[Solved] What's best cheap laptop for BF3?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a great gaming laptop, with 2630/2670/2760/2860 and 6990m crossfired. Or 580m sli is better? Then tell me where I can get that for less than $1800. Yes, I'm planning to get a laptop for 40-60 fps in Battlefield 3 for only $1800 max. I'd like to have a minimum FPS of 35, though of course, the more the better. Quality: 1920x1080, I can do well without AA&AF, quality should be at least high. Is there any laptop with such graphics cards and cpu for such money?

2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI is almost in your price range if you can come up a few hundred more.

WR2 Could you spare me extra $600? And yes, 560m sli is in my price range, seen in Malibal. BUT. Is it as good as 6990m crossfired? Don't think. Can it do 40-45, with a minimum 35 fps? Don't think, if one 560m can do 16, as seen on www.notebookcheck.net
borden5 The smatest one? I am serious. I could, in fact, build a desktop, be it $800, 1500, 2000, 3000 or more. Any custom built pc more than $800 is good enough to play it maxed out. BUT I WANT A LAPTOP! For $1800 or so. BF3 playable. 1920x1080. 35 fps minimum.

Is 560m sli any good for BF3? I mean, can it handle 35fps min. on Caspian border?

You could just buy the best laptop your budget can afford. If it can't do 35fps min. on Caspian border you'll just have to suck it up and play at what ever 'works' OK.

Otherwise wait for the game to get out & get reviewed so you know for certain what you're getting for your money.

We have no idea. None of us have that stuff.

Malibal has a good rep as a custom gaming laptop boutique builder. Most of those boutique builders do price matching. And they pretty much all use the same hardware - Asus, MSI, Sager/Clevo barebones chassis.

Do you need the gaming aspect of the comp to be mobile? In other words are you open to spending the same amount on a gaming desktop and a laptop combined? If the laptop only needs to do school work, then a cheap $400-500 one will be fine, then you have $1300 to spend on a gaming rig for use at home that will blow any laptop out of the water.

Am I speaking wrong words when I'm describing my needs? Yes, I need a portable gaming workstation. No, I don't need a desktop and a laptop. I have one laptop, which won't handle BF3, because its price is $350. So, that's why I'm looking for something like 580m/more or less to be able to play BF3!
WR2 OK. Was wrong. Though it might be just different to desktops and laptops...
By the way, if FRAPS recording fps was 25-35, what was the real fps? Watched another video, 2860m/580m/16gb. Planning to get 2630m/580m/16gb.

Clevo 180HM @ $1,750 (w/o OS)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sa [...] -info.html

18.4" Full HD 1920x1080 GlassView LCD
Intel Core i7-2670QM Processor, 2.2 GHz (Max Turbo Frequency 3.1GHz), 6MB Smart Cache
8GB, PC3-12800/1600Mhz DDR3 - 2 x 4GB
Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M w/1.5GB GDDR5 (total of 3GB) in SLI Technology mode
500/7200rpm GB 16MB Cache Buffer SATA-300 (SATA II 3GB/s)
8X Max. DVD±R/RW Writer/Reader / 4X Max. +DL Super-Mulit Drive
8 Cells Lithium-Ion Battery Pack 89.21WH
Integrated 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth V3.0 Combo
Built-In 2.0M Pixels Digital Video Camera
Built-In Fingerprint Reader
Built-In Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Built-In 9-IN-1 Flash Memory Reader(MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS DUO/SD/Mini-SD/SDHC/SDXC)
1 Exprss Card 54/34 Slot
1 IEEE-1394a Fire Wire
3 USB 2.0 Ports (1x power USB AC/DC Port)
2 USB 3.0 Ports
1 eSATA Port (USB Combo)
1 HDMI 1.4a Output
1 DVI-I Port
1 Kensington Lock Port
Built-in Microphone, Two 1.5W and Three 2W Speakers
Built-in One 2W Sub-Woofer
4 Audio Jacks for Headphone, Microphone-In, S/PDIF-Out, and Line-In
1 100/240V Autoswitch AC Power Adapter
Standard Carrying Case with Strap

Add $80 if ya need the OS. Drop RAM down to 1333 or CPU down to 2630 if ya need to stay under $1800

sli won't give you the boost of one bigger card, speaking about games. It'll just give you more fps, and in most cases it'll give you 1.5-1.85 times more. What I mean is: Dirt 3: 580m - 44, sli - 80. 80/44=1.81. Crysis 2 - 35/68; 1.94. So, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's not strict. Here, it might give mid fps of 35, might give 30, might less. What I want is 35 to be min. So, more or less, 580m fits both my budget and games. Now, what else cheap companies are out there? Malibal is one of those. Falcon NW, Origin PC, Digital Storm, Maingear are not. Which else are?

AVADirect Custom Gaming
http://www.xoticpc.com/

ibuypower.com

Woulden't recomend them though.


If you want to see the difference in the cards Toms did a nice comparison.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 022-5.html

Don't forget about processor! Don't forget about the price! Please! And I didn't say it, but I prefer 17" screen. Still, Sager's is more than desired amount. I'm ready to spend less than $1800. And the rig for $7,000 - yeah, if someone gave it to me!

Best answer so far. But when should nvidia's 6series come out?

Okay, the latest rumors aren't looking good.
AMD is going to push out its next series in December and Nvidia in Q1 2012. (usually a few weeks after AMD)

It will be very good for BF3.
Even better if you can make it fit into your budget.

Ehm... Well, why would I even bother getting the laptop with 580m? If it's almost as good as 580m, and twice as cheap, I'll better get 6990 one! Right..?

Well, if there ever were cards with 300w for laptops, it wouldn't have been a laptop card. That's the only reason I see. So, now as nvidia has 40nm transistors, its best laptop card is like 560ti with lower clock, so it's a little better than 560. With 28nm, it might be 580 with lower clock.

AMD’s “Graphics Core Next” Architecture for Radeon HD7000 Series Detailed, Liquid Chamber cooling for GPU’s Confirmed
might not apply to the mobile GPUs

If you do a "stupid calculation" and compare bfbc2 vs bf3 and 580m vs 560m, you'll get a rough number of 25 fps in bf3 with 580m. But again, it's just a "stupid calculation". So, now I'm looking for the numbers of fps in bf3 with 2670m+8gb+6990m. Could somebody provide me with those numbers?

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