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Gaming laptop $2000 dollars or under!!!
So its extremely last minute and I feel awful about it but I am buying a gaming laptop tomorrow and I would love to find a fantastic one that is able to play all the modern mmo's and rpgs out there right now as well as guild wars 2 with no problems. I have $2000 dollars at my disposal here and I am buying it tomorrow, if anyone could give me some suggestions that would be fantastic. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND SORRY FOR THE WHOLE LAST MINUTE FIASCO.
EDIT: Clearly I am not to good with the whole hardware thing so I really have no idea what im doing here. thats why i have not given any preferances because i do not know whats actually good and whats not!
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You have an 80% of getting a decent laptop for that price if you order from a company that rhymes with something all churches have. I dare say the name, cuz their customer service stinks and their reps all speak broken English, with native Indian being their primary language.
The other 20% is that you will return it, if you go this route. .. but don't expect your money back .. just credit.
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First of all, let's back up and ask, why do you want a gaming laptop? On that budget, even if you need both a laptop and also a gaming machine, most people would be better off buying both a cheap, portable laptop and also a gaming desktop. A gaming laptop really only makes sense if you're going to take it with you various places, plug it in, and play games away from home. For example, a business traveler who wants to play games in his hotel room.
But if you do actually need a $2000 gaming laptop, then here you go:
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np9170-clevo-p170em-p-4342.html?wconfigure=yes
Options to tweak from the default:
Monitor:
17.3" FHD 16:9 "Matte Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Matte Screen (1920x1080) (SKU - S1R401) ( + 30 )
Video card:
AMD Radeon HD 7970M (2048MB) GDDR5 DX11 [User Upgradeable] (SKU - S3R155) ( + 200 )
Memory:
FREE! - 16GB - DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory (4 SODIMMS) (SKU - S4P761) ( + 0 )
(The difference between 8 GB and 16 GB doesn't particularly matter, but for the same price, why not?)
For hard drives, you have a choice to make. If you don't need that much capacity, then just get:
256gb Crucial M4 Series Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA III) (SKU – S5R062) ( + 175 )
If you need more storage capacity than that, then you'll need both an SSD and a hard drive. In that case, get both:
128gb Crucial M4 Series Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA III) (SKU - S5R061) ( + 85 )
500gb 7200rpm (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache) (SKU - S6R210) ( + 90 )
It looks like they have a special running for a free upgrade to the hard drive if it's the primary drive but not the secondary drive. So you could see if you can list the drives you want as:
FREE! - 750gb 7200rpm (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache) (SKU - S5R306) ( + 0 )
128gb Crucial M4 Series Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA III) (SKU - S6R061) ( + 160 )
instead, but make sure they install the OS on the SSD. That saves you $15 for strange configurator reasons.
If you're going to use wireless networking, then you'll want:
Sager - Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 (3x3) (SKU - S8R056) ( + 60 )
Operating system:
~Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (64&32-Bit CD Included) + MS Office Starter 2010 -[ Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $14.99 (Directly through Microsoft) ] ( + 80 )
well get one that is upgradible the people that made alien wair and then sold it to dell started a new company and there laptops are great and rainge about 1500 to 1800 upgradible look into it orion or something like that forgot there new name
I think it is important to recognize what the others in this thread are not saying:
Do not buy a laptop at a retail store and expect a good price to performance ratio. You will have a hard time finding one with semi-decent performance unless you know what you are looking for. Order your laptop online so you can be sure you get exactly what you want.
If you absolutely must buy from a retail store, look for the AMD or nVidia logo, then see what the model number of the video adapter is. If it isn't within 2 generations of the latest available video cards, you probably won't get good performance.
FInally, it is important to know what kind of performance you actually need. If you are just playing World of Warcraft, that game can run on fairly low-end systems from what I remember. If you want to play the latest and greatest games, be prepared to pay top dollar for your machine.
I got my Laptop from newegg, for around $1,500. It is an ASUS, Republic of Gamers Laptop, with a 17" led 1080 moniter, a i7-2670qm cpu @2.20GHz, 12gb Ram, and a Nvidea GeForce GTX 560M with 3gbDDR3 VRam. Runs awesome, and have had no issues with it, plays all the games at max settings so far, and in all the GUild Wars 2 betas, I had no issue and it looked superb in the last beta, other games I have played on this are Aion, Age of Conan, WoW, Star Wars TOR, Secret World beta, and Skyrim. All in all a pretty solid laptop I think, with a good solid case.
I need a laptop due to my excessive amount of traveling I will be doing within the next year or so, between my home and school and the varioius other locations I am sure to be moving around to, it is a must need. I have a very decent desktop right now that plays most games fine, yet I wont be able to take this with me anywhere.. (I made a deal with my mom that once it hits my birthday i was going to get a laptop and she could use this desktop for her work purposes heh xD) but again I have been looking at all of these laptops that you have all suggested and I would like to say thank you to everybody so much. I am definitely buying it online and I love the deals that xoticpc has going on right now.
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ATTENTION: Ok What I am about to do is possibly going to sound really difficult to understand for someone with no knowledge but I will try....
