Gaming Laptops

Karnee

Karnee

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What Gaming Laptops would you guys recommend for video processing and gaming?

It occurs to me that it might solve my problems by getting a gaming laptop as opposed to a PC.
 
Those GS70 and GS60 laptops from MSI look fantastic. Maybe even good enough to tempt me to abandon my desktop PC when I upgrade in future!

Are Asus bringing on any slimmer laptops with 870 or 860 GPU's to compete with MSI's GS range as the Asus G750 looks a but large/heavy for my liking?
 
silvagti said:
Those GS70 and GS60 laptops from MSI look fantastic. Maybe even good enough to tempt me to abandon my desktop PC when I upgrade in future!

Are Asus bringing on any slimmer laptops with 870 or 860 GPU's to compete with MSI's GS range as the Asus G750 looks a but large/heavy for my liking?
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The MSI GS60 should give you the perfect balance of a stylish ultra thin notebook with a lot of grunt under the hood. I have not seen anything to suggest Asus will launch with anything as thin as this. Plenty of review around the web on the GS60 if you have a look ;)
 
All the advice has been great guys, I have some more questions if that's alright.

I have a budget of about £2000. I could go over but I would rather not.

A real issue I have had is overheating. My Laptop crashes at the first sign of stress which makes video rendering a real pain, so laptop with good cooling a must.

Secondly I see a lot of the suggestions have been the MSI GS60,70 or GST70, is there a reason that you guys suggest these over alienware?

I've been looking at Overclockers Notebook section. There are two MSI Dominator's to buy, but I cannot see the difference between them. Anyone noticed them?

Finally, in the Desktop Gaming area there is generally a fall off point, where it is simply not worth the extra thousand, because the performance is just not going to be improved much further. Is there a cut off point like this for laptops? I notice that no one seems to be buying the Overclockers "OcUK Express Ultimate P570WM3 17.3" LED 3D 120Hz Full HD Intel i7-3930K, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, 1x 256GB SSD, 750GB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 680M SLi 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card - Windows 8 Pro Hardcore Gaming Laptop" I know it's a good rig, but is it worth that amount and will the performance really be noticeably higher than the £2000 MSI's?

Also has anyone tried to build their own laptop?
 
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Honestly the with £2k all ya need to make sure is that you're getting at least 16GB of RAM, an i7 processor and the latest Nvidia mobile GPU. I wouldn't go for SLI as there can be driver issues etc. The MSI GT70 pro is the best they do, the G750-JZ is the best from ASUS. Both around £1850. Alienware equivalent would be about £300 more just for the name. That's the difference... The name and the price.

I wouldn't spend over £2k on a laptop. Not worth it.
 
Dizz said:
Honestly the with £2k all ya need to make sure is that you're getting at least 16GB of RAM, an i7 processor and the latest Nvidia mobile GPU. I wouldn't go for SLI as there can be driver issues etc. The MSI GT70 pro is the best they do, the G750-JZ is the best from ASUS. Both around £1850. Alienware equivalent would be about £300 more just for the name. That's the difference... The name and the price.

I wouldn't spend over £2k on a laptop. Not worth it.
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Fair enough. So if it came down to it, you has £2000, what would you guys choose?
 
Karnee said:
All the advice has been great guys, I have some more questions if that's alright.

I have a budget of about £2000. I could go over but I would rather not.

Secondly I see a lot of the suggestions have been the MSI GS60,70 or GST70, is there a reason that you guys suggest these over alienware?
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What are you looking for in a laptop. Will you be carrying it around or are you going to use it mainly at home purely as a desktop replacement? Alienware 17"/18" laptops are OK but at 4kg are way too heavy/bulky for my tastes.
 
its not just the name you pay for with alienware though, their chassis tends to be excellent with great layout and cooling.
 
Dizz said:
Let us know what it's like, I'm about to order a G750jz myself.
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asus g750jz with the 880m has arrived today and my first thoughts are
''amazing quality'' compared to the msi gt70 which like i said is of lower quality
not had time to test just yet but i will
my only gripe is the size of the ssd boot drive which is a single msata 256g
which i,m gona swap out when i find the correct drive to install
 
Dizz said:
Would you mind uploading a few pics? I prefer to see real photos rather than the companies sale photos
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i,ll try get some uploaded at the weekend m8
i,m so happy tho just played a bit dayz
temps 93c cpu-gt70
temps 57c cpu-g750

temps 96c gfx-gt70
temps 61c gfx-g750

now you tell me thats normal temps on the gt70 i think asus have superior
cooling
one fan on the gt70 to cool both cpu/gfx
asus have one for either cpu and gfx

you wont be dissapointed tbh with the g750 jz
 
Sorry to jump on the thread, I am interested in the asus G750 JZ, unfortunately overclockers do not seem to have them list on their store page. Can I ask where you purchased yours from?
 
kylednnis said:
Sorry to jump on the thread, I am interested in the asus G750 JZ, unfortunately overclockers do not seem to have them list on their store page. Can I ask where you purchased yours from?
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sorry i,m not allowed to post where from on these forums
but a simply google search is all you need to do
 
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