Quick laptop advice

[spike24601]

Hi all

Looking at http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusVI-17/ for a gaming laptop. I'm not interested in being able to play brand new games on ultra or any of that, all I want is a laptop that will play, lets say, most games at a reasonable level without becoming a slide show.

It'd be nice to play CoDs, but I have a console and a fairly up to date PC for that sort of thing, laptop is more... Europa Universalis, Kerble Space Program, Civ V I'm thinking.

Happy to hear alternatives, but I'm thinking the above will be fine for me (and stay fine for some time). I'm going standard setup, expect 8g RAM rather than 4g, 1Tb HDD rather than 500Gb, and maybe get the quad core version.

Am I a mile off the mark? Does that sound sensible? I know we can go forever on the 'for £5 more you can do this' thing

And at the risk of just getting half my replies one way and half the other, Windows 7 or 8.1 (or 10 for that matter I suppose!)?

Very grateful for all help

 

[turbopiki]

i will check some UK sites for better Laptop because in Germany you can get better Laptops than this for less

 

[Reyaz123]

Check websites like tigerdirect and newegg, they have good deals

 

[turbopiki]

First one i found that is much better and cheaper (I will update my post if i found anything else)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/b00kh6paxo/geizhals07-21/ref=nosim?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

 

[turbopiki]

Yes this one is the best for your budget

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/b00kh6paxo/geizhals07-21/ref=nosim?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

 

[sora]

First one i found that is much better and cheaper (I will update my post if i found anything else)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/b00kh6paxo/ref=nosim?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

+1; This is a great laptop for the price!

 

[spike24601]

First one i found that is much better and cheaper (I will update my post if i found anything else)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/b00kh6paxo/geizhals07-21/ref=nosim?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Clearly the community knows better than me and I will bow to your advice (especially when given so emphatically by 3 people), but the GPU seems to be a step backwards, the processor is slower and the screen smaller, only the RAM seems to be a step forward.

Is there a factor beyond the obvious numbers I'm missing?

 

[turbopiki]

-Better CPU its quad core and it has turbo Frequency 3.5GHz so its not slower it also has more threads
-GTX860M uses the same chips as GTX960M, 960M is only clocked a bit higer you can Overclock 860M to reach performance of teh 960M
-you get 12gb of ram, Laptop you picked only has 4gb which is not enough for the games of today
-you get 1tb SSHD (small SSD inside will help with faster booting, loading games, transfering files...) its also 7200rpm so it reads data faster than, 5400rpm thats in your build its also 500gb and sata2

 

[spike24601]

-Better CPU its quad core and it has turbo Frequency 3.5GHz so its not slower it also has more threads
-GTX860M uses the same chips as GTX960M, 960M is only clocked a bit higer you can Overclock 860M to reach performance of teh 960M
-you get 12gb of ram, Laptop you picked only has 4gb which is not enough for the games of today
-you get 1tb SSHD (small SSD inside will help with faster booting, loading games, transfering files...) its also 7200rpm so it reads data faster than, 5400rpm thats in your build its also 500gb and sata2

Thank you for taking the time to explain, it is much appreciated

 

[spike24601]

First one i found that is much better and cheaper (I will update my post if i found anything else)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/b00kh6paxo/geizhals07-21/ref=nosim?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Fyi that laptop is not suitable for the average UK user, I suspect it is intended for a German market based on the paperwork that came with it and the writing on the keys... And the keyboard layout is non-QWERTY (don't know whether that agrees with my German theory) and the power cable was an EU plug.

So it's going back and I'm upset and annoyed as it looked like it would have been a good laptop.

 

[sora]

Spike, non QWERTY keyboards suck haha.

 

[spike24601]

Spike, non QWERTY keyboards suck haha.

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