Ditching the desktop in favor of "desktop replacement laptop"

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I'm trying to weigh up the options and want some help on this matter from fellow OcUK'ers.

So, my situation is, I & my girlfriend and saving up for a mortgage, so having two become one in a PC sense would get some extra dosh, even if it's just a bit.

Now, my PC is in my sig, it's a quad core i7 4870K @ 4.4GHz with a GTX1080 and 12GB ram.

My laptop is in my sig too.

What I'm thinking is consolidating any dosh between the two, putting some aside for mortgage and then looking at a desktop replacement better than current laptop with this sort of spec:

gtx1070 8gb, 16gb DDR4 ram, i7 7700HQ, 120Hz 17" display, 256GB NVMe HDD and 1TB HDD.

Faster ram, storage, CPU possibly?? Would this be better than my current system even with a GTX1080 in it? And based on priorities what would you do?
 
a desktop will always pawn a laptop due to the limitations for thermals and hardware design for the laptop form factor, but that laptop with the 1070 would be a good stand in while being an upgrade over your current laptop, if you had £2000-2200 to spend you could get one with a 1080 in it, if you havent, then any 1070 would be a good shout over your 1060 laptop still.
 
Sell the laptop, keep the gaming rig. You'll regret ditching it for a laptop if you enjoy gaming on it a lot.

A gaming laptop just won't do what a desktop can do. Not so bad if you are just intending to play eSports type games or some RTS games that aren't so graphically demanding.
 
Well I wasn't planning on upgrading my desktop anytime soon, the motherboard is faulty and it's SKT2011. So based on that the thing going for it is the GTX1080.

I favor portability, I like to game in bed, I'm not 100% fussed about maximum settings however so try to run everything maxed, palying GTA V, FFXV, Cities Skylines, but even the 1060 seems to work with those. I suspect it'll be 1-2 years before I want to upgrade anything again. And I want some extra dosh towards a mortgage.

So it's a hard call to make?
 
Not really, sometimes I think it'd be nice for silence but I guess that's a compromise I'd have to make. I probably plan to once mortgage is sorted and paying less in monthly outgoing towards "rent" to then save for a PC.

Realistically should the laptop be faster than my desktop (At 1080p considering my desktop runs at 1440P), GPU power would be less but everything else faster? Not sure how the i7 4820K @ 4.4 and 12GB DDR3 ram at 1333MHz vs to i7 7700HQ @ 3.4GHz / 16GB DDR ram at 2400MHz AND an NVMe drive?
 
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willhub said:
An enclosure on its own without a GPU is crazy money, nearly 400 quid!!!!!
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Ah, that's just that one, the Gigabyte comes with a GTX 1070 installed.

Sell everything now, buy a new gaming laptop and then consider one of those Gigabyte things when budget allows and next gen cards are available. Once you have one you will always be able to swap the GPU out with a new one.
 
So the GTX1070 laptop for now? I mean for the next year it's going to play a lot of games pretty much maxed at 1080p, play games at 1440p and 4k probably quite high too? Why is the 1070 in a laptop slower than a desktop 1070 despite having more CUDA cores?
 
well the thing to consider then, aside from being a 3gb 1060, is your laptop not doing what you need? you want to save, but you also want to upgrade from one gaming laptop to another, so you need to think if the need is really there?(1070 will be a huge improvement for sure). if the desktop is faulty then sell parts and retain the 1080 for the future if you likely go back to desktop.
 
I don't know what to do, because I'm not a hardcore gamer and don't play games for hours on end, main game I'm playing is Cities, I feel I want some dosh towards a mortgage, the CPU/Mobo/Ram combo in the computer is just duff and BSODS apart from stock which is slow anyway.

With summer coming I want to be outside more on the bike too.

I just feel now having a powerful GPU, but the cost of it if I'm not playing games A LOT, is it worth keeping it?
 
its a tough call, mean its a 1080 and with the current prices they are still a lot of money so for that and the performance its worth keeping, however because of the same gpu prices at current, your resale value should be pretty good.

im in the same boat apart from my computer isnt even worth half what you probably get for your 1080 lol and im looking at 950m/960m laptops, so not as high end as you and the way i look at it is, if you got lots of files and drives like i have and no big external for it all then its useful to have a computer still, i have a 2nd am1 system doing nothing which i could use for file and storage use where as the laptop would do everything else and i could go downstairs and use it, so there is obviously a reason why you have a high end gaming pc and a mid range gaming laptop?


my impression is you buying a 1070 laptop just to retain that 'powerful system' notion rather than using it to its capabilities when your current laptop does as you want.
 
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