BigCheese1986

Ideal. Thanks a lot for the help. Trigger pulled. National League North here I come!!

Do you think the 5600H machine is worth the extra £100 over the one you suggested at Currys? Thanks

Appreciate the reply Kev thanks. I thought that would be the case with the desktop. What are your thoughts on these? Using cashback, nectar points and some clever man maths I could justify stretching the budget to these if they are a big upgrade on the laptop you suggested. Looking at the benchmarks the 5600h looks like a better option but dont know if they extra cores in the 5700U make any difference https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1974441 https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9580198 As much as I can see the benefits of building a desktop I think a laptop makes more sense for a number of reasons. Easier to take a laptop to bed as well when I am on a good run and dont want to switch the game off and give the FM gods a chance to ruin my season. Cheers

Hi guys. Not played FM since 2020 and that was on my current laptop which is about 7/8 years old. It is an HP Pavilion with an i5-6200U with 8gb of RAM. It didn't perform too great with FM20 and is just generally bloated and very slow for everything so I think it is time for an upgrade so I can get back involved with the game I have loved for well over 20 years. My main saves tend to be long-term either starting in the bottom leagues of England or Scotland or full on journeyman style. I like to load a good number of leagues from around the world (most are view only), play with a large database with graphics packs and the 3d engine (happy to sacrifice graphics settings for performance). Given this is pretty much only for football manager I want to limit the spend so I am considering building a desktop to get more performance for my money but the portability of a laptop will give me much more time and flexibility to play. How well would this build deliver on what I would like: Ryzen 5 5600g MSI B550M Pro-VDH Wifi Corsair Vengeance 16gb DDR4-3600 Kingston NV2 1TB NVME SSD Total cost is showing as £418 including case and power supply. In the £400-500 range, how close to that performance could I get on a laptop and what do you think would be the best option? How much extra would I need to spend to get a significant performance improvement? Thanks a lot.