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hudson1984

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Yes the age old question!

Ok so generally simple answer - desktop.

But let me explain my position.

Ok so I'm a sales director - travel fairly extensively in the UK - few flights but they're getting rarer so mostly in the car.

I've got my surface 3 for work and it performs well at the tasks o need it for. Bit I want to game!!

I've missed playing world of warcraft and fancy getting back into it and and so some other games. Nothing top end but having gaming ability would be fantastic.

I have an office but having a permanent gaming rig out there wouldn't help the day job (or my marriage) so thought laptop would be the way to go, can as the name suggests plonk it on my lap and play games whilst she's watching telly but still be in the room. But they're damned expensive for pretty poor spec.

So thus leads me to consider a lan style desktop. Put the he box behind my armchair and discuss clever monitor solutions? I dunno.

Help! I do want to game but want to make the hehe best choice and not pay £1000 for a laptop the equivalent of £500 desktop.

Any advice welcome
 
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Kavinqt
Always check the CPU, you don't want a bad CPU in a laptop. It's hard to find a good one I'd recommend something with at least a turbo boost of 3.5ghz i7
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Would it be possible to just build a Micro Atx build? and just take it with you? and have a simple setup at work and home? some of these small form factor cases are super good but kinda expensive, but overall will be a better choice than a laptop as the specs in gaming laptops are completely trash. unless you spend upwards of 2k
 
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You could probably find a laptop that meets your needs for fairly cheap, WoW can run on pretty much anything fairly well. What other games would you want to be able to run besides that?
 
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I would look into the Acer Predator series, there good laptops price/performance. Besides a laptop going with a ITX system could be another option if you could carry a keyboard/mouse and a HDMI cable to hook into a monitor or HDTV.

Something like this would work for a ITX build.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150N Phoenix-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (£83.22 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£98.95 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£78.80 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card (£229.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case (£74.90 @ Kustom PCs)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£52.17 @ BT Shop)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit (£83.76 @ More Computers)
Total: £927.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-28 20:37 GMT+0000

You could save a bit of money by swapping the CPU to the i3-6100 and going with 1x8gb for RAM.
 
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Sorry just to update/clarify

Other games would be starcraft or diablo something like that. I do t actually play anything at the moment so I'm coming in fairly green. Would quite like to play some racing games eventually too though.

I wish they made a monitor I could have on my lap, but connect to an itx case lol.

Anyway, I don't really want to systems as I already have a work tablet and two phones etc. So need one thing to keep me amused. I'm happy to take a system with me if the case is suitably transportable.

Essentially the system needs to give me a way to play on the sofa without disturbing the main tv - which of course makes a monitor a pain.

My concern is spec - I'm happy to spend the cash but just can't warrant 3 grand on a toy.

£1000 would be max but even that makes me flinch somewhat. Don't really want to go used if possible.

Again I'd be happy with a desktop in small case but would need a fairly inventive way to watch it.... can u get a windows surface style monitor as a stand alone monitor? I.e. a tablet that's not a tablet
 
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This Asus ROG is pretty nice for the cost and should play the games you mentioned fairly easy (i5-6300HQ/GTX 950M).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-GL552VX-CN239T-15-6-Inch-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B01HIWOOSG/ref=sr_1_1?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1482959104&sr=1-1

Here's a list of games tested with the GTX 950M (different settings/resolutions) and for the most part you should be able to game around Medium settings @1080P.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-950M.138026.0.html
 
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It's worth it if you want a CPU with hyperthreading (this will really help, especially on a laptop CPU) If you don't mind spending the extra cash I'd recommend it. But I'm sure if you look hard enough on amazon or elsewhere you will most likely find something just as good for a bit cheaper.
 
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