Lets talk about cheap gaming laptops!!!

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so who here has a gaming laptop? what did you buy?

From what I have seen, a decent gaming laptop goes for about R20k upwards... :eek:

Im looking at potentially replacing my desktop with a gaming laptop, as I need the mobility. Carrying around a water cooled PC is becoming a bit of a luss.

Toshiba have the Qosmio range, which is about R20k then there is Asus with their ROG and G series which are very nice, but also flippin pricey.

So what cheap options are there? Something that is good value for money, but that isnt gonna fall apart! ;) :D

So far I found this... Mecer W370ST

It has a beast of a GPU and plenty of CPU & RAM, for a damn decent price. It looks to be a rebranded Clevo/SagerLaptop that Mustek are bringing into the country.

Notebook Review Owners thread for W370ST

Im sure there will be arguments either way, but lets hear what you have!!
 
Lenovo Y510 is an option.
Then G Series from MSI have some awesome laptops out at the moment, all depends on what you want to spend.
Then Alienware and Asus ROG always decent gaming laptops.
 
What kinda gaming are you doing?
I have the MSI GX60 Hitman edition and am happy with it.
playing at the moment:

Arkaham city : ultra(dx11) settings - no problem
Bioshock infinites: very high- no problem
Borderlands 2: very high - no problems(physx low)
Starcraft 2: ultra - no problem (except when there are thousand of zerg units running around)
Saints row 4: high - struggles (performs better when u turn down some cpu intensive effects)

Its a decent enough laptop with a monster grfx card but let down a bit by slightly weak AMD apu.
So as long as the game isnt cpu heavy it'll do nicely.
 
l0k1 said:
What kinda gaming are you doing?
I have the MSI GX60 Hitman edition and am happy with it.
playing at the moment:

Arkaham city : ultra(dx11) settings - no problem
Bioshock infinites: very high- no problem
Borderlands 2: very high - no problems(physx low)
Starcraft 2: ultra - no problem (except when there are thousand of zerg units running around)
Saints row 4: high - struggles (performs better when u turn down some cpu intensive effects)

Its a decent enough laptop with a monster grfx card but let down a bit by slightly weak AMD apu.
So as long as the game isnt cpu heavy it'll do nicely.
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yeah indeed great laptop for most games, but bf4 will eat that cpu for breakfast :(
 
EmileS said:
BF4 is not that CPU intensive.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634.html

Also, the Mecer W370ST sounds like a good deal, however, you still need to add RAM and a HDD, that pushes up the price. Your looking at just below R14000 for 8GB 1600 and 1TB HDD, which is not bad at all if you consider it has a GTX765M and i7.
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hmm review says its not hmm.

If you google bf4 i5 100% cpu usage you get allot of results.

Allot of my friends reported 100% cpu usage on i5 3570k even overclocked and on 2500k's
 
hereticangel said:
hmm review says its not hmm.

If you google bf4 i5 100% cpu usage you get allot of results.

Allot of my friends reported 100% cpu usage on i5 3570k even overclocked and on 2500k's
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That's odd. They say an i3 will be capable of running it, i5 even better. According to them it's mostly GPU dependent.

But now that you mention that it's happening to a lot of people, I'm going to check my usage tonight. Will be expecting 80% usage, but if it is at 100% I'll be really surprised!

Could it be a bug in the Beta?
 
hereticangel said:
yeah indeed great laptop for most games, but bf4 will eat that cpu for breakfast :(
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Ya, might have to pass on BF4, and might have to pass on Watchdogs.(really wanted to try that)
Luckily I'm not really a FPS fan, just happens that Borderlands and Bioshock are really good games.
Mostly play single player RPG's so this laptop should be fine till upgrade time in a few years.

But also just heard about AMD's Mantle project, not too sure if that is gonna mean anything to mobile hardware.....still sketchy on the details.
 
hereticangel said:
EmileS said:
BF4 is not that CPU intensive.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634.html

Also, the Mecer W370ST sounds like a good deal, however, you still need to add RAM and a HDD, that pushes up the price. Your looking at just below R14000 for 8GB 1600 and 1TB HDD, which is not bad at all if you consider it has a GTX765M and i7.
Click to expand...

hmm review says its not hmm.

If you google bf4 i5 100% cpu usage you get allot of results.

Allot of my friends reported 100% cpu usage on i5 3570k even overclocked and on 2500k's
Click to expand...

Thats beta issues cant really use that as a referance for performance. Rather use Bf3 performance as a referance.
 
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