"Gaming" laptop....read before the hate.

[Touch My Hamm]

   A friend of mine who travels 75% of his time is looking for the most tricked out beast gaming laptop, price isnt a option. I offered many times to build him a portable pc but he is strickly laptop. His current laptop is a alienware X18 with first gen i7 and dual 6990's and raid 0 hdd's. I talked to him in great detail about the problems of a laptop can have with dual gpu's and how i dont believe the cooling is sufficiant to have dual gpu's and use them to their fullest. But he is wanting dual gpu, raid 0 ssd's, and current gen i7 and he wants everything overclocked.....My question is what companies even do this? Alienware kinda does but i have seen alot of negative things to believe the positive, and most other companies only use single gpu.

 

   thanks alot for the help

[Kuzma]

Lenovo Ideapad with dual 750Ms and an i7-4 something

[Godlygamer23]

No company offers overclocking in laptops as far as I know.

[TheSLSAMG]

I think the Alienware 18 is one of the very few.

[TheSLSAMG]

Wait, the Sager NP9570 has you covered.

[Godlygamer23]

I think the Alienware 18 is one of the very few.

You are correct. The top of the line Alienware 18 offers an overclocked CPU.

[Air tree]

Overclocking a laptop is just stupid. and the y500/y510p

[snkmoorthy]

Clevo:

http://www.avadirect.com/gaming-laptop-configurator.asp?PRID=26190

 

http://www.avadirect.com/gaming-laptop-configurator.asp?PRID=27957

 

the same Clevo models are available from other vendors as well.

[CoolBeans]

Lenovo Ideapad with dual 750Ms and an i7-4 something

A 765M will have around the same performance

[Emperor_Piehead]

Well if breaking your back, low mobility, and needs to be attached to the wall are fine eurocom has a laptop with a 3970X and 2 780ms.

[Kuzma]

A 765M will have around the same performance

Hmmm... wonder if you can get dual 765Ms then...

[Kuzma]

Well if breaking your back, low mobility, and needs to be attached to the wall are fine eurocom has a laptop with a 3970X and 2 780ms.

Battery life, 30 seconds that dash for the charger

[_ASSASSIN_]

why do you want to overclock on a Laptop? it's the most backwards possible thinking, it will ground you to finding a power plug to be at 24/7

[CoolBeans]

dual 6990's

I don't think so, 4 GPU cores in a laptop, I don't think so

[Emperor_Piehead]

Battery life, 30 seconds that dash for the charger

Actually 2 power bricks.

[SteepGnomeKing]

Lenovo Ideapad with dual 750Ms and an i7-4 something

 

lol 750m

 

If you are wanting a gaming laptop you either want to MSI, Sager, or Alienware. Those are the 3 companies that do gaming laptops. Dual GPU, core i7, raid SSD everything you would want.

 

Laptops have plenty enough cooling for allowing a decent overclock with temperatures still in a sustainable range.

If your wanting the best you will be wanting a i7 4700mq or higher, SLI 780m or CF 8970.

[A10-FTW]

the true enemy here

 

is not the gpu,

 

is not the cpu,

 

is not the ram,

 

is not the storage,

 

but "it is" the battery life  :blush:

 

 

 

Gaming Laptop = 2h battery

 

still, i will stay with a ASUS anyway   

[SteepGnomeKing]

--snip--

 

Well usually you have it plugged in when gaming. It's more the you don't want to carry around a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and tower.

 

 

A Sager NP9380 dual 780m, i7-4800MQ, 120hz monitor. ~$2800 is how much that will cost you. 

[Deleon.David]

thinnest mother flippin gaming note book
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152443
 

4700hq (2.4 ghz)
16 gb ram
gtx 765m

2 x 1tb hdd + 128 ssd
17.3 inch 1080p

[_wky]

Overclocking a laptop is just stupid. and the y500/y510p

I OCed my laptop... :-(

[someone]

How about the razer edge? (tablet..kind of)

[allthatremains94]

MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2

 

Logan had the original at PAX and it was uhmazing.

[TheRetiredSlave]

Wait, the Sager NP9570 has you covered.

 

I wouldn't go with the 9570 because it's not really a laptop. It has a massive four-fan array and insanely huge heatsinks to run a full-size desktop LGA2011 CPU.

 

why do you want to overclock on a Laptop? it's the most backwards possible thinking, it will ground you to finding a power plug to be at 24/7

 

You just turn off your overclock when you don't need it. I have both the CPU and GPU overclocked in my M17x. When plugged in and gaming, the performance is faster than most other laptops on the market even though I have a last-gen model,, and when unplugged I get 7 hours of battery life (low brightness and web browsing/etc)..

 

A friend of mine who travels 75% of his time is looking for the most tricked out beast gaming laptop, price isnt a option. I offered many times to build him a portable pc but he is strickly laptop. His current laptop is a alienware X18 with first gen i7 and dual 6990's and raid 0 hdd's. I talked to him in great detail about the problems of a laptop can have with dual gpu's and how i dont believe the cooling is sufficiant to have dual gpu's and use them to their fullest. But he is wanting dual gpu, raid 0 ssd's, and current gen i7 and he wants everything overclocked.....My question is what companies even do this? Alienware kinda does but i have seen alot of negative things to believe the positive, and most other companies only use single gpu.

 

   thanks alot for the help

The cooling in the Alienware and Clevo models are more than enough to handle multiple GPUs, even overclocked. Of course, models with dual GPUs like the AW18 and Sager NP9380 are a lot thicker and heavier than other notebooks, but they also run a lot cooler than most thin/light notebooks. They have three separate cooling fans/heatsinks, one for the CPU and each GPU, which is better than most other laptops that share one fan for both the CPU and GPU.

 

As for the GPU setup, dual 6990Ms are going to outperform most other things on the market (like the y510p, blade, or pretty much any other single GPU notebook including my M17x).. If he wants his new notebook to be an upgrade over his last one, he'll have to go with a dual-GPU notebook like the AW18 or NP9380. Like SteepGnomeKing said, a 9380 with i7-4800 and dual 780Ms will be about $2800 (much cheaper than the Alienware, no surprise there), and Sager offers things like RAID 0 (two mSATA ports and two 2.5" bays) and a 120 Hz screen.

 

Desktops do offer more power and easier upgradeability, but you can't even come close to having a complete system that fits into a backpack (keyboard/mouse/monitor/etc).. All you need to carry is a mouse and the power brick, and you're all set to game anywhere you want.