I honestly don’t kno enough about the differences in processors and graphics cards to make an informed decision, so I came here for help. Would mostly be used for wow and wow classic, maybe some other light gaming, but nothing crazy that needs ridiculous power.
My question is, would I be able to play wow/classic at high or even ultra settings to raid with this laptop? Pros/cons? And if this isn’t worth buying, suggestions would be great. Thank you!
MSI CROSSHAIR 17 A11UEK-066 GAMING LAPTOP
- 17.3" FHD 144Hz
- Intel® Core™ i7-11800H
- GeForce RTX™ 3060
- Up to 64GB RAM
- 512GB NVMe SSD
WoW Classic’s requirements are very low. I can play it on my Thinkpad X1 Nano laptop, which has a efficiency-focused processor and no dedicated graphics card and it runs Classic great on high/max settings. An i7-11800H and RTX 3060 should obliterate Classic, I’d expect 120FPS+ just about everywhere.
It should handle modern WoW pretty well too, but you might have to turn the settings down just a notch or two to get high framerates all the time.
I can’t speak to the quality of that particular laptop though, I would recommend looking through reviews just to make sure it doesn’t have any weird issues that might annoy you (some laptops have bad keyboards, bad trackpads, bad build quality, bad cooling, etc).
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Well, I think for starters it appears that Blizz recommends a 4th generation i7 whereas the one you list is 11th generation, so that looks pretty good. The recommended graphics card (GTX 960 4GB) is also (much) lower performing than the newer RTX 3060. They recommend 8GB RAM and 70GB on a solid state drive. So it looks to me like you could max your graphics with this laptop and not break a sweat.
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Looks good enough for wow for a few years.
By a comparison this laptop is also a good deal if your are by a microcenter. MSI Katana GF66 i7 11th Gen 11800H 2.3GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6; 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM; 1TB for $999
You can always buy larger monitor to play on as well.
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