i7-11800H e NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

La recensione del nuovo modello per il 2021 dell'Acer Nitro 5 equipaggiato con INTEL Core i7-11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 e schermo 1080p da 144 Hz

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If you want a gaming laptop, a cheap way to do it is to find someone who likes playing the latest games, and buy their cast offs when they choose to upgrade.

 

[CTS1990]

Thanks both for your advice, much appreciated!