New Gaming Laptop

[Bryan_Usrey]

Hello,

I am currently looking hard at two laptops, the Asus G751JY and the Alienware 17. Now, I have an Alienware right now, and it's dying quickly. Graphics card is dead, blah blah. So, that's a bit disappointing and why I am sort of leaning to Asus. Any way, here are the two models.

Alienware 17:
Intel® Core™ i7-6820HK (Quad-Core, 8MB Cache, Dynamically Overclocked up to 4.14GHz)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980M with 4GB GDDR5
16GB Dual Channel DDR4 2133MHz
512GB PCIe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)

Asus G751JY:
Intel® Core™ i7-4870HQ Processor, 2.50GHz (6M Cache, up to 3.70GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX980M with 4GB GDDR5 SATA
1TB 7200RPM 2.5' HDD, PCI-E 512G SSD
32 GB DDR3L-SDRAM

So, my concern with the ASUS is the older processor, but other than that the two are very similar. I know 32 GB of RAM is overkill, but that's what it comes with. What do you guys think? Or another brand?

 

[clockwork.satan]

Bear in mind that the Asus G752 will be getting launched soon, with Skylake CPU's and a new design. I wish I'd known that a couple of month ago when I bought my G751!

 

[danielanthony]

I had an Alienware 17" and found it to be a bit bulky. I got an Aorus X7 a couple of months ago and with 970M SLI, G-Sync and 100MHz screen refresh (OC) it is a really good gaming laptop in a slim form factor. Its a 5850 CPU but you wont notice a difference when gaming or in general use. It comes with 512GB SSD and I added 2 1TB SSD drives for all my games. No compromises over a desktop system at 1920x1080 IMO.