No way, do not get alienware, they are incredibly expensive. The toshiba is a much better deal and the 9800 gtx is probably better. STAR_Admiral

the toshiba uses the 9800mGTS ( i checked) wich is slower than the 9800mGT

yes they are expensive, but one 9800GTX dosent compare to two 3870's in Crossfire, Plus the Alienware has the only Quad core extreme for laptops, plus the fact that you can get two solid stateHard drives in Raid 0 the toshiba only offers one hard drive at 7200 rpm , and the fact that the M17uses 4 GB DDR3 ram @ 1066 mhzit will be much faster than almost anylaptop. on top of all of that you can get a Blu-ray burner.and it still has a QUAD CORE in a laptop!!!if you have the cash go for it you wont regret it

welll what are you currently using, and i wouldnt get the Nforce 610i because that is a motherboard with on board graphics.

it sounds like you overpaid, the gpu and cpu are far underpowered for 2000.

Alienware hands down, the m17 can have the intel core 2 quad extreme, dual 3870's in crossfire, and uses DDR3 ram. I would STRONGLY recommend buying alienware.

most laptops cant upgrade the Graphics cards, so the problem is if your laptop can upgrade..... and what are you currently using.

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i highly doubt it........

well i think that the Alienware M17 (not M17x) is the absolute best gaming laptop but that will be triple your budget..... but i would go for the ASUS from above with your budget