Hello you beautiful people, for various reasons I need to replace my desktop with a gaming laptop and my budget seems to be abour £750. So far what I have managed to figure out after research is that a custom built one is the cheapest way to go.
So far this is the best performance to dosh laptop ive managed to build/find, Priced at £684. (I have removed the OS from the build to save money. Also this is just a rebranded Clevo)
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Is this decent? Or are there other places I should look?
Also I've looked into importing and unfortunately thanks to VAT and import charges the prices start to spiral up at an alarming rate.
Why are you replacing it with a laptop and not just a £750 desktop? If you don't mind me asking.
For the next few months im going to be moving from house to house as I look for work. I want to keep my hobby with me as I do hours of travel on trains and sleep on sofas and floors.
Fair enough.
/r/buildapc seems to have a grudge against kingston at the moment, other than that it all looks pretty decent. maybe make a post there and ask them?
I have never used reddit, but I guess I could give it a shot :v:
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/[/url]
What site are you using?
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;45111625]Fair enough.
/r/buildapc seems to have a grudge against kingston at the moment, other than that it all looks pretty decent. maybe make a post there and ask them?[/QUOTE]
Kingston memory? That's stupid. Kingston SSD's though, they did some shady ass shit
I didn't read anything about it, I just know people were mad.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;45113660]I didn't read anything about it, I just know people were mad.[/QUOTE]
Because after good reviews came out about some of their newer products (SSDs, Kingston and PNY) with up to date parts/tech, they started selling the "same" product with older tech (Likely that they just had left over from older generations) which drastically reduced the performance of the product for those batches.
For instance, Kingston started selling a product with Synchronous NAND, and after it started selling well started producing/selling parts with Asynchronous NAND instead, which performs worse.
I would say that 4GB of RAM is a bit low for gaming, I would normally go for 16 but would consider 8 the minimum.
[QUOTE=robmobz;45147555]I would say that 4GB of RAM is a bit low for gaming, I would normally go for 16 but would consider 8 the minimum.[/QUOTE]
8gb is fine, not really any use to have 16gb unless you do editing or use a lot of memory intensive applications.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;45111625]Fair enough.
/r/buildapc seems to have a grudge against kingston at the moment, other than that it all looks pretty decent. maybe make a post there and ask them?[/QUOTE]
I started to have beef with Kingston myself after I had 12 sticks of their RAM fail on me within a year. Some of them were double and triple RMAs.
I've been using G.Skill and Corsair XMS ever since with zero problems.
What Kingston isn't telling you is that they don't actually make memory chips anymore, if you pull the heat spreaders off of their modules, you'll find Toshiba, Nanya, Hynix or some other memory brand.
If you haven't already purchased this laptop yet, MadBomber, I would strongly advise you get either a 500GB or a 1TB hard drive at 7200RPM instead of the 5400RPM models. Booting Windows, launching applications, and loading screens in games are going to feel quite sluggish on a 5400RPM drive, and while 7200RPM isn't nearly as fast as an SSD, it's a much better deal for your kind of price range and it will still provide you with a noticeable boost in speed in comparison to a 5400RPM drive. And make sure you get 8GB of memory in your system as well, since 4GB will limit you a fair amount when it comes to playing games. The only other recommendation I'd make is that you invest in a cooling pad as well, because laptops tend to heat up a lot more than desktop PCs under load, and while their components are designed to handle higher amounts of heat than their desktop equivalents, it can still be damaging to the hardware over time. You don't have to buy one straight away, but I would advise that you do it no less than six months after you get the laptop. The [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coolermaster-Notepal-U3-Cooler-Notebook/dp/B00441LYEW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403537614&sr=8-1&keywords=cooler+master+notepal+u3]Cooler Master Notepal U3[/url] is a cheap, but very effective laptop cooler, with three fans on the underside of the metal mesh that can be repositioned wherever you want to direct the airflow to.
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