What's best cheap laptop for BF3?

[miha2]

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a great gaming laptop, with 2630/2670/2760/2860 and 6990m crossfired. Or 580m sli is better? Then tell me where I can get that for less than $1800. Yes, I'm planning to get a laptop for 40-60 fps in Battlefield 3 for only $1800 max. I'd like to have a minimum FPS of 35, though of course, the more the better. Quality: 1920x1080, I can do well without AA&AF, quality should be at least high. Is there any laptop with such graphics cards and cpu for such money?

 

[WR2]

AVADirect Custom Gaming
http/www.xoticpc.com/

 

[miha2]

Which exactly laptop should I be looking for? There is no one with 580m

 

[videogamerign]

ibuypower.com

Woulden't recomend them though.


If you want to see the difference in the cards Toms did a nice comparison.

http/www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gtx-580m-sli-hd-6990m-crossfire,3022-5.html

 

[WR2]

Which exactly laptop should I be looking for? There is no one with 580m

http/www.avadirect.com/GTX-580M
http/www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8150-clevo-p150hm-p-2972.html

 

[miha2]

Don't forget about processor! Don't forget about the price! Please! And I didn't say it, but I prefer 17" screen. Still, Sager's is more than desired amount. I'm ready to spend less than $1800. And the rig for $7,000 - yeah, if someone gave it to me!

 

[WR2]

Haven't forgotten anything.

But you gotta 'pay to play' when you're buying laptops.
If you can't fit something you want into your budget - wait till the price drops and you can afford it.

 

[miha2]

If you can't fit something you want into your budget - wait till the price drops and you can afford it.

Best answer so far. But when should nvidia's 6series come out?

 

[WR2]

You hope to see the new stuff at the peak of the selling season which starts Black Friday.
I think the new AMD stuff will be out first though.

 

[WR2]

Okay, the latest rumors aren't looking good.
AMD is going to push out its next series in December and Nvidia in Q1 2012. (usually a few weeks after AMD)

 

[miha2]

Is 6990 at least any good for BF3?

 

[WR2]

It will be very good for BF3.
Even better if you can make it fit into your budget.

 

[WR2]

3dMark Vantage scores about the same as the GTX 580M.
Performance level above the GeForce GTX 460M SLI
and roughly the same performance as a desktop Radeon HD 5850 graphics card.


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[miha2]

Ehm... Well, why would I even bother getting the laptop with 580m? If it's almost as good as 580m, and twice as cheap, I'll better get 6990 one! Right..?

 

[WR2]

Actual game benchmarks are pretty close too.
http/www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
But that do show that the laptop cards are much weaker than desktop cards.


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[miha2]

Well, if there ever were cards with 300w for laptops, it wouldn't have been a laptop card. That's the only reason I see. So, now as nvidia has 40nm transistors, its best laptop card is like 560ti with lower clock, so it's a little better than 560. With 28nm, it might be 580 with lower clock.

 

[WR2]

It could be a lot better.
You have the smaller die process AND an improvement in the core architecture.
http/www.hardcore-games.tk/wp/nvidia-speculation.php

 

[WR2]

AMD’s “Graphics Core Next” Architecture for Radeon HD7000 Series Detailed, Liquid Chamber cooling for GPU’s Confirmed
might not apply to the mobile GPUs

 

[miha2]

As far as there are 1500+ processors and 100w, I don't care. And, nvidia's is under Kepler.

 

[miha2]

If you do a "stupid calculation" and compare bfbc2 vs bf3 and 580m vs 560m, you'll get a rough number of 25 fps in bf3 with 580m. But again, it's just a "stupid calculation". So, now I'm looking for the numbers of fps in bf3 with 2670m+8gb+6990m. Could somebody provide me with those numbers?

 

[WR2]

You'll do better to start new topic with a title that mentions BF3 and that hardware - otherwise people won't know to look in on this topic.
You're current topic mentions 'cheap' which isn't the direction you're going.

You might also try the Games section of the forum....and of course any good BF3 forums you know about.