Laptop

[SnowBurst]

I could never, ever recommend getting a laptop for gaming; in my opinion, its just not practical. You end up paying for parts that are blown at the the water by comparable Desktop parts, (overpaying, at that) You have no room for upgrades. The battery lifes are relatively crappy so you'll be tethered to a wall while you play anyway. I would recommend getting a decent netbook and then a Gaming Desktop. I know you asked for laptops, but I could never give someone advice on something I believe is a scam.

this vaio which isnt even mid range 2 years ago runs bf3 on low at 30fps so a high end today will do good for a good few years and nvidia are releasing gpu's for like £190 or something i know i read they are releasing them new for that price think high end aswell which is making amd shit them selves lol

 

[SnowBurst]

Given that I could build two or three decent gaming desktops for the price of a high-end gaming laptop - or 80 to 120 Model A Raspberry Pis [www.raspberrypi.org], I think you'd be a fool to buy one, especially given their tendency to overheat, the terrible life of their batteries and their rapid obsolescence with little chance to upgrade. Not to mention that the likes of an NVIDIA GeForce GT 680M is not equivalent to a desktop GT 680; in fact, it's less powerful than a 660Ti.

obv the 680m isnt as powerfull as a desktop version. out of curiosity if i were to take ure advice and actually built a desktop how cud i get it so it works like a laptop ie having keyboard and display in a neat format so it can go on ure lap, basicly cuz i use the laptop down in the living room i was thinking put the desktop down by the chair n such

 

[SnowBurst]

A few simple tips to managing your heat (Which will be a problem)

1. Get a cooling peripheral.
2. Turn on any fans or colling devices in the room
3. Adjust your thermostat. Keep the house a few degrees cooler than normal.
4.Try to limit the length of your gaming sessions. Take regular breaks to give your laptop the chance to cool off before it gets too warm.

wont be a problem cuz i have tht sorted

 

[SnowBurst]

Ignore those who said don't bother as they obviously aren't interested in what you asked for.

The best laptops are usually MSI or Clevo models as they are highly customisable and sold through resellers at bargain prices. BTW these contain Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) Graphics Cards which CAN be upgraded so long as the Motherboard and CPU support it (just like any desktop).

I currently own a "SkyFire II" which is an MSI GT70 with an i7-3610QM (2.3GHZ Quad-Core) and an NVidia GeForce GTX 670M. Runs Crysis 1&2 on max without any trouble.

good man a proper answer lol but crysis 1 n 2 isnt really the benchmarks atm bf3 is more of a hardware tester atm crysis 3 will be when it comes out but ye i was looking at a msi gt60 with a 680 never heard of clevo ill give them a look

 

[jwonno]

Ignore those who said don't bother as they obviously aren't interested in what you asked for.

The best laptops are usually MSI or Clevo models as they are highly customisable and sold through resellers at bargain prices. BTW these contain Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) Graphics Cards which CAN be upgraded so long as the Motherboard and CPU support it (just like any desktop).

I currently own a "SkyFire II" which is an MSI GT70 with an i7-3610QM (2.3GHZ Quad-Core) and an NVidia GeForce GTX 670M. Runs Crysis 1&2 on max without any trouble.

good man a proper answer lol but crysis 1 n 2 isnt really the benchmarks atm bf3 is more of a hardware tester atm crysis 3 will be when it comes out but ye i was looking at a msi gt60 with a 680 never heard of clevo ill give them a look

Indeed BF3 would be a better benchmark, if I had it to test

 

[JWRosser]

I'm going through the same thing; my laptop apparently can't play Guild Wars 2 very well, which is most upsetting. However I think I'm going to build my own desktop instead. I know I'm sacrificing mobility, but at the end of the day, it's probably better value for what you get, and also my laptop tends to get crazy when playing something like Minecraft or any other game...

Problem is I know little about this kind if thing. Ah, I remember back in the day when I was good with computers...

