Gaming laptop on a budget

mickeyfinagin

mickeyfinagin

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I'm looking at buying a gaming laptop to use at work, when on quiet nights.
I would like to play fps games like BF3/4 ,Blk ops2 ,Ghost, Lara croft, L4D2 in Campaigne mode with relatively nice game play/FPS etc.

I have a gaming rig at home for when I want eye candy and performance.

Is this possible for a laptop with a MAX budget of £550. or am I dreaming.

I looked on Overclockers site but they are well out of my budget for this toy, so hopefully if I add a laptop spec sheet with this post Im not breaking the rules.
Sorry if I am and please delete

I liked the look of this one-

Lenovo G505s AMD A10 Quad Core 6GB 1TB Windows 8.1 Gaming Laptop
Screen size - 15.6 in - 1366 x 768 No
Processor - AMD AMD A10 A10-5750 - 2.4 GHz
RAM - 6 GB
Hard Drive - 1 TB
Operating System - Windows 8.1 (64-Bit)
Optical Drive - DVD Re-Writer
Graphics - AMD Radeon HD 8570M
Graphics Memory - 2 GB

Any suggestions would be fantastic, Knock me out of my dream world
 
This one has also popped up.

Lenovo Z510
Intel® Core™ i5-4200M processor
8GB DDR3 RAM
1Tb hard drive
15.6 inch display (1366 x 768)
DVD-RW dual layer drive
Dedicated 1GB NVidia® GT740M graphics
720p HD Webcam

Max budget £550 - maybe £600
 
All depends how they compare really...

The AMD is quad, where as the i5 is dual. The 740m has less graphics memory.

I'd stick the various components into a compare site and see how they stack up.
 
The Intel processor easily outstrips the AMD APU in basically anything, so I would look towards Intel if the budget allows.

The 740M is a little more tricky as there appears to be two versions:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.89900.0.html

Both have 384SP at high clocks but, the GK208 model only has a 64bit memory interface.

Performance of the GK107 128bit model should be around GT650m performance. - or faster than the iGPU in the A10-5750.

You can squeeze a laptop with a i5 4210m & GTX850m (sadly the DDR3 model) for around £580, or a 4200M / GTX760m for just over £600 if you look around (can't say where unfortunately). The latter sadly only has 4GB of memory for that budget. It can of course be upgraded.

Longevity wise I would try to squeeze a 850m / 760m if you can. Combined with a entry core i5 it should happily run any modern game at 1080p and medium details.
 
Thanks for the replies, its doing my head in.
Googled heavily for 2 days now to try to find good laptops for £600.
God know where you are looking, can you at least give me a model name and number of the laptops you have found. Overclockers dont stock gaming laptops at this price level, so that surely cant break the rules, if they did i would buy from them.

Just about to give up on the idea :-{
 
Have you got a relative or a friend that travels to the states often that could bring you one back?

Alienware 17 in Uk are around £1500 and im pretty much getting one out there for £800 :/ Pretty much half price and can always sell it once your done with it and get your money back or in most cases a little bit more on top!

Electronics in the states are just super cheap compared to here :|
 
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