Gaming Laptop for Skyrim *Bang for the Buck*

[mike523]

Ok, my girlfriend LOVES Skyrim and I need to get her to stop hogging my desktop. She's got an old MacBook Pro we're gonna eBay for 500-600 and I'd like to find her a nice gaming laptop under $1000 if possible that will lay waste to Skyrim. I keep hearing that Skyrim isn't too hard on the graphics card so this should be pretty doable. Suggestions? Any Black Friday deals?

 

[perfectblue]

You could go for any laptop with GTX560M or GT 555/550M graphic card.
Many deals are available from dell/hp/toshiba etc.

I found this interesting because of the heavy duty GPU. Feel free to browse through for better deals in that site though.

For a solid laptop for $1k, I would say its a Lenovo IdeaPad Y570. Look out for the deals!

Good luck.

 

[mike523]

That Toshiba looks pretty sexy.

 

[mike523]

Any more suggestions out there?

 

[Abyssalx]

Check out my review for the HP DV6-6135dx. I Play Skyrim on this laptop on High with 4xAA and FXAA. It works perfectly. And it's only $519 now.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/72704-35-review-6135dx

 

[Lirwin2]

I have one of these. It plays BF3 on high with no lag, and is an absolute beast as far as speed goes. 750$.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1104483&CatId=4965&SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&AffiliateID=lw9MynSeamY-E2euhbFyZUJ3jyDGoLvamA

 

[mike523]

Check out my review for the HP DV6-6135dx. I Play Skyrim on this laptop on High with 4xAA and FXAA. It works perfectly. And it's only $519 now.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/72704-35-review-6135dx

are you serious? that 1.5ghz AMD CPU can handle Skyrim??

 

[Abyssalx]

Easily. CPU means nothing compared to the GPU. And the 6750m > the 555m, even if it had an i7.

Not to mention I run it on a 24/7 safe 2.4ghz overclock.

 

[jonbeas]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.130.0.html

the 6750m is not better than the 555m

 

[mike523]

Looks like that Toshiba deal expired

 

[mike523]

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3566526

what do you guys think of this deal?

alienware m14x for under 900

 

[AntiZig]

looks like a decent deal except that first post says upgrade to ddr1600 - that you don't have to do, if default comes on ddr1333 that'll be plenty

edit: just looked it up on dell's website, seems like 1600 is included in price, so no problem there, disregard my statement above. I do however wonder why it says 2670 required ddr1600, since intel lists memory profile as 1066/1333 only

 

[mike523]

Lenovo Ideapad Y570 for $829!
http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/276035

this looks like a pretty nice deal

 

[perfectblue]

Good one I guess. Pretty successful model from Lenovo. IF you could wait just a little, maybe you could get a better deal with the latest processor 2670QM instead of the old 2630QM, though there wont be much difference.

 

[mike523]

So far its about the cheapest I've seen of laptops with similar specs

 

[jonbeas]

i would buy that, unless you want to wait for some special deals next week

 

[mike523]

I'm gonna show it to the girlfriend tonight and see what she thinks.

 

[mike523]

Well she wants a 17-inch and so far the best deal I've found is this Alienware at Dell http://www.dell.com/us/eep/p/alienware-m17x-r3/pd and using this coupon https://www.saveology.com/deals/national/dell-coupon I can get 25% off which would make it around $1100 and there's also a Dell ecoupon for $75 if you buy a $400 gift card and use it on the laptop so that brings it down to a little over $1000. Its superior performance-wise to the other laptops discussed in this thread. What do you guys think?

 

[markos1998]

hi there ihave a turbo-x steel b60-250 with an i5 and 4gb ram.can i run skyrim???

 

[AlexDaniels]

Excuse me, do you know if this one will run it? I've checked the requirements. The computers capabilities appear to be up to par but I want to be sure before I put down that much money.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230567&Tpk=Quad-core%20Intel