+Need Gaming laptop+

[Plungealot]

Well I find Acer laptops gd at handling heat, but the battery they require is faulty ^^

[Xegalon]

yea i think it looks better

[LightScribe88]

Don't waste your money on something like an Alienware. Honestly, I swear by Toshiba laptops. Mine is very close to two years old and still runs all current games at default detail.

Nowadays you should be able to get something with a 2.5Ghz Dual Core, 3GB of DDR2 800 RAM and a 512mb dedicated graphics card for around about what you want to pay.

Don't bother buying a quad core, IMO because not many games are designed to use more than one core, and the ones that are, usually only use two.

[ShanaSS]

Spend at least $1500 for decent gaming laptop, but $2100 will get you very good gaming laptop that has very long battery life in my opinion.

$1500 should get you 17'3 or 18'4 inch LED backlit 1080p screen laptop with Core i7 920 Quad Core Mobile Processor with decent ASUS motherboard, 6GB DDR3 RAM(Tri-channel), NDVIA, ATI brand 1GB graphic card with blu-ray burner if you know where to look, and this laptop should last about 6 hours.

That's what my sister got and I paid $600 more to get slim laptop with 13 hour long battery life that's kicking @SS!! configuration for my sister and my laptop was pretty much same except for mine was slim and have more than twice battery life than my sisters.

[Sensorium139]

LightScribe88

Don't waste your money on something like an Alienware. Honestly, I swear by Toshiba laptops. Mine is very close to two years old and still runs all current games at default detail.

Nowadays you should be able to get something with a 2.5Ghz Dual Core, 3GB of DDR2 800 RAM and a 512mb dedicated graphics card for around about what you want to pay.

Don't bother buying a quad core, IMO because not many games are designed to use more than one core, and the ones that are, usually only use two.

I would agree with you for the most part. The graphics card thing though, it depends on the card, some 256mb cards can beat a 512mb one...has to do with age and the memory interface, considering some cards with 512mb of memory only have 64mb memory interface, not good. Like when you look at video cards on new egg the 2nd number should be at least 128mb even if the first one is 256mb.

I'd say 2gb of RAM would even be ok, using more would be kind of a waste for most gamers, and with a more powerful processor you don't need a ton of RAM ...this is coming from someone who has 4gb on their main laptop razz .

and also, I just shipped my Toshiba off for repair this week, I don't have the money to replace the part(s?) that are broken so I'm hoping it comes back alright, what kind do you have btw? I have a Satellite a305-s6916 ...and I love it that's why I'm hoping it comes back working perfectly again!

[bladewarp86]

Alwin Roth

So, I currently have a laptop that really can't play many of the modern games,
(can't play halo 1 on max settings crying )

now however, I have saved up around $1,100. blaugh

All I need is suggestions, I have done my Searching and came up with this laptop:

ASUS Gaming Laptops G60Vx

but, before I buy this, I want to know:

What kind of gaming laptop would you suggest that's around 1,000 dollars?
Please post the laptop and what the best game it can play.

Thanks!

nice dude

[bladewarp86]

LightScribe88

Don't waste your money on something like an Alienware. Honestly, I swear by Toshiba laptops. Mine is very close to two years old and still runs all current games at default detail.

Nowadays you should be able to get something with a 2.5Ghz Dual Core, 3GB of DDR2 800 RAM and a 512mb dedicated graphics card for around about what you want to pay.

Don't bother buying a quad core, IMO because not many games are designed to use more than one core, and the ones that are, usually only use two.

i know wasting money sucks

[LightScribe88]

Sensorium139

LightScribe88

Don't waste your money on something like an Alienware. Honestly, I swear by Toshiba laptops. Mine is very close to two years old and still runs all current games at default detail.

Nowadays you should be able to get something with a 2.5Ghz Dual Core, 3GB of DDR2 800 RAM and a 512mb dedicated graphics card for around about what you want to pay.

Don't bother buying a quad core, IMO because not many games are designed to use more than one core, and the ones that are, usually only use two.

I would agree with you for the most part. The graphics card thing though, it depends on the card, some 256mb cards can beat a 512mb one...has to do with age and the memory interface, considering some cards with 512mb of memory only have 64mb memory interface, not good. Like when you look at video cards on new egg the 2nd number should be at least 128mb even if the first one is 256mb.

I'd say 2gb of RAM would even be ok, using more would be kind of a waste for most gamers, and with a more powerful processor you don't need a ton of RAM ...this is coming from someone who has 4gb on their main laptop razz .

and also, I just shipped my Toshiba off for repair this week, I don't have the money to replace the part(s?) that are broken so I'm hoping it comes back alright, what kind do you have btw? I have a Satellite a305-s6916 ...and I love it that's why I'm hoping it comes back working perfectly again!

Yeah, any decent card will have at least 128 bit memory these days. My laptop's Radeon HD2600 has 512mb of 128 bit GDDR3 memory. Supports full 1080p High Definition outpur too.

