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gash2024

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gash2024

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I am desperate to get something that can play games again, i really don't know if laptops are worth a look at as my current one doesn't impress me much.
I am limited to space though, with a second child on the way i only have the option of putting it in the lounge/dinning room so space will be tight.
If iam to be honest i don't really want to spend much more than £600 for the lot.
 
Come up with this, hopefully the gpu will fit, will you need a operating system.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 Game £134.98
(£114.88) £134.98
(£114.88)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99) £111.61
(£94.99)
Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F Evolution Aluminium Micro-ATX Case - Black £79.99
(£68.08) £79.99
(£68.08)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £59.98
(£51.05) £59.98
(£51.05)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
(£39.99)
Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-500CXUK) £44.99
(£38.29) £44.99
(£38.29)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Samsung SH-S223L 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA Optical Drive - Retail Box Black £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £452.30
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £81.21
Total : £545.26
 
See thats the thing about laptops that put me off, screen size. I love strat games, COH being a real favourite and i used to play that on a 24 inch :D
 
RJC said:
Come up with this, hopefully the gpu will fit, will you need a operating system.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 Game £134.98
(£114.88) £134.98
(£114.88)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99) £111.61
(£94.99)
Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F Evolution Aluminium Micro-ATX Case - Black £79.99
(£68.08) £79.99
(£68.08)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £59.98
(£51.05) £59.98
(£51.05)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
(£39.99)
Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-500CXUK) £44.99
(£38.29) £44.99
(£38.29)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Samsung SH-S223L 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA Optical Drive - Retail Box Black £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £452.30
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £81.21
Total : £545.26
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No lappy will match that for performance. And its a great, compact gaming rig.
 
ms2010 said:
Although I can't comment from personal experience, as I don't own one, I wouldn't totally rule out gaming laptops.

Yes they are most likely going to be more expensive than thier desktop counterparts , but the specifications of some of them is reasonably impressive.

Take this one as an example , although over your £600 budget
Asus N52JV-EX342V 15.6" WLED TFT Intel I5-450M, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GT325M 1GB GDDR3 Graphics, Win7 Home Premium
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Impressive? Thats a dual core, with a graphics card suitable perhaps for a low powered game on medium graphics - all for the amazing price of £800!! :eek:
 
Cookeh said:
Impressive? Thats a dual core, with a graphics card suitable perhaps for a low powered game on medium graphics - all for the amazing price of £800!! :eek:
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I said reasonably impressive and picked an example around the OP's budget.
Yes if your serious about PC gaming you can get a lot more for your money buying / building a desktop PC.

However my point being you can't rule out the gaming laptop's as an option totally off the bat , without even having a look at whats available. Especially if space is an issue.
And the ones around £1000+ are abit more well equipped.

Still personally for gaming I'd build a desktop, still wouldn't mind a good spec laptop for when I'm away from home.
 
I am afraid the spec is going to have to come down a bit, adding an operating system is going to push the price over £600 so the boss won't approved of it :(
 
Going off RJC's spec :

The rig is currently £6 cheaper due to the Phenom X4 955 being in this week only at £105 now.

But you can knock the Processor down to this :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-259-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=803

Saving a further £30 without greatly harming the gaming performance.
That brings you to £515.

You can change the graphics card to this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-068-GI

Again, it's slower but not by a lot, maybe even less than you can notice in use.
at £117.50, saving you £17.50
That brings you to £497.50

The operating system you will want will be this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-127-MS&groupid=33&catid=1555&subcat=

at £82

Finally, I would change the PSU for this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-146-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1088

despite a lower wattage than the corsair specced, it meets the higher bronze 80+ rating that the corsair doesn't and delivers all it's 30A on a single 12v rail, which is definately enough for the graphics card I specced.

This rig is only slightly downgraded and will still destroy even a 'gaming' laptop of much higher price.
 
gash2024 said:
What are these mini cases like, do they suffer with heat problems much and is it bad enough to have a noticeable effect on performance.
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Having had a Silverstone SUGO case I can vouch that it is quite a nice little case and very nicely designed.

Cooling wise obviously you can't expect to have a mammoth CPU cooler but aside from that if you're good with your cables you can still get a decent overclockable system from it.

If you're going for a gaming gfx card check which model SUGO you're going for though. I bought a GTX260 (back in the day) along with a SUGO model E and found the card was too long, however this was a new problem which SS addressed and promptly sent me a replacement SUGO model F which fitted it quite nicely :)
 
I should have said that i already have a monitor :)
Is windows 7 that much different to vista, i have a copy of vista 64 that i was planning to put on the laptop to make the most of the 4gb it has but would it really be worth buying windows 7 over vista?
The case would be this one, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-013-SV
As for cooling would i be stuck with a stock fan or is it possible to put something decent in.
 
Well, W7 does use less 'power' leaving more free for your applications.
But if you already have vista 64-bit, and building on a budget, I see no reason not to use it!
 
I have just placed my order with the following adjustments, G card will be an Asus GTX 460, Antec high power 400W and i am going to take the risk with a Phenom dual core so fingers crossed it will give me 4 cores.
Thanks for all the help ;)
 
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