Recent content by Darren Hagford

Same laptop used @ work and home. Yes the monitor does 60 hz hdmi 2.0 and displayport 1.4 I think. When I say I could not use the 4k monitor I mentioned for a full day of work not gaming or movies (at home stuff) just saying I would use an external gpu on it because I would need some more power...

its a 6700hq I dont think it would bottleneck it too bad

So longish story but a short question. I have an alienware laptop with a 970m and have been happy with about 2-4 hours of gaming a week on a 34" ultrawide (1080p). At work I had a bad setup with a 900p 20" monitor and I was sick of it so I bought a sketchy 4k monitor off of ebay for 130 bucks...

and by "future proof" I obviously don't mean for ever I know the 6700HQ will bottleneck, but just saying it would be nice to actually upgrade laptop GPU's and get more than 4 years out of a 2k$ """gaming """ laptop.

my new laptop acer aspire v nitro black 2016 (VN7-592G-70EN) i7 6700 660M 16G Ram 128 m2 ssd <--- looks like the sata flavor :( removed the 1tb hdd for a samsung 500gb ssd thunderbolt 3 So I picked this up for my gaming rig hoping that it will work with the razer core because of the thunderbolt...

There is a GT 610 on sale for 35 bucks I think I am just going to pick that up tomorrow, that should handle 1080 youtube at least.

So I have been out of the PC building game for a long time but my step brother who knows nothing about computers asked me to make him a box. All the guy wants is a PC to watch some youtube videos in his shop so I told him we can go super cheap. he went on line and picked up AMD A6-7400K...