The reason I suggest 3GB of RAM is because with Vista, close to a gig of your RAM is allocated to your graphics card.. I have an A200 (I think it's S01). 2.2Ghz dual core, 2 gig RAM, 512mb HD 2600, 320GB HDD. Still goes hard for a 2 year old machine.

[Sensorium139]

LightScribe88

Yeah, any decent card will have at least 128 bit memory these days. My laptop's Radeon HD2600 has 512mb of 128 bit GDDR3 memory. Supports full 1080p High Definition outpur too.

The reason I suggest 3GB of RAM is because with Vista, close to a gig of your RAM is allocated to your graphics card.. I have an A200 (I think it's S01). 2.2Ghz dual core, 2 gig RAM, 512mb HD 2600, 320GB HDD. Still goes hard for a 2 year old machine.

My Satellite has a Radeon 3650 ...so a little better than yours I think?

Yeah but 2gb of RAM is the most the average person needs...my Satellite I usually only use about 1gb of the RAM on it (on the performance monitors) , rarely do I go past 2, so 4gb is a tad excessive for me...I could of had 3 if it was customized and still had enough power for it.

Mine has an intel core 2 Duo t6400 (2ghz) , 4gb of RAM, an ATI radeon 3650, and a 320gb hard drive (this may possibly change it may get a new hard drive when I get it back) . I still don't know if that was a motherboard issue or a hard drive one I hope they diagnose it well enough D:.

[LightScribe88]

Sensorium139

LightScribe88

Yeah, any decent card will have at least 128 bit memory these days. My laptop's Radeon HD2600 has 512mb of 128 bit GDDR3 memory. Supports full 1080p High Definition outpur too.

The reason I suggest 3GB of RAM is because with Vista, close to a gig of your RAM is allocated to your graphics card.. I have an A200 (I think it's S01). 2.2Ghz dual core, 2 gig RAM, 512mb HD 2600, 320GB HDD. Still goes hard for a 2 year old machine.

My Satellite has a Radeon 3650 ...so a little better than yours I think?

Yeah but 2gb of RAM is the most the average person needs...my Satellite I usually only use about 1gb of the RAM on it (on the performance monitors) , rarely do I go past 2, so 4gb is a tad excessive for me...I could of had 3 if it was customized and still had enough power for it.

Mine has an intel core 2 Duo t6400 (2ghz) , 4gb of RAM, an ATI radeon 3650, and a 320gb hard drive (this may possibly change it may get a new hard drive when I get it back) . I still don't know if that was a motherboard issue or a hard drive one I hope they diagnose it well enough D:.

Slightly better GPU. If you're running 32 bit windows you'll only see 3.5GB of your ram anyway. My chip chops on yours though =P

[Nejimaki Denki Isu]

Sensorium139

Yeah but 2gb of RAM is the most the average person needs...my Satellite I usually only use about 1gb of the RAM on it (on the performance monitors) , rarely do I go past 2, so 4gb is a tad excessive for me...I could of had 3 if it was customized and still had enough power for it.

Mine has an intel core 2 Duo t6400 (2ghz) , 4gb of RAM, an ATI radeon 3650, and a 320gb hard drive (this may possibly change it may get a new hard drive when I get it back) . I still don't know if that was a motherboard issue or a hard drive one I hope they diagnose it well enough D:.

Tbh if hes asking for a gaming laptop 2gb isn't enough it takes vista 1gb of ram to run as it is so he only will have one spare so 3 is the minimum for most but again most games do need 2 to run well so yeah.

Anyway processer is the most important bit go for something that isn't intel inside its terrible dual2core duo is good in cheap gaming laptops and something with about 2ghz

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Xplorer_X6_7900_Notebook/

Is perfect if you ask me

I test games for a living so i spend hours doing this >_<;

[The Last Rydian]

Nejimaki Denki Isu

Tbh if hes asking for a gaming laptop 2gb isn't enough it takes vista 1gb of ram to run as it is so he only will have one spare so 3 is the minimum for most but again most games do need 2 to run well so yeah.

Bullshit. My roommate has a desktop with 1 gig of ram and he can multitask on vista fine. The requirements state one gig because it assumed you want to run some programs ontop of vista since that's the entire point. You can't look at an OS's requirements and thing of them like a game's requirements. They work differently.

Nejimaki Denki Isu

Anyway processer is the most important bit go for something that isn't intel inside its terrible dual2core duo is good in cheap gaming laptops and something with about 2ghz

No, he should focus on the graphics card for gaming.

[xsethxc]

link= BUSTED

[Assassin Alex18]

Gaming laptop=BAD Get a desktop. You can get a Dell XPS 8000 WITH A 3D monitor around that price. It doesn't have to be dell but trust me Desktops are better.

[Brimmel]

I have this one:
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/gateway-p-7805u-fx/4505-3121_7-33496191.html

I LOVE it. It's amazing, and can play every game I have on the highest settings. I think it's in your price range, too, if I remember correctly. I really like this one.