Paid £900 for this laptop off of a friend, good buy?

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Hi, I bought this laptop off of a friend (like new. Almost 1 month old) and just double checking I haven't made a huge mistake since inhave a lack of knowledge of the laptop benchmarks.
It's an MSI laptop,16gb ram, gtx 965m, I7-4720 with 128gb ssd and a one tb hdd. Also backlit keys and a 15 inch display.
So is it a decent price or could I have had better? Thanks in advance.
P.s. Would this run Fallout 4 on med to high graphics at a reasonable fps?
 
At 15" and the price I am guessing it's 1080p, so although you might struggle turning everything to max, FO4 should be fine.

Hope this helps
 
Similar spec ones around £1100 on OC, however they have 17" screen but less ram.
Would have thought it should cope with FO4 ok, though I'm not well up on laptops.
 
CapitalOne said:
At 15" and the price I am guessing it's 1080p, so although you might struggle turning everything to max, FO4 should be fine.

Hope this helps
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Justintime said:
1080p at least resolution? if its 720p i'd be unhappy
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It does, cheers capital.

Yeah it's 1080p. I had a quick look at the same model of the laptop and the cheapest coming up was 1k and the rest 1200 made me think it'd be a good buy since its practically new.
 
dholdi said:
Similar spec ones around £1100 on OC, however they have 17" screen but less ram.
Would have thought it should cope with FO4 ok, though I'm not well up on laptops.
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CapitalOne said:
Ok compared to this

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...tx960m-2gb-gddr5-gaming-laptop-lt-216-ms.html

I'd say £900 is fair to quite expensive. Still if you like it etc etc
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CapitalOne said:
Yes - edited to say "fair"

I am old and therefore expect all electronics to be worth 33% less the moent you open the box sorry!
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Haha. Fair point, it did come with the box though! I'll put a little tape on it
Justintime said:
He has more ram and i assume a 965 would be a better gpu, cpus are more or less the same performance.
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Good to hear on the cpu front.

Thanks a bunch guys. Even if there is a better laptop new I know that I've not been completely ripped off and have got what I paid for.
 
I would say this is leaning on the boundary of paying to much would have been easy to find a similar CPU and a 970m for that sort of money.

Though as long as it works

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-15.6" Chassis
-Full HD Matte LED Screen
-Intel Core i7 4710MQ 2.5HZ with turbo boost to 3.5GHZ
-16GB DDR3
-Nvidia 980M 8GB
-Samsung 840 EVO 256GB

was/is on the members market for 950 so the gpu upgrade I would definitely say that it seems you over payed imho
 
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I'm hoping they've given you the original invoice for the warranty. Personally I would have spent a little more and gone for a brand new one. Especially as OCUK is doing a lot of today only deals on laptops. I expect £950 would get a better brand new laptop on Black Friday.
 
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