Gaming Laptop Help

[mackenziemueller]

I'm considering buying one of these three laptops for gaming. Mostly for early age games like WoW Online, The Witcher 1 & 2, Farcry 1-3, Planscape and Baldur's, Overwatch and if new age games - PS3 title games.
The three laptops are the:

Asus (X555LA-HI31103J)

http/www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i3-4gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive-spin-pattern-in-black/4352000.p?id=1219735415083&skuId=4352000

For $200 (with HD 5500 graphics)


The Dell Studio XPS 1645 for $200

Specs :
ATI RADEON MOBILITY HD 4670 VIDEO CARD
500 GB HARDDRIVE
6 GB MEMORY (RAM)
15.6 INCH LED SCREEN

# of Cores 4
# of Threads 8

Max Turbo Frequency 2.8 GHz

http/www.dell.com/us/dfh/p/studio-xps-1645/pd

And the ASUS Republic of Gamers G73JH-A1 for $300

Specs:
http/www.amazon.com/dp/B0039825JE/?tag=komponelektr-20#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_secondary_view_div_1456108365670

 

[hst101rox]

Looks like the Asus is 1366x768 (via comment on Amazon), if it had a full HD screen i'd go with that because it is much newer, takes a lot less power while being nearly as powerful of a GPU even though it's integrated. The CPU may be a bit less powerful but way way less hungry too. But since only 1366x768, I'd get that XPS 1645 since it's full HD I believe. But the video card in that is quite old, ~7K on 3Dmark06 via notebookcheck site. But if you get it for $200 hey why not, should hold it's value if you want to sell it when you upgrade.
A new battery for it is about $30 on Ebay.

 

[mackenziemueller]

What about the ASUS ROG

 

[mackenziemueller]

I'm thinking either the ASUS X555LA or the ASUS ROG

 

[mackenziemueller]

Any thoughts?

 

[hst101rox]

Yeah for only $100 you can get a Asus G73? Of course get that and I suggest putting in an SSD to make it really snappy down the road when they get cheap enough for the capacity you want.
Battery life; don't know if it supports the switchable graphics that the GPU supports, if not, then battery life won't be great but that's ok. Cheap batteries for that too.

The Dell and the Asus use the 1st generation core i7 chip? That's not bad at all and $300 is a great deal. If anything you could sell it for more.
If you want to be able to play the newest games at low settings then 2GB of video RAM may be necessary. Check out your games. Far Cry 3 just needs .5GB.
It's pretty heavy but might not be an issue for u.