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Hello, I am looking for a gaming laptops with a maximum budget of $1,100. The only games I really want to play are GTA IV and V when it comes out for the pc. I have heard that GTA IV was a poorly coded pc game and that the physics use a lot of cpu power, but I wasn't sure how much I needed. This is really the only cpu or gpu intensive thing I will be doing on the computer. I am really just looking for a direction of what brand to get. Also, I have heard a lot of bad things about Sager as a company, but I was mainly worried about how good (or bad) there build quality is including cooling system. Please correct me if this is wrong.


The specs of a computer I was looking at:
i7-4710MQ at 2.5GHz
IC Diamond Thermal Compound
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 850M
8GB DDR3 1600MHz [2x4GB]
256GB Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD

Thanks in advance for all the help!
 
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Sager is just basically a "house brand" for Clevo who was the original OEM supplier for Alienware before the Owner's made a bundle and sold to Dell. Clevo is the name behind all the major "boutique" brands.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/91510-clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-reseller-info.html

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and...
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Sager is just basically a "house brand" for Clevo who was the original OEM supplier for Alienware before the Owner's made a bundle and sold to Dell. Clevo is the name behind all the major "boutique" brands.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/91510-clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-reseller-info.html

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.
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I wouldn't bother with an SSD ... you will get 98% of the performance from an SSHD. I have a lappie with an 840 Pro and one with a 7200 rpm Seagate SSHD .... no one can tell them apart.
 
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You can't set a budget AND game perfromance. Just a budgte and get the most for your buck.

In terms of quality its 1.Asus, 2. MSI then 3. Lenovo.

Most full on gaming laptops are $1500 to $3000. That's why pc's look so good - for the same price your pc will run twice as well.

Alec's MSI GP60 Leopard is good. So is -

http://www.engadget.com/products/asus/rog/g750/specs/


http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y510p/?sb=:000001C9:00011E0C:

 
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Lenovo doesn't actually "make" a laptop....and the same factories that makes the Lenovo also makes Dell, HP, Apple , Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, NEC, Fujitsu, Compaq.

Asus Laptops are made by Pegatron or Foxcon who also makes laptops for HP Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer

MSI makes a very good laptop but lacks flexibility and the cooling, designed to serve the basic system, can come up short when upgrading GPUs and / or CPU. I prefer picking out each and every component in the build. Be wary of low prices on builds that look decent cause they have a good CPU / GPU prominently displayed in the ad. .... that's when ya wind up w/ single RAM sticks, 5400 rpm HDs and 2nd rate off brand Wifi or battery.

Here's a who makes who in the laptop world.

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells to (among others) WidowPC, FalconNorthwest, XoticPC, ProStar, LPCDigital, Alienware (up until purchase by Dell), VoodooPC (up until purchase by HP) and direct via the Sager branding.

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You mean the Quanta, Compal stuff ? .... the things belonging to HP, Dell, etc don't extend much past the logo sticker.

Clevo provides a "chassis" .... basically the equivalent of a barebones desktop.,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegatron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flextronics

It's pretty much the same deal as PSUs..... Antec, Corsair and most of the brands we know don't actually do more than provide the sticker art.
 
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