new gaming laptop

dandos23

dandos23

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Hi everyone. My mates looking at getting a new gaming laptop and wanted a bit of advice.
budget is £1000 and will be used for games like skyrim.

what would you guys recommend?
 
I bought a gigabyte P34 from ocuk as I wanted the thinnest lightest gaming laptop I could find. I'm very happy with it although it is a little over the budget you mention. It is portable enough to take with me when I travel and easily powerful enough to play anything in my steam library.
 
Versions of the MSI GS70 Stealth are available for around £1k.......or you can nearly get into a P35K too
 
kevpuk said:
Versions of the MSI GS70 Stealth are available for around £1k
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This, I picked up one for £1079 and it arrived on Saturday it's a lovely piece of kit and plays BF4 and COD:Ghosts perfectly at 1080p and high details.
 
tom_e said:
This, I picked up one for £1079 and it arrived on Saturday it's a lovely piece of kit and plays BF4 and COD:Ghosts perfectly at 1080p and high details.
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What kind of FPS you getting? Pretty surprised by this tbh, thought you'd need it a lot higher
 
I've been thinking about moving to a gaming laptop as I really only play WoW nowadays, and a few older games but the screen size change would be jarring to me I think, going from a 24 inch screen to these smaller ones would be difficult I think :( but I dont really need a huge tower anymore either
 
There's no reason you can't keep your monitor and plug it in when you want to game on a bigger screen.
 
Yeh but the whole reason for me moving to a laptop is so I can get a small desk with just a laptop sitting on it, but that is still a posibility yeh, or I could just use my TV, maybe a shuttle/small chassis would be a better idea :)
 
Thanks for everything posted so far, it has been very helpful.

We have found one that is slightly over budget but it does seem quite good.

the specs are

X-plorer x7-7650
i7-4800mq 2.7-3.7GHz
500GB 7200rpm
24GB (8x3) DDR3 (kingston)
256GB Plextor SSD
windows 8.1 (64 bit)
NVIDIA GTX765M 2GB PCIe
wireless N adapter

£1298

Or would an Alienware be better?
 
dandos23 said:
Thanks for everything posted so far, it has been very helpful.

We have found one that is slightly over budget but it does seem quite good.

the specs are

X-plorer x7-7650
i7-4800mq 2.7-3.7GHz
500GB 7200rpm
24GB (8x3) DDR3 (kingston)
256GB Plextor SSD
windows 8.1 (64 bit)
NVIDIA GTX765M 2GB PCIe
wireless N adapter

£1298

Or would an Alienware be better?
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I would suggest staying away from AW, generally over priced unless you can find one refubished.

Clevo, MSI and Gigabyte are all solid builds, and with Clevo imo you get more for your money and flexibility.

Regards

C.
 
dandos23 said:
Thanks for everything posted so far, it has been very helpful.

We have found one that is slightly over budget but it does seem quite good.

the specs are

X-plorer x7-7650
i7-4800mq 2.7-3.7GHz
500GB 7200rpm
24GB (8x3) DDR3 (kingston)
256GB Plextor SSD
windows 8.1 (64 bit)
NVIDIA GTX765M 2GB PCIe
wireless N adapter

£1298

Or would an Alienware be better?
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For £1300 I would want more than a GTX765M (for a gaming laptop anyway). If that had included a 770M or HD8970 then it might be worth it.
 
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