Do not buy a Laptop UNLESS it has a 7970M
If you follow the link you will see how different cards benchmarked, aka their speed. Right now there is a MAJOR bottleneck on laptop videocards. In essence If you buy anything but the 7970M you will be buying a card not all that much stronger than laptops 2 years old. You can see how current generation and older generation cards rate in the link below, but honestly dont buy Nvidea laptop gpu's or 6000 series Radeons... You will regret it....
Now as far as Processors go, they can also be tricky... The standard 2000 laptop will have roughly a 3.0-3.4ghz Laptop type i7 Processor, these are good. Anything less than a 3.0 in my opinion is a no go...
Hope this helps.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
J. B.
Sagers are pretty legit, but wouldnt it be cheaper to buy directly from Sager?
J. B.
l0l Infact, I hate to be the asshole who brings up alienware but, http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-M17x-r4/pd.aspx
Not to mention they have good resell value in teh case you found out you werent going to be traveling much, lets face it they may be owned by dell now but you know what your buying... Hope you have an extra 100 though lol as its 2100....
J. B.
That's the same laptop that I linked (Clevo P170EM), except that Origin charges a lot more for the same hardware.
There is also the GeForce GTX 680M, which is basically equivalent to a Radeon HD 7970M except that it's Nvidia instead of AMD and costs about $300 more.
But the GeForce GTX 670M and 675M are old, hot Fermi cards, and not what you want today. The Radeon HD 6970M and 6990M are long off the market. And everything else besides the Radeon HD 7970M is, as Jester said, vastly slower than what you want on a big budget--and certainly less than half of the performance of a Radeon HD 7970M or GeForce GTX 680M.
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Go to Sager and price out the same laptop. It's more expensive if you buy it from Sager. And it's actually a Clevo laptop, and Clevo doesn't sell directly to the public. I'm not sure what, if anything, Sager does to the ones sold by Xotic PC.
I've been building computers for over 13 years. The term gaming laptop works as well as saying my car is so clean its filthy. They don't make laptops to handle gaming, meaning that within a few months to a year that laptop will be overheating everytime you try to run any games. I've had to fix several laptops, my own included, to prevent this from happening. Short of playing that laptop on top fof a boxfan it won't work. Get a good desktop, or even build it yourself if you know what you're doing (www.pricewatch.com).
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Don't need a 2k Notebook unless you got money to burn,if so then look at the
ASUS G75VW-DS72
- Intel Core i7-3610QM (2.30GHz/3.30GHz, Quad-Core) Processor
- 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) Display
- 16GB RAM
- 256GB SSD + 750GB 7200rpm HDD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 3GB Graphics
Retails around 2000$ great Laptop I upgraded to it from the XA1 which is an awesome computer to and is a 1000$ cheaper.
ASUS G74SX-XA1
- Intel Core i7-2630QM (2.00GHz/2.90GHz, Quad-Core) Processor
- 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) LED-backlit Display
- 12GB RAM
- 750GB HDD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M 3GB GDDR5 Graphics
Retails around 1000$
Both of those are considered the top of line gaming laptops.You couldn't pay me to buy AW anything,overpriced garbage.
LOL and I make custom computers to so idk what the guy above me is saying as laptops are more powerful then most desktops unless your running quad sli or xfire and X series cpus
The problem with Alienware is that it's too expensive. Alienware's base price starts out more expensive than Sager, Xotic PC, Malibal, and probably some others. And then they want an extra $75 to upgrade you to 8 GB of memory and $150 to upgrade you to a 1920x1080 monitor, both of which are included in the base price at most other sites. And Alienware doesn't even offer the standard combination of a modest sized SSD together with a large hard drive.
No, those aren't top of the line. Both have aging Fermi cards that aren't what you want today. The latter has an old Sandy Bridge processor, too, so it might well be off the market. And 3 GB of video memory in a laptop is completely stupid.
I have tried for years to game while on the road for work and it has never worked out well. Even if you have a laptop that can play the game well I have never been in a hotel room that really supports sitting at a computer gaming for long periods of time. Not to mention the typical really poor Internet connections at hotels that make MMO's difficult. The closest I ever came was I played Fallout 3 with a wireless Xbox controller and my laptop plugged into a big screen TV.
I would love to be able to maintain my raid schedule while on the road but I just have never been able to make it work consistently.
Now if you are moving between home and a dom room you might have better success.
I vote whichever Clevo laptop Quiz suggests.
My clevo w860cu still works well (after re oiling the gpu fan) and it can run games decently. You can also request for a bios that allows overclocking and they will give it to you o.o. I still have my 5870m overclocked to desktop 5770 specs and it hasnt heat up passed 72c with furmark on! @_@ The battery is worthless though...
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For laptop on the go, I had this little usb dongle thing where you can put a phone sim card and use 3G internet from that. Now thats for countries that actually have removeable sim cards but if not, you can just like..use your phones tethering thingie!
Aside from that I guess your last chance is to pick hotels with decent internet (hard to do)
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