Advice on gaming laptop

[Turtle27]

I needed to purchase a new laptop for work and figured I would buy something that would also work well for watching movies and gaming.
Up til now I have really only used counsels for gaming, but I travel a lot for work and figured a gaming laptop would be a good solution...
So heres my question. I got an Asus G751JY-WH71. I did some research and this seemed like an excelent gaming laptop, then I spoke to a friend and he told me that I could have gotten a much better laptop for gaming for the money ($1450). I was hoping I could get some advice on whether or not this is a good laptop for what I am looking for, or if there is something way better in my price range.
I pretty much play FPS, Skyrim, Badlands, Farcry, Fallout, etc.
The laptop specs:
Intel Core i7-4720HQ 2.6GHz (turbo up to 3.6 GHz). 16 GB RAM.
1 TB 7200RPM Hard Drive + 128 GB Solid State Drive.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 4GB DDR5 VRAM (G-Sync)

Thank you for any help, it is very much appreciated. I am pretty computer illiterate at this point.

 

[1shado1]

That wonderful friend should have offered suggestions, LOL. You've already got the best mobile GPU made for laptops, and a plenty powerful cpu (even if not latest gen), too. I'm certainly no expert, but that laptop would be very near or at the top of my list for the price. If you already own it, I say just enjoy it instead of second guessing yourself.

 

[Turtle27]

Thats what I was hoping to hear...and I agree on the lack of suggestions. Turns out the one he was recomending is about 2k..
Thanks for the help.

 

[1shado1]

You're very welcome. Any chance you remember what he was recommending for 2 grand?

 

[Turtle27]

MSI GT72S Dominator

 

[1shado1]

MSI GT72S Dominator

As partial as I am to MSI (see my sig), in my opinion that model isn't worth $500+ over the ASUS you already have, performance-wise. it has a newer CPU, which IS more powerful than yours, but your CPU is more than adequate for gaming (it wouldn't make much if any difference). It has the same GPU, but with 8GB VRAM. Your 4GB VRAM should be plenty for a few years (unless you want to run 3-4 monitors). And it has a Blu-ray drive instead of a DVD drive (can always swap yours for a blu-ray if needed for around $70 or so).