Recent content by Phil923

Hey everyone, Just wanted to ask for a friend what a good choice for a laptop would be if used mostly for schoolwork and some gaming (titles include Rocket League, maybe GTA5). Decent battery life ~5+ hours and don't want it much heavier than 6 lbs. An SSD would be nice and a CD drive optional...

That's definitely strange because from what I know they should have near identical hardware, only one is wired and the other wireless. All I can tell you is to make sure you have the right drivers and that everything is hooked up correctly, other than that you might just need to burn them in and...

Having the battery at 100% and charging constantly can reduce lifespan of it so conservation mode just limits it to 60% to counteract that problem. It does not harm the laptop, quite the opposite really. If you want to unplug the laptop to bring it around somewhere you may want to turn...

After some brief searching I found a couple of potential options MSI GE Series GE72 Apache Pro-077 Gaming Laptop GIGABYTE P55W-BWNE Gaming Laptop If you want to browse more yourself you can go on newegg.com under the Gaming Laptops section and apply filters yourself. good luck.

Of those two, the Kingston one would definitely be the better choice. The Corsair 1500v2 is notorious for cheap build quality and quickly breaking. What I would suggest and have done for a long time now is to get a good quality headphone for $100 and an inexpensive clip on/external microphone...

You can build a computer at around $500 more powerful than this computer so I would say the value isn't very good on it. It can run minecraft on your desired settings, but like I said earlier, you can built one that can play it even more smoothly and at higher settings.

I've never really had problems with video editing and other things such as that on PCs. The hardware in macs are geared more towards production, but I have never had issues with the software on PCs. Alienware computers aren't as good as they once were and I would suggest looking on newegg and...

I threw your build into pcpartpicker and it came out to be about $700 not including the Keyboard and Microphone. For a little bit more, you can get an i5 which will improve your performance significantly. Also, I do not recommend the 960 because it's price to performance just isn't that great...

Is there really a big advantage to a quadro gpu over a normal geforce one for photoshop?

Hi Forums, I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a laptop that would be good for programs like Photoshop. My budget is ~$1200 USD. Thanks. Phil

you are better off getting a nice set of headphones and getting a good ~$100 pair of headphones since you are using an external microphone anyways.

the GL551JM from ASUS will probably be the best bang for your buck right now, it is a bit more than 1,000 but it's great. The next best option in my opinion would be the Lenovo Y50. gl551jm: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232222 y50...

Hi forums! I have recently received a laptop for Christmas that I needed for portability due to carrying it around school and it's been great, but I do also enjoy light gaming on it at home and while the temperatures have yet to hit over 70-75 celsius even when gaming, it would give me peace of...

you didn't specify the specific CPU on the alienware one so I can't tell you. But they are both quad core i7s so pretty top notch CPUs.

The 980m outperforms the m290x by far, go with the ASUS one.