Wanting to purchase a new gaming laptop, can this setup run everything I throw at it at max graphics and for future years?
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DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:29:59 PM
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DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:36:02 PM
DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:39:11 PM
woltej1 said:
well just throwing it out there as considering other options can help you find better solutions. Any reason why purchasing a high end laptop is available but a desktop isn't?Going to college soon and don't want to have to lug a desktop around and want to be able to take it wherever I go
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DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:42:27 PM
tiny voices said:
The gtx870m is about as powerful as a gtx760, but the lack of memory bandwidth will hurt performance. You can expect 2 of them in SLI to perform about 20% worse than gtx760SLIAnother option was to get a single 880m with 8GB video memory, would that find better performance than the dual 870m's in SLI with 6GB video memory?
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tiny voices said:
The gtx870m is about as powerful as a gtx760, but the lack of memory bandwidth will hurt performance. You can expect 2 of them in SLI to perform about 20% worse than gtx760SLIMaybe in theory, but after 5 minutes of intense gaming and heat buildup, the performance will drop quickly.
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woltej1 said:
tiny voices said:
The gtx870m is about as powerful as a gtx760, but the lack of memory bandwidth will hurt performance. You can expect 2 of them in SLI to perform about 20% worse than gtx760SLIMaybe in theory, but after 5 minutes of intense gaming and heat buildup, the performance will drop quickly.
Actually the heat will be fine. They are designed to work in a laptop so they will not throttle and lower performance. They just won't. The CPU would be the heat issue, not the GPUs.
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DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:47:30 PM
tiny voices said:
woltej1 said:
tiny voices said:
The gtx870m is about as powerful as a gtx760, but the lack of memory bandwidth will hurt performance. You can expect 2 of them in SLI to perform about 20% worse than gtx760SLIMaybe in theory, but after 5 minutes of intense gaming and heat buildup, the performance will drop quickly.
Actually the heat will be fine. They are designed to work in a laptop so they will not throttle and lower performance. They just won't. The CPU would be the heat issue, not the GPUs.
Thanks for the help, so all in all stick with the SLI 870m's?
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DGRJ 4 Life said:
woltej1 said:
well just throwing it out there as considering other options can help you find better solutions. Any reason why purchasing a high end laptop is available but a desktop isn't?Going to college soon and don't want to have to lug a desktop around and want to be able to take it wherever I go
Why not leave the desktop in the dorm room and have a portable ultrabook? Just saying it really isn't worth it to get a gaming laptop, the battery life in those are pretty low especially if you plan to take it around with you all day.
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DGRJ 4 Life
May 10, 2014 6:51:11 PM
RazerZ said:
DGRJ 4 Life said:
woltej1 said:
well just throwing it out there as considering other options can help you find better solutions. Any reason why purchasing a high end laptop is available but a desktop isn't?Going to college soon and don't want to have to lug a desktop around and want to be able to take it wherever I go
Why not leave the desktop in the dorm room and have a portable ultrabook? Just saying it really isn't worth it to get a gaming laptop, the battery life in those are pretty low especially if you plan to take it around with you all day.
It's also at parent's discretion lol trust me, if I was able to I would do that. They can't be convinced of pc things.
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I went with a gaming laptop and never will again. The GPUs get insanely hot and throttle. Mine was back with the 2xx albeit, but I can't imagine they improved that much where it never happens anymore. The only way I could play simple games would be with a fan blowing across the computer, and my hands, the whole time which got annoying really quick. CPU usage was not high and I took it apart and could tell from the placement of the GPU that it was the main hot spot. This was on a mid range gaming laptop too so it wasn't some piece of crap either. Would just rather help someone avoid the same head aches that I went through.
Maybe in theory, but after 5 minutes of intense gaming and heat buildup, the performance will drop quickly.
Actually the heat will be fine. They are designed to work in a laptop so they will not throttle and lower performance. They just won't. The CPU would be the heat issue, not the GPUs.
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woltej1 said:
tiny voices said:
The gtx870m is about as powerful as a gtx760, but the lack of memory bandwidth will hurt performance. You can expect 2 of them in SLI to perform about 20% worse than gtx760SLIMaybe in theory, but after 5 minutes of intense gaming and heat buildup, the performance will drop quickly.
Actually the heat will be fine. They are designed to work in a laptop so they will not throttle and lower performance. They just won't. The CPU would be the heat issue, not the GPUs.
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