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gv4suns
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I am looking to buy a new gaming laptop and was looking for suggestions. I have a budget of around $2800-2900 and want to game at 1080p at the 100hz to 144hz range. I know I need a GTX 1080 but unsure with laptop to buy. I'm also unsure whether to get a laptop with a normal 1080 or one that has the max-q design. All help and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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battery life requirement? Weight requirement? Gamery looks or not?

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1 minute ago, gv4suns said:

I'm very flexible on all of them, not concerned with short battery life, heaviness or how it looks, just interested in performance.

Then don't go MaxQ as MaxQ is a lower performance chip intended to reduce weight, power consumption, and heat.

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Just now, Wh0_Am_1 said:

Then don't go MaxQ as MaxQ is a lower performance chip intended to reduce weight, power consumption, and heat.

That's what I thought. Newegg associate told me they're basically the same chip but I could have sworn that they reduced performance to make the laptop more sleek.

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32 minutes ago, gv4suns said:

That's what I thought. Newegg associate told me they're basically the same chip but I could have sworn that they reduced performance to make the laptop more sleek.

For a GTX 1080, the Max Q version takes anywhere between 20-40% performance hit depending on what category you are looking into

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11 hours ago, gv4suns said:

I'm very flexible on all of them, not concerned with short battery life, heaviness or how it looks, just interested in performance.

Where are you from? Why not portable laptop+desktop?

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