 

[RyQ_TMC]

I have one important warning: DON'T go for Alienware. I bought a laptop from them once. Ran great for about a year, then started shitting all over itself. I spent most of the next two years fighting different hardware issues which started to crop up (and their tech support was shit), in the end I said "screw it" and switched to a console + non-gaming laptop (a solution which has problems of its own, I admit).

So yeah, don't get an Alienware laptop. Maybe I was extremely unlucky, but that was my experience with them.

 

[SnowBurst]

Going to buy a gaming laptop, has to be a laptop. Need suggestions for good high end laptops like the best and any new ones coming out and any new gpu's coming out soon dekstop and laptop versions (before 2013).

Mine is the HP dv6 Notebook and it cost me around $700. It runs every game I play at 50-60fps.

1.9Ghz 4 core Processor
1.5GB Dual video cards
6 Gigs of RAM (20Gig Paging File)
700GB Hard Drive
1366X768 Max Resolution (VGA and HDMI port to attach 1920X1080 monitors and TV's)

I bought this in September of last year. Hope that gives you some comparisant to new laptops and prices.

General rule of thumb, different makers charge different prices for equal specs. HP would charge $700 for my laptop, but DELL would charge $1300 for a computer of the same specs, while Apple would charge $1800.

IMHO HP and Acer have the best price for higher specs, with Toshiba coming in second. Sony and Dell are rather overprices, and Apple has the worst prices.

1.9ghz isnt good tbh 2.3ghz wud be the minimum imo

Eh, runs everything on max settings (except for WoW and SWTOR which run on High and Medium)

dude if ure laptop cant run wow on max a game that came out in what 2003? i doubt itll be able to run bf3 even on low. i have a 5470 laptop version with a 2.3ghz i3 n it only barely runs bf3 n runs wow on max and swtor n in general 2.3 is the low end scale. what cpu is that?

 

[SnowBurst]

I have one important warning: DON'T go for Alienware. I bought a laptop from them once. Ran great for about a year, then started shitting all over itself. I spent most of the next two years fighting different hardware issues which started to crop up (and their tech support was shit), in the end I said "screw it" and switched to a console + non-gaming laptop (a solution which has problems of its own, I admit).

So yeah, don't get an Alienware laptop. Maybe I was extremely unlucky, but that was my experience with them.

well i know alienware are shit theyre now just dell's gaming series

 

[SnowBurst]

I'm going through the same thing; my laptop apparently can't play Guild Wars 2 very well, which is most upsetting. However I think I'm going to build my own desktop instead. I know I'm sacrificing mobility, but at the end of the day, it's probably better value for what you get, and also my laptop tends to get crazy when playing something like Minecraft or any other game...

Problem is I know little about this kind if thing. Ah, I remember back in the day when I was good with computers...

i know a fair amount about desktops. cpu's go for a quad core i5 or i7 intelud be minimum because games start to ask tht for minimum and invest in the latest graphics card itll pay off in the end i think the nvidia gtx 690 is out and thats their latest but i read their releasing card really cheap dno if their high end but its making ati worry but i had a 8400 nvidia ages ago n it was shit compared to an ati i got later

 

[SnowBurst]

Ignore those who said don't bother as they obviously aren't interested in what you asked for.

The best laptops are usually MSI or Clevo models as they are highly customisable and sold through resellers at bargain prices. BTW these contain Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) Graphics Cards which CAN be upgraded so long as the Motherboard and CPU support it (just like any desktop).

I currently own a "SkyFire II" which is an MSI GT70 with an i7-3610QM (2.3GHZ Quad-Core) and an NVidia GeForce GTX 670M. Runs Crysis 1&2 on max without any trouble.

good man a proper answer lol but crysis 1 n 2 isnt really the benchmarks atm bf3 is more of a hardware tester atm crysis 3 will be when it comes out but ye i was looking at a msi gt60 with a 680 never heard of clevo ill give them a look

Indeed BF3 would be a better benchmark, if I had it to test

its a gpu killer lol i dno how i got this mobility 5470 to run it on low, i told EA it wouldnt work n they gave me bad company 2 for free and fixed bf3 lol

 

[Destal]

The Asus G-70 series are great gaming laptops that aren't too expensive. I use a three year old one and it still runs everything at the highest settings, minus anti-aliasing.

