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Hi all,

So I could not find a review for ASUS X550JK-DM034H with the following specs:

15,6" 1920x1080
Intel® Core™ i5-4200H
RAM 8GB 1600MHz
1 TB hårddisk
GeForce GTX 850M 2GB

I did check on gtx 850m and it seemed pretty good for my standards as it is able to run fc4 on medium. Though i am suspecious since it only has i5.

How do you think this notebook would perform?

Thx
 
You should be fine. That particular i5 has a base freq of 2.8 and goes up in turbo to 3.4 (provided it has adequate cooling and doesn't throttle) 2 cores and 4 threads are enough for FC3.
 
I think it will perform like most laptops do for games, adequate but barely so. I doubt the i5 will be the bottleneck most of the time, the 850m probably will.
 
Aquinus said:
I think it will perform like most laptops do for games, adequate but barely so. I doubt the i5 will be the bottleneck most of the time, the 850m probably will.
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^That
 
Thx all..

@Crap Daddy

Hmm do you mean fc3 or 4?.

So in short, it would handle battlefield 4 and next gen games on medium at least ( watch dogs, ac unity..etc)?
 
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the hardware is pretty good for a laptop, but at 1080p performance wont be that great. if you can get a model with a lower screen res like 1366x768, that will greatly help your performance.


According to the page you linked, performance will be similar to a 6870 1GB, the two generation old desktop card. you can look up reviews of that card to see how this one will perform.
 
Mussels said:
the hardware is pretty good for a laptop, but at 1080p performance wont be that great. if you can get a model with a lower screen res like 1366x768, that will greatly help your performance.


According to the page you linked, performance will be similar to a 6870 1GB, the two generation old desktop card. you can look up reviews of that card to see how this one will perform.
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Am a bit of a noob :-D . But i really do not mind at all gaming at 1366x768 as i have been doing so for a long time.


Actually I have a question about this: the aforementioned laptop in the OP has 15.6" screen size and its maximum resolution is 1920x1080, on some other laptops of similar screen size, the maximum resolution is 1366x768. It is understandable that on laptops with the latter resolution, it is not possible to play on more than 1366x768 but you could play on higher than that on the other.

My question is: given that both screens have similar sizes, does this mean that gaming at 1366x768 on a screen of 1920x1080 max resolution would make the game look or perform worse than on a 15'6 with 1366x768 as max res?
 
Johnsophin said:
Am a bit of a noob :-D . But i really do not mind at all gaming at 1366x768 as i have been doing so for a long time.


Actually I have a question about this: the aforementioned laptop in the OP has 15.6" screen size and its maximum resolution is 1920x1080, on some other laptops of similar screen size, the maximum resolution is 1366x768. It is understandable that on laptops with the latter resolution, it is not possible to play on more than 1366x768 but you could play on higher than that on the other.

My question is: given that both screens have similar sizes, does this mean that gaming at 1366x768 on a screen of 1920x1080 max resolution would make the game look or perform worse than on a 15'6 with 1366x768 as max res?
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gaming at any resolution other than the screens native will look blurry.

So gaming on a 1366x768 display will look clearer than the same resolution on a 1080p display.
 
Mussels said:
gaming at any resolution other than the screens native will look blurry.

So gaming on a 1366x768 display will look clearer than the same resolution on a 1080p display.
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And is it 'playable' blurry on downscaled resolution or 'unplayable, cannot see anything' blurry?
 
"Hurt your eyes" blurry.
 
Johnsophin said:
And is it 'playable' blurry on downscaled resolution or 'unplayable, cannot see anything' blurry?
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try it on your current monitor, drop it down to about half its native resolution.
 
Mussels said:
try it on your current monitor, drop it down to about half its native resolution.
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I would love to if i had one now but i did try before playing on 800x600 on a 1366x768 screen and it looked bad. My question was merely because both screens that would have different max resolution have the same size of 15'6" so i thought it wont be as annoying as playing 800x600 on a 15'6" with 1366x768 max res. Seems sm wrong :-).
 
Johnsophin said:
I would love to if i had one now but i did try before playing on 800x600 on a 1366x768 screen and it looked bad. My question was merely because both screens that would have different max resolution have the same size of 15'6" so i thought it wont be as annoying as playing 800x600 on a 15'6" with 1366x768 max res. Seems sm wrong :).
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It comes down to the screen. playing at the native res of 1366x768 vs 1920x1080p to my HDTV (over HDMI) is anywhere from 40% to 100% faster on the inbuilt screen... so if you're after higher performance for just gaming, the lower res option will make the most sense.

the 1080p screen will be better for 2D use and video watching, which is where your personal preference comes into it.
 
Mussels said:
It comes down to the screen. playing at the native res of 1366x768 vs 1920x1080p to my HDTV (over HDMI) is anywhere from 40% to 100% faster on the inbuilt screen... so if you're after higher performance for just gaming, the lower res option will make the most sense.

the 1080p screen will be better for 2D use and video watching, which is where your personal preference comes into it.
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Exactly! Faster performance is what I am after and 1366x768 satisfies me as a resolution and the gtx 850m performs pretty well on that resolution.

Was there a lot of quality loss when gaming 1366x768 on the 1080p HDTV?
 
Johnsophin said:
Exactly! Faster performance is what I am after and 1366x768 satisfies me as a resolution and the gtx 850m performs pretty well on that resolution.

Was there a lot of quality loss when gaming 1366x768 on the 1080p HDTV?
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I hooked it up to the TV for media playback, not gaming. I never run at non-native resolutions, it hurts my eyes.
 
Mussels said:
I hooked it up to the TV for media playback, not gaming. I never run at non-native resolutions, it hurts my eyes.
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But probably it would not be as annoying to the eyes on a 15'6" as it would be on that 1920x1080p TV since the screen size would be smaller.
 
If anyone here could give us a real feedback it would be great. If Someone who has a 15'6" screen with 1080p max resolution and tried gaming at 1366x768, how bad things would look?

Thx in advance..
 
since its a 850m u could use Nvidia's DSR (dynamic super resolutions) to leave 1366x768 native, but in games can use higher res, ie. 1080p, 1440p
 
Johnsophin said:
If Someone who has a 15'6" screen with 1080p max resolution and tried gaming at 1366x768, how bad things would look?
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It will look blurred only if you let your monitor do the scaling... If you could set your video driver to not perform the scaling things would be sharp but just smaller and with black borders.

That's what I do.
 
Blue-Knight said:
It will look blurred only if you let your monitor do the scaling... If you could set your video driver to not perform the scaling things would be sharp but just smaller and with black borders.

That's what I do.
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How do I do that ? Through changing resolution in-game?
 
Johnsophin said:
How do I do that ? Through changing resolution in-game?
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NVDIA control panel. Search for something related to "scaling, GPU scaling" or something like that. I think it is in monitor area.

I can't provide more instructions as I do not have Windows here. Sorry!
 
You will be surprised to see how well the 850m performs at 1080p. Even in the world of desktops there is no reason to spend more than $150 on a gpu if you are playing at 1080p.
 
Honestly. Just go with the 1366x768. I play quite a few games on that resolution and they look fine to me. If you don't want that small then find a 1600x900 setup. Good resolution size and gaming at 1366x768 on it doesn't hurt my eyes.
 
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