Hello all, I need the help from people who are more experienced in PC gaming than myself, I mainly play on consoles and my PS4 but with price of games being cheaper on steam, I always want to play most single player games on my PC. I cannot decide wether to just buy a new graphics card, or buy a full gaming laptop, and what laptop to buy! lameo

Currently, I own a half decent PC, I7-4790k @4gigz, 16 gig 1866 ram and until recently I had 970 SLI's I bought at the start of the year ( I sold them in preps to upgrade with the 1080 ) So my plan was set, until the 1080 I wanted is out of stock for another few weeks at least so I have been left feeling impatient and say a laptop being advertised and it caught my eye.

I do own a laptop, but its not a gaming laptop, just a cheap £300 laptop I bought a few years ago, and TBH I don't even use it, it is just sat upstairs and has abit of porn on and such ^^.

I game currently on a 55inch sony bravia 3D 4k beast of a tv that I love <3, and my PC sits behind it and I pretty much can only play controller based games, and a few easy to controll mouse games using a steam controller. I love gaming on a controller, its my thing, its what I was brought up to do, and KB/M just does not work where I sit, but problem is I like some RTS games and things like civ 5 / 6 that are impossible where I currently game due to either no good way to use a mouse / keyboard without it being a total ball ache, or resolution of text being barley readable on my TV for some PC specific games.

Now this is my dilemma, should I buy the GTX1080 and maybe get a steam link for upstairs in my office to play games on my desk ( I do not have a decent monitor, doesnt even do full 1080 I think its 1600x900 or something like that, and isnt even HDMI so I would need to find some sort of converter and hope it works. I will be able to play alot in 4k, but maybe have to lower res on some games to maybe 2k or 1080p ( i like max graphics ) this will be around £700 and I am not sure what FPS i will be getting with my settup.

Or should I buy a gaming laptop?? gaming laptop I want is around £2000-2400 depending what I get ( I cant decide that either lolz ) here are the two laptops I was thinking off. 

I7-6700k 4ghz, 32gig 2133 mhz ram, 2x 8gig GTX 980m SLI, 250gig SSD and 2TB storage drive. 

or

I7-6700k 4ghz, 64gig 2133 mhz ram, 1x 8gig GTX980 Desktpo card, 48gig SSD and 2TB storage drive. 

there is around 400 difference in price, being the 980m SLI is more expensive, but will produce better FPS.

Now with this laptop, I could have it upstairs, and do full 1080p gaming at high settings, then take it downstairs and plug it into my TV and play it on my big screen ( not really to fussed about 4k atm tbh ), take it on holiday, take it to the toilet, use it to do things while the girlfriend is watching crap TV..

So much more use from a laptop and options, I just dont get 4k that is hardly noticable anyway, and get to play mouse and keyboard games with no streaming lag to...

Question is, what do you guys think is best? and if anyone knows some good benchmarks for 980m sli vs 980 desktop card in laptops, that would be great, as I can only find one benchmark from a russian dude but its not very good has he doesnt own the cards, and put stats from his "friends" settups and they where all different, so you cannot really tell if the SLI is worth it or not :/

It appears you need help from pro-forum users too :)

A gaming laptop is much less portable AND much less powerful than you imagine.

Just buy a 1080 when they get in stock. Your current PC has a good CPU, so it won't bottleneck it. It will also save you like 1000 $ that you can instead use on loads of more games (Get DOOM!). And I'm pretty sure it will also perform better than both the gaming PC and the Gaming laptop you put there.

Unless the portability is REALLY important to you. Keep in mind, with dual 980ms, the laptop will pretty much have to be tethered to a socket.

The 9xxm series is suprisingly close to the non-m series though. The gap has certainly shrunk between the m and non-m GPUs since, say, the GTX 600 days. But as stated above, a SLI 980m laptop will pretty much have to be tethered to a socket. And not all games scale well with SLI either.

Unless you really need the convenience and portability, I wouldn't go for a gaming laptop. It'll also be practically impossible to upgrade, so when you do need to upgrade, you'll have to get a new laptop instead of just getting a new graphics card. But of course if the convenience and portability of a laptop are important for you, it could still be worth it. You should try to weigh the advantages and downsides of each choice in your situation and make your decision based on that.

As for Steam Link, you'll pretty much need a wired connection, I think. Keep that in mind.