Need suggestion for gaming laptop

[whiizkid009]

Hi all,

I planning to buy a gaming laptop which should be able to run most of the new games like BF3,crysis2 etc etc.

I was looking into Dell Alienware M17xr4 with the config. of :

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) 1
2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M
16384MB (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
750GB 7,200 RPM + 32GB mSATA Caching SSD
17.3" WideFHD (1920 x 1080) WLED LCD

Although I wanted sm smaller and lighter laptop but couldn't find any value for money deal.Even this laptop is costing me near about 2000 pounds which is way over my budget...

Please suggest smthng...should I go for this one by waiting for sm more time or is there any other good gaming laptop in market

 

[lakedude]

I would not spend that much money on last year's laptop for 2 reasons.

1) The GTX 675m is just essentially a renamed Fermi 580. The 675m is still based on the 40nm process, it is hot old power sucking junk!

2) Alienware is generally overpriced. Another brand with the same specs will usually be cheaper.

 

[lakedude]

The 640m, 650m, 660m and 680m are the good new 28nm stuff.

The 670m and 675m are old renamed 40nm junk.

The 670mx and 675mx are the new good 28nm stuff.

If you are going to spend that much money on a 675 make sure you get the MX part.

 

[whiizkid009]

The 640m, 650m, 660m and 680m are the good new 28nm stuff.

The 670m and 675m are old renamed 40nm junk.

The 670mx and 675mx are the new good 28nm stuff.

If you are going to spend that much money on a 675 make sure you get the MX part.

Thanks for the reply.....Could you suggest me some other laptop instead then...should I go for 675MX or should I search some other laptop with 2gb of 640m or such series....

 

[lakedude]

The 675mx is brand new and a bit hard to find. Only place I've seen em is in the Clevo clones (Sager, Pro-Star, Eurocom etc.). The MX is faster and uses less power than the M so it is worth having IMO, especially in a laptop where battery life and heat dissipation are an issue.

You can find a 660m laptop for under $1000 on this side of the pond. The 660m is 28nm. I find the names annoying because some of the M parts are 40nm Fermi and some are 28nm Kepler.

Sorry I can't really help you with shopping from your country.

This is a good place to get info and relative performance of mobile video cards (notice how the MX parts are faster):

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

 

[whiizkid009]

Thanks