Hardware: Advice for buying a PC laptop for playing US facing sites
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Hardware: Advice for buying a PC laptop for playing US facing sites
Does anyone have any suggestions for specs needed if i am only running bovada, ACR and Carbon? I currently have a mac laptop and run windows on parallels (just bc the mac version of the pokersites are buggy). All advice appreciated, thanks!
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I dont know about running american sites, but for running standard pokersties+HM2 i bought Lenovo G50 laptop for like 400$ with i7 processor and 8gb RAM.
While buying hardware for poker you can really save some money on graphics. Look for setups with solid processors (i5/i7), 8gb ram and possibly SSD harddrive and if you are not planning to play in computer games on it, just search for setups with integrated graphics.
Sounds like a good deal this
Lenovo G50 isn't a bad deal but you can get a lower spec one and it will work ok( that is if its only for poker). around i3/4gb would do.
Thanks for the advice! So would you guys rather have i3/8gb or i(5or7)/4GB? So pretty much which is more important: RAM or processor?
I wouldn't go with less than 6gb ram and 2ghz intel iCore CPU in 2016.
you need RAM more for poker
poker is a light program but it eat alot of your RAM if your playing multi-tables
I'll use Pokerstars as an example, if im not mistaken, each poker table will use about 250~300mb , so with a 4gb ram you can play up to atleast 10 tables and your computer will be ok(always give a 25% leeway, that way if the program ask for more memory your computer wont crash)
It can't be 250mb/table, that seems insanely high. Pokerstars has minimum 64mb minimal with 128mb recommended. They wouldn't recommend you have 1/2 the amount to play a single table. Not saying you'd ever get anything with this low memory but I really don't think its that important to stack it. I have 4gb of RAM on this old laptop and never had any issues multitabling whilst running PT
I know where you got the 64~128mb, that can only be applied on the first few orbits on the table, the longer you play the more ram the table will need.
I know it sounds high but if you have your task manager up and check the ram usage. you can see that sometime it will use more than 250 especially tables that are playing tourneys.
Having 4gb ram isn't bad at all, I even wrote this in my previous comment.
" so with a 4gb ram you can play up to atleast 10 tables and your computer will be ok"
I do apologize if my comment rub you the wrong way.
Hahaha it didn't rub me the wrong way, sorry I just wanted it clarifying, didn't mean to come off as abrasive if I did! Why does it go up as you play more though? Quite curious about this now, never really considered it
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