Portable desktop for gaming?

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bthizle1

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Born and raised in Liousiana and it gets rather hot here. I'm looking for a portable gaming desktop that can withstand the heat and itsn't too heavy.
 
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Get yourself a shuttle small form factor case, uATX motherboard and standard PCIe graphics card with an SSD and a 3570K CPU and 8GB DDR3 RAM. Job done.
 
Build a mini-itx system.. some of the brand spanking new Z87 Haswell motherboards are a mini-itx form factor but are packing serious features.
 
If you want upgradeability, a desktop will start faster and be way better in the long term, but that lappy is planty powerful and will run any game with great settings for a good while
 
bthizle1 said:
And for the same price could I get a desktop that would be really THAT much better to justify not having the portability that I will need?

Also you think that laptop would last a while...say 3 years or so?
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Yes, you could, and no, it won't be able to play all games on high this year, so you will be lucky if you can play hard to run games in a few years on ultra low. If you want, I could put out a build for $600 that would trash that lappy. Jonny, I hope you realize a 765M is similar to a 650 Ti at best. Do you think the 650 Ti can play Crisis 3 on great settings?
 
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Honestly, a AMD A10 and I3 will be similar in gaming. As long as the CPUs are in the same price range, they will be similar. Anyways, I should have the build list done soon.
 
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Jonny, I hope you realize a 765M is similar to a 650 Ti at best. Do you think the 650 Ti can play Crisis 3 on great settings?
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Mixed up the specs i was looking at to see, but looking at benches, in-game the 650 ti is pretty close to my 470 which gets pretty high settings in crysis 3
 
Really it seems like the lappy is what you should go for. Transporting a computer a lot isn't very easy with the keyboard, mouse, and monitor too. If it falls even a little, it can destroy everything, while laptops are built so tight that it's less likely to break, and you can get carrying cases for them while not using it which makes it a lot safer. You wont get near as much power, but it will play any game with good settings for a good while, and IIRC, the games you mentioned aren't even close to Crysis or BF in what they demand.
 
I have serious doubts the games OP listed will all OP will be playing. Plus, a gaming lappy will be just slightly more portable if the OP brings a mouse.
 
I'd say it's a lot more so when a desktop requires a desk and power sockets. But he said with a desktop he wants it cheaper to get a cheap lappy too
 
Gaming lappy's will last a hour at most when gaming, so it will need a power socket. And I have a feeling he wants portable for LAN Parties, etc. which will have desks.
 
the i3 is weaker and the graphics card isn't a huge upgrade, plus you will need a dvd drive to install windows with, a keyboard, a mouse, and a monitor
 
bthizle1 said:
Honestly I want-need portability because I am constantly traveling internationally. I currently do not have a ¨home¨ and am sort of in the process of finding a country that suits my ideas etc...However if I could purchase a somewhat portable desktop that I could in the future upgrade and with money left over buy a more affordable laptop than I would highly consider it (as I am now). Especially if I can really get THAT much more bang for my buck so to say going with the desktop.

Also, I am rather confused....that set up unicorn, has an i3 dual core CPU, where as the sager laptop has an i7 haswell 4 core.....is that desktop i3 CPU really that much better-equal?

Also the same I am wondering about the GPU in comparison to the sager´s GTX 765m 2GB GDDR5
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The GPU will be better, the CPU will be worse.
 
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