Spec me a Gaming Laptop

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Can anyone help, I am needing a decent new laptop, Gaming one, ideally 16gb of Ram, I7, and 500gb of storage to 1tb of storage, must be able to play ETS2 (Euro Truck Simulator 2), Anno 1800 etc and possibly Star Citizen, at max. Any ideas.
 
There are plenty of gaming laptops in the £1k - £2k range that would suit your needs easily.

Basically a good entry level would be a
9750h / 1660ti GPU
Mid level
9750 / RTX 2060 GPU
Top end
9750 / RTX 2070 or 2080MQ

There if you want 'bulky' but slightly higher performing, or thin/light with slightly reduced performance, but more luggable.

I was all set to get something from the usual big brands, but I decided this time to use a UK company who build their laptops on the well reviewed CLEVO chassis. The beauty here is you can pretty much spec things how you want, choices of CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD/M.2 and even screens in some cases, so you can get what you want for most budgets.

I recently picked up what is Clevo P960, 16.1" (Very thin/light gaming laptop), just spec'ing that to give you a very top end gaming laptop experience based on your requirements:
- 144Hz Display (bright 300+ nits display)
- Intel 8750h (6c/12t) or can get the 9750h for £140 more
- NVidia RTX2080MQ GPU - 8GB GDDR6
- 16GB DDR2400 RAM
- 480Gb SSD
- 1TB Intel M.2 NVME
£1830 (£1968 if you want the 9750h)
The main brands are charging £2900-£3200 for something similar.

The Clevo P960 is used by several custom laptop builders, but essentially all are the same, here are a couple of reviews that swayed me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzuBuPQyGE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvh79BMSNa8


You can get the 17" version (p970) for the same price, heres a review of another resellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2znkggA7U

I will say that for the money they are unbeatable, I bought mine without M.2 and extra RAM, I just bought that separately, it's easy to upgrade and now have 16GB 2666 RAM with 1 x 1TB M.2 Drives and even a 480GB SSD, so it absolutely flies when loading windows, gaming or doing video/photo editing.
 
Vargas said:
Gigabyte Aero 15 with a stunning OLED or 240 screen.
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Not a bad idea on the OLED front, I am OK with 60hz gaming myself, and would love the perfect blacks (well more precisely lack of backlight bleed that plagues any IPS screen!).

The 240hz screen really is a bit ???? - some very lightweight games (Fortnite maybe? / CS:GO) I think you can get up to those framerates, but as the display is not G-Sync, unless you get a solid v-sync'd 240hz you will get tearing/stuttering, although a lot of games will allow 1/2 V-Sync (so 120Hz in this case), but again, you try getting that on a lot of modern games without micro-stuttering/tearing etc. This is all a bit of a personal thing if it bothers you.

Personally if battery life wasn't an issue, I'd always go for a G-Sync panel to maximise frame rate, however i have found with a 144Hz display, I can v-sync at a solid 144Hz in games like CS:GO but then for things like GTA V, I'll use 72Hz V-Sync and they are silk smooth.. But I'm quite sensitive to tearing and micro-stuttering artefacts.

Note that you can also get Clevo/Tongfang based laptops with the same 4K OLED Screens:
Although this is a fatter chassis (29mm instead of 20mm):
- 4K OLED 15.6" Screen
- Intel 9750h (6c/12t)
- NVidia RTX2070 Full Fat GPU - 8GB
- 16GB DDR2400 RAM
- 480Gb SSD
- 1TB Intel M.2 NVME
- £1779 or £1589 (RTX 2060)

The OLED Aero 15 with a 2070 MQ (not as quick as the full fat version) is £2500, with the RTX2060 is £2200.

Don't get me wrong, the Aero 15 and other nice thing/lights such as the Zephyrus range are awesome, and don't expect other chassis' to be the same quality etc, however, it's just a VFM thing, some people want performance VFM, some want build and performance VFM.
 
 
I had a look at that last Omen 240hz laptop for 2k it is very nice and it seems give or take equal to my desktop 4790k and 1080 system in gaming power.

Which is the only bummer.
 
Laptops are like that, my 9750h?2080mq laptop is really only about a 4770k ovrclocked with a 2060 desktop gpu level of performance, but that is good for gaming, however for the same cost you could have an 8 core cpu and 2070 super easily.

I do like the hp omen listed above, very much on the chunky side though and not bad vfm overall, however I’d like to see reviews just to check if hp aren’t nerfing performance to keep thermals/noie in check.
 
Demon said:
Laptops are like that, my 9750h?2080mq laptop is really only about a 4770k ovrclocked with a 2060 desktop gpu level of performance, but that is good for gaming, however for the same cost you could have an 8 core cpu and 2070 super easily.

I do like the hp omen listed above, very much on the chunky side though and not bad vfm overall, however I’d like to see reviews just to check if hp aren’t nerfing performance to keep thermals/noie in check.
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Well if you can get a 2080ti for £998 you could squeeze in a Ryzen budget build after all you only need to budget a grand. But when you factor in the monitor it looks pretty good. What scares me is how long these would last.

I have to admit someday i would be partial to moving to a laptop because here all you need is a mouse and mousemat for a decent gaming session. Imagine lugging around the 4770k and monitor.
 
144Hz, unlocked desktop I5, full spec RTX 2080, and upgrade options on storage, ram, cpu, and gpu in the future, all with a 3 year warranty:

(oh, and free games)


Chassis & Display

15.6" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-9600K (3.7 GHz) 9 MB Cache

Get Battlefield 1, creative software & More w/ select Intel CPUs!

Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1

1st M.2 SSD Drive

250GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W)

Memory Card Reader

Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)

AC Adaptor

1 x 330W AC Adaptor

Battery

8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (82WH)

Power Cable

1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Sound Card

Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack

Bluetooth & Wireless

GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-9260 M.2 (1.73Gbps, 802.11AC) +BT 5.0

USB/Thunderbolt Options

3 x USB 3.0 PORTS, 2 x USB 3.1 PORTS, 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Keyboard Language

BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD

Warranty

3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

£1,680.00

ex VAT

£2,016.00

inc VAT and Delivery
 
£2k is a great budget as this opens up most / all options as noted above even with the i5 & RTX2080. Having the i5 instead of an i7 won't limit your gaming FPS so it's the perfect compromise. Depending on laptop it seems to help as minimises CPU throttling.
 
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