Good Gaming Laptop?

stufflol · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:29

I decided to go with a laptop instead of a desk top here is the spec:

Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4800MQ (2.70GHz) 6MB
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
(Going to buy a Samsung Evo 240gb SSD next week and maybe get 16gb 2400mhz speed RAM? any reccomendations?)

Will this be good for Battle Field 4 online?

Thanks

DaleTheWhale · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:32

Is there a reason you want a laptop over a desktop? I.e. portability, size?

stufflol · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:36

I take it to work also

Indie · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:43

Always wanted a gaming laptop... all seem to be ridiculously priced though!

David Bisset · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:48

It will play BF4 but it'll be low on graphics memory, system memory, the cpu is clocked pretty low, the ram is quite slow. So yes to being able to play, no to being good for it.

For ~1500quid you'd get a LOT better desktop performance, or for less you could get a low-end laptop for work plus a better dektop than that.

DaleTheWhale · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:50

How much are you looking to spend, most expensive/high-end range laptops will do the trick, the one you linked I imagine would be perfectly fine.

DaleTheWhale · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:51

David Bisset said:
It will play BF4 but it'll be low on graphics memory, system memory, the cpu is clocked pretty low, the ram is quite slow. So yes to being able to play, no to being good for it.

For ~1500quid you'd get a LOT better desktop performance, or for less you could get a low-end laptop for work plus a better dektop than that.

It will play it a lot higher than low settings. - 2GB VRAM, 8GB System RAM is fine, 2.7ghz is also quite good for a laptop.

SLI 765M aren't that bad, I'd probably opt for a single 780.

David Bisset · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:59

ThaReaperGuy said:
It will play it a lot higher than low settings.

SLI 765M aren't that bad, I'd probably opt for a single 780.

True, it'll play it ok.
A single 780M costs almost exactly the same as the SLI 765Ms.... so I'd go for the single 780m too. That'd be a significant improvement

Also worth mentioning I guess that I slated it's quantity of RAM - 8GB should be fine for 1080p, heard that you need more above there but I guess it'll be played @ 1080p so that should be fine. Maybe worth keeping the RAM to a minimum on first purchase though and upgrading it yourself, easy to do and cheaper to get decent stuff I'd imagine. (price check first to make sure I'm not wrong tho!)

Edit: OK, so I see you don't even have the option of better RAM as sold. I guess keep it how you specced then, not a big price gap between that and the cheapest ram option.

stufflol · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:11

Apparently SLI 765m is very close to 780m?

David Bisset · 14 Nov 2013 at 12:56

2*765m performs about the same as the 780m when what you're doing supports SLI well, but it depends on SLI support.
Some games with poor/nonexistant SLI support will be much, much worse on the 2*765m compared to the 780m.

You can get the 780m for about the same price on a different edition of the same laptop you're already looking at so there is no reason to take the 765m option that I can see. I'd imagine that it'd lower power use too, but to be honest it'll need mains power either way.

Edit: if you really like dual graphics cards then for ~100 more you could get 2*hd7970m which would be a fair bit better than a single 780m in things that support crossfirex properly. Things get a bit steep after that though, another 100 for 2*hd8970m which is the same card with added memory and HEAPS more for dual gtx780m's.

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