• 1000~ USD Gaming Laptop
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My friend is looking for a laptop for gaming, and as close to, or under, a thousand dollars as possible. We prefer to buy from Newegg. [editline]19th November 2011[/editline] Hows this? [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230174[/url] [editline]19th November 2011[/editline] This is the wrong section isn't it?
[QUOTE=Rastadogg5;33351902]My friend is looking for a laptop for gaming, and as close to, or under, a thousand dollars as possible. We prefer to buy from Newegg. [editline]19th November 2011[/editline] Hows this? [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230174[/url] [editline]19th November 2011[/editline] This is the wrong section isn't it?[/QUOTE] Don't get the G74SX-BBK7. Stay away from ANY ASUS laptop using the BB suffix. They're the models that Bestbuy stocks in their stores. The GPUs inside use a 128bit bus width instead of the typical 192bit one for GTX 560M cards. [editline]20th November 2011[/editline] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230021[/url] This one is not only cheaper, but it's actually faster. There is no contest. The 5870M beats the 560M 128bit on Texture Fillrate and destroys it on bandwidth [url]http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/598983-asus-g74sx-bbk7-benchmarks-here-few.html[/url] This thread has some benchmarks on both the laptops.
just pasting this like i do in every laptop thread ok so here's the lowdown: everyone ,and i mean EVERYONE, wants a laptop. even if it's an incredibly rash and bad decision everyone gets fucking laptops. they're cool. and portable. it's like the fucking media has rammed it into your skull that desktops are for poor people and nerds so laptops are superior, and so tons of people buy them. it's really bad when people are greatly in need of the processing power of a desktop (im getting a new laptop for my first pc separate from the family computer i need one that can play games!!!!) and they get a laptop for the same price as a good gaming pc but sacrifice ALL of the processing power in the price tag for laptop 'portability.' so they play new games on medium/high and get burns on their thighs and then a year later they can't play the newest game at all because the mobility card sucks. people that aren't nerds don't regret buying laptops because they use them for facebook and youtube and don't care that the battery/heat is shit because they leave it plugged in all the time, and lower-end laptops are about on-par with desktops in the same ultralow price range anyways. not to mention gaming/high performance laptops are incredibly expensive and the pricing doesn't scale well at all. instead of blowing $1800 on a laptop, buy an $800 gaming rig and a $1000 laptop. A $1k laptop not centered around performance will weigh like two pounds and have a ridiculous battery and amazing build quality (have you ever used a macbook air? ye macs w/e but jesus fucking christ if there's one laptop i'd buy it's that one), and a $800 gaming rig will play everything on max/high. a $1800 gaming laptop will have a shit battery and shit build quality and shit performance and and it'll weigh 10 pounds and you won't be able to upgrade any of it in 4 years and it'll sound like a jet engine and run at about 80 degrees C. i made the mistake (twice), my friends have, laptops are secondary computers. everyone regrets buying them as a primary computer. don't buy a brand new laptop for gaming, you will never use the portability except for like 3-4 isolated occasions, and "playing games on the couch" is not one of those.
Haha, I have an Hp Elitebook 8460p (i5 version) and it can run BF3 on low with a lowered resolution (still looks amazing of course), it's got a brushed metal exterior and amazingly solid build quality, and only costs $700, so you can definitely manage a secondary laptop that can run games pretty well for cheap, while still having a kickass desktop.
The problem with your post is that the laptop he wants is $1000 less than your example of a gaming laptop. And because it's less than $1000 it fits your secondary computer scenario.
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[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;33358039]just pasting this like i do in every laptop thread ok so here's the lowdown: everyone ,and i mean EVERYONE, wants a laptop. even if it's an incredibly rash and bad decision everyone gets fucking laptops. they're cool. and portable. it's like the fucking media has rammed it into your skull that desktops are for poor people and nerds so laptops are superior, and so tons of people buy them. it's really bad when people are greatly in need of the processing power of a desktop (im getting a new laptop for my first pc separate from the family computer i need one that can play games!!!!) and they get a laptop for the same price as a good gaming pc but sacrifice ALL of the processing power in the price tag for laptop 'portability.' so they play new games on medium/high and get burns on their thighs and then a year later they can't play the newest game at all because the mobility card sucks. people that aren't nerds don't regret buying laptops because they use them for facebook and youtube and don't care that the battery/heat is shit because they leave it plugged in all the time, and lower-end laptops are about on-par with desktops in the same ultralow price range anyways. not to mention gaming/high performance laptops are incredibly expensive and the pricing doesn't scale well at all. instead of blowing $1800 on a laptop, buy an $800 gaming rig and a $1000 laptop. A $1k laptop not centered around performance will weigh like two pounds and have a ridiculous battery and amazing build quality (have you ever used a macbook air? ye macs w/e but jesus fucking christ if there's one laptop i'd buy it's that one), and a $800 gaming rig will play everything on max/high. a $1800 gaming laptop will have a shit battery and shit build quality and shit performance and and it'll weigh 10 pounds and you won't be able to upgrade any of it in 4 years and it'll sound like a jet engine and run at about 80 degrees C. i made the mistake (twice), my friends have, laptops are secondary computers. everyone regrets buying them as a primary computer. don't buy a brand new laptop for gaming, you will never use the portability except for like 3-4 isolated occasions, and "playing games on the couch" is not one of those.[/QUOTE] He's buying a laptop because he's going into the Marines, (he's just out of bootcamp) and he can't necessarily use a full size desktop there. Perhaps I should have specified why it had to be a laptop.
[QUOTE=Rastadogg5;33370512]He's buying a laptop because he's going into the Marines, (he's just out of bootcamp) and he can't necessarily use a full size desktop there. Perhaps I should have specified why it had to be a laptop.[/QUOTE] You shouldn't need to specify, your post was perfectly clear. The question of your thread was not "Should I get a gaming laptop" it was asking which laptop you should buy. Some people just feel the need to only post unhelpful comments in threads regarding laptops.
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