Best gaming laptop for £850?

[Cythx]

Hi all, a good friend is looking for a laptop, I want to sort him out.

What is the best gaming laptop for £850 right now?

He doesn't care much about battery life or noise, and mostly is concerned about heat in regards to the lifetime of the components.

Thanks

 

[FlyingFish]

Although might not be too helpful, but the best gaming laptop at that price is a second hand one. Look over at notebookcheck.net at get the best laptop with the fastest GPU within budget. It's the gpu that has the biggest impact on gaming.

Mick

 

[Atom80]

Hi all, a good friend is looking for a laptop, I want to sort him out.

What is the best gaming laptop for £850 right now?

He doesn't care much about battery life or noise, and mostly is concerned about heat in regards to the lifetime of the components.

Thanks

Hi,

This unit offers good value for the money, discounted by £200 compared to price a month or so ago. Slightly over budget,, but worth considering.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-038-GI


SSD and RAM can be added at a later date to expand and upgrade performance and storage.

Another option which is under budget, but with corei5 processor and 2 steps down in GPU:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-036-GI

Hope that assists you,

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team

 

[GTO656]

The forest is selling the Asus Rog Gtx 960m 16GB RAM i7 4720hq Full HD screen for around £857, brand new probably the best you will get for that price .

 

[Atom80]

Hi all, a good friend is looking for a laptop, I want to sort him out.

What is the best gaming laptop for £850 right now?

He doesn't care much about battery life or noise, and mostly is concerned about heat in regards to the lifetime of the components.

Thanks

Just had a few more of these delivered for OcUK, worth considering and under budget:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-023-GI

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team

 

[pipson]

Do you void warranty by adding an ssd to these gigabyte laptops? Also is it easy to transfer the os to the ssd? I might be interested if both of the above are yes.

 

[Atom80]

Do you void warranty by adding an ssd to these gigabyte laptops? Also is it easy to transfer the os to the ssd? I might be interested if both of the above are yes.

HI pipson,

You will be delighted to learn that installation of ssd, (or ram), doesn't not void the warranty on Gigabyte notebooks.

Also, with regards to moving the O/S from the HDD to the new SSD after installation, yes this is also possible.

We can get an instruction guide from HQ to help you through this process if you need it. Its been requested today.

But in essence the answers to both your questions is "YES"...

Hope that helps,

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team

 

[Atom80]

Do you void warranty by adding an ssd to these gigabyte laptops? Also is it easy to transfer the os to the ssd? I might be interested if both of the above are yes.

Hi again Pipson,

HQ have sent a guide to assist with transferring O/S from HDD to SSD.

Here are the steps to follow:


1.Download EaseUS Partition Master Free from http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
2.Install it
3.Choose the disk which contains the Windows system and select Migrate OS to SSD/HDD
4.Choose the target SSD
5.Check the SSD optimization
6.Apply the configuration and reboot
7.Enter the BIOS and change the boot device from HDD to SSD
8.Done



Hope that helps you to achieve what you want once you have purchased. Any further assistance or question please feel free to post accordingly.

Thanks,

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team

 

[pipson]

Just for confirmation the Gigabyte P15F V2/v3-CF1 supports a 2.5 SSDs ?

And thank you for all the answers so far

 

[Atom80]

Just for confirmation the Gigabyte P15F V2/v3-CF1 supports a 2.5 SSDs ?

And thank you for all the answers so far

Hi Pipson,

For the forthcoming new version (P15F v3-CF1) the SSD slot is mSATA


For the current version (P15F v2-CF1) the SSD slot is also mSATA

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-023-GI


For the new version we have had these with a removable optical drive that accepts 2.5" SSD or HDD - the V3 model ships with the caddy to take the additional storage option. Not available on the v2 model.

Hope that helps,

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team

 

[JinKizuite]

Acer Aspire V Nitros can be had for £729 if your looking to save a bit of money, although they come with i5-4210H instead of the i7-4720HQs, which are instead going for £849 on Amazon which lucky fits your budget.