Anything better than this for the budget?

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Looking for a new 'gaming' laptop, I know for my budget of £700 I'm not going to be getting that much of a beast, but I think it's enough to stand me in good stead for a few years; just with ever-decreasing quality settings. :p

I've found one with the following specs -

- Intel Core i7 4702MQ
-NVIDIA GeForce 740M 2G VRAM DDR3
- 15.6" 1920x1080 LCD screen
- 1TB HDD
- 8GB RAM

It's an MSI CX61, and can be had for the grand sum of £699.

Just wondering if there's anything better for the budget around? It's a fairly strict one, maybe another £50 if really needed.

Cheers for any advice.:)
 
Have you got your heart set on a laptop or can you be swayed to have a tower instead because you can get more bang for your buck that way.
 
Actually the 740M with DDR3 memory ain't even gonna push games as the FullHD res (unless fair dated ones)...it will "fairly good" at 1366 res if you turn down some graphic settings for the more recent games.

If you are intending on gaming on 1920 res, you probably need to look at a custom Clevo unit with a GTX765M 2GB, which the graphic side is roughly on par with the GTX460/6850. This is the bare minimum I would get for a gaming laptop if I am intended on gaming on 1920 res rather than 1366 res...however, it does cost £800 upward, cost more (close to 1K) if improving the spec (i.e. bigger SSD, more ram, adding OS etc):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-019-OE&groupid=959&catid=1828

Yes it's probably gonna end up at around £930 upping ram to 8GB and adding Windows 8 (changing the Toshiba 60GB SSD to Seagate Hybrid Drive 500GB cost nothing), but the different between this and the MSI unit you quoted above is a laptop that can game at 1920 res vs a laptop that game at 1366 res.

If you can't spend at least this much for gaming at 1920 res, as suggested above you'd probably better off going back to PC/desktop if mobility is not a must.
 
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I'm pretty set on a laptop, I've been gaming on this one for about 5 years and really like being able to just plonk it on the kitchen table and have a blast, or the living room, or a friends.. I'm certainly a casual gamer (i.e rubbish).

So it seems like if I'm going to bother upgrading, then i'll need to be spending closer to 1k.

Thanks for the link and advise, I'll have to look at things and see what I can do.
 
Well just clicked the order button on this.


OcUK Gamer W350STQDDR3 NVIDIA GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5

- Intel Core i7-4700MQ 2.40GHz (Haswell)
- Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403)
-Samsung SN-208DB/BEBE Slimline 8x DVD±RW SATA Drive
-OcUK Combo Card BT+WLAN 802.11bgn
-Seagate 500GB SSHD Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" 5400RPM 64MB - ST500LM000
-Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz

Exciting! Just got to wait 3-5 days now for it to arrive!!
 
godinman said:
Well just clicked the order button on this.


OcUK Gamer W350STQDDR3 NVIDIA GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5

- Intel Core i7-4700MQ 2.40GHz (Haswell)
- Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403)
-Samsung SN-208DB/BEBE Slimline 8x DVD±RW SATA Drive
-OcUK Combo Card BT+WLAN 802.11bgn
-Seagate 500GB SSHD Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" 5400RPM 64MB - ST500LM000
-Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz

Exciting! Just got to wait 3-5 days now for it to arrive!!
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Nice one. Hope you will like it ;)
 
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