Will this laptop run WoW on moderate settings?

[Mellow Cricket]

With WoD on the horizon I'm in the market for something new. However, I'm on somewhat of a budget so I can't afford a 1k+ gaming laptop. I'm not very good with techy things so I need some opinions from people who know their stuff.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-106-_-Product

I'm not looking for something that runs on ultra of course, but something that will run wow on medium to high settings with decent fps in raids (25-30 preferably). If what I linked isn't sufficient, is it possible on a $600ish budget for what I'm looking for? Thanks in advance.

[Musta Kyy]

That laptop does not have a dedicated GPU and with the integrated intel one you are lucky if you get playable framerates on low/fair and 25man raiding probably wouldn't be playable.
Instead of lenovo I recommend Asus and MSI laptops if you plan on gaming. Lenovo, Acer, HP etc. laptops are not built for gaming (there are few exceptions), so they will most likely overheat easily especially after they collect some dust.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834231521 would be okay for light gaming, but for WoW the CPU might be too weak, in 25man raids at least.

[Mercidos]

If you really want to try and play on a laptop w/ integrated gfx. I'd have to recommend something with an AMD APU preferably something using a Kaveri APU should get you decent framerates at a moderate (1366x768) res.

[Azurenys]

Mate, I would suggest, seeing as you don't have much xp in the field, to look up the processor and gpu (graphics card) in sites such as notebookcheck.net to see the general review of the parts and benchmarks for different games (tests that quickly show the FPS you'll get for a certain game).
For example, using this site, the integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics 4600 that lenovo has will get you:
med. 1024x768

56.6 69 ~ 63 fps

high 1280x1024
11.2 34 ~ 23 fps

[Dorac]

With WoD on the horizon I'm in the market for something new. However, I'm on somewhat of a budget so I can't afford a 1k+ gaming laptop. I'm not very good with techy things so I need some opinions from people who know their stuff.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-106-_-Product

I'm not looking for something that runs on ultra of course, but something that will run wow on medium to high settings with decent fps in raids (25-30 preferably). If what I linked isn't sufficient, is it possible on a $600ish budget for what I'm looking for? Thanks in advance.

The CPU may not be too too bad, but like others have said the integrated GPU will hurt you.

my Surface Pro 2 has that same CPU with integrated graphics as well and I was able to play on fair settings, even LFR was ok but if you plan on doing a bit more serious raiding then you'll want something a bit stronger.

[Mellow Cricket]

That laptop does not have a dedicated GPU and with the integrated intel one you are lucky if you get playable framerates on low/fair and 25man raiding probably wouldn't be playable.
Instead of lenovo I recommend Asus and MSI laptops if you plan on gaming. Lenovo, Acer, HP etc. laptops are not built for gaming (there are few exceptions), so they will most likely overheat easily especially after they collect some dust.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834231521 would be okay for light gaming, but for WoW the CPU might be too weak, in 25man raids at least.

Thanks for the response and suggestion. It being weak in 25 mans worries me a little bit; what about this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-960-_-Product It's a bit more expensive than that one but not too much (that is about as high as I'm willing to go). Would it run much better with the intel core i5?

[squee666]

yeah thats a mjor performance boost there with a gt 840m the cpu may be a bottleneck slightly unless it turbo boosts up to 2.7ghz then should be fine. the GT840m will carry major loads for you

[Musta Kyy]

Thanks for the response and suggestion. It being weak in 25 mans worries me a little bit; what about this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-960-_-Product It's a bit more expensive than that one but not too much (that is about as high as I'm willing to go). Would it run much better with the intel core i5?

intel i5 4210u and amd a10 5750 are neck and neck performance, but for WoW the intel is better.
Also the GT 840 is a bit better than HD 8670M.

Im not sure how enjoyable the experience is in 25mans, probably playable, but not with high settings. Blizzard is doing some optimizations in WoD though.

[Mellow Cricket]

Thanks a lot for the help guys! :] I think I've made my decision.

[Xs]

Blizzard is doing some optimizations in WoD though.

From some testing on the beta, they've not even started on the optimizations yet, so don't hold your breath for anything... breathtaking, if you can't hit 30 FPS now you probably won't hit more than 35 in WoD.