Laptop for casual WoW/HS

[dottdog]

I'm not a laptop guy. I've never owned one as I always build my own PCs and keep them high end for many years to play all the games I want. I raid WoW on my PC, however, I want a laptop to play WoW casually when I'm not home. I'm very lost where to start and very much appreciate any help!

To convince my wife this is a "good" idea, I want to go as cheap as possible without hindering my entire purpose. I want to be able to do WQ, level, etc. To help with suggestions and I guess cooling purposes, I expect to to do this 1-2 hours at a time, but very unlikely for full binge sessions. I assume if it runs WoW it will run Hearthstone fine so that's just a side benefit.

Thanks again for any and all suggestions/help!

[moremana]

What is your budget. I ask as with the tasks you want to do in wow and play HS you can use integrated graphics on a Ryzen laptop. Any Ryzen 5 2200U laptop range from $300 to $500 based on your needs, how much Ram, SSD or HDD so without a budget to go by its hard to recommend.

[dottdog]

What is your budget. I ask as with the tasks you want to do in wow and play HS you can use integrated graphics on a Ryzen laptop. Any Ryzen 5 2200U laptop range from $300 to $500 based on your needs, how much Ram, SSD or HDD so without a budget to go by its hard to recommend.

Sure! 300 to 500 is incredible. I didn't expect that to be an acceptable range, but I'd be willing to sit closer to 500 if it drastically helps.

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[amarrite]

I would just search on amazon for a decent one. You can get a pretty good MSI laptop for around 600-700 with an older gtx 1050. That is plenty powerful enough to do everything you want to do without having to pay for a later generation GPU. This a pretty decent one. I'm sure you could look around and tweak one the way you like.

[Saphyron]

If you don't care about resolution (of the game) or graphics. you can run wow on a toaster.

My roomie borrowed my old lappy with an integrated 520 Intel HD graphics and he was able to raid in a 25-man raid on 10-20 fps
by setting the ingame resolution to 1024 x 768 and graphics setting to 2.

This was back in Uldir. And before Multi-core optimization.

this should easily do the job.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-i5575-A2...gateway&sr=8-8

[moremana]

Sure! 300 to 500 is incredible. I didn't expect that to be an acceptable range, but I'd be willing to sit closer to 500 if it drastically helps.

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I dont usually make suggestions on Laptops and the like as its all preference. That being said i bought one for traveling that I use when in a hotel.

This is mine, I have had no issues, however I did do a fresh windows 10 install to get rid of all the bloatware.

it plays wow on preset 5 and starcraft2 on medium settings with no issues.

[Dilbon]

I've been thinking the same, but I'm waiting for the new Ryzen 3000 series laptops.

[Temp name]

I've been thinking the same, but I'm waiting for the new Ryzen 3000 series laptops.

You're gonna be waiting a while. Laptop CPUs usually take 2-3 months after the desktop version launch.

Or, if you're Intel 9000 series, 6+ months

[RicardoMilos]

New predator

[Temp name]

New predator

Way out of budget for what he'd want

[Merie]

Either wait for Ryzen 3000 or go with Intel. WoW doesn't care about cores, only IPC. Avoid integrated video like the plague. A 1060gtx would be good, but a 1050ti should be your minimum. $600-700 on sale should be your target. A lot of people seem to think WoW will run well on anything, but it won't. When you're out questing, maybe. But a raid? Get a CPU with the highest IPC possible, or expect a dozen frames per second.

[amarrite]

Personally I wouldn't want to spend more than 700 or so on a travel gaming laptop. I would however want it to at least play most games at a decent enough frame rate.