(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I'm new to PC I use ps3 and 360 and my laptop just broke so I want to buy a new one but I also want to run GTA V what laptop is cheap and can run it

Glad to hear that you've made the transition to PC but I think its best to state your budget so others can help. Also, remember that laptops can be significantly more expensive than a desktop computer and that money could go towards better hardware to run the game at higher settings. My last bit of advice is to try and find a laptop with a dedicated graphics card (not integrated) as these will provide a huge gain in performance and will be worth every penny.

If you have any questions about hardware parts, brands, etc then feel free to ask me.

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define cheap £800 could be to me yet might be expensive to you whats your budget

Well, it just about runs on an HP Pavillion 15 (AMD A10 quad-core based with 8GB Ram and a Dual Graphics setup - Crossfire linked external on-MB Radeon GPU to the internal Radeon GPU in the APU). So given, at a very basic imagery settings, you can run it without needing the high-end GPU over an above the quad-core processor requirement, to be honest, you'll want to be looking at a quad-core laptop that has a mobile version of a GTX960 (or comparable Radeon mobile equiv) to make it run at more than SD image quality.

But you'll be paying for a laptop that'll be at least a third more expensive than it's desktop equiv - but given you'll be talking 'gaming laptop' market stuff, double that 'third more expensive' due to mark-ups.

I only put GTA V PC version on my HP to test it in principle not to actually use in anger. I use an octa-core desktop with factory o/clocked GTX960 for actual PC version use and even then i only use the PC version for modding experiments.

To be blunt about it, if you want Next-Gen/PC level features in GTA V, and modding isn't on your wishlist for the foreseeable future, then it's just a damn sight cheaper to buy an XBOne or PS4 for such gaming needs.

I only did the desktop PC upgrade (from a Hex-core system with a v. basic Nvidia PCI-E card) because it was cheaper to buy an off the shelf Gladiator PC that was GTA V ready than replace the m/b on the pre-built OEM PC when it came to the kind of memory/gpu/processor upgrades i wanted (GTA V had nothing to do with my reseach, but seeing a pre-built ready to ship 'custom' that was GTA V ready and met all the sane serious requirements was way too difficult to pass up on).

Now if GTA V had been built, as some suggested (myself included) elsewhere - as a self-contained OSbase/Game combination (effectively a semi-live 'SteamOS' type setup disc), so it had an optimal OS base that lost all the Windows excess baggage, it's base requirements would have been halved on the non-graphics side, An indicator of this can be found in the NG console versions, which only uses half the cores at best in practise and runs in a stripped down x64 based Win 10 environment (xbox one) or a similar UNIX based environment for the PS4 version.

Another clue to this, being the old PC versions of SEGA titles - they shared most of the files from the DreamCast versions, so to all intent and purposes almost ran in an semi-emulated Dreamcast/WIN CE based enviroment within Windows. If you had the means to make them direct boot (given a JEOS to run in), their PC spec requirements would have been halved. That said, i do so miss the simplicity of the DreamCast gaming days and hacking potential it had thanks to it's WIN CE basis.