 

[maninahat]

Ignore those who said don't bother as they obviously aren't interested in what you asked for.

The best laptops are usually MSI or Clevo models as they are highly customisable and sold through resellers at bargain prices. BTW these contain Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) Graphics Cards which CAN be upgraded so long as the Motherboard and CPU support it (just like any desktop).

I currently own a "SkyFire II" which is an MSI GT70 with an i7-3610QM (2.3GHZ Quad-Core) and an NVidia GeForce GTX 670M. Runs Crysis 1&2 on max without any trouble.

Thank you. I'm interested in getting a new laptop too, and all the people in this thread saying "get a desktop instead" really aren't helping. A desktop isn't workable in my circumstances, so if people could just stick to OPs criteria, they would be helping me out too.

Let's assume that I don't want to get the most powerful laptop, but something more middle ranged and able to run new games at least on average settings. Who's best to go with? I'm looking for something i5 and Nvidia.

 

[Hazy992]

Well, how big is your budget?

didnt say i was looking at a budget lol i just wana no whats the best out there so i can compare

Well if you've got money to burn you could always configure this [http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-Elite/] with a quad core i7, dual 680M's, 16GB of RAM and an SSD or something, but that's gonna cost you over £2,000. I really wouldn't recommend that though.

 

[squidface]

My advice, from a purely monetary angle, is to buy a new desktop instead if you want to game. You can often get a regular desktop which will run games like a badass for equal or sometimes half the price of a super gaming laptop. You'll save yourself a lot of money, it'll be better quality, and will most likely last longer too.

 

[SnowBurst]

The Asus G-70 series are great gaming laptops that aren't too expensive. I use a three year old one and it still runs everything at the highest settings, minus anti-aliasing.

ye AA is a ***** to hardware i can never handle more then 4x

 

[SnowBurst]

The Asus G-70 series are great gaming laptops that aren't too expensive. I use a three year old one and it still runs everything at the highest settings, minus anti-aliasing.

ye AA is a ***** to hardware i can never handle more then 4x

Ignore those who said don't bother as they obviously aren't interested in what you asked for.

The best laptops are usually MSI or Clevo models as they are highly customisable and sold through resellers at bargain prices. BTW these contain Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) Graphics Cards which CAN be upgraded so long as the Motherboard and CPU support it (just like any desktop).

I currently own a "SkyFire II" which is an MSI GT70 with an i7-3610QM (2.3GHZ Quad-Core) and an NVidia GeForce GTX 670M. Runs Crysis 1&2 on max without any trouble.

Thank you. I'm interested in getting a new laptop too, and all the people in this thread saying "get a desktop instead" really aren't helping. A desktop isn't workable in my circumstances, so if people could just stick to OPs criteria, they would be helping me out too.MSI are a brilliant make nothing bad from what ive read just alienware is over priced but Sager and MSI and ASUS are best bet so far

Let's assume that I don't want to get the most powerful laptop, but something more middle ranged and able to run new games at least on average settings. Who's best to go with? I'm looking for something i5 and Nvidia.

 

[SnowBurst]

Well, how big is your budget?

didnt say i was looking at a budget lol i just wana no whats the best out there so i can compare

Well if you've got money to burn you could always configure this [http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-Elite/] with a quad core i7, dual 680M's, 16GB of RAM and an SSD or something, but that's gonna cost you over £2,000. I really wouldn't recommend that though.

16gb ram is too much imo and 2k is too much imo i think the MSI GT60 with a 3rd gen i7 and a 680 is only 1.2k