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Arkaign said:
The Lenovo in your list is hands-down the best thing you have of the three for gaming.

However, if you have a buddy that can help you install windows, this will blow the doors off of any of those :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510p-15-6-laptop-2x-nVidia-GT-750m-SLI-240G-SSD-8G-RAM-/291315052759?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item43d3baf0d7

Nvidia 750M SLI, which makes it about as powerful as a Desktop GTX 750ti (in other words, fairly decent for 1080p gaming!). It also has an SSD, which means it will be a lot faster in Windows than anything with a regular HDD.

If you want something just ready to go and still excellent, these are good options :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y500-MINT-15-6-1080-i7-3630QM-8GB-RAM-1TB-HD-16GB-SSD-750M-2GB-/151497512081?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item2345f49491

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Envy-17t-17-17-3-1080P-i5-2-5GHZ-1TB-2GB-GT750M-Blu-ray-AC-WLAN-Backlit-Kb-/221623853107?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3399cfa033

Wow awesome suggestions thanks! The first link is great but I'd have to add a terabyte HDD, love the SSD though. Out of the last two you suggested I really liked the Lenova ideapad y500, I'll really consider getting that.



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There are quite a few things to look at and consider if you want to play games. First is the higher the resolution the worse your experience is going to be, especially in your budget range. Next is going from a 15.5" to a 17"+ is going to cost at least $100 more.
Next major item is that if you want the best experience for gaming you will want a system that has a Discrete graphics card and not one that is built into the CPU.
With that said I will be giving you a few solid suggestions that in the 15"-16" range. I will be using Newegg since most laptops ship for free or for less than $10.

First item, This is $699, designed for gaming, no tax and has $3.99 shipping. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152586

Second item, an older model with less slower CPU but with faster GPU and not designed for gaming but will have better gaming performance. It will have a more plastic-y feel. $629 with $3.99 ship and no tax.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314535


Both of these machines will perform much better than your existing one and will be better options for gaming than the ones you had listed.

I personally would go with the Acer, it is the best bang for your buck that I could find throughout all of Newegg. It may be early the early 2014 model but it should last. It has a 15.6" screen running 1366x768 resolution. You are going down in screen size and resolution but the picture will be just as clear due to the size difference in the screen. With the minor compromise in resolution you should be able to play pretty much all modern games on Medium or High settings and get fully playable FPS. I hope this helps.



^^ That Acer has a 1.7Ghz Dual Core. The 'U' series chips are bad for gaming.

The 820M in the other one is also pretty bad. The 840M isn't great, but the 820 is awful.



If we are going to include Ebay into the mix I have a one more suggestions that will outperform the 750m SLI you were looking at. I am also only suggesting new machines that will have full warranty.

First the Benchmarks page (Note the 750m SLI is slower than the 755M SLI by significant margin)
http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/gtx-860m-vs-gtx-770m-vs-gt-755-sli-midrange-gaming-shifted/

Okay, first choice: $645 Free Shipping. 17" 1080p screen
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-937-175724-012-17-3-inch-Intel-HM87-GeForce-GTX860M-DVD-RW-Notebook-/321591854569?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae05e45e9




That MSI for $645 includes no HDD, no OS, no CPU, and no memory.

GTX860M laptops are far more expensive than $645.



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Also, 755 and 750 SLI are nearly identical. Same Kepler midrange GPU with fractional differences in clock speeds.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/what-notebook-should-i-buy/738706-lenovo-ideapad-y510p-755m-sli-vs-750m-sli.html

755M SLI is slightly faster. It's just an overclocked 750M SLI, everything else is identical.

750M: 1158 MHz core, 2500 MHz memory
755M: 1197 MHz core, 2700 MHz memory



Arkaign said:
That MSI for $645 includes no HDD, no OS, no CPU, and no memory.

GTX860M laptops are far more expensive than $645.

I stand corrected in my reccomendation, I totally missed that is a bare bones LT.

As for the 755M SLI, vs the 750M SLI, I am not sure where the bench was but it showed a significant (~8%) difference, most likely due to the 750M SLI verison being throttled during testing due to bad thermal design in the LT.

So if OP is looking, I very stongly suggest the IBM 750M SLI that was suggested earlier.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510p-15-6-laptop-2x-nVidia-GT-750m-SLI-240G-SSD-8G-RAM-/291315052759?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item43d3baf0d7

 

 



Yeh I'm stuck between the y500 and y510.

The y500 has a bit slower cpu 3rd gen, plenty of memory, enough HDD and also 16GB SSD assuming the system is on and a great GPU and display, the only problem is that it has Vista which I'll change out of windows 7, at $700.

The y510 much better CPU, same memory, great SSD for the system but I'll have to get a terabyte HDD for storage, awesome GPU and similar display for $675.

Now I don't game hardcore, I'm mostly a console gamers, the big games I'll always buy for my console, the PC games will probably be a couple years or older.



look into sager/clevo. Better price/performance and quality. I use Xotic PC to get my laptops...



If you had $4000 you could get an Origin laptop XD