$370 vs $5000 Fortnite Laptop Challenge #Helpful Post

hey guys Zhou Stein Fortnite is the

hottest game out right now and recently

I did a video trying to run fortnight on

a 200 lap top however after that video

I've had a ton of questions asking what

is a good laptop to actually play for a

night with so here are going to be four

of my favourite laptops at a wide range

of budgets starting at 370 dollars this

is the 2018 Acer Aspire 815 it's

actually the follow-up to the most

popular laptop on Amazon that I recently

took a look at essentially what you're

getting here is no an update to the

eighth generation of core processors but

also some key upgrades that are gonna

help on the graphics side inside you're

getting an Intel Core i3 8130 you know

bump me up to the 8th generation of core

processors means that while this is

still going to be dual-core they've

added turbo boost basically meaning that

as opposed to your processor being

limited like 2.5 gigahertz or so this

guy will boost up to 3.4 gigahertz all

day long this guy's also rocking dual

channel memory now that was an option on

the previous model but you actually had

to go and upgrade yourself whereas this

has 6 gigabytes of ddr3 memory out of

the box now the idea that is ddr3 is a

little bit of a disappointment but the

important thing is is that because we

have integrated graphics dual channel

memory is going to make a big difference

you need all the bandwidth you can give

to that internal GPU we consider that

you're spending less than 400 ollars the

rest of the laptop actually isn't going

to be too bad hardware wise so you're

going to be getting a 15.6 inch 1080p

panel it's not going to be super high

res or super high quality but again for

the budget not complaining at all you're

getting a good trackpad getting a decent

keyboard and you're getting a wide

selection of ports including nella USB C

with Ethernet and USB a and well ok I'm

just saying all this because I really

want to show you that this guy still has

a DVD drive something that pretty rare

on laptops these days so for 380 bucks

got a little bit of everything so of

course you should keep your expectations

in check with this laptop we're going to

need to turn the settings down well

we're gonna turn them all down actually

so it's like for tonight we have all of

our settings cranked down and we were

running at 600 P but the important thing

to mention is that this is a $370 laptop

there we are getting a pretty consistent

30 frames per second in no no it's not

going to be the best way of playing the

game at all but importantly we are

actually able to play it with the idea

that we are spending so

little and running on a laptop which is

so cheap and yet we're still getting a

playable for tonight experience is

pretty impressive it does this a little

something about how epic was able to

optimize the game to really get it to be

playable on such a wide range of

hardware now of course there are some

other things that you're going to notice

when you're playing on the fence

actually not going to be too loud on

this laptop but the screens viewing

angles are fairly narrow so you do want

to make sure that's pretty much going to

be dead-on okay I had to turn it to make

sure it looks good on camera not to my

eyes but the important thing is look

it's for tonight we're playing it 34

frames per second however say that your

budget is a little bit higher than three

hundred and seventy dollars well that's

where this comes in the Acer Aspire five

has to be confused with the aspire B 15

we're just taking a look at now if you

guys have watched the channel for any

length of time you'll know that I really

really like this laptop spending that

extra money is going to get us a huge

upgrade to pretty much all aspects of

performance here so first of all we're

going to be going up from a core i3 to a

core i5 on this laptop that means that

we're going from dual core 2 quad core

processor which is a huge boon well

basically everything but especially when

it comes to gaming 4 cores is going to

be helpful

the real secret sauce here though is the

NX 150 NVIDIA GPU inside they're going

from integrated to dedicated graphics

even is something that's going to be

fairly modest like this is a huge

difference when it comes to gaming on

Fortnight as you'll see our settings are

going to be much higher than 600 P with

everything turned down with 30 frames

for seconds at least I really hope so

because I've played this before and it

was much better I come suddenly doubting

my own videos like wait this is this was

faster right but what if it's not faster

and I look dumb the rest of the laptop

is going to be pretty much the same as

far as hardware goes there are some

slight tweaks but the keyboard the

trackpad the screen are all going to be

fairly similar but there are some other

improvements on the internals here

including we go from 6 to 8 gigabytes of

RAM and thankfully instead of having a

slow mechanical hard drive this does

come standard with a 256 gigabyte SSD

jib akin to Fortnight and this is a much

much better experience so not only were

able to bump the resolution from 600 P

to 1080 P but also importantly we were

able to bump up the settings from very

low and turning everything off to a

pretty respectable medium set

and as you guys can see performance is

not going to be bad we're averaging in

the neighborhood of 40 45 frames per

second here now don't get me wrong if

all you have is 300 Evan T dollars

you're going to be able to game on the

other Acer but for my money spending

$200 more to go from barely being able

to run the game on minimum settings does

something that's going to be downright

playable for pretty much anyone is kind

of worth it as far as I'm concerned and

of course this is going to apply to more

than just playing fortnight so how do

you data Kay GPU as well as a quad-core

CPU means that this actually can do a

bit of video editing

maybe nothing too intense or a lot of 4k

stuff but it is going to have the power

and it's going to have the RAM to handle

that and on top of that all of this

stuff including the CPU and the GPU is

going to be very helpful when it comes

to you know other games that are not for

tonight as if anyone still plays those I

really hope you guys can tell how much

better experience this is it really is

kind of hard to justify spending that

much more money than $600 when you can't

get something this this playable now

yeah we're going to be losing a few

things so we're running in the mid 40s

on the frame rate so if we did want to

get that solid 1080p60 experience

especially with higher settings as you

guys will see in a minute we do have to

spend a bit more money but I think for

the most part this is going to be

totally playable and most importantly

you know we're not gonna die because it

