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 :/

Get the steam link instead.

You ll come hate carrying your laptop back and forth, pay much more, and eventually end up with it just sitting in one spot, not forfilling the role you intended it too anyways.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980M-SLI.129389.0.html

3DMark (2013) - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720   (980ti is about 4% faster than 980m SLI)

Battlefield4 (2013) ultra settings 1920x1080 (980ti is about 9% faster than 980m SLI)

Dragon Age Inquisition (2014) ultra settings 1920x1080 (980ti is about 16% faster than 980m SLI)

In generally I think its save to assume 980m SLI is about 10% slower in games, than a single 980ti is.

Gaming laptops in general are a bad idea.

I game on a laptop, but that's mostly because I don't play demanding games, and it has served me well.
There was one time when I got some major overheating problems and I had to open the thing up and replace the cooling paste, which was a pain in the ass, took an entire day.

My first gaming laptop got fried because it got too hot. You're gonna have the same problem with a high end gaming laptop.

It is nice and easy to carry around though, even though the specs are outdated now.

So I guess my advice is, if you plan to carry around your computer a lot and don't play the most graphically intensive games, a laptop is feasible.

Otherwise go stationary, and save yourself a lot of trouble and money.

Don't forget that these "portable" laptops are huge bricks. You'll grow to get tired of always carrying it around from how big and clunky it is.


Also, the pricing for those laptops would be much lower on a PC for the same specs. Assuming you aren't a millionare, I'm sure you also care for costs. If you wanted to spend 2000 on your PC rig as well, you'd be able to play games with godly settings.

I tried, and failed on the end of the third paragraph, fast scan at the rest, from the sounds of it you want to invest in a decent chair and table setup so you can put your mouse and keyboard on it, I would advise asking for help on a furniture board as to what table to buy.

Don't bother with gaming laptops though, a pit for money and at the end of the day a waste of time if you want 4k visuals that isn't the way to go, I mean... just from screen size it would be pointless.