Best laptop for gaming for £600 or less?

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What laptop would give the best performance gaming wise for £600 or less? We spotted this one Toshiba Qosmio X70-A-12W but can the knowledgeable people in here tell me if there are any better options. Also what kind of games would this Toshiba X70 be capable of running? I suppose gtav on minimum settings would be out of the question

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This may need moving over to the laptop forum but here's my opinion,

Personally I would look for something that is much newer spec wise, the laptop model you listed looks to be a couple of years old at least and most certainly spec wise, taking into account that it's a 4th gen Intel CPU & a 7 series Nvidia. At the moment you'll want to look into something that has a 6th gen Intel 6700K CPU & a Nvidia GTX 960M GPU.

Gaming wise this laptop probably wouldn't cut it, for your budget I would look at something like the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 but if you can try to increase your budget closer to £800 for a decent gaming laptop as £600 doesn't get you a lot nowadays.

£600 may just get you a second hand / refurbished Dell Inspiron 15 7559 or even a used MSI GE72, keep a look out on eBay for something along the lines of these as you may be able to grab a bargain.

Liam.
 
LEK-89 said:
This may need moving over to the laptop forum but here's my opinion,

Personally I would look for something that is much newer spec wise, the laptop model you listed looks to be a couple of years old at least and most certainly spec wise, taking into account that it's a 4th gen Intel CPU & a 7 series Nvidia. At the moment you'll want to look into something that has a 6th gen Intel 6700K CPU & a Nvidia GTX 960M GPU.

Gaming wise this laptop probably wouldn't cut it, for your budget I would look at something like the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 but if you can try to increase your budget closer to £800 for a decent gaming laptop as £600 doesn't get you a lot nowadays.

£600 may just get you a second hand / refurbished Dell Inspiron 15 7559 or even a used MSI GE72, keep a look out on eBay for something along the lines of these as you may be able to grab a bargain.

Liam.
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Thanks. The laptop you suggested is much better. I will buy that instead. Can't really stretch to 800 right now.
 
If you're not in a rush, there will be new laptops coming out with the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti cards in January.

They should get below £600 (at least the non-Ti version with an i5 CPU).
 
I doubt the 1050 will be below £600 for some time.

I expect more likely £800 to £1000 in reality, especially in the first 3 to 6 months anyway
 
Axeboy said:
I doubt the 1050 will be below £600 for some time.

I expect more likely £800 to £1000 in reality, especially in the first 3 to 6 months anyway
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Well seeing as there was a GTX 1060 laptop going for £854 recently (not a black Friday deal either), I expect the non-ti to be under £600, and maybe the Ti if you catch a deal.
 
That was a one-off deal on a Medion laptop, the next price up is £1100.

Its hardly a good comparison!

Lets just see when they come out

edit: I'm not against a cheap 1050, I do want one, I'm waiting :) But, I expect to pay over £800 for it
 
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Have just bought an Acer F15 573G 15.6" FHD TN i5 6200U 8GB DDR4 128GB SSD 1TB HDD 4GB GDDR5 950M for £649.99 after spending a long time looking for a 'cheaper' mid range gaming laptop. This appears to fit the bill perfectly for me. I have a decent gaming desktop pc for AAA titles and an Xbox one S. According to the only review I found online it performs 'very' well on older titles giving 'very very' decent fps on high/ultra settings and performs ok on newer demanding titles with lower settings. I won't get my hands on this until Friday evening but will try and post a link to the review.
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Hi, well I played Fallout 4 on Ultra settings and ................very smooth also. Had a few hectic battles but no problems whatsoever. I have removed the 1 X 8GB DDR4-2400 Hynix stick and put in 2 X 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-2400 sticks. Was having a few random shutdowns (nothing to do with the memory), however ,I updated all the drivers, the cpu ones were for the wrong cpu and then I did the Win 10 Anniversary update, since then I have had no issues.
 
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