decides to run it 10 frames per second

in the middle of a battle which

definitely doesn't happen to the other

one at all imagine those that you have

yourself a massive budget of $1,000 to

spend on your gaming laptop or more

specifically 950 dollars with that you

can get the brand-new Dell g3 gaming

laptop this is a really interesting

mid-range option so on the inside you're

getting some very high-end internals but

on the outside you're getting something

that looks a little bit more budget so

it's made out of plastic it's got a

1080p display but don't let looks fool

you this guy has the absolute specs to

handle games like fortnight and much

more inside you're going to find a brand

new Intel Core i7 8750 H there's a full

6 cores to work with this is almost

going to be overkill for current games

certainly for fortnight so what that

extra power is going to allow you to do

is fairly high-end video editing as well

as stuff like streaming stuff like that

is really going to be very taxing on the

CPU so having a full 6 cores to work

with is going to make multitasking and

streaming super easy

of course you're also going to be able

to play some pretty high-end games as

well inside the g3 is rocking a GTX 1050

TI

now this is not going to be a crazy high

end GPU but it's going to be very much

in the mid-range and importantly for

what we're going to be doing it's going

to be plenty for that 1080p display

which I will mention is much nicer than

the ones on the much cheaper Acer's it's

still not going to blow you away doesn't

have any like g-sync or anything like

high refresh rates but importantly the

display is definitely not garbage down

which is always appreciate when you're

spending almost a thousand dollars

interestingly Dell offers this and a

fairly wide range of colors so in

addition to the standard black did you

find on most gaming laptops you can get

it in this which is blue or you can get

it in a white and blue which honestly

kind of feel like I should have went

with instead but on top of that you're

also going to be able to get blue on the

inside and what is really cool is that

even the backlighting on the keyboard is

blue it definitely stands out compared

to pretty much any other black and red

gaming laptop out there don't expect any

major surprises when it comes to the

rest of the hardware it is made of

plastic so it's not going to be the most

solid feeling laptop on the world but

there's nothing really that makes me

worry the keyboard is decent the tripod

is actually surprisingly nice and

importantly you are going to get the

rest of the internals to back up that

awesome processor and decent graphics

card a gigabytes of RAM which can easily

be expanded up to 16 gigabytes as well

as a 128 gigabyte SSD that is backed up

with a one terabyte hard drive jump into

fortnight and here at 1080p on high

settings

the g3 actually does a pretty decent job

so right now we're averaging between 40

to 50 frames per second it's a little

bit higher right now since I'm looking

at rocks but this is going to be a

playable experience now what you'll

notice is that while this is definitely

not the huge jump up that it was going

from the integrated graphics to the MX

150 as someone's chasing me and about to

shoot me um but this is going to be a

noticeable difference and especially

when you're playing other games that are

well not fortnight that extra GPU

resource is going to be very helpful

know there may be dance no no no

performance though is actually really

nice here now the difference between

medium and high settings is actually

fairly noticeable you kind of think

about it is like going from ps4 to a ps4

pro or something you're not getting that

same resolution boost but you are

getting what's still a pretty smooth

experience that

is not really going to be held back too

much by performance if high settings

aren't good enough for you though may I

interest you in this the assuit are OGG

703 aka a $5,000 gaming laptop that will

crush everything so not only is this

going to be one of the biggest and

heaviest laptops that have ever taken a

look at for the specs inside are going

to be absolutely ridiculous

inside the asou is rocking the core I

989 50 HK not only is this going to be

the first core I never put into a laptop

but it is obscenely fast so while it's

still going to be six core like the core

i7 model but it is going to clock way

way higher this one specifically has

been overclocked to four point eight

gigahertz keep mind I'm talking about a

laptop here a six core 4.8 gigahertz

laptop that my friends is ridiculous

overkill at its finest also inside this

beast is a full GT X 1080 graphics card

64 gigabytes of RAM 3 SSDs and raid as

well as well some future back problems

if you want to carry this with you every

day it is a little bit large some would

say a little bit ridiculous others would

say kind of perfect I would say this my

friends is the way that fortnight was

meant to be played so of course we have

full epic settings here because this is

going to be a 17.3 inch 1080p panel

we're going to be able to not only max

out the resolution but also the

framerate so this is a 144 Hertz g-sync

panel and we're actually being able to

pretty much fully saturate

right now I'm running between 130 and

140 frames per second on full max

settings on my 5 custom helper laptop

how I mention that this thing is

ridiculous yet so there's gonna be a

couple major upgrades between $1000

laptop which most people consider to be

very high-end and something that's going

to be this completely insane first of

all of course we're running on full epic

settings and you actually do notice a

difference in the graphical settings

have definitely been turned up but

almost more important than that we get a

much smoother experience all the other

laptops have 60 Hertz panels and while

they look nice running at something like

a 120 130 frames per second is so so

much smoother

so what you're gonna find here is that

knowledge is a response time going to be

faster but just everything about it is

just buttery smooth it's kind of hard to

see the cross on a YouTube video where

we're obviously not recording in such a

high frame rate but in person it looks

absolutely insane you're such a contrast

in the beginning this video I was

playing on a $370 laptop with integrated

graphics running on minimum settings

like 30 frames per second and now we're

playing on one of the most expensive

laptops in the world with the highest

settings across the board on fortnight

and yeah it's a slightly different

experience I got to say so there you

have it the best laptops to play

fortnight with in 2018 so of course

there's good budget options there's some

really good options in the middle or if

you want to be totally insane and show

off to all your friends you can start

saving $5,000 now