Gaming Laptop for Skyrim *Bang for the Buck*

mike523

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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

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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

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

AntiZig

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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
 

perfectblue

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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

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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?