New pc for odyssey

solarleopard

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I have been an x box player since elite begin in the 80s and have been playing ever since. Because of the new changes and the limitations of the Xbox I now have to buy a laptop to play odyssey. Can someone sensibly recommend a cheap pc just to play odyssey on. I do not want a fancy high tech gaming pc just a good value one for oddysey. I am no tech bod but am not going to pay more than £500 for one and can hopefully transfer my details from Horizons onto it. If not I guess that’s the end of Elite Dangerous for me after 45 years of playing. Good luck commanders
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
aRJay said:
Odyssey runs best on good graphics cards, however it will run on lesser/older cards if you can live with the performance hit.
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I had an opportunity to play EDO, left handed mouse and keyboard, on a machine from 2012 with an NVidia Quadra 2000 CAD graphics card. I managed to play with the settings and get between 20 and 30 FPS in space. On the ground was single digit FPS and was unplayable. I could however run trade between stations using Auto Launch, Supercruise Assist and Auto Dock.
 

Mrc_NorthEast

Mrc_NorthEast
YT has several pc build channels that show $500 usd desktop builds. I would start there, and see what you can find locally that is close in specs and build (if desktop) or buy if laptop. Good Luck

Also PC part picker . com may show you a few desktop builds that are close in price
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
solarleopard said:
I have been an x box player since elite begin in the 80s and have been playing ever since. Because of the new changes and the limitations of the Xbox I now have to buy a laptop to play odyssey. Can someone sensibly recommend a cheap pc just to play odyssey on. I do not want a fancy high tech gaming pc just a good value one for oddysey. I am no tech bod but am not going to pay more than £500 for one and can hopefully transfer my details from Horizons onto it. If not I guess that’s the end of Elite Dangerous for me after 45 years of playing. Good luck commanders
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I would consider these to be absolute minimum specs in a laptop, and you "might" need an external cooling solution for playing EDO.



* I used Newegg as a reference here becasue, being in the US, this is where I buy most of my kit and upgrades.
 

krazmuze

krazmuze
robbyp said:
Especially if its a laptop. IMHO laptops and gaming should not go together. Laptops are frozen in time, like consoles, and you can't keep on slowly upgrading them like desktops to keep up with needed increases in video and compute power. And you pay for the laptop over the desktop for the same components.

Have a look at this guide from Tom's HW : https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-pc-builds-gaming
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Also even though they seem to have the same components like a 4070 GPU - that is actually a specially created mobile version that runs at <10% of the power of the same 4070 number used for the desktop versions - it is very dishonest marketing. laptops are likely to battery throttle and if you leave it plugged in they are still going to thermally throttle so you can end up at much much less than the 10% power allocation. And the only way to find this out is realize it is not running the latest games, and runs poorly on five year old games.

An xbox can be sold at the same price for better performance for two reasons. First of all it is a console form factor, not a laptop form factor - big difference in thermal throttling and there is no battery throttling (though your country might enforce energy efficiency throttling which is the same thing). Second of all, M$ does not actually sell the xbox for profit - they make all their money from xbox on the game store especially if you get game pass and thus can sell the xbox at a loss.
 
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Markov Chaney

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OK, the advice in this thread is "don't buy a laptop" because it's the correct advice. If you keep asking until someone says "buy a laptop" then all you're doing there is taking bad advice. Don't buy a laptop for the purpose of playing Odyssey.

Since you're trying to replace a console I'm not sure why you need a laptop anyway - just buy a smallish PC and put that near the TV instead. You'll easily find all the parts you need if you buy a decent quiet case and put everything else in it second hand. In fact if you wait until January you'll easily find someone's 2019 gaming rig on eBay because they just upgraded it all again and want rid of the old one.

If you absolutely positively must buy a laptop then buy a refurb, and pay a LOT of attention to which GPU is in that laptop.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
nemolomen said:
I would consider these to be absolute minimum specs in a laptop, and you "might" need an external cooling solution for playing EDO.



* I used Newegg as a reference here becasue, being in the US, this is where I buy most of my kit and upgrades.
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I'm lucky enough to live six miles from Micro Center. If I were starting out, a nice, large, case would be the first thing.
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Apparently the new Intel b580 GPU for the price point is turning a lot of heads.
So as a budget builder you might consider this option.

On a side note.... The other day while playing around with CHAT GPT (AI) i asked it to spec me a new Gaming PC with a budget price and the response was actually pretty spot on.
Maybe ask Chat GPT and use it as a starting point.

https://chatgpt.com/auth/login
 
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