Gaming laptop <£500 possible?

daz.rathbone .............Your amazing, Alittle google fu, and managed to pick up a charcoal gray G6-1220sa for £319. Its a refurb from a well know ex high street shop. Funny enough the exact same model i was looking at for £499!!!!
Thanks again mate... ow andmany..lol
 
Just arrived. All good so far, apart from one stuck pixel and the damed blotware!!! Just installing ME3, lets see how it gets on. The keys next to the enter key seem not to get in the way, though the keyboard is very bouncy.
 
Ordered this one myself except it also has a discrete 7450M. Couldn't believe the specs for £499. How well are you guys finding it? I'm hoping it will give a great improvement over my PII N930+5470M. Probably the most stressful game I'll play is StarCraft II on it.

Its fantastic. Download a program called K10STAT, it allows you to overclock the A8. 2 mins work and alittle undervolting and "hay presto" 2.4ghz accross all 4 cores;), and lower temps!!! A few people have even benched at 3ghz. @2.4ghz it has similar performance to an i5.
I dont know how much difference there is between the 7450m and the 6620m i am guessing they are quite similar. There is no point in overclocking the gpu as it will only net you 1 or 2 fps more, and the voltage and temperature increase is not worth it.
It runs most new games fine, though you have to lower the settings a little. Mass effect 3 runs great. Though i've mostly been playing though far cry 2 again. What looks fantastic.
 
The dual graphics is not crossfire!!! The system will use the low powered gpu for 2d/desktop use. And then switch to the descrete gpu for gaming.
As for the overclock, i used this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zTM11hg7A for a guide, The vid is for 2.8ghz. i thought that was a little high and decided on 2.4ghz. As the gpu is the bottle neck. When clocked @ 2.8ghz i got no increase in fps.
 
I am very pleased with it. Your right in saying that its no gaming laptop. But the few games i have played ran fine. Although the screen is a low res (1366 x 768). As long as the fps is >30 i'm happy. Though it may mean lowering the quality or knocking back to 720p.
I bought it not to replace my desktop. But so i could play the odd game, while sat on the sofa with the wife while she watches soaps. it means i dont get moaned at for spending my time in the man gave...
If i get chance over the weekend i will try and run a few benchmarks, and post a few screen shots.
One thing buying this laptop has showed me, is that i really dont need silly amounts of powerfull hardware to game @1080p. And the gtx470 in my desktop still has plenty of life left.
Though not having room for a 2nd hdd is a pain. I never realised how bad not having a ssd is.
 
I took a bit of a gamble last night and got a MSI cx705.

How will it do for games!? Was going to get the HP one mind.

Intel duel core t4500
17 inch screen 1600x900
Blue ray
320 gb drive
Ati 5450 (512mb ram)
4gb DDR 2 ram.

Got it for 330 hope I made the right call.


It has a better screen and blue ray. Other than that it has a slower cpu and gpu. A much smaller hdd and less ram. I dont think you will be able to run much more than ut3. And then at a much lower res.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I think you would be better sending it back and getting the Hp.
 
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