Best budget gaming laptop under 1500?

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Gnourt

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Jun 9, 2013
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10,510
currently looking at the GX70, but im not sure if thats the best for the money, the cpu worries me(how much does it bottleneck the 8970?). what do you guys think? thanks
 
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np8290.html
Clevo P177SM is about $1550 before the discount

http://www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html

17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Displa (1920 x 1080)
NVIDIA GTX 770M 3GB GDDR5 Memory
i7-4700MQ
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
750GB Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 8GB SSD
8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software
Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
 

Gnourt

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Jun 9, 2013
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10,510

how does the 8970 compare to the 770m? is the bottleneck large enough, to make the 770m outperform the 8970?
 

dannyboy2233

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May 24, 2013
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12,160


Okay... Just try to get one with Haswell (for better power consumption) and an SSD (for quite fast boot times). :)
 

Gnourt

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10,510


ooh that looks nice, hows the 750m sli vs 770/680/6970?
 

Gnourt

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10,510


was about to buy it, and it just sold out..... im now looking for good gaming laptops under 1300ish range
 

Fortisslayer

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Feb 6, 2013
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its beaten by all 3 but is great at 1080p but if you want to spend the whole 1.5k u can go with something else but not sure much out there with 4th gen intel and a high end gpu and other features in that price
 
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