Advice on a New Gaming Laptop

**After talking it out with everyone changed my mind and will hopefully build my first SUPER computer :D

After burning my motherboard up on my last laptop (Sony Vaio). Now just using it for low stress work till it finally blows up. That means I need a new computer to play ARR. I have done a lot of looking and research and I know that building my own rig would be best for what I want but would like a laptop rather then a desktop that will run ARR perfectly.

Research: After comparing the top 10 Gaming Laptops
http://computers.toptenreviews.com/gaming-laptops/

It shows that Alienware is rated number 1; yet I dislike them along with Radeon cards. So I went with the MSI GT70 now the only issue is what model I really should get. So I am asking you "the community" for advice.

2 Models are: GT70 0NE-452US and the GT70 0NE-446US

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....centerwell.jsp

So a little help deciding between the 2 would be greatly appreciated.

Since best buy link seems to not be working here is 2 separate links to laptops:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/MSI---17...=1218814316824
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/MSI---17...=1218814309449

best buy link no worky >.>;;

what are the laptop model #s

In general the biggest bottleneck in a laptop is always going to be the GPU. So buy the one with the best GPU.

Added separate links to computers hopefully those will work better

Asus ROG Laptop

really sucks you want to spend all that money on a laptop when you could build a monster of a desktop for a couple hundred less.

Ive never liked laptops for gaming simply because overheating issues. When your playing a mmo for long periods of time its going to get hot. Heat is not good =P

but if you're going to do it, do it right

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/MSI---17...=1218814316824

The 256 will offer way more room to play with as you will want your top 1 or 2 games on it as well as the operating system.

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Originally Posted by Quesse

best buy link no worky >.>;;

what are the laptop model #s

In general the biggest bottleneck in a laptop is always going to be the GPU. So buy the one with the best GPU.

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They both have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M cards and both have 4GB GDDR5 (dedicated) for video only real difference in the two is the RPM and HD size one is 7200 RPM with 1006GB HD and other is 5400 RPM and 1TB; 128GB HD both have SSD's as well

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Originally Posted by SinisterJoint

really sucks you want to spend all that money on a laptop when you could build a monster of a desktop for a couple hundred less.

Ive never liked laptops for gaming simply because overheating issues. When your playing a mmo for long periods of time its going to get hot. Heat is not good =P

but if you're going to do it, do it right

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/MSI---17...=1218814316824

The 256 will offer way more room to play with as you will want your top 1 or 2 games on it as well as the operating system.

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I wouldn't mind building one eventually just time issue ~_~: I take care of my grandma every day 24/7 so finding the time to buy parts and put it all together then figuring out all the BEST parts would be the issue so figured it would be easy to just buy a laptop ~_~;

If you're willing to spend that much, go somewhere like here. http://www.xoticpc.com

Note: There are plenty more resellers like this, like pctorque iirc and some others.

this is the one I bought a little over a year ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ugfPdc2Yg

No longer carried, though they do carry better ones now.

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Originally Posted by SinisterJoint

really sucks you want to spend all that money on a laptop when you could build a monster of a desktop for a couple hundred less.

Ive never liked laptops for gaming simply because overheating issues. When your playing a mmo for long periods of time its going to get hot. Heat is not good =P

but if you're going to do it, do it right

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/MSI---17...=1218814316824

The 256 will offer way more room to play with as you will want your top 1 or 2 games on it as well as the operating system.

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ya, i hate laptop because of this. but im happy with my current laptop, Asus G series, the internal cooling is really good, + i have my Coolermaster pad, which make it a really monster laptop :D

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Originally Posted by Forte

I wouldn't mind building one eventually just time issue ~_~: I take care of my grandma every day 24/7 so finding the time to buy parts and put it all together then figuring out all the BEST parts would be the issue so figured it would be easy to just buy a laptop ~_~;

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picking out the parts is super easy, building it will take you about an hour 1/2 (if its your first time building), then installing windows/drivers/updates another 2 hours (but installing windows only takes about an hour) the updates can happen over time.