Submitted 1 hour ago by PlanchettePhantom@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I’m thinking of buying a cheaper laptop that has Ryzen 7 in it. I’m the type of guy who only plays simple games that don’t require the latest and greatest machinery to operate. I just like dungeon crawlers, RPG maker games, and other simple concept games.
No you could die, depending on the difficulty of the game.
No, Nvidia will send a goon squad to your home.
Is this how Jensen sources the leather for his jackets?
It’s human leather? OMG IT’S HUMAN LEATHER
It is safe. You just might be limited in the games you can run.
Safe? Yes.
It’s not like the thing will break if you demand a lot from it. At the very worst, if even throttling doesn’t help the computer to regulate temperature, what you will experience is an emergency shutdown.
I tried playing games so much more demanding than my hardware that I had 3 SPF… Not 3 FPS (frames per second) buy 3 SPF (3 seconds per frame… Took 3 for one frame to render) the game was unplayable but PC was okay.
Reminds me of when I first tried to play Quake (I think? some old arena FPS) over dialup. I tried for a few minutes hoping my ping would even out. At one point I had ~4,500 ping. That’s 4.5 seconds between my input affection what I saw on the screen. Needless to say, I was often gibbed before I got to see my inputs manifest.
you’ll be fine, computers dont catch fire if you overload them unless something is very VERY wrong, which would be its own issue
you’ll likely just run into some game performance issues if you play something too demanding. simple games run fine on anything modern :)
My framework 13 has a Ryzen 5 7640U with only the integrated graphics and I’ve yet to find a game it can’t run decently. It gives me maybe a little over half the performance of my desktop with a Ryzen 7 5700X and Radeon 6650XT, so I can usually run anything on my laptop at 30fps if I can run it on my desktop at 60.
absolutely… but you may need to turn down graphics settings in-game. also make sure you don’t block the ventilation–most have intakes on the bottom and output the side or the back of the base.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Every computer is a gaming computer. Some are just more capable than others.
A Ryzen 7 should be able to do light gaming without any trouble.