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budget gaming and working laptop

Fortisslayer

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looking for a budget gaming laptop(first) looking for good gpu and a few years of playing medium setting games i hope will also be using for school a bit down the road i have $750usd and been looking at some acer v3 ones if you have any recommendations please help :)
and not interested in desktops
 
Yeah the Acer V3's with the GT 730m are a pretty good value.

Newegg has this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314004

It's a pretty solid system. The only thing it's down is the quad core i7. It's 17" but has the 1600x900 screen which is better. Now sure how portable you need it to be.

This one has the i7 but is slightly over your budget. I've been looking around some other sites and haven't seen anything even close to these performance wise.

The GT 730m is the same as the GT 645m I believe which is only slightly worse than the 650m.

Newegg also has this one with the i7, but it is slightly over budget:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314017
 
750 on newegg just my price i actually have $780 but no idea what paypal will charge and shiping ect
i have checked the gpu its right between the 645 and 640m