Decent Laptop (Gaming) for around £600 ($950)

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Keepin121

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I am looking to buy a new laptop as my current Dell Inspiron 1525 is coming to the end of its life after 3 years.

My budget is around £600 ($950) +- £25.

I am looking for a high-performance/gaming laptop for around that price. Nothing to fancy and exuberant.

I found this one and I think it's the best one out there for the price and specification.

http://www.dabs.com/products/acer-a...4_1310490998_96d58db49a63d4bdb98ab4923b7f1f98

Should I buy this Laptop, or are there any better alternatives?

Any suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated :)
 
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it might be 150 extra but the alienware m14x is a good bit better, sandy bridge processor, gtx 555m instead of that one's 540m, and the classic and beautiful alienware styling, plus you get a free chrome name plate with you name in alienies and english below there. and if you do the monthly payments you can save those extra couple bucks up for the final price.
 
That's in the United States mate. Over here in the UK, the price for an Alienware m17x is £1,100 ($1750), which is wayyyyyyy out of my price range.
 
I say go for it. I have the same laptop that's a few notches down, it's got the i5 and a gt540M and it plays battlefield bad company 2 on max.
 
that's why i said m14x, looked at my post and there it was, and in usd the m14x is 1099, which is only a good bit over, and with monly payments you can save a couple more bucks along the way
 
that i doubt seriously. The GT540m I have paired with a i3-380m and it will only play BCBC2 on medium at best (average 25FPS). I dont really think that that i5-480m will make that much of a difference. If it were a true quad at 2 or so GHz, then it would be different.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265882
Seems that this would be a good choice. It would play it on medium @ ~40 FPS and high ~25. and its SB so it has a better processor.
 
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jonnyp11 said:
that's why i said m14x, looked at my post and there it was, and in usd the m14x is 1099, which is only a good bit over, and with monly payments you can save a couple more bucks along the way
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Just looked at the M14x and it's £1,100. I can only order from the UK, not the USA. It may be cheaper in the US, but i have to buy in the UK unfortunately.
 
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that i doubt seriously. The GT540m I have paired with a i3-380m and it will only play BCBC2 on medium at best (average 25FPS). I dont really think that that i5-480m will make that much of a difference. If it were a true quad at 2 or so GHz, then it would be different..
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Fine, I'm not asking you to believe me. And i lied a bit, i had my settings on "high" not advanced. I just tried it however, advanced with the default advanced settings, and it does run fine. I don't know the fps, but it's playable.
I can find out more if you really want, i didn't exactly do a thorough test, i just played one game. It runs it fine. On longer runs, maybe not.
 
should run FSX on high or max fine. It dont look to be too advanced of a game.

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I may have gotten too technical there. The human eye can only process up to 32 FPS. Any more and it will look the same. Above 15 FPS and it is fluid motion. It may play at high well, but I would assume that it would get too hot and eventually shut off from it. Especially since its using (in mine at least) 100% CPU and GPU, and 100% RAM at medium. Add a stronger CPU, and more RAM and it may, stress may, run better longer, but its just a guess.
 
Keepin121 said:
Any ideas on how it would run Flight Simulator X?
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wolfeking said:
should run FSX on high or max fine. It dont look to be too advanced of a game.

@NyxCharon
I may have gotten too technical there. The human eye can only process up to 32 FPS. Any more and it will look the same. Above 15 FPS and it is fluid motion. It may play at high well, but I would assume that it would get too hot and eventually shut off from it. Especially since its using (in mine at least) 100% CPU and GPU, and 100% RAM at medium. Add a stronger CPU, and more RAM and it may, stress may, run better longer, but its just a guess.
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Fail 1, Flight sim x will own that laptop, indeed it owns most previous gen quad cores. Flight sim x is extremely cpu intensive. You need a quad core to play flght sim on max.

Fail 2, the human eye doesn't work on fps, ive posted extensively about this in the past so look it up on the forum, but needless to say, you need at least 30 fps to be accurate with HID and even more to play smoothly.

Fail 3, are you saying your computer uses 6GB playing bbc2? I don't think so. Plus bbc2 is gpu limited, so it doesn't suprise me that a laptop will fail at this.

The terms laptop and gaming don't go together, especially for that price range. Build a PC if you want to game.
 
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Fail 1, Flight sim x will own that laptop, indeed it owns most previous gen quad cores. Flight sim x is extremely cpu intensive. You need a quad core to play flght sim on max.

Fail 2, the human eye doesn't work on fps, ive posted extensively about this in the past so look it up on the forum, but needless to say, you need at least 30 fps to be accurate with HID and even more to play smoothly.

Fail 3, are you saying your computer uses 6GB playing bbc2? I don't think so. Plus bbc2 is gpu limited, so it doesn't suprise me that a laptop will fail at this.

The terms laptop and gaming don't go together, especially for that price range. Build a PC if you want to game.
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I only have 4GB of RAM. So, no I am not saying it eats 6Gb of RAM. And For that matter, the dang thing uses 2.1GB just in windows.
As for FSX, I never played it so I dont know.
As for your Fail 2, I am going off info provided my my optometrist and observation. Look at a game, 15 FPS and you see it as flowing. 14 FPS and you sill see it skipping. 32 FPS you will see fluid motion, and that has been proven by medical science.
 
agreed, my comp sucks and pulls like 20fps on crysis, but to me it looks almost perfectly fluid, notice tiny bit of skip but unless analyzing it you don't notice anything
 
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