Gaming Laptop, Suggestions?

[chadachada123]

Well im looking to get a decent high end gaming laptop for around £1,000 that i can get in the UK. MSI's GT60 looked good with the 3rd gen i7 and the 680m in it, sagers NP9370 looks best atm but is like £2,000. Mainly want it to be a great gaming laptop to play new released on ultra for a while n at least be able to run latest games on low at a decent frame rate for a good 5+ years. dont know whether a 650 will cut it with a i7 not sure. I have an ati 5series in this laptop atm which has done good for a while now but its showing age with a 1st gen i3.

Bit lost as to what are good gaming laptops. Desktop is out of the question because i need a laptop.

I'm from the US, but for 830 USD on sale (~510 BPD), I recently got an Acer laptop with a GeForce GTX 650m graphics card (two gig dedicated memory), 6gig RAM (4+2, with four slots total, upgradable to 16gig total), and a pretty good i7 quadcore.

It's not a behemoth, but it gets a consistent 40-60 frames in all but the most insane Battlefield 3 situations on mostly-ultra settings, and well over 150 frames in Minecraft consistent.

Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215410

I'd say to use this as a bit of a baseline, to know what level you want to go to and what level I'm at for my price.

I can play pretty much every new game at damn-high or max settings with a very nice framerate, and usually with V-Sync on too. The 17 inch screen is also damn-nice.

 

[SnowBurst]

Well im looking to get a decent high end gaming laptop for around £1,000 that i can get in the UK. MSI's GT60 looked good with the 3rd gen i7 and the 680m in it, sagers NP9370 looks best atm but is like £2,000. Mainly want it to be a great gaming laptop to play new released on ultra for a while n at least be able to run latest games on low at a decent frame rate for a good 5+ years. dont know whether a 650 will cut it with a i7 not sure. I have an ati 5series in this laptop atm which has done good for a while now but its showing age with a 1st gen i3.

Bit lost as to what are good gaming laptops. Desktop is out of the question because i need a laptop.

I'm from the US, but for 830 USD on sale (~510 BPD), I recently got an Acer laptop with a GeForce GTX 650m graphics card (two gig dedicated memory), 6gig RAM (4+2, with four slots total, upgradable to 16gig total), and a pretty good i7 quadcore.

It's not a behemoth, but it gets a consistent 40-60 frames in all but the most insane Battlefield 3 situations on mostly-ultra settings, and well over 150 frames in Minecraft consistent.

Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215410

I'd say to use this as a bit of a baseline, to know what level you want to go to and what level I'm at for my price.

I can play pretty much every new game at damn-high or max settings with a very nice framerate, and usually with V-Sync on too. The 17 inch screen is also damn-nice.

looks good for the money but a 650 is pushing it for longevity? also minecraft will run on anything lol

 

[chadachada123]

looks good for the money but a 650 is pushing it for longevity? also minecraft will run on anything lol

I can agree on a possible longevity issue, though for now at least it's well within my expectations.

As for Minecraft, hey, my last laptop was a piece of Dell shit (only three years old, too) that played Minecraft at 7-15 fps on its lowest settings. I always like mentioning that as an ego boost for myself, since I was so used to such comparably-deplorable gameplay.

 

[loc978]

Regardless of the laptop you get (I've heard Acer makes good ones lately), get a cooling pad for it. Preferably a refrigerated one with an external power supply.

Seriously, gaming laptops burn themselves up every goddamn time. If you can, find one that isn't bragging about being thin and light. Gaming hardware needs airflow, period.

...avoid Sony or HP like the plague. One tiny fan in the back of the system on one side only is not enough to cool the machine, even with a cooling pad (I type this on a "desktop replacement laptop" by HP from 2008. I can feel the video card heating up under my palm just playing flash video on this site).

 

[SnowBurst]

what im looking for is something thats worth buying for gaming though around £1k that means like upto 1.4k or something within reason tht gt60 looks perfect spec tbh i wud imagine a gtx680m wud last a while. any note worthy laptops coming out before january ie better gpu's? cuz if they do then the ones with a 680 will become cheaper i wud imagine

 

[loc978]

Just looked up your GT60... it looks like it will only have minor cooling issues, so it's not a bad choice when coupled with a good cooling pad.

Just don't move it too often.

Spoiler: here's why

see these hinges?

They will break on you eventually.

about three years of normal laptop use (opening and closing the lid a few times a day) will seize up those hinges. Worst case scenario: the left one is mounted into your CPU heatsink, and you'll need to replace that and the hinge.