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Tamron on 13 July 2014
starcraft said:

That...is insane. If my laptop is a beast then your is a god. Mind if I ask what that cost (I presume US dollars?) and where you got it?

I am extremely jealous.

a little over 4000usd, ordered direct from eurocoms website and delivered to my house in japan

 

some screenies i took using it:

http://imgur.com/a/GLkZE



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VanceIX on 13 July 2014
Tamron said:
starcraft said:

Went WAY overboard in the end:

Standard Metabox Design
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Matte
Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
Intel Core i7-4710MQ Processor (6M Cache up to 3.50 GHz)
16GB 1600MHZ Memory
Plextor 256GB M5 PRO XTREME SATA3 SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD
802.11ABGN / Bluetooth
Blu-ray Reader / DVD +- R/RW DL
Windows 8.1 64BIT
2 Year Platinum Metabox Onsite Pickup

I really wanted to sub out the Blu-Ray player for a 95% Matte Gamut screen but that was a degree of customisation they couldn't do without adding hundreds to the (~1700) price.

The RAM was a free upgrade from 8 to 16 so I was like fine.

Here is hoping its awesome!

god i know that feeling all too well,  i do a lot of travelling for work and wanted something beefier to play some games in my downtime rather than being bored in airports and hotels,  ended up buying a eurocom x7 and spending twice my initial budget

 

final specs for it are as shown : http://i.imgur.com/qK7kyrI.png

 

plays absolutely beautifully though,  and i havent regretted the spend even once,  you'll feel the same way when you throw a modern game at it and it playa it smooth as silk,  theres something about a laptop spitting out smooth high end graphics that has a weird air of awesomeness about it. 

You got SLI in a laptop?

Dude that's beastly



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BHR-3 on 13 July 2014

no get one with at least a gtx 860M

you can get a sager np7358 or powerpro for under $1000 with gtx 860M and i7s

http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-Custom-Built-Gaming-Laptops-Notebooks-cat-26.html

 

edit ops only read the OP, what ya spent on that?



                                                             

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RenCutypoison on 13 July 2014
starcraft said:
Tamron said:


Replacing/upgrading hdd is a piece of cake, best thing to do is remove it when new, without ever using it, put in an SSD or 7200rpm drive and fresh install, throw on all new drivers (download from mancufacturers page) then you can swap out for the old drive if ever you want to sell it or return it, or just slap the drive in your ps4/ps3

As for the laptop itself, the CPU is a bit on the weak side, bearing in mind that 3ghz is the turbocore speed, unless youre doing heavy use it'll sit around 1.8ghz, i would look for something quad core personally.

http://www.affordablelaptops.com.au/contents/en-us/d43_gaming-laptop-notebook-standard-size.html

This is roughly $200 more, but it has the following advantages

GPU : GT 740M to GTX850M
CPU : 1.8ghz - 3ghz dual core to 2.5ghz - 3.5ghz quad core
DISPLAY : 1366x768 led to 1920x1080 lcd
Warranty : 1 year limited to 2 year manufacturers global warranty

Specs for the GTX850M - http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-850M.107795.0.html
Specs for the GT740M - http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.89900.0.html

Just my 0.02$ of course.

At the bottom of that laptop page you can customize the loadout too, if the only thing you change is the SSD to a 1tb 7200rpm mechanical hdd, its the same as the one i linked above but faster hdd, for $1 more, or just leave it as is and pay the $50 extra for a 256gb ssd.

Thanks, thats a very useful 2c.

I will have a look at my budget and see if I can squeeze something out and look at your and jizzbeard's suggestions.

At the very least it appears there are sufficient potential drawbacks that I should be considering options other than the laptop in the OP.


I think adding 200 $ is the best too. The budget stretch gets you the best laptop you can get right now, and you're sure you can play on this for at least 4 years.

edit : and 15" screen on a 1000$ laptop ?!



starcraft on 13 July 2014
BHR-3 said:

no get one with at least a gtx 860M

you can get a sager np7358 or powerpro for under $1000 with gtx 860M and i7s

http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-Custom-Built-Gaming-Laptops-Notebooks-cat-26.html

edit ops only read the OP, what ya spent on that?

$1700AUD. In Australia thats a really good deal (which is sad lol)



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JazzB1987 on 13 July 2014

I would never buy a HP laptop EVER.

I was working at a computer store for 3 years not so long ago and at least 50% of the broken laptops were HP.

Compaq is also HP just for your interest so also dont buy Compaq laptops.

Alot of laptops had broken batteries because of the heat that was generated by the devices. In alot of cases the GPU had just 5% or so of its surface having contact with the copper of the cooler and because of that the batteries died.

A friends compaq laptop CQ60-115EG also was at 239°F / 115°C while gaming when I applied alot of thermal paste and forced the cooler to have contact with the GPU the max temps went down to 85°C / 185F



Pillow on 13 July 2014

^^ I second this,

Had an HP laptop for 2 years, and that thing was overheating like crazy.
It would hit 90 celcius when gaming for more than 2 hours, which automatically crashes the laptop (to protect the components).
Fan noise was always really loud because of high temps even when idle.

The laptop in the OP is not worth the 1K$, you can get much better from other companies, and that 1 year warranty is a joke, especially with HP laptops.



mtxamaze9142 on 13 July 2014

I suggest get a desktop, always easier upgrading