Desktop Class Gaming Laptop

[saladcrack]

Hey you people on here,

I'm planning a build for college that will let me edit videos, record gameplay and play most games at max but the mobility might be a problem later on through college so I was wondering if there is an affordable laptop out there that has the power of a desktop but in a laptop, my desktop build has a R9 390 and an i7 4790k so if there is anything close to that amount of power around the $1500 mark I would love to know about it because most of the laptops I've seen are sub 3.0 ghz on the CPU and that doesn't make me very happy so please help!

[EposVox]

CPU GHz on a gaming laptop is not super important, and sub 3.0ghz is pretty common.

 

"Desktop class" is made up, but there are a few very expensive gaming laptops that Linus/Luke have covered recently that have desktop CPU and GPUs in them. But $1500 may still be too low.

[EposVox]

Here's their video. Looks like it's just over $1500, or close to $2500 for the decked out model.

 

Keep in mind that for editing and recording, raw CPU & GPU power are not the deal breakers, but the slow laptop hard drives and data busses that aren't meant for that kind of data transfer, heat throttling, etc.

 

If you got a secondary SSD installed in it in the custom config, you could record to that - but it'd probably be smaller storage size. 

[Guest]

There's this one Broadwell MSI one that allows you to use a desktop GPU.

[exercutor5]

There's this one Broadwell MSI one that allows you to use a desktop GPU.

 

Which is ridiculously expensive.

 

 

Hey you people on here,

I'm planning a build for college that will let me edit videos, record gameplay and play most games at max but the mobility might be a problem later on through college so I was wondering if there is an affordable laptop out there that has the power of a desktop but in a laptop, my desktop build has a R9 390 and an i7 4790k so if there is anything close to that amount of power around the $1500 mark I would love to know about it because most of the laptops I've seen are sub 3.0 ghz on the CPU and that doesn't make me very happy so please help!

 

As mentioned, desktop-class power is going to cost you a lot, so your 1.5k budget would not cut it. But I've got just the thing for your budget.

 

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Gaming-Notebook-NP8657-S.html

 

You can choose the G-Sync display if you want. I have the Haswell 980M version of this machine which I am currently bringing to school everyday, it is a really good machine. It's light and thin for its class at 25mm thick and 2.5kg in weight. It cools very well with 3 cooling fans, and the max temp which I have ever got my 980M at was about 74 degrees celcius, but that was with the fans at maximum (yes the fans are adjustable).