Looking for a £500 performance laptop UK

[Jacob Millard]

* Country of purchase: United Kingdom

* Budget range: £500 but lower if the difference in performance is almost the same

* Purpose: Gaming

* Screen size preference: 13"+

* OS preference: Windows

* Gaming requirements (example games and desired fps/settings): Gaming on Low - Medium with 30+ Solid frames

* Performance requirements (video, CAD, etc.): Just general performance with little to no lag.

* Method of computer support : self support

* Brand preferences and reasons: No Apple products because from what I've seen Apple are quite bad.


* Which of the following qualities would you prefer? (Choose one, the other, or balanced)

* Long battery life -vs- Low weight: Longer battery life

* Build quality -vs- Low price: balanced

* Low noise/heat -vs- High performance: Higher performane

**Would you pay a premium for something that has:**

* High resolution screen: Yes

* A great keyboard: No

* A great touchpad/mouse buttons: No

* Great audio: No

* Extra Information:

Needs 750GB or above hardrive
Needs 4GB or more ram and can be upgraded to at least 8GB
Windows 7 is prefered over windows 8 but either is good
Graphics card MUST be a dedicated graphics card for example, Amd Radeon R5 M230. I don't want intergrated graphics for gaming

Edit: Made slight changes to requirements to improve my search range

 

[random5]

Shitload of requirements,no wonder no replies man, just a bump so you'd get a second chance for help.

 

[Jacob Millard]

Shitload of requirements,no wonder no replies man, just a bump so you'd get a second chance for help.

Thanks for the bump dude, I made slight adjustments because of this and I hope it makes finding a laptop for the price easier.

 

[random5]

list is still long but I can suggest something,doesnt seem anyone's coming except me, you can count it like a second bump too :

http/www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ1X40063
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152586
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231960
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314566
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231705
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216800

 

[Jacob Millard]

Can I trust newegg? Never shopped from there before.

 

[random5]

newegg is the promised land for noobs and pro's alike, the amazon of computer world.

 

[Kittlee]

Newegg is however primarily a US site and charges your firstborn in terms of shipping, for a laptop the shipping alone is £60 and the customs tax is £104, for the UK I'd suggest dabs.com as a site, I used it for all my various desktop parts when building it.

 

[Jacob Millard]

So while doing more searching I found this along my travels http/tinyurl.com/ozk3f9y and I have two questions about it.

1: What are the graphics settings it can handle on 30+ solid frames for games made in 2013 and games made in 2014?

2: What sort of games would it take to be unplayable on this? (My unplayable means not a solid 30+ frames at all times of playing, doesn't matter what the graphics settings are)

 

[Bolin]

that's between a 730m and an 830m
http/www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
you can filter the games you'd want to play