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Choosing a Gaming Laptop, Back- to- School 2. Edition. We regularly get asked for opinions on what product is “best” for a certain use case. Naturally, what makes a product perfect for one user may not matter much at all to someone else. Recently I was asked for advice on gaming laptops, and as this is a common question it seemed a perfect fit for another “best xyz” guide. The Haswell and Richland launches are now behind us, supply of the new processors is sufficient, and we’ve also got a variety of new GPUs to consider. What’s the best gaming laptop your money can buy today?
First you’ll need to decide just how much of your stash you’re willing to part with, and then you need to weigh other factors like size, performance, and features. Here’s the short overview of where we see the market right now.
Budget Gaming Laptops. Defining “budget” for a gaming laptop can be tricky, but for our purposes we’re going to use a wider than normal range of $5.
The reason for the gap is so that we can cover laptops that meet the bare minimum performance level we deem necessary for gaming, while at the same time giving us a chance to look at various higher performance alternatives. Compromise is going to be a major factor in selecting a budget gaming laptop, unfortunately – you’re just not going to find something with good performance and a good screen at this price point.
If you simply can’t afford to spend a lot of money, you’re going to be best served by an AMD Richland APU right now. Kaveri should provide a decent bump in performance when it ships later this year (possibly early next year), but for now the Richland (aka Trinity 2.
APUs offer a reasonable balance of performance at very low prices. Newegg has two laptops right now with the A1. APU, the Lenovo G5. Acer V5- 5. 52- X4. Specs are very close: both have 6. GB RAM, 1. 5. 6” 1. LCD, and Windows 8 6.
Acer doesn’t include an optical drive and uses the A1. M with a 5. 00. GB HDD while Lenovo includes a DVDRW and uses the A1. M with a 1. TB HDD. Considering the Lenovo only costs $1. Acer tips the scales at 4.
Lenovo’s 5. 3 pounds. Acer also includes Gigabit Ethernet and Lenovo goes with 1. Mb Ethernet; battery life should be similar, though Lenovo rates the G5. Acer V5. You can get an idea of the level of performance offered by the Richland i. GPU with our MSI GX6. RAM. So what can you get for a bit more money?
I’ll be frank: I’m simply not interested in dealing with AMD’s Enduro Technology on laptops right now; yes, it’s better than it was a year ago, but my experience is that Optimus is simply far more mature. That eliminates quite a few potential laptops when we look at the faster budget gaming laptops, but one laptop in particular is priced so competitively that it’s basically impossible to look at anything else. Toshiba’s Satellite L5. A5. 27. 8 ($6. 40) uses a last generation Ivy Bridge ULV processor, the i. U, but performance is still acceptable.
The more important element is the GPU, and for that you get the Ge. Force GT 7. 40. M 2. GB DDR3, basically a higher clocked version of the GT 6. M/6. 45. M/6. 50. M from last year. That should be plenty fast for gaming at the native 1.
Medium to High detail, though the 4. GB system RAM is perhaps a bit limiting.
Thankfully, there are two SO- DIMM slots, so you can upgrade pretty easily to 8. GB or even 1. 6GB RAM if needed. Don’t expect too much battery life from the 4. Wh battery – around 3- 5 hours of non- gaming use I’d estimate.
As for performance, we haven’t personally benchmarked the GT 7. M DDR3, but you can expect 2. AMD i. GPU in most situations.
Midrange Gaming Laptops. For midrange gaming, our price target moves up to $1. For midrange gaming laptops, it really depends on what you’re after – do you want good performance at 1. High/Max settings, are you okay with Medium settings at 1. While there are several qualifying laptops for this category, I want a good display if I’m spending over $1.
Ultimately, in the midrange category there are two ways to go and three laptops I’d choose between. For size and battery life considerations I’d go with the Acer V7- 4. PG, but for pure performance I’d go for the Clevo W2.
ST or Alienware 1. Here’s the short overview. I’m done with the review of Acer’s V7- 4. PG, and you can see the performance results in Mobile Bench already (the review should go live over the weekend).
The use of a GT 7. M DDR3 GPU makes it slower than the MSI GE4. Razer Blade 1. 4 (not that the Blade is even close to being in the “midrange” price target), but the V7 is built well and more importantly it has a good display. The result is a nice balance of portable and performant, but it might not be fast enough for some gamers. The Acer V7 also has a touchscreen (not that I care – fingerprints, yuck!), which certainly adds to the overall cost.
Right now you can pick up the V7- 4. PG for $1. 30. 0.
Personally, I usually want to hit NVIDIA’s GTX level of GPUs for gaming purposes, so I want a bit more oomph than the V7. As noted, the LCD issues remove the MSI GE4. Blade 1. 4 from contention, which leaves me with a few other choices. Clevo has their W2. ST that’s a 1. 3.
GTX 7. 65. M with a good 1. I don’t know about battery life – often not a strong point for Clevo in my experience. Still, performance from the quad- core i.
