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Old 10-29-2014, 02:35 PM
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Which is $1,899 but has 16 GB RAM, instead of 12, but as others have said unless you are doing a lot of multi-tasking isn't a huge deal.
The top of the line games via graphic engines as in BF4 and crysis only utilize 8GB of ram and about 2-3 cores. Get the best GPU that you can find in a laptop and everything else is subpar in the performance list.
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Old 10-29-2014, 05:16 PM
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I like the Gigabyte P25Wv2 , 870m, i74810 or something like that, etc, pretty good price. Would upgrade the default ram from 8G but otherwise it's pretty much good to go.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834233045
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Old 10-29-2014, 06:53 PM
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It's clear he wants a high end gaming laptop so it's hard to understand why you keep bringing the budget build recommendations that were dated 5 years ago into the conversation.

Also more than 8gb of RAM is perfectly acceptable. He can RAMDisk a lot of games with 16gb. My desktop has 32gb just for this purpose.
I've got a setup to run p99 on ramdisk at home. When seconds of loading count, you kind of have to :3 And thanks for the recommendations everyone. Going to take a few weeks to get the money together -- would rather not buy a toy on payments you know?
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Old 10-29-2014, 07:13 PM
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100% falsifiable statement

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It's clear he wants a high end gaming laptop so it's hard to understand why you keep bringing the budget build recommendations that were dated 5 years ago into the conversation.

Also more than 8gb of RAM is perfectly acceptable. He can RAMDisk a lot of games with 16gb. My desktop has 32gb just for this purpose.
Dated 5 years ago? Start throwing out same names of games that can use more then 4 cores because not many can. Shit most software in general doesn't use more then 4 unless you are 3D rendering. And WOW a ramdisk LOL talk about 7-8 years ago, with how fast SSDs are nowa days there is zero point in running a ramdisk lol. Seems like marketing sucked you in big time in the computer world.
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Old 10-29-2014, 05:57 PM
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Dang with that budget I would personally go with:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834152590

$1,599
Ghost series so it's in the thin and light category. Plus it has the 870M gpu:
I'd be very nervous about any "thin and light" MSI latops. I don't know about that particular model, but many of MSI's other lightweight gaming computers have SERIOUS heating issues. In many of them there's only a single fan shared between the CPU and GPU so:
  • that fan gets super loud when you play a graphics-heavy game
  • the laptop gets very hot, physically; the models I read about got so hot after only 1/2 hour of gaming that people couldn't even keep them on their laps
  • when the one fan couldn't cool the computer fast enough (which happened often) it had to throttle the CPU/GPU .. which means you pay for 100% of the CPU/GPU, but only get some percentage of its power

I couldn't find any reviews that mentioned the heating issue for this particular model, so it might be just fine. But if I were buying one, I'd be sure to test it for at least an hour with the newest game I own as soon as possible to see if it gets hot/slow ... before the 30-day return window expires.
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Old 10-29-2014, 06:02 PM
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  • that fan gets super loud when you play a graphics-heavy game
  • the laptop gets very hot, physically; the models I read about got so hot after only 1/2 hour of gaming that people couldn't even keep them on their laps
  • when the one fan couldn't cool the computer fast enough (which happened often) it had to throttle the CPU/GPU .. which means you pay for 100% of the CPU/GPU, but only get some percentage of its power
The fan noise can be a general issue with thin/lightweight gaming laptops, though I haven't had any issues with the Gigabyte I've had for a few months other than it being noisy when hardcore gaming. The fan noise is a worthwhile tradeoff for actually having the laptop be a laptop. I had one of the larger SLI laptops before and i basically treated it like a desktop because it was annoyingly bulky, and that was much more annoying than some fan noise.
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Old 10-29-2014, 06:09 PM
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The fan noise can be a general issue with thin/lightweight gaming laptops, though I haven't had any issues with the Gigabyte I've had for a few months other than it being noisy when hardcore gaming. The fan noise is a worthwhile tradeoff for actually having the laptop be a laptop. I had one of the larger SLI laptops before and i basically treated it like a desktop because it was annoyingly bulky, and that was much more annoying than some fan noise.
Totally; and even if it does reduce the GPU power by a bit, a small hit might be a worthwhile trade-off for the portability. For me personally though noise is important (I often use the laptop while my wife is watching TV), so that turned me off of MSI.
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Old 10-29-2014, 07:00 PM
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Totally; and even if it does reduce the GPU power by a bit, a small hit might be a worthwhile trade-off for the portability. For me personally though noise is important (I often use the laptop while my wife is watching TV), so that turned me off of MSI.
Portability don't mean shit to me -- long as it doesn't need to be constantly plugged in that sonofabitch could weigh 90 pounds. Sound isn't an issue either, fuck everyone else, i wear headphones. let it sound like a harrier :3 need good air flow.
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Old 10-29-2014, 08:39 PM
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I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834152551

It's got ...
  • the 870m (pretty nice graphics for a laptop, and going higher to the 880m barely improves things so it's not really worth it)
  • an SSD for the OS, and a 750GB with 7200rpm (ie. fastest for non-SSD) drive for media
  • processor is the i7 4800MQ, which is pretty good for the money (a lot of other laptops at the same price point only have the 4400)
  • 24GB of RAM (most similar laptops only have 16GB)
  • a Blue-Ray writer (most have just a DVD writer or a DVD writer/Blue-Ray reader)

... all for only $1,699.99 (- $100 rebate, but I'm usually too lazy to send those in so I don't count it).
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