Good gaming PC to run BeamNG on for 12 year old. Help me please

Hi guys

My son is obsessed with wanting to play BeamNG, he is saving like crazy to afford a gaming laptop that will be able to handle playing the game without it being slow and "glitchy" as he would say.

I am worried he will spend his hard saved money and not get the right thing and have a bad experience playing the game.

I know this must have been asked before but tech goes out of date so any new recommendations for either a product or a spec for a gaming laptop would be so helpful. (needs to be laptop as he moves between homes)

Thanks Forum
Marc

 

My dad didn't spend a lot of money when he bought mine some years ago, it was an office PC that I then customized into a low-end gaming PC.
The minimum pc for BeamNG for decent FPS: 4th Gen i5/i7, a GT 1030 GDDR5, 16GB of RAM, and a decent SSD should be enough for your son until he has the money to buy a gaming PC.
Mine is currently worth around €320, but depending on your budget and their price in your country, it may be more expensive for you.
Hope I gave you ideas.

 

What is your budget?

 

His budget is around £500 to £1000

 

From my own experience, I bought an MSI GF63 Thin 11UC with an RTX 3050 GPU, 16gb RAM and an 11th Gen Intel i7. It is considered as a LOW END gaming laptop, but for the budget I had it was a really good choice. I payed around 600€ off a sale but the laptop usually costed more like 700€...

When playing beamng I can get some pretty good FPS (Frames per second) which works just like a video: the lower FPS the more staggered the video looks, this is probably what your son is referring to when he says "glitchy". All of this when running with almost the best graphical settings available.

Prices have raised since then though, I still keep an eye on laptops and they hace become significantly more expensive. However my personal experience tells you the minimum specs a laptop should have for beamng are the following:

• 16GB RAM
• Intel i7 CPU (make sure to check the generation)
• NVIDIA RTX 2050 GPU or above/ a comparable NVIDIA GTX GPU

Please do not hesitate to ask for our opinion whenever you find a laptop that you like! We will look at it and tell you our advice!

 

That is so helpful thank you.
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would this look like a good one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CV1DV...pcg-gb-1412896139812977953-21&geniuslink=true

 

This laptop should be able to run BeamNG very well. I have one with slightly lower specs and I have no trouble with it.

 

I have it down to two now, this one

MSI Katana 15 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel® Core™ i7, RTX 4050, 1 TB SSD


or

LENOVO Legion Pro 5i Gen 8 16" Gaming Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7, RTX 4070, 1 TB SSD


Any thoughts

 

Both are more than sufficient lol

 

So I'd say you go with Intel CPU rather than AMD as I've heard there are sometimes issues in beamng with these CPUs, I'm not fully aware though.
HOWEVER, I've just looked into some reviews and thw MSI Katana is said to be "garbage". Apparently the build quality sucks, and I can confirm from my own MSI laptop that the screen hinges suck and might break at any moment. Also I've seen the performance is not good.

In the other hand, the Lenovo is said to be much better of a laptop and I gotta say Lenovo has never disappointed me. Much better build quality and performance, but keep in mind what I said about AMD cpus in Beamng. If anyone can confirm this please let it know here!

Hope this helps!
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Here a two reviews from laptop owners of each product:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegi...ion_pro_5i_i913900hx_rtx_4070_initial_review/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1c0gfaj/thoughts_on_the_msi_katana_15/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLapt...t_to_buy_an_msi_katana_15_am_i_making_a_good/

 

Buying a gaming laptop is always sketchy, because games that demand high performance, like BeamNG, will cause the laptop to get very hot very fast.
If any part on the laptop breaks (screen, motherboard, keyboard, trackpad, etc) you more often then not have to buy a completely new computer. You also cannot upgrade a laptop, so when hardware in the laptop becomes outdated, you cant swap out a newer part, as you could on a desktop.

I recommend you get the same specs as the laptop you would buy, in a desktop configuration
you can get a good prebuilt from Overclockers for around £750 and buy peripherals with the money leftover
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-rtx-4060-pre-built-gaming-pc-fs-pb06-ep.html

EDIT: as mentioned in the post under me, i had missed the part where he said it needed to be a laptop.
oops

 

Needs to be a laptop