Looking for a new laptop

[Raven]

Question to computer gamers:

I am looking into buying a new laptop. My old one is rubbish AND I only bought it so I could access the internet and do my forum stuff. I no longer run a forum and I have access to the interwebs on my iPad.

So. I am looking for a laptop for gaming. I miss playing computer games. I play the likes of Final Fantasy (or will be), Diablo, perhaps WOW (I am tempted, but know I will be instantly addicted) Sims, Simcity, Civilisation, etc.

Anyone got any ideas what would be the best laptop for me? I have no idea how much they cost these days. But my price range is upto £800

 

[~KAGE-008]

MSI gaming laptops are great. You should look for those with Core i7 CPU's. (Haswell recommended)

 

[Raven]

Ok cool. I will look into that tonight. Cheers.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Also it should have Geforce graphical card, >= 8GB RAM, and a CPU speed not lower than 2.4 Ghz.

 

[Dee]

MSI gaming laptops are great. You should look for those with Core i7 CPU's. (Haswell recommended)

This. I have an MSI laptop and here are the specs:

MSI GP Series GP60 Leopard-010 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i5 4200M (2.50GHz) 8GB Memory 750GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 840M 2GB 15.6" Windows 8.1 Multi-language

It's got 2GB of dedicated RAM toward graphics, so that helps with when I'm playing games and I can play anything from Rust to Sims/SimCity so far. I have a bunch of other games on Steam like WoW, so I know I can run it on that, but if you want the extra oomph, you could shell out a few more bucks for an i7 with a more powerful processing speed. Either way, it's working pretty darn good. It's got a fan I can turn on and off while gaming to keep the thing cool, and it hasn't really overheated on me unless I'm gaming for a long time, but I just make sure I keep it open and on a cool hard surface. It also does everything else I need basics-wise, so that's a given.

 

[Capt. RiskyBoots]

Maybe you should wait until Windows 10 comes out... That's what I'm gonna do...

 

[Dee]

Maybe you should wait until Windows 10 comes out... That's what I'm gonna do...

I hear Windows 8 users will be able to use Windows 10 for free because of how unsatisfied most users were with 8.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Maybe you should wait until Windows 10 comes out... That's what I'm gonna do...

I hear Windows 8 users will be able to use Windows 10 for free because of how unsatisfied most users were with 8.

Windows 10 for free? YESH!!

 

[Dee]

Maybe you should wait until Windows 10 comes out... That's what I'm gonna do...

I hear Windows 8 users will be able to use Windows 10 for free because of how unsatisfied most users were with 8.

Windows 10 for free? YESH!!

Rumored, not official.

 

[Kirito]

Honestly if you need it a bit less costly an i5 will do fine as well. i7 is the best ofc, but there are no games currently out that you need it for, so it's kind of overkill if you're looking at a certain price range. I would personally stay away from AMD since most games are more optimized for intel atm. Not to say the CPUs aren't good ofc, it's just the way devs are optimizing their games.

Both gforce and radeon will do fine as gfx cards, look at the individual card rather than the brand name. (although I do love shadowplay as an MMO gamer)

If you can spare the money I'd also look into an SSD, that'll severely cut down loading times and game performance.