timbo5000x
I've looked at gateway's P-6860fx. Wat others are out there
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I have the 6860-fx and i highly recommend it. Its been a great game system for me and i havent found a game that i cant run.
If your willing to spend 2K then you can truely turn it into a great gaming rig. Add a t9300 or better CPU (x9000 is amazing but expensive) and your actually pretty well set. Everything else you can do to the computer is just nit picky.
Like adding a 1900x1200 lcd 1080 hd screen or addint a second hard drive (yes the 320 gig HDD is a single drive and you have an extra open slot in the 6860... just perfect for another 320 gig if you want)
I just cant say enough about this rig. For the money its a great system. There are better, but you pay the premium for them and at 1300ish its the most capability for the least money out there currently
I have the 6860-fx and i highly recommend it. Its been a great game system for me and i havent found a game that i cant run.
If your willing to spend 2K then you can truely turn it into a great gaming rig. Add a t9300 or better CPU (x9000 is amazing but expensive) and your actually pretty well set. Everything else you can do to the computer is just nit picky.
Like adding a 1900x1200 lcd 1080 hd screen or addint a second hard drive (yes the 320 gig HDD is a single drive and you have an extra open slot in the 6860... just perfect for another 320 gig if you want)
I just cant say enough about this rig. For the money its a great system. There are better, but you pay the premium for them and at 1300ish its the most capability for the least money out there currently
What would be the best gaming laptop under $2000?
Boricua
My parents have offered to buy me a gaming laptop for my birthday this year, mainly because I have yet to get a job & because I only have one year left of High School to go, but they don't want to spend too much money on one. I have asked them to get me the Alienware m15x but I don't know if that is a good one. Any suggestions?
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Stay away from dell and alienware (partners now). Those laptops are way over priced so dont get suckered like many into there schemes.
What seperates dell/alienware from the competition is really and honestly, glitz, glamour and a strong marketing team.
Look up the samsung r780 it literally destroys the mx11. Asus another worthy competitor uses a killer 260gtx card on many of their laptops, hell even there older refurbished models outshine the competition.
Gateway has by far the best; huge looking gaming screens
There are far better deals out there you just have to be patient, some companies sacrifice a lot in there laptops to bring you affordable machines but those sacrifices they make can always be upgraded later on.
There are only a handful of games that take advantage of quad cores, i5 and i7... dual core series is just a good if you have a killer graphics card to support it.
Dont listen to these "so called experts" the operating system, ram, storage can always be upgraded easily. Just stay away from "gimped machines." In other words ive seen i7 processor on machines with intergrated graphics cards which are extremely inferior in performance. What a waste...
Look for a dedicated graphics card and your on the right path... here are some links happy hunting:
http://www.nextag.com/Notebooks--a-Graphic+Card-_-GeForce+GTX+260--zz300359zB4z5---html
Tomshardware.com (if not the best forum around)
notebookcheck.com (good place to check a laptops graphics card and notebook benchmarks)
tigerdirect.com (they have some killer new and refurbished asus that you can upgrade)
bestbuy.com (they have a killer r780 samsung)
Stay away from dell and alienware (partners now). Those laptops are way over priced so dont get suckered like many into there schemes.
What seperates dell/alienware from the competition is really and honestly, glitz, glamour and a strong marketing team.
Look up the samsung r780 it literally destroys the mx11. Asus another worthy competitor uses a killer 260gtx card on many of their laptops, hell even there older refurbished models outshine the competition.
Gateway has by far the best; huge looking gaming screens
There are far better deals out there you just have to be patient, some companies sacrifice a lot in there laptops to bring you affordable machines but those sacrifices they make can always be upgraded later on.
There are only a handful of games that take advantage of quad cores, i5 and i7... dual core series is just a good if you have a killer graphics card to support it.
Dont listen to these "so called experts" the operating system, ram, storage can always be upgraded easily. Just stay away from "gimped machines." In other words ive seen i7 processor on machines with intergrated graphics cards which are extremely inferior in performance. What a waste...
Look for a dedicated graphics card and your on the right path... here are some links happy hunting:
http://www.nextag.com/Notebooks--a-Graphic+Card-_-GeForce+GTX+260--zz300359zB4z5---html
Tomshardware.com (if not the best forum around)
notebookcheck.com (good place to check a laptops graphics card and notebook benchmarks)
tigerdirect.com (they have some killer new and refurbished asus that you can upgrade)
bestbuy.com (they have a killer r780 samsung)
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