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Post by Rustin Cohle on Mar 4, 2018 17:33:16 GMT
Looking at maybe buying a laptop (just can't be bothered to wait for GPU prices to fall) in the USA when I go in May. Should save me a few hundred quid over buying it in the UK. Anyone got any recommendations? Budget probably around £1100-1500. I know people have historically shit on gaming laptops but I don't think I can take a prebuild home from the US to the UK, and finding the space for a prebuild in my shoebox flat will be a right pain anyway (was willing to do it for a custom build because the custom would ideally be perfect, but with RAM & GPUs so expensive I'm probably just gonna cut my losses and have a gaming laptop for a few years). Was looking at something like this (Acer Predator), but whilst the specs are great the screen is a bit eh (60hz 1080p). Was hoping for 1440p at least, but may not be realistic in my budget. www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GeForce-G9-793-79V5/dp/B01N6S4A2U Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop, Core i7, GeForce GTX 1070, 17.3" Full HD G-SYNC, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-793-79V5 |
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Post by redcase on Mar 4, 2018 17:43:52 GMT
Looking at maybe buying a laptop (just can't be bothered to wait for GPU prices to fall) in the USA when I go in May. Should save me a few hundred quid over buying it in the UK. Anyone got any recommendations? Budget probably around £1100-1500. I know people have historically shit on gaming laptops but I don't think I can take a prebuild home from the US to the UK, and finding the space for a prebuild in my shoebox flat will be a right pain anyway (was willing to do it for a custom build because the custom would ideally be perfect, but with RAM & GPUs so expensive I'm probably just gonna cut my losses and have a gaming laptop for a few years). Was looking at something like this (Acer Predator), but whilst the specs are great the screen is a bit eh (60hz 1080p). Was hoping for 1440p at least, but may not be realistic in my budget. www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GeForce-G9-793-79V5/dp/B01N6S4A2U Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop, Core i7, GeForce GTX 1070, 17.3" Full HD G-SYNC, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-793-79V5 This website would be a good place to go to. I really like ROG from ASUS, my brother's got one. It's great. www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/best-gaming-laptops-top-5-gaming-notebooks-reviewed-1258471 |
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Post by CaajScot on Mar 4, 2018 17:52:49 GMT
Looking at maybe buying a laptop (just can't be bothered to wait for GPU prices to fall) in the USA when I go in May. Should save me a few hundred quid over buying it in the UK. Anyone got any recommendations? Budget probably around £1100-1500. I know people have historically shit on gaming laptops but I don't think I can take a prebuild home from the US to the UK, and finding the space for a prebuild in my shoebox flat will be a right pain anyway (was willing to do it for a custom build because the custom would ideally be perfect, but with RAM & GPUs so expensive I'm probably just gonna cut my losses and have a gaming laptop for a few years). Was looking at something like this (Acer Predator), but whilst the specs are great the screen is a bit eh (60hz 1080p). Was hoping for 1440p at least, but may not be realistic in my budget. www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GeForce-G9-793-79V5/dp/B01N6S4A2U Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop, Core i7, GeForce GTX 1070, 17.3" Full HD G-SYNC, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-793-79V5 I have an Acer Aspire 5335, have had it for about 6 years, an old fucker but still going strong, my son got a mate of his to strip it down and re-build it about 3 years ago as a couple of the keys fucked up, it's a bit slow but does the job for me, have a look at the link below and that might help you. |
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Post by Rustin Cohle on Mar 4, 2018 18:02:22 GMT
Cheers guys.
If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3.
