nednerbish :
I am looking for a unicorn, I think. I want a BIG display, the best gpu(what are they now the 1080s?) I've been out of touch for a while.the newest cpu, A ton of ram and ssd. At least 1tb. I saw a few Msi and asus ROG laptops that looked good. I'm looking in the 2000,2500 range. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Never owned a laptop always desktops. My last had 2x gtx970 and mediocre other parts
In the $2,000 -2,500 range, with top-of-the-line everything, you would have to choose to either sacrifice a bit on the CPU or GPU. The highest-end laptops come with the choice of either a 1080p monitor, or a 4K monitor (either type is 17.3 inches, likely the largest you will find). If you have to play at 4K resolution, you have to get the GTX 1080. Be warned though, that you will then have to choose whether to play your games in Ultra quality at around 40-50 FPS, or lower the quality a bit to hit/stay just above 60 FPS, because the 1080 (desktop/laptop, they are the same card) can't hit stable 60 FPS on 4K Ultra.
If you think 1080p is enough, save your money and get the GTX 1070. It can run almost every game at 1080p Ultra and hit over 80-90 FPS, sometimes higher than 100 FPS. Only 2 or 3 games stay at just above 60 when maxed out.
On CPUs, if you get the GTX 1080 GPU you have to pair it with a desktop-class CPU, either the i7-6700 or its overclockable 6700K variant. There is only a $50 difference between them. Getting a GTX 1080 with either of those will raise your cost to about $2800 - 3000 (so way above your budget).
But if you stay with the GTX 1070, you can either choose between the mobile CPUs or the desktop CPUs. Either class is enough for the 1070, and you won't notice much difference unless you do other tasks like rendering, modeling, photo and video editing, or playing only RTS games all day long.
If you get a desktop-class CPU you also run the risk of overheating, which might throttle your GPU and CPU and lower your FPS badly. Just another thing to keep in mind.
All other components (hard drives, memory, wireless cards) don't affect performance much and you can go as high as you want on them.
I just bought my laptop a few days ago and these are the main specs I chose:
Intel Core i7-6700HQ (2.6-3.5 GHz) cpu
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB gpu
16 GB DDR4 2400 MHz memory
512 GB SSD
1 TB HDD
Thermal Compound for cooling
The total cost was just under $1,900. I'm playing at 1080p Ultra so getting a 1080 or a desktop CPU would've been a waste of money.
You can see benchmarks for the GTX 1070 paired with both the CPU I bought and its alternative (6820HK) which is overclockable (not recommended for long-term gaming) here (scroll down a bit):
http
/www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1070-Laptop.169549.0.html
This is the laptop model I customized from XoticPC:
http/www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8173s-clevo-p670rs.html
click the gray button not the red one to see custom options (highly recommended before purchase)
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