Looking for a Gaming Laptop, help me please.

xDarnassusx

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Hey Tom's Hardware, I live in Australia NSW Sydney and I am looking for a company relatively close so I can buy myself a great Gaming Laptop.

I used to look at Fraglabs and I found their P150em
http://www.fraglabs.com.au/products/vector-p150em/

But it will cost me around $1,800 and that's a little much I thought

I did a little more research and found this beast from MSI.
http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=6&id=391

It doesn't have the keyboard though which was kind of sad. But I was excited to find something $400 cheaper and couldn't get any better, I think this one was the Toms Hardware Cheapest MSI Laptop with a 7970m review.

I kept researching and for another $100, I found THIS:
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GX70-3BE.html
http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?id=392

It has the Richland 5750m and a blazing 8970m. The whole time I've been looking for a Laptop under 2,000 with an NVidia 680m and this card is better. So I'm pretty excited.

I was keen to jump on the first two laptops, but now I am stoked.. absolutely amazed to have found the GX70 3BE but something tells me there's an even better model out there for cheaper.


Viewers:

If there is a better, cheaper laptop, can you post the link here for me?

Also, can you guys tell me more about the GX70 3BE and what you think about it?

Not only that, but can someone help provide details of where I can buy the GX70 3BE somewhere as close to Sydney NSW Australia as possible?

Thanks guys, I'm really looking forward to this. I'm really excited.

 

luckiest charm

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I would recommend GX70 3BE. The card is literally awesome, but there is just one thing which I am worried about, that is processor.

Its processor is not as fast as your first option one, i.e, i7 3930QM. That one is a beast and here you are sacrificing it for a few hundred dollars. I don't think these days cheap laptops are there which have such high end video cards, but all in all I would say go for MSI GX70 3BE if you won't be playing CPU intensive games.

I don't say the processor is terrible, but take it like if i7 9/10, 5750m is 7.5/10. That should give you the idea.
Overall the laptop is very powerful and should max out almost all games you would ever want to play (well slight exceptions).



 

Madn3ss795

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The AMD mobile CPU + GPU looks good on paper, but horrible in practice. On new titles that are highly CPU intensive, the A10 falls behind an i7 by a lot, which results in A10 + 8970m getting worse FPS than i7 + 660 in few games. Toms already pointed that out: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gx60-gaming-laptop-radeon-hd-7970m,3478-9.html .

Personally I suggest finding a BTO ( built to order ) laptop and customize it yourself to match your needs, like the Metabox gaming laptops here : http://www.affordablelaptops.com.au/contents/en-us/d6_metabox-clevo-laptop-notebook.html
 

xDarnassusx

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Uggh yeah, I was worried about what everyone would say about the APU but I'm running these specs

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6400 2.00ghz Penryn 45nm Technology
Ram 4gb D-Channel DDR2 399MHz
MOBO Quanta 3603
NVidia GeForce 9200m GS 512mb

I got this for 1,000 around 5-6 years ago.

I'm having a look at the MetaBoxes right now. I wonder if I'll find something better. Thanks!

More inputs the better guys, thank you so much so far!


On a side note, how would the APU Richland compare to my CPU?

Not only that how would this APU bottleneck me and what does it do? Low FPS? Lag? I wonder why they won't switch the APU out for something different like a Haswell.. or an Ivy.

What kind of games would the A10 Richland struggle on?