Notebook or Gaming PC?

[Pultrax]

Hello,

I just replaced my old Gaming PC and build another one for $1100 (€840). I also bought a notebook.. What's going on? Well, I'm not using my PC because of my notebook, it plays games on low/medium settings.. I'm thinking, should I sell my PC and Notebook and buy a better one especially for gaming and music production? If I sell both I guess I'm at around $1400-1500 (€1100)..
I'd like to save some money, this is the notebook I may buy.

Acer Aspire V5-573G-54218G50aii ($1000 - €780)
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Intel Core i5 4210U
8GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX850M (4GB)
15,6'' Full HD display (Anti-Glare)
500GB HDD

Current Samsung RC730 laptop
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Intel Core i7 2630QM
4GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT540M
17,3'' 1600x900 display
750GB Western Digital HDD

Current Desktop
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Intel Core i5 4690K
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
8GB Corsair RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX 770
1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
MSI Z99 Gaming 5
Sharkoon T28
Corsair CX600

If I'm going to sell both my desktop and notebook.. Is this Acer one a good choice?
I pay attention to these things:
- Heat (How's the cooling?)
- Performance (For player Battlefield, GRID, Age of Empires, Watch_Dogs, Assasin's Creed, Crysis etc.
- Build Quality
- Touchpad and keyboard (I'd like backlight on the keyboard)
I may buy a SSD for my new laptop OR current laptop/PC

If you got a better idea, let me know!
Thanks!

 

[volcanoscout]

If I understand you correctly, you're looking for a happy medium between your desktop gamer and your current laptop. The Acer will game better than your current laptop, but will lag on CPU intensive games like Watch Dogs. It also will not be as cool or quiet, but that's relative - compared to a purpose-built gaming laptop it's very cool and quiet.

If you got the Acer with an i7 and added an SSD, I think that would answer your requirements.

 

[Pultrax]

If I understand you correctly, you're looking for a happy medium between your desktop gamer and your current laptop. The Acer will game better than your current laptop, but will lag on CPU intensive games like Watch Dogs. It also will not be as cool or quiet, but that's relative - compared to a purpose-built gaming laptop it's very cool and quiet.

If you got the Acer with an i7 and added an SSD, I think that would answer your requirements.

I understand it's not that cool and quiet, only thing I want to know is: my current laptop CPU is throttling, which basically means it gets to hot, the clock speed lowers to 0.77GHz, it dramatically effects the performance of the laptop.. Will this be the same with the Acer laptop I showed you?

 

[volcanoscout]

There's not a straight answer to that question - there are a couple of reasons it might be overheating, and some relatively straight-forward fixes for them. If the question is will the Acer run cooler than your currently malfunctioning laptop, then the answer is definitely "Yes". If it's will it run cooler than your current laptop if you fix the over-heating, than it's probably "No". But it will game better regardless, especially if you get an i7-4xxx CPU.

 

[velo3100]

I would say keep you desktop and sell your laptop, this will allow you get a better graphics card for your desktop and maybe upgrade the ram. Desktops are usually better for gaming. I would only get a gaming laptop if only I need the mobility as a desktop will always win in terms of performance. Also they are much easier to maintain.

 

[Pultrax]

I would say keep you desktop and sell your laptop, this will allow you get a better graphics card for your desktop and maybe upgrade the ram. Desktops are usually better for gaming. I would only get a gaming laptop if only I need the mobility as a desktop will always win in terms of performance. Also they are much easier to maintain.

Only thing is, I MUST have a laptop. I'll be using it for school.. So, I just sold my laptop and am looking into a new one for around $1400. Which laptop do you recommend me? I looked at a Lenovo Y50 which has a GTX 860M with 2GB GDDR5, it can handle BF4 on high and it's very playable.. But they say the screen is very bad and there's tearing everywhere, they tip me turning on VSync but can it still play games like BF4 on high then?

 

[velo3100]

I think it should, i have heard a lot of good reviews about it. You can always check online to see videos for bf4 on the y50 on youtube.