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Post by redcase on Mar 4, 2018 18:11:34 GMT
Cheers guys. If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3. Don't skimp then. You'll need to go to the 1500 GBP limit you've set for yourself if you REALLY want to immerse yourself in those games. If you're spending this much money on a laptop, make it future-proof. |
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Post by Rustin Cohle on Mar 4, 2018 18:15:35 GMT
Cheers guys. If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3. Don't skimp then. You'll need to go to the 1500 GBP limit you've set for yourself if you REALLY want to immerse yourself in those games. If you're spending this much money on a laptop, make it future-proof. That's the plan. Not interested in anything with less than a GTX 1070 and 16GB of RAM for starters. |
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Post by CaajScot on Mar 4, 2018 18:25:32 GMT
Cheers guys. If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3. Best Gaming Laptops for Fallout 4 on Amazon.com ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD 15.6″ Gaming Laptop GTX 1050 4GB Intel Core i7-7700HQ 16GB DDR4 1TB 7200RPM HDD RGB Keyboard valuenomad.com/best-gaming-laptop-for-fallout-4/ |
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Post by RAZ on Mar 4, 2018 20:00:49 GMT
Cheers guys. If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3. i`m using a couple of mods for fallout 4 and witcher 3, the biggest of them one that changed the whole fallout commonwealth into some real postapocalyptic scenerie. like tons of new plants, trees, grass, flowers etc. my skyrim runs with almost 50 mods. if you spend that much on a laptop, why not a desktop pc? |
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Post by Rustin Cohle on Mar 4, 2018 21:33:43 GMT
Cheers guys. If it helps, the main thing I want to do is mod the shit out of games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3. i`m using a couple of mods for fallout 4 and witcher 3, the biggest of them one that changed the whole fallout commonwealth into some real postapocalyptic scenerie. like tons of new plants, trees, grass, flowers etc. my skyrim runs with almost 50 mods. if you spend that much on a laptop, why not a desktop pc? I wanted to build a PC, but GPU (and to a lesser extent RAM) prices are so out of whack that it's not worth it right now. The next set of GeForce cards are expected to be announced/released before I go to the US, so if they somehow have an amazing plan to stop crypto miners I may give it another shot. I highly doubt they will though. However, the other - arguably bigger - problem is that I'm just not sure where to put a desktop in our flat. It's a very small one that we bought in July, so we'll be here for 4/5 years at a minimum most likely, and I just don't see a natural home for it. The only place that might work is the dining table in the corner, but can't imagine my other half would be pleased with that. The case would also likely need to be pretty small, which rules out most prebuilds. Laptops may cost more for less (though that seems to have improved in the past couple of years), and ones with this level of specs won't be truly 'portable', but they'll be portable enough to move around the flat when necessary, which might be what I need really. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 21:42:47 GMT
Looking at maybe buying a laptop (just can't be bothered to wait for GPU prices to fall) in the USA when I go in May. Should save me a few hundred quid over buying it in the UK. Anyone got any recommendations? Budget probably around £1100-1500. I know people have historically shit on gaming laptops but I don't think I can take a prebuild home from the US to the UK, and finding the space for a prebuild in my shoebox flat will be a right pain anyway (was willing to do it for a custom build because the custom would ideally be perfect, but with RAM & GPUs so expensive I'm probably just gonna cut my losses and have a gaming laptop for a few years). Was looking at something like this (Acer Predator), but whilst the specs are great the screen is a bit eh (60hz 1080p). Was hoping for 1440p at least, but may not be realistic in my budget. www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GeForce-G9-793-79V5/dp/B01N6S4A2U Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop, Core i7, GeForce GTX 1070, 17.3" Full HD G-SYNC, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-793-79V5 I ended up buying my nephew an Gigabyte laptop 2 xmas' ago - I was more impressed with it than I thougght I'd be. i7 - 16gb ram - GTX970 - ssd and mechanical drive. |
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Post by Rustin Cohle on Mar 5, 2018 8:58:37 GMT
Looking at maybe buying a laptop (just can't be bothered to wait for GPU prices to fall) in the USA when I go in May. Should save me a few hundred quid over buying it in the UK. Anyone got any recommendations? Budget probably around £1100-1500. I know people have historically shit on gaming laptops but I don't think I can take a prebuild home from the US to the UK, and finding the space for a prebuild in my shoebox flat will be a right pain anyway (was willing to do it for a custom build because the custom would ideally be perfect, but with RAM & GPUs so expensive I'm probably just gonna cut my losses and have a gaming laptop for a few years). Was looking at something like this (Acer Predator), but whilst the specs are great the screen is a bit eh (60hz 1080p). Was hoping for 1440p at least, but may not be realistic in my budget. www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GeForce-G9-793-79V5/dp/B01N6S4A2U Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop, Core i7, GeForce GTX 1070, 17.3" Full HD G-SYNC, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-793-79V5 I ended up buying my nephew an Gigabyte laptop 2 xmas' ago - I was more impressed with it than I thougght I'd be. i7 - 16gb ram - GTX970 - ssd and mechanical drive. Gigabyte look good, but I've been struggling to find a model with the specs I'm looking for. Won't be ordering until May so plenty of time for one to turn up. |
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Post by redcase on Mar 5, 2018 9:38:46 GMT
I ended up buying my nephew an Gigabyte laptop 2 xmas' ago - I was more impressed with it than I thougght I'd be. i7 - 16gb ram - GTX970 - ssd and mechanical drive. Gigabyte look good, but I've been struggling to find a model with the specs I'm looking for. Won't be ordering until May so plenty of time for one to turn up. MSI is very underrated as well. |
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Post by Tatty on Mar 5, 2018 16:50:19 GMT
What's a good cheap smartphone?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 20:02:01 GMT
What's a good cheap smartphone? How cheap? I hear Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro is pretty good. |
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Post by CaajScot on Mar 6, 2018 10:35:18 GMT
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