Which Gaming Laptop

James311094 · 30 Sep 2019 at 20:07

Hi.

I'm wanting to buy a Gaming Laptop but have a budget of £1,000 max.

What's great for the price please?...

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 11:56

I would recommend the Acer Predator Helois 300. I have the 1050ti version and for Wow/Destiny 2, I cannot fault it. It's quick, quiet, nice KB but would recommend external mouse.
IPS screen is sharp, 144hz monitor is responsive and beautiful clarity.

This looks really nice - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...9300h-gaming-laptop-lt-28q-as.html#tech_specs

Rannoch · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:02

I saw an Asus Tuf with a 2060 for under a grand this morning.

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:05

Vargas said:
I saw an Asus Tuf with a 2060 for under a grand this morning.

Just found it as well actually, looks decent.

Rannoch · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:08

snips86x said:
Just found it as well actually, looks decent.

It was £899 a few days ago. Good price for that spec.

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:10

Vargas said:
It was £899 a few days ago. Good price for that spec.

Nicer looking one in the price range as well I think. Not keen on the ROG design with the bezel around the KB

Thaifood · 4 Oct 2019 at 21:39

I got the Helios but with the i7 in there. Great laptop but I find it loud!

snips86x said:
I would recommend the Acer Predator Helois 300. I have the 1050ti version and for Wow/Destiny 2, I cannot fault it. It's quick, quiet, nice KB but would recommend external mouse.
IPS screen is sharp, 144hz monitor is responsive and beautiful clarity.

This looks really nice - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...9300h-gaming-laptop-lt-28q-as.html#tech_specs

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 23:04

Thaifood said:
I got the Helios but with the i7 in there. Great laptop but I find it loud!

Under load, yes. I can run WoW Classic on the 'auto' fan settings without any noise issues. CPU hits 70c and GPU is 50c - sat on a piece of wood to aid cooling. If I run D2, it's considerably louder, but I game with headphones so nise isn;t an issue for me.

Thaifood · 6 Oct 2019 at 09:39

snips86x said:
Under load, yes. I can run WoW Classic on the 'auto' fan settings without any noise issues. CPU hits 70c and GPU is 50c - sat on a piece of wood to aid cooling. If I run D2, it's considerably louder, but I game with headphones so nise isn;t an issue for me.

yeah I feel like I should elevate the back on the laptop a bit to help with the air flow

Steven Rimmington · 6 Oct 2019 at 15:13

Have just received a TUF FX505DV with an RTX 2060 & Ryzen 7 CPU. Interested to see how 'bad' the Ryzen 7 is only been a Quad core CPU. Cost £990 so very good for a current gen RXT GPU.

snips86x · 7 Oct 2019 at 13:05

Steven Rimmington said:
Have just received a TUF FX505DV with an RTX 2060 & Ryzen 7 CPU. Interested to see how 'bad' the Ryzen 7 is only been a Quad core CPU. Cost £990 so very good for a current gen RXT GPU.

Very nice dude, enjoy! You'll love it. What you playing?

Thaifood · 7 Oct 2019 at 18:34

Nice price!

Steven Rimmington · 8 Oct 2019 at 16:30

Thanks

I have tried a few benchmarks against my Ryzen 7 1700x with a 1660ti desktop PC and the GPU is just a little bit faster in Firestrike and a few GPU benchmarks however the CPU in the laptop is a weak link, often 95% CPU usage to 40% GPU would indicate a CPU bottleneck, its a brilliant gaming laptop, nothing has struggled @ 1080p with everything at high. I have tried connecting it to my 4K TV and it performs well there. If anybody is interested I can post a few benchmark scores.

the_tobzster · 8 Oct 2019 at 18:57

I can also recommend the Acer Predator Helios 300. I recently bought the 2018 edition (i7-8750h +GTX 1060 gb + 16gb ram) for just over £900 - Helped I got a lucky deal as I bought it in Canada at the time, but they don't go for much more here in the UK. Honestly such an amazing purchase! All with a 144hz IPS panel and great build quality, I couldn't recommend it more.
Playing the Witcher 3 (all high settings and textures on ultra) at 60+fps while sat in bed is truly amazing haha