Best Laptop Available For Gaming

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Hi,
So my friend who I have built a desktop for has asked me to spec him a laptop for gaming while he is on business trips however I don't really know a huge amount about laptops.
So what is the most powerful laptop on the market price is no object I have looked at the OcUK Destroyer with maxed out everything. Do you think there is anything that is better suited than that.
Thanks for your help.
 
3840 or 3820 and 680M or SLI 680M, size depends on portability requirements.

There are machines with 17.3" 3d screens and SLI 680s, so if weight allows they are technically superior, but if the machine needs to be more portable the destroyer series may fit the bill better.

Notebooks are not one size fits all devices.
 
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Something like the Alienware M18x will be pretty tough to beat (although it is *not* cheap!). SLI 680Ms, up to 32GB RAM, whole host of HDD options, and anything up to an i7 3940XM processor.
 
DAnDan said:
Something like the Alienware M18x will be pretty tough to beat (although it is *not* cheap!). SLI 680Ms, up to 32GB RAM, whole host of HDD options, and anything up to an i7 3940XM processor.
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Sadly, you really do pay for something like an M18x.

Samsung 700G with a GTX 675M is a solid laptop, nowhere near the cost, and if you can put up with the ugly looks of the clevo - you'll be hard pushed to find a laptop with the sort of power those can provide for the cost..

you can kit out a Clevo with SLI and SSD etc.. Shame the Clevo P170 looks a like a brick, powerful though.. Not sure of the model number, its not the P170 that's SLI its got another model number, the P170 is single GPU I think?
 
The new clevo X79 chipset machine I suppose would teohchnically be the fastest.

With a pair of GTX680M, Xeon E5-4650 (8 core, 16 thread 2.7-3.3ghz), 32GB of 1866mhz ram, 3x 512GB SSDs in raid 0 and 120hz screen.

Also dual 300W power brick....
 
M18x are not priced as high as most people think. If you just go to the site and max hard disks RAM and CPU then they are. If you want an m18x then you can find discount codes or ring up and haggle the price down. Its best to get the minimum Hard drive/ RAM option and upgrade them yourself. It quite easy to get a minimum of 10% off and some get up to 25% off and also use a cashback site for an additional 5% off. I got 15% off just by using a code off a site. There is also the dell outlet.
 
The Clevo 370EM with two 680 GTX and 120MSATA and a 256GB SSD with a 1TB 7200 SATA is meant to be a right M18x punch in the face..!!

Meant to be one lf the quickest notebooks out there.. M18x still looks miles better as the clevo just looks like a total brick, but if you want just raw power, meant to be very quick indeed.. I'd have one if I had a spare 2K +..
 
Vortex 3 Elite

Thanks for all your replies,
So after looking at the Alianware series one of the posts talked about this laptop:
http://www.************.co.uk/computers/vortexIII-Elite/
I have configured one to be almost identical to the m18x:
Processor (CPU) i7-3940XM (3.00GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) 32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz
Graphics Card 2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB
1st Hard Disk 512GB TOSHIBA
2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVT
Does anyone think that there is a better option than this laptop at the price of £3500?
Also has anyone had any experience with pc specialist in general?
Thanks
 
************ are the best you will get in the UK for any price when it comes to those sort of laptops. I think you are a moron spending £3500 on one though
 
iv-tecman said:
Samsung 700G with a GTX 675M is a solid laptop
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Pretty decent as out the box spec but if you took one of those, swapped one of the HDDs for and SSD and the 675 for a 680 (not sure if this is possible) not much would come close to its capabilities IMO. Very solid unit even with the slightly dated 675M (which still cuts it in most games at max settings 1920x res aslong as you don't go nuts with the AA).
 
Samsung 700G with a GTX 675M is what i have, had cash back of 240, which brought it to 1200 plus iam getting another cash back of 200 pounds for buying a 55es8000 samsuing tv.
 
Rroff said:
Pretty decent as out the box spec but if you took one of those, swapped one of the HDDs for and SSD and the 675 for a 680 (not sure if this is possible) not much would come close to its capabilities IMO. Very solid unit even with the slightly dated 675M (which still cuts it in most games at max settings 1920x res aslong as you don't go nuts with the AA).
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The Samsung 700G has a MXM GPU but its apparently quite custom and no one has of yet swapped the GPU for another one in these units.

the 675M is a very capable GPU, the Samsung G700 with the 675M bang per buck is still the best out there I feel.

I have the engineers service manual for the Samsung G700 Series, you can indeed swap out various parts, but the base model comes with 16GB memory, 8GB MSATA, 1.5TB HD and a 3rd gen i7, pretty good spec for around £1300 if you shop around..

£3500 for a laptop BTW is just nuts, but if you've got the cash then awesome..
 
^^ Its 2x 750GB HDDs (non-raid, not raid capable either) - with the 8GB expresscache correctly configured and samsung opptimized bootmode setup and a couple of other tweaks it boots Windows 7 as fast as from the stock mechanical discs as an SSD (tho obviously you don't get the overall speed of and SSD in general useage).
 
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