alext591MM Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Would someone let me know whether this would be a good set up for a gaming laptop. PowerPro R 12:17-670 Gaming Laptop 17.3" (1920x1080) LED backlit LCD GTX 670M 192bit w/1.5GB GDDR5 Intel Core i7-3610QM (2.3~3.3GHz) w/6M L3 Cache - 4 Cores - 8 Threads 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3/1600 Dual Channel Memory 2 500GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drives in RAID 0 Built-in Bigfoot Networks Killer Wireless-N 1202 - Ultimate Gaming Card + Bluetooth 4.0 (Dual Band) Windows 8 64-bit $1247.24 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livin in a box Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 That looks OK, but for the price the HDD size seems to be a little on the low side. You probably won't have the same amount of games on Steam that I have to begin with, but I have 688GB worth of them from Steam and Origin, so you should look for a larger one if possible. :) EDIT: I didn't even see the 2x by the HDD, but I'd look for a 1TB HDD with a 120GB SSD too as a boot drive and to store some games like Battlefield (which has very long load times on many HDD's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisp Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 As it's a dual HDD laptop, I would atleast expect to have an SSD along with a normal drive. That looks OK, but for the price the HDD size seems to be a little on the low side. You probably won't have the same amount of games on Steam that I have to begin with, but I have 688GB worth of them from Steam and Origin, so you should look for a larger one if possible. :) A Terabyte isn't enough for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livin in a box Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 A Terabyte isn't enough for you? No, seeing as I use 1.7TB of space :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny62381 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Don't waste your money on these consumer grade computers that look all neat and shiny. You can get a good commercial grade laptop for equal cost, that will blow these so called "gaming" laptops away. Look into the Lenovo ThinkPads (T or W series are their commercial grade lines), or the Dell Latitudes. You can also dock these laptops and run multiple monitors for them so that they operate just like a desktop if you want them to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted December 28, 2012 Global Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2012 Don't waste your money on these consumer grade computers that look all neat and shiny. You can get a good commercial grade laptop for equal cost, that will blow these so called "gaming" laptops away. Look into the Lenovo ThinkPads (T or W series are their commercial grade lines), or the Dell Latitudes. You can also dock these laptops and run multiple monitors for them so that they operate just like a desktop if you want them to. so there's Latitudes and ThinkPads that have a 600-series mobile GPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 You can get an Asus gaming laptop for basically that same price with a better CPU, GPU, and more RAM, but they probably won't have a 2nd HDD bay. Depends what's more important to you, I guess. Also, not sure if PowerPro is a reputable brand, but Asus definitely is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny62381 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 so there's Latitudes and ThinkPads that have a 600-series mobile GPU? Yeah, pretty much.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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