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AdmiralChestnut

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I am looking into buying a new laptop for gaming. My budget is $1000, but I would like to pay around $850-$900. The computer I have been looking at is an MSI GP60 2OD-072US. http://www.frys.com/product/7833489?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
From what I've read, the specs are pretty good. However, I would like to know if the CPU goes well with the chipset. I have read that this is an important aspect when searching for computers. I will be playing games like Minecraft, and a few other steam games. Let me know what you think :)
 
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Well, it's not much of a gaming computer. The most important part of a "gaming" laptop/pc is the gpu (an i5 will not bottleneck), and the 740m is fairly average, although the gddr5 should help a lot (pretty close to the performance of my y580, w/ a 660m). Yes, the laptop will play pretty much all modern games on med to high, but more demanding ones, like the witcher 2, or bf4, crysis 3, will require lower settings at 1080p.
Actually, after a 5 min search on notebookcheck, and google, This looks like a good deal - the nvidia 740m should perform only lower than the 755m due to ~10% lower clock speeds, and should play bf4 at high settings at 35 fps (that was at 768*1366, but still pretty impressive.) Go for it.
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Mike Friesen

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Well, it's not much of a gaming computer. The most important part of a "gaming" laptop/pc is the gpu (an i5 will not bottleneck), and the 740m is fairly average, although the gddr5 should help a lot (pretty close to the performance of my y580, w/ a 660m). Yes, the laptop will play pretty much all modern games on med to high, but more demanding ones, like the witcher 2, or bf4, crysis 3, will require lower settings at 1080p.
Actually, after a 5 min search on notebookcheck, and google, This looks like a good deal - the nvidia 740m should perform only lower than the 755m due to ~10% lower clock speeds, and should play bf4 at high settings at 35 fps (that was at 768*1366, but still pretty impressive.) Go for it.
 
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AdmiralChestnut

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The resolution on my monitor isn't incredibly high, and resolution doesn't make too much of a difference to me anyway as long as it isn't terrible. I don't think I can get an SSD hard drive, but if possible would that make a huge difference? Also, I'm not looking into demanding games. Mostly Minecraft, as I said, and possibly Terraria and Castle Crashers.

 
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