Help purchasing a laptop

[Mavadevo]

Hey, I am looking for a 13" macbook pro replacement that can game. I am mostly playing PUBG/Squad. I want something portable as I travel a lot for work. I do not want to break the  bank and I am in Canada. I think my largest priority is size. 

 

The 3 I was looking at were:

 

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin

Razer Blade

Asus zephyrs 501m.

 

All of these laptops are a bit on the expensive side. 

 

Thanks for any input!

[DrMacintosh]

What kind of games? 

[NumLock21]

Check out them new Dell G series gaming laptops. Starts with quad core and up to 6 cores with HT. GTX 1050, all the way up to GTX 1060 Max Q

[TLCH723]

GS65 - heat and upgrade issue
Razer - QA issue
I think you mean GM501 - battery life

 

@Mod - move this to laptop section please

[Mavadevo]

@TLCH723 - So what are you trying to say to point me in a direction?

 

@NumLock21 - I will look into them, Are they supposed to be super portable?

 

@DrMacintosh - PubG and Squad right now... going forward newer games that come out? 

 

Anyone else have any input?

[TLCH723]

Do you need battery life? If not get the GM501.

If you are not going to upgrade, then get the GS65. (Still waiting for review) 

All gaming laptops at this size suffer heat. 

 

As @ZM Fong will say

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Buy from resellers that offers repaste like gentechpc and HIDevolution.

 

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, Mavadevo said:

I will look into them, Are they supposed to be super portable?

Have not look into the weights of that laptop. Imo anything from 2.2kg and over is consider heavy. Light weight ones are around 1.1kg

[TLCH723]

9 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Have not look into the weights of that laptop. Imo anything from 2.2kg and over is consider heavy. Light weight ones are around 1.1kg

Dell G series is at least 5.5lb

[NumLock21]

3 hours ago, TLCH723 said:

Dell G series is at least 5.5lb

Thin gaming laptops just started out, so it might be a year or 2 for them to get cheap.

[TLCH723]

7 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Thin gaming laptops just started out, so it might be a year or 2 for them to get cheap.

No that is the weight. so about 2.5 kg.

[NumLock21]

2 hours ago, TLCH723 said:

No that is the weight. so about 2.5 kg.

I know that's the weight. Op says they are too expensive, the 3 models in op's post.

[ILiketoMobit]

get the aero 15x v8

[genexis_x]

4 hours ago, ILiketoMobit said:

get the aero 15x v8

Runs too hot. Needs LM repaste, otherwise not recommended.

[TLCH723]

21 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I know that's the weight. Op says they are too expensive, the 3 models in op's post.

Oh, you quoted me. And then you said is getting cheap so I was confused.

 

5 hours ago, ILiketoMobit said:

get the aero 15x v8

Do you work for gigabyte or something? You keep recommending this computer

 

1 hour ago, ZM Fong said:

Runs too hot. Needs LM repaste, otherwise not recommended.

Maybe LM is not enough. Mine should have come with LM but still run hot (putting on reseller truth). Still need to do more testing. Did basic stress test and update drivers and windows. Now going to reformat the computer to see if it will make a difference.

 

btw, people use throttle and not at turbo interchangeably. In my book, throttle mean running below based clock and not at turbo run somewhere between base clock and the max turbo

[genexis_x]

3 minutes ago, TLCH723 said:

Do you work for gigabyte or something? You keep recommending this computer

That guy knows nothing about laptops so just ignore what he had said

4 minutes ago, TLCH723 said:

Maybe LM is not enough. Mine should have come with LM but still run hot (putting on reseller truth). Still need to do more testing

OK this is interesting. Mind providing some pictures about CPU+GPU temps and clock speeds in NBC style Prime95+Furmark load?

5 minutes ago, TLCH723 said:

In my book, throttle mean running below based clock and not at turbo run somewhere between base clock and the max turbo

There are many types of throttling too. Thermal, EC firmware, power limit etc.