Most cost effective gaming laptop to play civ6

[DevilMike77]

Hello Civfolks

I am considering buying a new laptop to run civ6 smoothly (e.g. Not having big problems or endless turn in late game on big maps).

So far in my price range (around 1000 €) I have found the Asus ROG machines but it is a bit hard to decide
- i7 6400 HQ or lower?
- most get 8 go ram - should I go for more?
-the ssd 128 Gb seems a must to decrease load times
- in terms of graphic card gtx 960m seems a minimum. I do not know if I have a choice of 2go vs 4 go of vram not if it's important.

Thank you all for feedback and advice !

 

[TruthfulCake]

I'd go for a bigger SSD if that's an option, otherwise it seems your laptop of choice can handle Civ 6 perfectly fine. Since you're buying a gaming laptop, you'd want to be able to install many games other than Civ (I'd assume), so go for 256GB at least.

 

[smartcanuck1988]

My two cents:

1. 8 GB RAM should be fine considering you'll have an SSD hosting a page file. RAM is so cheap these days that I wouldn't worry about what comes with the laptop by default.

2. While waiting always seems to be a suggestion thrown out in such threads, and there will always something to wait for, in this case I do truly believe that if you're investing a lot of money it'd be worth it to wait for the 1050 GTX laptops to show up. It will significantly outperform the 960m chip not just because it's Pascal but because it is also not a mobile version but rather the same desktop equivalent. Unfortunately the ETA for such notebooks is early 2017.

PS. If you are strictly going to play Civ then ignore this.

 

[DevilMike77]

Yep thanks smartcanuck1988 and truthfulcake. I did not mention that I will most certainly be playing only civ6, maybe some other strategy games but no FPS and RPG....and I did not mention I can't wait 2017!!!! I want to play

 

[Esperr]

Oh god help me if I could take civ places with me....

 

[Wizard-Bob]

I recently bought a new Laptop, and wanted to be sure it ran Civ 6 well. It was slightly over your budget, but not by much. MSI GE62 6QF Apache Pro. It has the i7-6700HQ, 16 GB Ram, Nvidia GTX970M, 128 GB SSD + 1 TB disk.

Very happy with Civ 6 performance. Most settings are on high, and gameplay is very smooth.

 

[dodo199699]

I have Lenovo Y700-15isk with GTX960M 4GB; Intel i7-6700HQ; 16 GB RAM; 1 TB HDD and Civ 6 works perfectly fine for me.

 

[bowen11]

Yes as said the Asus is really good choice with better performance.

 

[bowen11]

Quick look http://gaminglaptopunder1000.org/gaming-laptops-under-1000/