My crappy 4 year old 650€ "gaming" laptop

[InsanityWolf]

It's built for gaming they said.

It's the best price/performance ratio they said.

IT RUNS BATTEFIELD 4 ON ULTRA THEY SAID(Although they didn't mention resolution or framerates so I guess if I select the ultra preset and then it's running at 10 frames per second it "runs",so I can't blame them on that one).

In all honesty though,my laptop sucks.Sure it may not be the absolute worst,but it's pretty down there.There was another variant with better looks(and most likely better build quality) ,8gb of ram and most importantly a gtx 660m and all for 60€ more but when dad says nope we ain't buying that one because "cheapest that works" is the best and you're just 12 years old you can't get the better deal.Anyways,when coffee lake hits the shelves and christmas brings the prices down I will build my first and own gaming computer that is not a laptop or AIO.Thanks for wasting your time

[Jurrunio]

Maybe you should have saved up some money and pay extra for the better laptop.

[Brooksie359]

Do you have an idea of what type of build you are going for?

[InsanityWolf]

5 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Do you have an idea of what type of build you are going for?

An idea yes.I mostly play Esport titles that don't benefit from a lot of cores.I will most likely be getting either an overclockable i3 or i5 and a decent cooler and crank that core clock to the max.I don't know about the graphics card but I want something that can push high settings 144hz on low demanding titles such as LoL,CS GO,Overwatch etc,so something with the horsepower of a gtx 1070.If all goes well a "GTX 1160" would suit me perfect since it would have the performance of a 1070(or at least that's how things mostly go).

[Brooksie359]

10 minutes ago, InsanityWolf said:

An idea yes.I mostly play Esport titles that don't benefit from a lot of cores.I will most likely be getting either an overclockable i3 or i5 and a decent cooler and crank that core clock to the max.I don't know about the graphics card but I want something that can push high settings 144hz on low demanding titles such as LoL,CS GO,Overwatch etc,so something with the horsepower of a gtx 1070.If all goes well a "GTX 1160" would suit me perfect since it would have the performance of a 1070(or at least that's how things mostly go).

I would honestly get a used 7700k when the coffelake cpus come out. I mean my 1700 can push 144 fps in games like overwatch no problem but if you want to hit that with a gtx 1070 you will want to adjust your settings. I know with low settings I get around 240 to 180 fps on my gtx 1070 but part of that is likely due to the 1700 bottle-necking.