looking for a new laptop

Stear FAR, FAR, away from AlienWare or CyberPower. With those guys, you just pay for the name and the fancy sticker they put on things. Not to mention +30%-40% to all the components.

If you insist on having a laptop. Then gaming on it isn't going to be amazing for the price.

This is one of the few things worth calling a 'gaming' laptop: http://goo.gl/WjgvT

This is also very good: http://goo.gl/vHm2g


MP: I have to disagree with you there. i3's are good for entry level gaming, but now with AMD's APUs out, they aren't worth getting due to the price.

i5's, you've got the gist there.

i7's are powerhouses. Universal use (save for servers.)

But ofcourse there is still the fact that some i5's may beat an i7. Like the i5-3570k, will easily beat an i7-960.



Operating system, you MUST get x64 bit, else anything more than 3Gb of RAM will go to waste. Due to x32 bit only being able to handle a max of 3Gb RAM.

Really, if you're going to be gaming on this thing, try for 6Gb minimum.

OS. I'd recommend going Windows 7 x64 bit..Windows 8 is fine and all if you like using it. But there are almost no drivers out for it right now, making hardware somewhat less effective. Aswell as the fact that SP1 isn't out yet (that I'm aware of).

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Having a quick browse on Newegg and I found these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834256324R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131393
(Has very good integrated/dedicated graphics)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314004
(Also VERY good)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216457
(I would advise going with this one. Has the best processor for the price, aswell as having very good dedicated graphics. Yes it only has 4Gb of RAM, but you can easily buy some new RAM and swap it out if you feel you need more.)