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I need a new laptop, mainly for college use, but I want it to be powerful enough to do moderate gaming on it, I have a Compaq Presario C700 from 8 years ago, and its a beast. I upgraded the CPU and RAM, but the hard drive is slow and the battery is dead. It will run minecraft on low at 720p at about 15-20fps. I'm looking for a laptop that can push over 60fps, preferably around 100 with decent settings on at least 900p. I was thinking of a Lenovo with a GTX 860m, but is there anything cheaper that works just as well? And possibly holds 2 hard drives (one for an SSD, and the other for a hard drive). Budget is a low as possible, but I'm mainly looking for GPU recomendations (860m,850m,840m, 760m, HD 4000, 4200, 4600). I know it also depends on the CPU, so it would ether be an i5 or i7. 

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CPU: i7-6700k @ 4.8GHz - CPU Cooler: Be Quiet! Dark Rock 3 - Motherboard: ASUS Z170-E - GPU:  ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL

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I need a new laptop, mainly for college use, but I want it to be powerful enough to do moderate gaming on it, I have a Compaq Presario C700 from 8 years ago, and its a beast. I upgraded the CPU and RAM, but the hard drive is slow and the battery is dead. It will run minecraft on low at 720p at about 15-20fps. I'm looking for a laptop that can push over 60fps, preferably around 100 with decent settings on at least 900p. I was thinking of a Lenovo with a GTX 860m, but is there anything cheaper that works just as well? And possibly holds 2 hard drives (one for an SSD, and the other for a hard drive). Budget is a low as possible, but I'm mainly looking for GPU recomendations (860m,850m,840m, 760m, HD 4000, 4200, 4600). I know it also depends on the CPU, so it would ether be an i5 or i7.

Lel the MacBook Air from 2 years ago performs the same in minecraft. It's also noticeably melted.

If you're playing Minecraft the CPU is the biggest factor. So yeah, anything will do.

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I have a last gen toshiba satelite from the end of 2013 it has a 3rd gen i7-3630qm 2.4ghz at turbo 3.4ghz, 8gb of 1600mhz ram in dual channel with two extra slots, nvidia geforce gt630m 2gb and a 1tb 7200rpm hdd, i bought this laptop for 700$ and i love it, the battery on full screen brightness lasts 40mins while gaming, the cooling is not the best it runs farcry3 on all low at 30-45 fps but it runs at 90 degrees mind you but its decent for gaming it handles minecraft and other less demanding games. My opinion the new gen version will have upgraded hardware from mine so if your doing less demanding games up to borderlands on high its good, and its good for school cause its relatively slim so its up to you. My big dislike is the cooling though

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The Ninja (current gaming pc)  Case- h440 red/black cpu- i5-4690k@ 4.3ghz cooler- coolermaster hyper 212 evo moboGigabyte z97x-sli ram- adata xpg v.1 2x4gb 1600mhz gpu- asus strix gtx 970 hdd- wd blue 1tb ssd- kingston hyperx savage 240gb psu- evga 600b peripherals: mouse- razer death adder 2013 keyboard- corsair k70 with chery mx-reds headset- HyperX Cloud 2

my laptop- toshiba satelite p850, cpu- i7-3630qm ram- 8gb 1600mhz hdd- 1tb 5400rpm gpu- Nvidia gt630m 2gb

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