Laptop capable of running Bad Company 2 (medium settings) under £800?

jp_bl_68 · 1 Mar 2011 at 11:02

As title really.

I'm after a laptop that will run BC2 on medium settings with a decent (playable) frame rate. Someone mentioned Acer's Aspire 5942G in a similar thread but I've not recognised any of the retailers selling it for under £800 and I've no intention of spending that much money on eBay, I just don't trust it.

What would you say is the most powerful gaming laptop available for under £800?

jp_bl_68 · 1 Mar 2011 at 11:31

Been looking at the MSI GX660. A little over my budget but the performance of the ATI HD 5870 (if Notebook Check is right) should make up for that.

Any other laptops I should be looking at?

BobbySixKiller · 1 Mar 2011 at 12:33

jp_bl_68 said:
Been looking at the MSI GX660. A little over my budget but the performance of the ATI HD 5870 (if Notebook Check is right) should make up for that.

Any other laptops I should be looking at?

If you can get the Msi its a great piece of kit for under a grand

TommyV · 1 Mar 2011 at 12:40

I play BC2 on a GX660R and it plays like a goddam dream mate, can completely vouch for it.

Was a huge jump from my Q6600!

ThomasTheTankEngine · 1 Mar 2011 at 15:05

Check your trust I have sent you a message.

BobbySixKiller · 1 Mar 2011 at 15:09

You could try the Dell Outlet look for a refurbished Alienware

jp_bl_68 · 1 Mar 2011 at 15:16

jimbob27 said:
Check your trust I have sent you a message.

Cheers

Trusty · 2 Mar 2011 at 00:13

The new Dell XPS 17's with sandybridge and a GTX 555m looking handy. £849 i think. Only problem i can see is there's no option to upgrade the screen to a 1080p one.

HummuH1 · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:20

Trusty said:
The new Dell XPS 17's with sandybridge and a GTX 555m looking handy. £849 i think. Only problem i can see is there's no option to upgrade the screen to a 1080p one.

There is when I do it??

I'm about to order one hopefully.

Trusty · 2 Mar 2011 at 21:53

Hmm, i'll have a look again. There cracking deals these XPS's!

marktime · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:34

Pity you wern't looking a couple of weeks ago on the outlet - loads of cracking deals on the xps 15 and 17s - got an i5 with NV 420m (more than capable of running BC2, medium at 720p) for just over £400 - looks brand new, plus the sound on these things is amazing. Seem to have dried up a bit in the last few days but worth looking in case you get lucky.

Trusty · 3 Mar 2011 at 22:07

I'll keep an eye out, cheers.

Selekt0r · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:08

marktime said:
Pity you wern't looking a couple of weeks ago on the outlet - loads of cracking deals on the xps 15 and 17s - got an i5 with NV 420m (more than capable of running BC2, medium at 720p) for just over £400 - looks brand new, plus the sound on these things is amazing. Seem to have dried up a bit in the last few days but worth looking in case you get lucky.

I just received an i5 XPS 15 from the outlet this week. 4Gb RAM, 500GB H/D, dual intel+420m graphics + one of the 'design studio' lids. Cracking laptop for around £450 (around £225 under list price), and absolutely indistinguishable from 'new'.

iMacMart · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:28

Selekt0r said:
I just received an i5 XPS 15 from the outlet this week. 4Gb RAM, 500GB H/D, dual intel+420m graphics + one of the 'design studio' lids. Cracking laptop for around £450 (around £225 under list price), and absolutely indistinguishable from 'new'.

Great deal! Did you have to wait long to grab that bargain?

olivier renault · 5 Mar 2011 at 16:47

£450? Jebus be praised!

Selekt0r · 5 Mar 2011 at 16:57

iMacMart said:
Great deal! Did you have to wait long to grab that bargain?

I created a browser shortcut to the inventory search engine on the outlet site with my required categories (i.e. XPS, i5, 4Gb RAM etc.) and then just fired up that shortcut regularly to see what was available. I picked mine up after less than a week of checking.

No XPS's available at the moment though

marktime · 5 Mar 2011 at 23:07

The Xps deals do still come up but a lot of the best spec ones literally get snapped up in seconds. You need to be looking around 3.15pm workdays and just keep refreshing the page every minute or so with the filter set as Selekt0r said.

Don't hang around trying to make your mind up if you see one appear or it'll be gone before you get a chance, add it to your basket and you get 15 mins before it gets released to have a good look at the spec and decide if you want it. I've noticed a few disappear and reappear several times in an afternoon, presumably due to people doing what I mentioned above and releasing them after checking out the details, so definitely worth being patient and refreshing the page regularly.

I managed to get an i5 560M/4 gig/500 gig HDD/NV 420M/720p screen all for a penny over £430 inc VAT and delivery. Appart from a couple of finger prints on the lid it looked brand new, probably something like a DSR return. Not only that, quite a few people are reporting they are getting unlisted extras like tv tuners and bluetooth thrown in (got bt myself).

1 year next business day on site support as standard with the XPS too. Unbeatable value imo.

iMacMart · 6 Mar 2011 at 09:07

i5 doesn't seem to be a search option.... Will setup a shortcut and start searching this week though..

Cheers guys

EDIT: Oops looking on iPhone didnt see scroll bar .....

Wat's the difference between the XPS notebook and the Studio XPS guy?

iMacMart · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:30

What GPU's are in the XPS L501x? They don't say on the outlet?

marktime · 7 Mar 2011 at 16:44

iMacMart said:
What GPU's are in the XPS L501x? They don't say on the outlet?

i3/i5 = nv 420M + optimus via on-chip graphics
i7 = nv 425M, no optimus (so bit more power hungry outside of games).