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My brother is looking for a decent gaming laptop that can play Old School Runescape(I know >.>) at decent settings with a 5ghz wifi adapter and possibly a backlit keyboard(no clue why he thinks this is necessary.)

 

He wants to keep it around 400, but I am not sure what direction to steer him in.

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1 minute ago, AmpedUpDad said:

My brother is looking for a decent gaming laptop that can play Old School Runescape(I know >.>) at decent settings with a 5ghz wifi adapter and possibly a backlit keyboard(no clue why he thinks this is necessary.)

 

He wants to keep it around 400, but I am not sure what direction to steer him in.

A higher budget or give up the backlit keyboard. That's gonna be the hardest feature to fit in that price range. 

Most laptops have a 5GHz compatible network card (anything with Wifi5 (802.11ac) will work for that), so that seems like a non issue. 

Lemme look around and I'll come back. 

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

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2 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

A higher budget or give up the backlit keyboard. That's gonna be the hardest feature to fit in that price range. 

Most laptops have a 5GHz compatible network card (anything with Wifi5 (802.11ac) will work for that), so that seems like a non issue. 

Lemme look around and I'll come back. 

I'm sure he'd be fine without having the backlit keyboard.

 

If he came to me and asked me to build him a desktop, I'd be on it, laptops just aren't in my realm lol.

"Liam" - CPU: Ryzen 3700x Base GPU: EVGA Titan X(Maxwell) RAM: Trident Royal Z 32GB @ 3600mhz Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic White Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro RGB 360mm Case Fans: Thermaltake Riing 12 Series Whitex6

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Dell coming through with the budget options yet again: https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000A-03CK8

It's also available with a 128GB SSD instead of a 1TB hard drive. So you've got a few options: https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000A-03XF4

 

EDIT: 

Found an A12 based laptop as well. Different processor but still the same performance as the i3 Dells https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Display-A12-9720P-Bluetooth-Earphone/dp/B0748YG81P/ref=sr_1_5?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1558471555&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A7817224011%2Cp_36%3A-40000&rnid=2421885011&s=pc&sr=1-5

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

Stille (Desktop)

Ryzen 9 3900XT@4.5Ghz - Cryorig H7 Ultimate - 16GB Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz- MSI RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3x OC - SanDisk Plus 480GB - Crucial MX500 500GB - Intel 660P 1TB SSD - (2x) WD Red 2TB - EVGA G3 650w - Corsair 760T

Evoo Gaming 15"
i7-9750H - 16GB DDR4 - GTX 1660Ti - 480GB SSD M.2 - 1TB 2.5" BX500 SSD 

VM + NAS Server (ProxMox 6.3)

1x Xeon E5-2690 v2  - 92GB ECC DDR3 - Quadro 4000 - Dell H310 HBA (Flashed with IT firmware) -500GB Crucial MX500 (Proxmox Host) Kingston 128GB SSD (FreeNAS dev/ID passthrough) - 8x4TB Toshiba N300 HDD

Toys: Ender 3 Pro, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Quest 2, about half a dozen raspberry Pis (2b to 4), Arduino Uno, Arduino Mega, Arduino nano (x3), Arduino nano pro, Atomic Pi. 

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6 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

Dell coming through with the budget options yet again: https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000A-03CK8

It's also available with a 128GB SSD instead of a 1TB hard drive. So you've got a few options: https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000A-03XF4

Thanks, man.

"Liam" - CPU: Ryzen 3700x Base GPU: EVGA Titan X(Maxwell) RAM: Trident Royal Z 32GB @ 3600mhz Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic White Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro RGB 360mm Case Fans: Thermaltake Riing 12 Series Whitex6

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