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Any laptop gaming users in the house?
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Greg Erata
#1 - 2014-05-31 02:08:09 UTC
I'm getting ready to take on a "promotion," at work that's going to see me travel quite a bit. I have a $1000 stipend to help furnish a laptop for my jet setting troubles and i'm willing to throw another couple hundred bucks at the thing if it's worth it. Can anyone suggest a laptop that's relatively EVEworthy or give me the low-down on the current generation of mobile gpu's? I haven't owned a laptop since I got rid of my ancient thinkpad (T60) a few years ago, and googling has resulted in the usual (overpriced) alienware and boutique stuff that's probably overkill for my purposes.

Budget as I mentioned is <$1300 or so. I'd prefer a 17'' screen. TIA
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#2 - 2014-05-31 02:21:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
I've had IBM (386sx), Gateway Pentium, and right now a Toshiba Satellite and an HP. I'd say look into HP, they are doing very well with current models.

My next one will most likely be a convertible (laptop/tablet). I'm just waiting for the coming next gen tech improvements on SSD integrations, if I can hold out that long.

I'm in it for the money

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Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2014-05-31 04:09:13 UTC
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#4 - 2014-05-31 04:38:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Mina Sebiestar
After some looking around this is what i ordered week ago

Specs / price

Pictures / site

i downgraded hard drive from SSD+HD to just 7200rpm HD

Ram from 16gb to 8gb and few other things like killer lan for normal because i don't need it at start and will upgrade it later for pocket change.

Case is ~ 2y old (not the coolest looking) but sturdy and sporting separate fans for gpu and cpu making it viable for any resemblance of serious gaming.

New 800 Nvidia gpu with 6gb of it own memory is making it future proof even now game like titan fall warning that some options checked require up to 4gb from gpu.

Pulls most games on ultra.

Next to best mobile cpu.

I say it has bang for a buck aldo it doesn't have fancy lights and other current gizmos.

Oh it is basically some Japanese brand forget its name,those dudes didn't run promo when i was purchasing.

You choke behind a smile a fake behind the fear

Because >>I is too hard
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#5 - 2014-05-31 08:37:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
I don't think I'd buy a laptop w/o an SSD at this point. SSD is like a greater discovery than sliced bread - for a laptop. When I replaced the HHD with an SSD on my satellite, it hardly runs the fan any longer, hardly any heat at all underneath apart from a little memory slot warmth. Plus it's a laptop, and the HHD can be destroyed with even a slight bump in the wrong way, where SSD doesn't have those problems. Then SSD is 10x faster. I run Ubuntu on that laptop, it boots in under two seconds, where before it was ~15 seconds to boot. Things that take ~12 seconds to load on my windows desktop with an HHD, load about instantly on the laptop. Then it takes less power to run, which means longer battery life. It's just too big of a difference to ignore. I don't want to suggest any specific systems, but definitely look what HP is offering, I've done some recent comparisons and like what they offer. I have an older HP, but I'm not a fan of any particular brand really regarding laptops, things are relative to the moment with them quite often. Do your research.

I'm in it for the money

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Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#6 - 2014-05-31 14:05:59 UTC
Check out MSI stuff, they have always offered excellent performance / $, also the casing is gaming specific so they do have better cooling solutions.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#7 - 2014-05-31 15:03:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834233022

1349 USD

1920 x 1080 screen
Intel Core i7 4700HQ @2.40GHz (4 physical, 8 logical cores with HT)
12GB DDR3
1TB HDD
128GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5

Le my thumbs 80% up.
(needs a replacement for that 4 GB DDR3 stick with a second 8 GB DDR3 stick for 16 GB total system RAM in dual channel mode, that's probably what, at most 50$ extra including inserting and resealing at their location before shipping?)

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#8 - 2014-05-31 20:28:36 UTC
Akita T wrote:

1TB HDD
128GB SSD

Really, I'd just dump the HHD and use at least a 256 SSD for a windows based laptop. Quite large enough if you don't fill it with useless files, or go a bit larger they are pretty cheap now. And not even a hybrid, those are the worst of both worlds. HHD's should be taken out and shot! ...of course that is only a problem for older laptops running SATA II's but current SSD's are backwards compatible with older SATA's so the upgrade is still worth it for all the other benefits if not best speed.

I'm in it for the money

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#9 - 2014-05-31 22:55:51 UTC
Depends what you keep on it. I have a grand total of 7 TB storage and only about 0.4 TB free. I'd feel claustrophobic with "only" 0.25 TB total.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#10 - 2014-05-31 23:48:28 UTC
Akita T wrote:
Depends what you keep on it. I have a grand total of 7 TB storage and only about 0.4 TB free. I'd feel claustrophobic with "only" 0.25 TB total.

You are better off using an external drive for storage, or another system set up as a cloud server. 256GB is plenty for playing games, room for often played music etc. I have a 1TB on my desktop, not even half full after two years, probably since I don't really file share. Those HHD's generate a lot of heat and kill the battery. SSD is a major break through for laptops imo, and getting much cheaper recently. My next desktop will be purely SSD, not so much for all the other benefits but from the speed of it no doubt.

I'm in it for the money

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Lord Silus Rolven
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-06-02 01:02:43 UTC
Laptop gamer and fellow jet-setter here. I can't recommend asus highly enough. The dual-fan design is worth it's weight in gold. The laptop is whisper quiet and plays eve at max settings like a champ. Replace the HDD with a decent SSD and you'll be golden. The only drawback I can say about this laptop is that the speakers are awful, but if you're like me there's very little time when you're using them instead of a headset.

Alternatively, wait and see what comes up at computex. I'm betting more laptop makers are going to follow suit with this setup and it's going to be glorious for us as consumers.