Advice on a New Gaming Laptop

**Buffmage** · 02-25-2013 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by Forte

How much would upgrading to i7 from your i5 be?

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

**ispano** · 02-25-2013 12:07 AM

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.

**Buffmage** · 02-25-2013 12:10 AM

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.

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

**SinisterJoint** · 02-25-2013 12:15 AM

**Buffmage** · 02-25-2013 12:22 AM

1k on SLI? haha

**Forte** · 02-25-2013 12:25 AM

thank you all for the help

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

**Forte** · 02-25-2013 12:33 AM

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

**Forte** · 02-25-2013 12:47 AM

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

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

**jwang** · 02-25-2013 12:53 AM

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+.

**ispano** · 02-25-2013 12:55 AM

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+.

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

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