Hardware & Technical Is an Asus TUF FX504 powerful enough to play Elite?

AbjunctiveAim

AbjunctiveAim
I have been looking into buying a gaming laptop for around £700, and the Asus FX504 seemed to be the best option.

Specs:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 8300H Processor (quad core with 2.3ghz base speed and 4.0ghz boost speed)
Chipset: Intel® HM370 Express Chipset
RAM: comes with 8GB DDR4
Graphics Card: Geforce GTX 1050 with 2GB memory

More detailed specifications are here - https://www.asus.com/uk/Laptops/ASUS-TUF-Gaming-FX504/specifications/

Would this be enough to play Elite dangerous with no lagging and decent graphics?
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
700 quid sounds like it's the corner-cutting version without the IPS display so you get miserable viewing angle (and from the specs all available displays suck really hard at colour reproduction), and the smallest GPU that, while technically adequate to play Elite, will not work well at higher detail levels simply because it has too little video RAM. Do not get a mechanical hard drive.

Will it play the game? Yes.
 

dm06

dm06
Adam G. said:
Would this be enough to play Elite dangerous with no lagging and decent graphics?
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Yes, you will be able to run the game. Probably, with above medium graphics settings and with some minor lags because of low RAM (when exiting glide mode during planet landing, exiting SC, jump to other system).
 

AbjunctiveAim

AbjunctiveAim
Thanks

I am now completely stuck whether to get a desktop or laptop. The portability of a laptop is what made me decide I wanted one, however i could build a desktop which would be better and upgradable.
 

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AbjunctiveAim said:
Thanks

I am now completely stuck whether to get a desktop or laptop. The portability of a laptop is what made me decide I wanted one, however i could build a desktop which would be better and upgradable.
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As a rule of thumb, if you don't need the portability, build a desktop.

Desktop tends to be slightly cheaper too, last I checked.

And yes, like you say, there's no running away from the fact upgrading a desktop later is easy. Trivial even.
 
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