Looking for a gaming/college laptop.

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Enjoihcky24/7

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Alright, I'm looking for a laptop for college. It needs to be able to run games. The better it runs games the happier I am. However my budget is $1350 before tax/shipping (this is the absolute most and I can't afford more than this).
I have been searching for a while and have found the Asus m50sa-x1. (2.5ghz c2d, 250g 520rpm HD, 102f Dedicated Graphics card--the ATI Radeon 3650 HD, 15" wxga screen, etc.) The link to that is here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220307&Tpk=m50sa-x1

I've also seen the m50sv-A1 (exact same spec, wxga+ (higher resolution), and a 512 Nvidia 9500gs card instead). Link here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220279&Tpk=m50sv-A1

Both seemed like great laptops--amazing for the price-- however I've heard these aren't necessarily great with games? Either I'm missing something or "they're" wrong.

So in conclusion:
1. I need a laptop for college/gaming. Budget: $1350 firm. Priorities: Performance comes first (after price!).
2. How are the laptops I've posted, and if they aren't good for gaming why not? Just doesn't make sense to me.
3. Is there anything better in the price range. I'd prefer to avoid Dell (inspiron 9300 heating issues :( can you say 94 celsius?)) and also HP.

All help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
 
The first one is better. It has more ram, even though you will only use 250 or so gb's of it, but the graphics card is better. The 9500 is not a good card for gaming, or at least, not for long.
 
Sir Travis D said:
The first one is better. It has more ram, even though you will only use 250 or so gb's of it, but the graphics card is better. The 9500 is not a good card for gaming, or at least, not for long.
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Alright thanks, so you think that I'll be able to play any game at high settings (for the most part). I'd like this to last me through college.
 
Another suggestion is to save $50 or so bucks and buy an external drive to backup all your important school work.
 
Vizy93 said:
Another suggestion is to save $50 or so bucks and buy an external drive to backup all your important school work.
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I'm all set there. I have a partition on my Zen Vision: M which has 16 gigs that I can use as external hard drive space. That should be plenty for school work :), thanks for the suggestion though.
 
those cards won't let you play most modern games on max settings with anti aliasing. you may have to settle with medium.
 
that's unlikely to find a gaming laptop for your budget. gaming laptops usually start at around 2500 dollars.

i found one more, it runs a 9500gs but it costs 50 dollars more than your budget.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220272

i've even looked up on the Dell XPS laptops in your budget, but they run on a 8400gs.

EDIT: woops didn't realise the 2nd laptop you originally posted ran a 9500gs. :o
 
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Without AA you could at the absolute minimum play some games at medium with full resolution, and if nothing else pretty high resolution and full settings.
 
I noticed that the 1,399 Alienware only had 1g if ram and a 1.66ghz processor. This probably won't perform as well even with the card I assume?

Could someone post the specs I should look for by chance from most important to least important by chance? Maybe post some of the graphics cards I should look into? I know I'm being a tad difficult, but it would be much appreciated. Thanks again in advance!

Edit: UGH no way I'll buy a CyberPowerPC notebook after the horror stories I just read.
 
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oh crap. i didn't know you had to pick out the parts for alienware. so the 1399 was just the base and weren't the parts featured on the homepage. okay, scrap that then. damn you alienware.

for a gaming laptop that'll run the newer games on high settings, you'd want at least:

* a core2duo CPU running at 2.2 or 2.4ghz
* 2gb of ddr2 667 or 800mhz RAM,
* a geforce 8800 GPU,
* and of course a lot of HDD space
 
bobo459 said:
I'm also looking for a laptop for college.but I don't know where I should to buy .I have search it online and found some pictures .
MPC-2000-1.jpg
MPC-2000-2.jpg
MPC-1000-3.jpg

this picture comes from this website
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http://www.onvon.com/mpc20002-mini-p-723.html

give your some suggestion and hope it will usefull
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Not sure that will play games.. thanks anyway :P
 
Are they the same as cyberpowerpc's? They've gotten terrible reviews on everything from functionality to tech support. Even fraud accusations
 
Enjoihcky24/7 said:
Are they the same as cyberpowerpc's? They've gotten terrible reviews on everything from functionality to tech support. Even fraud accusations
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I used to think they were the same, but I'm fairly certain that it's two companies with similar name/design.
 
The $1399 m9750 is over a year old. Look at the alienware area-51 m15x that looks silver. Mine is posted in my sig. Also, you can get 4gb's of good laptop ram from newegg for around $70 so it's not like the ram is a big cost.
 
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