MQ will certainly be a lot higher than the i. U in the Acer V7, and likewise the GTX 7. M will easily beat the GT 7. M. Pricing is relatively close as well – I configured a system at AVADirect with a 2. GB Samsung 8. 40 SSD and 8.
Wi. Fi for $1. 36. Clevo vendors out there (see the table below). It’s a thicker laptop and it weighs a bit more than the Acer (4.
V7. But the added thickness allows it to cool a lot more computer, which is a reasonable compromise. Alienware’s 1. 4 is another option, and pricing is also competitive (depending on specs); I’d start with the $1. GTX 7. 65. M, bringing the total to $1. Alienware styling. The Alienware 1. 4 is also the heaviest of the three midrange laptops discussed so far, tipping the scales at 6.
Acer (but only slightly thicker than the Clevo). Also: colored backlighting on the keyboard, so you can add your own personal flare. I just wish the SSD upgrades at Dell were priced more reasonably, but you could definitely do worse than the Alienware 1. But what about a larger, higher performance “midrange” gaming notebook?
Looking around, the best balance of price, features, and performance right now looks to be the Toshiba Qosmio X7. A7. 29. 5 ($1. 41. It’s a 1. 7. 3” screen and weighs 7.
Wh battery is on the small side for such a large chassis. Despite the size, the i. MQ and GTX 7. 70. M will provide a decent step up in gaming performance from laptops with the GTX 7. M, as you increase the number of shaders as well as the width of the memory bus – on paper, the GTX 7. M has about 2. 0% more computational power than the 7. M with 5. 0% more memory bandwidth.
If you want as much gaming performance as you can get for a reasonable price, the X7. Some of the High- End notebooks we’ll get to next can also be equipped with a GTX 7. M for under $1. 50.
Toshiba’s design take a look below. Another option that's actually under $1. Lenovo Y5. 00, with SLI GT 6. M. Like the Toshiba, this is a larger, heavier notebook, but it definitely packs a lot of hardware. I'm not really a fan of SLI on laptops, and battery life will take a major hit on the Y5. Optimus, but for the price you get an awful lot of gaming performance.
The newer model Y5. CPU to an i. 7- 4. MQ and gives you SLI GT 7. M for $1. 05. 0. Other than the size, battery life, and the vagaries of SLI, the Y5.
GTX 7. 70. M for less money. The Y4. 10p is also worthy of a look; currently on sale for $8. LCD and GT 7. 50.
M, it has faster than the V7 in a slightly heavier chassis. High- End Gaming Notebooks. At the high- end of the mobile gaming market, I’m going to skip rehashing the upgraded AW1. GPU I’m looking for: NVIDIA’s GTX 7. M. I actually have some interesting data that I need to get out at some point regarding the 7. M, but the short summary is that you can end up CPU limited by the i.
MQ in some games, so you might want to look at a faster CPU like the i. MQ. There are several different notebooks that support the GTX 7. M, and they’re all going to be very expensive as well as very fast. What makes one notebook better than another at this price is often highly subjective – some like Alienware’s 1. MSI GT7. 0, and still others are more concerned with getting a good keyboard layout (which is also highly subjective). Here’s a short (and probably very incomplete) list of the notebooks and resellers with the GTX 7. M: Ge. Force GTX 7.
M Notebooks. Laptop Model. Where to Buy? Price Range.
Alienware 1. 7Amazon, Dell. Alienware 1. 8Amazon, Dell.
Clevo P1. 50. SM/P1. SMAVADirect, Cyber. Power. PC, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Sager, Xotic. PC, etc. $1. 65. 0- $5.
Clevo P1. 70. SM/P1. SMAVADirect, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Sager, Xotic. PC, etc. $1. 65. 0- $5. Clevo P3. 70. SM/P3. SMAVADirect, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Sager, Xotic.
PC, etc. $2. 40. 0- $6. Clevo P5. 70. WMAVADirect, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Sager, Xotic. PC, etc. $2. 80. 0- $6. MSI GT6. 0Amazon, AVADirect, i. BUYPOWER, Newegg.
MSI GT7. 0Amazon, AVADirect, Cyber. Power. PC, i. BUYPOWER, Newegg. I’ll cut straight to the chase and simply state that I’m not going to recommend the SLI/Cross. Fire notebooks; performance can be higher than a single GPU, sure, but the cost and size factors make these simply too unwieldy in my experience. I’d rather have a more moderate system and not have to deal with SLI/CF, not to mention getting at least reasonable battery life.
That leaves basically five core notebooks, with the Clevo and MSI basically coming in Large and Extra Large sizes that are generally similar. Let’s first talk about component choices, though. You can get a reasonable configuration from most of the Clevo/MSI resellers without spending too much money (relatively speaking); my general recommendation is i.
MQ (the 4. 70. 0MQ is usually fast enough, but there are times where you’ll hit CPU bottlenecks in some games), GTX 7.