skyfire Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Acer seems to be getting good with the Aspire series. Never thought it would be a good gaming machine. This configuration seems like a good pick for gamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 TO be fair, the Acer Predator gaming laptops are heavily underrated as they're powerful, has excellent battery life and are very durable and is very affordable. Acer Aspire laptops are great bang for the buck as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 Yeah acer aspires are like TUF of asus. which are cheaper than ROG but like good price for specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 I've been hearing that those CPUs without a dedicated graphics card are quite demanding of your RAM so upgrading the Rams should get substantially better benchmarks. Honestly for the price this seems like a pretty solid option. Mobile streaming with software encoding and it seems like the CPU has enough "oomph" to do that well enough. Pretty good bang for the buck it seems. Being able to play most library of old Steam games and handle emulation well is just icing on the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 15 hours ago, Empire said: I've been hearing that those CPUs without a dedicated graphics card are quite demanding of your RAM so upgrading the Rams should get substantially better benchmarks. Honestly for the price this seems like a pretty solid option. Mobile streaming with software encoding and it seems like the CPU has enough "oomph" to do that well enough. Pretty good bang for the buck it seems. Being able to play most library of old Steam games and handle emulation well is just icing on the cake. I do think this would be best for an emulation machine and older games. I'd say AOE 2 and 3 would be perfect for this machine - maybe some Rocket League and CS:GO and could handle GTA V at medium settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 For streaming with this device and the 32GB setup of RAM would handle it pretty easily. Even some mid level graphics settings can work with most of the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 18 hours ago, skyfire said: For streaming with this device and the 32GB setup of RAM would handle it pretty easily. Even some mid level graphics settings can work with most of the games. And as a added bonus, they could do some light to medium video editing with this machine so it's absolutely fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 I think with some normal apps like Filmora and Camtasia, they can do enough supported I suppose. But the adobe apps may give them a noisy machine during the export. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 On 8/10/2021 at 6:57 AM, skyfire said: I think with some normal apps like Filmora and Camtasia, they can do enough supported I suppose. But the adobe apps may give them a noisy machine during the export. I do think Adobe Apps like Premiere and After Effects might be too much for this machine but things like photoshop and Lightroom will fare much better with those budget specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 I am sure it would work fine for photoshops and after effect. It's not that resource hungry if you have 16GB base RAM and graphics 4GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 On 8/24/2021 at 3:53 AM, skyfire said: I am sure it would work fine for photoshops and after effect. It's not that resource hungry if you have 16GB base RAM and graphics 4GB. Recently, Adobe apps have started to become increasingly GPU and CPU resource intensive especially more recent versions so that's why I'm mentioning that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 Yeah but my ASUS TUF laptops are keeping up with the Adobe stack as the graphics and game dev is what I do on the side apart from the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
