Can anyone work this one out???

Whitey6272 · 12 Jan 2019 at 12:31

Hello everyone.

Right I'm I'm looking to purchase a gaming laptop with a 8th gen i7 and a 1070, I've narrowed them down to:

The Helios 500 (preferably the AMD variation with this one from benchmarks) this usually costs £1699.99 but its currently OOS everywhere. I can get the Intel version for 1799.99 though. I have a discount code for 8% off if I get this through curry's.

The HP Omen 17 (this is the one that has me absolutely stumped) I can not for the life of me find any suppliers nor HP themselves that stock the 17 inch with a 144hz screen, yet America have lots of the 17 with 144hz screen. It's like they have never been released here but HP website shows the 15 144hz and is labelled 'new'. I can get the Omen for around £1430 (instead of £1599) with a current HP discount offer I have but it lacks the 144hz screen which isn't my concern its more I'm Worried a new version is imminent.

The MSI Gp73 £1399.99 (seems good value but I've read things about bad thermals etc)

Or a build with pc specialists?

Please Someone just tell me what to do driving myself insane.

MaXxBoulton · 12 Jan 2019 at 12:35

Call overclockers and ask if they can locate the laptop you want, and one with the same spec's.
overclockers as a massive deport in Germany and they have been known to ship items over at request

Whitey6272 · 12 Jan 2019 at 12:38

MaXxBoulton said:
Call overclockers and ask if they can locate the laptop you want, and one with the same spec's.
overclockers as a massive deport in Germany and they have been known to ship items over at request

Ship from the US?
Won't the keyboard and leads be incompatible if its imported?

MaXxBoulton · 12 Jan 2019 at 12:51

Whitey6272 said:
Ship from the US?
Won't the keyboard and leads be incompatible if its imported?

at no point did i say anything about shipping from the US

i said call overclockers that have massive buying power and have a massive deport in Germany, they have been known to ship items over from there.
also if you call them they can buy in one off items from there suppliers, let them know the laptop spec your hoping for and they can work with you

Whitey6272 · 12 Jan 2019 at 12:55

MaXxBoulton said:
at no point did i say anything about shipping from the US

i said call overclockers that have massive buying power and have a massive deport in Germany, they have been known to ship items over from there.
also if you call them they can buy in one off items from there suppliers, let them know the laptop spec your hoping for and they can work with you

Sorry I thought you were referring to the HP OMEN 17 which as far as I can tell has never been available in the UK with 144hz screen. I just presumed you meant bringing one over. Just want a gaming laptop for around 1500ish