Advice on a New Gaming Laptop

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Originally Posted by Forte

How much would upgrading to i7 from your i5 be?

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depends on the i7 you buy, like people have mentioned, with your budget you could build a desktop that would crush anything that is out now that plays on pc

Just as an FYI, most people go with the i5s for a few reasons. Cheaper obviously, but the other is that typically an i5 and i7 of the same clock speed will perform almost the same in games.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Just as an FYI, most people go with the i5s for a few reasons. Cheaper obviously, but the other is that typically an i5 and i7 of the same clock speed will perform almost the same in games.

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Because no games (at the moment) take advantage of Hyper Threading (HT) that i7s have to offer, and in some cases can lower game performance by a mesley 1~2%, but with desktop you tend to buy for the future as well. all up to the buyer preference wants/needs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116501
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231503
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139014
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131818
2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130768
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147053 (this is a good case that allows for great cable management, but its pure prefrence. However make sure before you buy a case that your parst are going to fit)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135247
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147193
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148840
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103176

Now you will need some odds and ends. Thermal Paste, couple fans, and some 6g cables
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812123276 cables
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007 paste

2373.86 with no monitor

Need a monitor??
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236123

2619 with monitor.


Now by no means is this me looking for bargains, I can find a system with this build cheaper. Would just take me another 30minutes or so. I wsa just tossing stuff in the cart.

Also, this is by no means top of the line. Top shelf GPU's alone run up to 1200 each.

Anyways, yea! Beast machine =P

1k on SLI? haha

thank you all for the help :D I will look into everything that is posted and see what I can get started and once again thank you all so much :D

I have a Samsung LN32A330J1D HD TV for my monitor would that work well with the set up you laid out Sinister?

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Originally Posted by SinisterJoint

Now by no means is this me looking for bargains, I can find a system with this build cheaper. Would just take me another 30minutes or so. I wsa just tossing stuff in the cart.

Also, this is by no means top of the line. Top shelf GPU's alone run up to 1200 each.

Anyways, yea! Beast machine =P

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Would you be willing to look for some equal to in performance but cheaper? If not I will slowly do it but wow this is a nice list I love the case would like to keep it and work from there :D

Sager Notebook computers are the best bang for the buck in my opinion when it comes to gaming laptops. They start out decently powerful at ~$1600 to the ridiculously powerful ones at $5k+.

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Originally Posted by jwang

Sager Notebook computers are the best bang for the buck in my opinion when it comes to gaming laptops. They start out decently powerful at ~$1600 to the ridiculously powerful ones at $5k+.

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Yeah, my NP7280 ran me 4k, and that was without HDD/RAM/OS, and that was over a year ago.