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Good Gaming Laptop Charactaristics
So guys please could anyone give me all the parts charactaristics of a realy good gaming laptop?
I wonna buy a very good gaming laptop so please give me a list that I would be able to give to the shop owner and buy the laptop from him
All the charactaristics needed please e.g : RAM,Processor,Hard Drive,VGA ...
Helpers Really Appreciated :D :D
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For basic stats...
4 gigs ram minimum
500 gig hard drive minimum. 7200 RPM if possible (higher is better)
video card with 256 mb memory or more. Honestly, I don't think I'd bother getting a gaming laptop with a vid card with less than 500 mb though. I have 1 gig in my tower and I run everything at highest settings, and I wouldn't have it any other way. If you're dropping a few grand, it's worth the extra few hundred (considering it's supposed to be a gaming laptop) to extend it's gaming life by two or three years by giving it the best video card you can find for it.
You want a multicore processor. Intel i5 mobile if you can get it. They're expensive, but they kick all kinds of processing ass. Quad cores are getting pretty standard, so any processor in that family would work, but if you can afford it shoot for the over 2 ghz ones.
That's really the basics of what you need. You want an integrated wireless card, you might want to see if they have one with an antenna port so you can choose to spend another 20 bucks and boost reception by like half a mile if you need to. That can help alot if you are taking it to college or something.
Now, shop owner? Buying a computer is a big investment, especially a gaming laptop. You can drop three grand on this without blinking. I highly recommend finding someone organized enough that they ship out computers.
Check out resellerratings.com. It can be a great resource for independent vendors. I found a company, they actually ended up dying and closing down, but while they were active they built me a kick ass computer that's been perfect for two years now. Buy a few PC gaming magazines and see who advertises, then google the hell out of them to see if they have online reviews so you can see what it's like. Read the worst reviews first, angry people usually have a reason to be angry and you can see your worst case scenarios.
When in doubt, consider buying a dell. The warranty is worth it. They're a terrible fucking company in so many ways, but being able to drop your computer, tell them that, and get a new one is something that might just save your ass someday.
A final note. If this isnt a computer being built by a serious company that uses standardized parts, get a part list. If a local shop is building the computer tell them you want a comprehensive list of components like the motherboard, a sound card if it's not on-board the motherboard, the specific wireless card, etc.
It is my experience that small shops rip you off the most. They will give you sub standard parts and charge you like they put in top of the line. Any shop should be able to provide you a breakdown of the price and labor. If they won't, don't buy from them. There are also plenty of places where they won't let you choose parts and will refuse to give you a computer with anything other than the parts they choose at the price they set. Places like this aren't places you want to do business with.
Order from a gaming laptop making company, buy a dell, or find a friend who's really techie who you trust to build a rig. I like the third option when it's available, but I'm techie myself and just haven't touched anything hardware in years. I buy all the parts myself and bring them to a friend and he puts it together for me for a hundred bucks for like two hours of labor.
The last time I got a computer I got absolute top of the line, best of everything you could buy, for under 1500 including the monitor. Would have cost me four and a half grand to get the equivalent from any company out there.
And if you are actually in college or getting this to go there, you might get lucky and have a university deal to get software cheap as hell. I bought Windows XP and microsoft office from UT a while back for a total of 20 bucks. Retail it was over five hundred just for that.
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