Gaming Notebooks

Laptops are not the best gaming computers. However, if you want to play when you take the long way to go, you can buy a laptop with enough power to run new games. If you go through the stores and you will compare products and options, you will discover that you have what to choose without great sacrifices.

There are several ways to get a cheap laptop for gaming. One option is to buy a second hand or refurbished notebook with desired characteristics. Another way is to buy an older model or looking for a shop which is doing reductions of price due to high stock . Compare features of different models to see which offers the highest performance at the lowest price. Gaming laptops need a minimum of 1 GB RAM. However, 3 or 4 GB will offer better performance in games with detailed graphics. Processor must be a minimum 2 GHz.

Laptop for gaming needs 4 basic components. These are the CPU (processor), more RAM, a new network card, a good video card (GPU) with its own memory and a decent sound card. Display preferably be at least 17 inches wide and a gamepad and a pair of headphones will additional fill but there are not essential. A good notebook for gaming needs CD / DVD burner to install games. It also requires a minimum 160 GB hard drive to store the files needed for the games. Laptops with multi-core processors are more efficient compared to the single core even if the single-core has higher frequency. Quad-core processors are best suited for performance in games. Choose RAM DDR SDRAM, DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM will further increase the laptop’s performances in the game.
Dell Alienware M17x
First of all I would like to note that Alienware M17x hardly looks like a laptop, but rather like a spaceship console, and is a part of the gaming laptop computers. If someone has something to note in terms of design, it means that he lost his mind. With other words, in a configuration taken to the extreme, Alienware M17x laptop may be the strongest laptop in the world. Why? Try to pay attention and follow carefully the configuration: Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300 (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB), 8GB of DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz frequency, two graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280m with 1GB memory in SLI configuration, Blu-ray optical drive combo, 500 GB hard drive at a speed of 7200 RPM and a 17-inch screen capable of a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Pretty impressive, right? Other equipment (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, webcam, etc.) suddenly become some widgets. Alienware M17x’s weight starts at 5.3 kg and the configuration presented here for you reaches 6 kg without any problems. Mobility? 9 cell battery? What difference does it make when you have a monster that can run any new game? For this configuration the price is of $ 3370. Oops!

Toshiba Qosmio X300-14U
Qosmio X300-14U is something fresher on the market and less customizable than Dell, but it certainly has something to say at the performance chapter. Qosmio X300-14U’s case looks flawless and the sound can’t be anyway less then just perfect because it has on its board a Harman Kardon audio system with 5 speakers: two for the average frequency, 2 for high and one for the bass. The processor is a “modest” Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 working at frequencies of 2.53 GHz. Qosmio X300-14U is part of the gaming laptop computers after all so you should feel the power of two NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics cards in SLI configuration with 2 x 512 MB memory. We may also obtain up to 1791 MB of memory via TurboCache technology.

It would be foolish to put more than the 4 GB of RAM, as much as you installed, but you can add yet another on that. Hard disk? Two pieces of each 320 GB go? There are the less pleasant parts when it comes to optical drive. You have the option of a Blu-ray drive, pretty good at what may be the Qosmio X300-14U. Perhaps the producer was not thinking about this fact because of the screen that leads only 1.680 x 1.050 pixels. There is no sense that you think about the issue of connectivity. Qosmio X300-14U has everything you could ask for in a computer or even more. Mobility is limited to a maximum of one hour and 50 minutes, but I do not expect more from a system full of resources, with minimum weight of 4.3 kilograms. The system cost about 3200 euro in the configuration that you read about above.

iBUYPOWER Battalion 101 D900F
Yes, I have not heard of this brand before until I found out about their configurable super laptop’s. Casing does not look at all spectacular compared to Dell and Toshiba models, but what is under the “hood” will give you for sure a first class gaming experience. If you start on their website you can configure Battalion 101 D900F. Starting with the processor, the most powerful choice is the new Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, you will get with this laptop the four cores running at 3.33 GHz frequency, which is a true delight. 17-inch screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, which entitles you to install also a Blu-ray drive. The only option for RAM is 6 GB DDR3 from Corsair, which is not so bad. At the hard disk chapter you can chose two pieces to 500 GB, but you can also choose two SSD in 80 GB or 160 GB version of something more expensive. Battalion 101 D900F comes with a card reader, with Wi-Fi Draft-N module, with a webcam with a resolution of 3 megapixel and for the operating system you are forced to choose a Windows. You have a lot of options for peripherals that you can also add to make your laptop as you wish. Battalion 101 D900F configured like this costs only about 2490 euro. I say only considering the prices of the colleagues above.