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Laptop Gaming or Desktop Gaming? 

What is the most cost efficient and more powerful?

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desktop of course

notebook manufacturers charge a price premium because you can't build a laptop yourself

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9 minutes ago, Buildingi3 said:

Laptop Gaming or Desktop Gaming? 

What is the most cost efficient and more powerful?

If you build the Desktop right, and it fits your use cases, then Desktop

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Desktop 100% of the way, I can see why some people go for laptop however. With the only viable point at all in my opinion being portability.

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desktop, in all ways, you can make it as big or small as you want basically and its better performance per dollar then any gaming laptop.

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Desktop.

 

the price for gaming laptops is too steep

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Desktop, because it can be upgraded but it can be massive unless you build mini-ITX PC or like mATX. Unlike laptop where you can't really change the hardware like desktop (well you can change some parts like RAM and HDD, but not like GPU). Besides, laptop gaming PC is way more expensive than desktop, it's portable though, but when you need an upgrade like GPU then.... There's nothing you can do.

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It depends on your budget, If you want to get similar desktop performance out of a laptop then go for it if you have the money, if you have the space for a desktop go for a desktop, unless you want a portable gaming pc. 

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Desktop by far, but the real advantage to a laptop (at least for me) is that it comes with a built in screen. I have no problem carrying around my tiny 6.2L rig (I mean, that's what I made it for) and the power it has in comparison to a laptop is great but the one thing I hate is that I either have to borrow a monitor or bring my heavy 24".

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I once had a gaming laptop. Nothing fancy, but it worked. What I want to say is that if you don't play very demanding games and at the same time you need portability, as I did back then, then you can buy a laptop. Keep in mind tho, that for the same money you can build a lot more powerful PC, loosing portability at the same time.

 

laptop = portability, less power

PC = no portability, a lot more power

 

Your choice ;) 

 

Personally, I will never buy a "gaming" laptop again.

 

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3 minutes ago, Marine_Boy said:

I once had a gaming laptop. Nothing fancy, but it worked. What I want to say is that if you don't play very demanding games and at the same time you need portability, as I did back then, then you can buy a laptop. Keep in mind tho, that for the same money you can build a lot more powerful PC, loosing portability at the same time.

 

laptop = portability, less power

PC = no portability, a lot more power

 

Your choice ;) 

 

Personally, I will never buy a "gaming" laptop again.

 

A few manufacturers made a gaming laptop that has a GTX 980 (Not the 980m ) and also put in a desktop CPU and laptops are getting close.

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Laptops are more fragile anyway these days they don't last as much before whining for a fix.

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Desktop, since you can just make a mini form factor build if you want it to be somewhat portable.

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Definitely a desktop PC, they are cheaper to build in the first place and easier to upgrade in the future, Gaming laptops tend to come with a rather hefty price premium and commonly lack the ability to be upgraded. The only real downside to a PC for me is the size, weight and potability although manufacturers do seem to be working towards this recently. Hope this helps you! 

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I'd generally say desktop.  Although in my own case right now, in practice it's the other way around.  My desktop scores around 700 in FireStrike, where as my laptop can clear 6000.

 

Also, my laptop has a replaceable CPU and GPU.  It's considerably more expensive to replace the GPU than in a desktop, but it uses a desktop CPU.  (Mine is a Clevo P750DM-G, also known as the Sager NP9758 and Eurocom Sky X4.  (Mine doesn't support the GTX 980, but there is a higher-end model that does support it, as well as the desktop LGA1151 CPU.)  Also I've seen that Eurocom has (or used to have) a Panther 5 SE, which had an LGA2011 socket (not v3) and supported SLI and CF on the GPUs.)

 

I'm expecting that when I buy the next major part for my desktop (available June 10, but I'm not buying it on launch day), it'll leave my laptop in the dust.

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If you need to move a lot or always on the go, a laptop.

You are stationary or want the extra horsepower and less cost, desktop.

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Desktop. I have a gaming laptop as well and battery life sucks

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