good affordable gaming laptop

My dell inspiron 1300. Although working for me well these past few years is running on its last legs the screens cracked, wireless is broken and the mouse touch pad is broken.

computer Gaming is a hobby of mine so i was wondering where i might look and what type of laptops i am looking for that can run so fairly demanding games such as c&c3 and supreme commander depending if its possible. i haven t diceded on a budget yet i was just going to get a rough idea on how much this is looking to cost.

dispight the obvious advantages with desktop gaming i move around alot and portabillity is a real nessecity apart from that i am not bothered about screen size etc.. only gaming capability.

thanks for the help

Here's my go-to site for laptop graphics. That is what will determine how much gaming you'll be doing on the laptop. The problem with "gaming" on a laptop is that it usually doesn't go with "affordable". The most high end chips will only fit in the big laptops, which are both expensive and heavy. My approach is to look for laptops that contain the graphics chip(s) that I'm looking for.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=302231

I bought a Acer Aspire 5739g from newegg for $799.99 and I love it. Here is a video of some gaming I was doing on it with settings and stuff so you can see how it performs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtPUPtwsaQ

Dosn't really exist, best you can get without spending a ton is a mid range gaming laptop, something like a Dell Studiomarkop2003

Dosn't really exist, best you can get without spending a ton is a mid range gaming laptop, something like a Dell Studiomarkop2003

It exists

I like the Gateway that I have.

Gateway P-7805uFX check it out. Plays all 64-bit enhanced games. DirectX10. runs quiet and cool. looks amazing. I have a picture on my profile but you could easily check.

Dosn't really exist, best you can get without spending a ton is a mid range gaming laptop, something like a Dell Studiomarkop2003

Better off using a desktop PC for gaming. A friend has agood gaming laptop but it has some heating issues especially in the summer when he sets his games on "high" (not even ultra) some games his laptop gets to hot not sure about other gaming laptops. But I'd be annoyed if a laptop/pc couldnt even handle "high" settings. I have a laptop myself but it's just for work and some other stuff that doesn't include gaming. Now I don't know if all laptops have this issue, but most gaming laptops that would come close to desktop PCs get quiet expensive something I would not personally be prepared to pay up for, but all depends on what your budget is currently. Sure you could buy a decent gaming laptop.

2GHz DualCore is kinda low my crappy DualCore $300laptop has a 2GHz clockspeed, but a horrid Video card though so it can't really play any good games. Anyway, if you're prepared spending a fair amount of cash go for it, if not I wouldn't get one, I myself can't find a reason why I would want to use a gaming laptop.

Better off using a desktop PC for gaming. A friend has agood gaming laptop but it has some heating issues especially in the summer when he sets his games on "high" (not even ultra) some games his laptop gets to hot not sure about other gaming laptops. But I'd be annoyed if a laptop/pc couldnt even handle "high" settings. I have a laptop myself but it's just for work and some other stuff that doesn't include gaming. Now I don't know if all laptops have this issue, but most gaming laptops that would come close to desktop PCs get quiet expensive something I would not personally be prepared to pay up for, but all depends on what your budget is currently. Sure you could buy a decent gaming laptop.

2GHz DualCore is kinda low my crappy DualCore $300laptop has a 2GHz clockspeed, but a horrid Video card though so it can't really play any good games. Anyway, if you're prepared spending a fair amount of cash go for it, if not I wouldn't get one, I myself can't find a reason why I would want to use a gaming laptop.

Devon32

Really? Crysis can run high on a friend's laptop but it really has heating problems running crysis on high and frame rate will drop so he usually goes with medium. Then again I haven't looked much into gaming laptops, perhaps I will not to buy one but just for curiosity.

Really? Crysis can run high on a friend's laptop but it really has heating problems running crysis on high and frame rate will drop so he usually goes with medium. Then again I haven't looked much into gaming laptops, perhaps I will not to buy one but just for curiosity.

Devon32

Perhaps not all laptops have this problem. Friend's laptop runs ridiclious hot during crysis according to several temp meters it runs at 70-80 C during Crysis at high.

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It exists

Human-after-all

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Dosn't really exist, best you can get without spending a ton is a mid range gaming laptop, something like a Dell Studioseabiscuit8686

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[QUOTE="markop2003"] Over a thousand dollars... that's just great value, so affordable... :roll: [QUOTE="seabiscuit8686"][QUOTE="markop2003"]Dosn't really exist, best you can get without spending a ton is a mid range gaming laptop, something like a Dell Studiomarkop2003

I wouldn't call a high end tier 2 graphics card in a laptop "mid range." If it can play everything on high, it is a high end card. The "extreme" end of things are the ones that cost $2k and can max with AA and are the size of a car. You need to rethink your definitions a touch. In laptops, you have integrated, low, mid and high, with a mid being like an 8400M GT. mid-high would be mine. But the jump between the 8400M GT and the 4670 is pretty big....

I wouldn't call a high end tier 2 graphics card in a laptop "mid range." If it can play everything on high, it is a high end card. The "extreme" end of things are the ones that cost $2k and can max with AA and are the size of a car. You need to rethink your definitions a touch. In laptops, you have integrated, low, mid and high, with a mid being like an 8400M GT. mid-high would be mine. But the jump between the 8400M GT and the 4670 is pretty big....

seabiscuit8686

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I wouldn't call a high end tier 2 graphics card in a laptop "mid range." If it can play everything on high, it is a high end card. The "extreme" end of things are the ones that cost $2k and can max with AA and are the size of a car. You need to rethink your definitions a touch. In laptops, you have integrated, low, mid and high, with a mid being like an 8400M GT. mid-high would be mine. But the jump between the 8400M GT and the 4670 is pretty big....

markop2003