I’m on a $1,500 budget - Help me purchase my first gaming PC

[Bofferbrauer2]

Davy said:

SvennoJ said:

My reason is space. Laptops fit where desktops plus big screens will not. I do use a mechanical keyboard with it, just resting on top of the shitty laptop keyboard and of course a good gaming mouse (eff those track pads)

The 144Hz screen of it is actually quite good and bigger sizes doesn't mean much when you tend to sit a lot closer to a laptop screen, like 1-1.5 ft, compared to 2-3 feet to a PC screen. 1 to 1.5ft from 15.6" gives you 59 to 41 degree fov, 2 to 3 ft from 32" gives you 60 to 42 degree fov, same ;)

But yeah it doesn't compare to a 65" 4K HDR screen, it has some fake windows HDR for videos, not impressive. Of course for proper HDR you're better off with consoles, and even better on PSVR2 (but games that actually handle HDR well are still rare)

Anyway if you have the space, don't bother with gaming laptops. Expensive, run hot, loud (fans), at most an hour of gaming on battery.  

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Still better than my old one, a 7700HQ coupled with a 1050Ti. And that Dell was so badly built it throttled on both of them without needing to stress them...

Ugh Dell laptops, my work always got them from Dell, Those things were build to die within 2 years. 

My previous 'gaming' laptop was a Toshiba Satellite with GT 740m. It only had a vent on the side and it ran so hot I burned my fingers on it. It was good to keep your coffee hot. 

If you don't have space to place a desk i understand.

I play 1,5 feet distance from the 32 inch monitor though and it's not the same from all those years i was playing on 24 inch. ^^

I hate the space i have my tv too, it only fits 55" inch on 2 meter distance from couch. I would prefer 65" inch size.

But until i get a console with true 4k resolution i will stick to my old 47 inch 1080p  tv to watch movies and play older consoles.

My reason for a gaming laptop at the time was because I was travelling around a lot at the time and wasn't home all that much. So a laptop was a much more natural fit, otherwise I would have gotten a desktop.