Gaming Laptop Help, which one?

[Jukesy]

Hi all,

Looking for a little bit of advice on a gaming laptop, i have been looking at accquiring one for the last couple of months and in particular the following two, can you please offer advise which one is best value for the £££ or if you know of any better laptops for £1200 or less please pass on the details.
Thanks in advance.

Asus N55SF-S2213V
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Quad Core (2.2 GHz, Intel Sandy Bridge Architecture, 6 MB L3 cache, Features Intel Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz)
Display 15.6" (Non glossy, 1600x900)
Memory 6GB (DDR3 1333MHZ)
Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M with 2GB Dedicated Memory
Hard Disk Drive 750 GB
Operating system 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium
Optical Drive Blu-Ray (Blu-Ray HD Play back + DVD-RW & CD-RW)
Wireless LAN Wireless (802.11b/g/n Wireless)
Network Card 10/100/1000 Gigabit Fast Ethernet
Webcam Integrated 1.3MP Webcam with Microphone
Card Reader 4-in-1 card reader (MS, MS Pro, MMC, SD)
USB 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0
Bluetooth Bluetooth® 3.0+HS
Speakers Integrated Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Stereo Speakers
VGA Port 1 External VGA Port
Kensington Lock Kensington lock slot
Charge Time 2.5 Hours
HDMI 1x HDMI Port
Battery Life 3-4 Hours (up to 4 hours with power management)
Weight 2.72kg
Warranty 2 Years Collect & Return

OR

MSI GT780DX
- CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2430M Processor (3M Cache, 2.40 GHz) (3.0GHz Turbo Mode)
- OS Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (MSI recommends upgrade to Genuine Windows® 7 Professional)
- Chipset Intel HM67
- 8GB Memory DDR3 1333 MHz ,Slot : 4
- LCD Size 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) LED backlight
- Graphics nVidia GeForce GTX 570M
- Graphics VRAM 1.5GB GDDR5
- HDD: 750GB (7200rpm) HDD
- Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi
- Audio 2.1 channels speakers, Sound by Dynaudio, THX TruStudio Pro, 7.1ch output
- Webcam HD type (30fps@720p)
- Card Reader SD(XC/HC)/MMC/MS(PRO)/xD
- LAN 10/100/1000
- Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth Bluetooth v3.0 + HS
- D-Sub (VGA) 1
- HDMI 1 (v1.4)
- USB 2.0 port 3
- USB 3.0 port 2
- eSATA 1
- eSATA/USB Combo N/A
- Mic-in/Headphone-out 1/1
- Line-in 1(line in)/1(line out)
- Express Card N/A
- Modem port N/A
- Keyboard 102-key keyboard by SteelSeries
- Sensor N/A
- AC Adapter 180W
- Battery 9 cells
- Power Management Turbo Battery+
- Dimension 428 x 288 x 55mm(WxDxH)
- Weight (KG) 3.9
- UK Model does *NOT* have backlit keyboard
- UK Model comes with FREE Dirt 3 PC Game
- Steelseries UK Keyboard layout (No Backlight)
- Supplied with Dirt 3, New gaming mouse, 17" Gaming bag
- 2yr Warranty

Pros for the Asus N55SF-S2213V
Price
Blu-Ray Player

Cons for the Asus N55SF-S2213V
Screen Size
Not as powerful as the MSI laptop

Pros for the MSI laptop
Screen Size
Powerful

Cons for the MSI laptop
Price
Lack of Blu Ray player

 

[jubei]

As you specified gaming laptop the MSI is far better due to the gfx card mate. For that budget you could google clevo UK and see about custom laptops.

 

[Jukesy]

Thanks Jubei for your reply and i will take a look at the website

 

[aaron]

Hey mate,

Id be a bit wary about msi as i got myself a msi gx660r 5 months back and just today ive had to arrange for it to go away for repair for three seperate issues which makes msi's build quality suspect as i looked after it extremely well. Its been a brilliant laptop up till now but you dont expect a 1 grand machine to only last 5 months. Also so far theyre customer service in dealing with the repair hasnt been particularly great but with any luck hopefully itll get better as i get further with them.

 

[Jukesy]

Thanks Aaron for the heads up, let's hope your machine comes back fine and dandy. What was up with your system?

 

[Tobeornottobe]

+1 For clevo. You will get more for your money.