Hey man, I work at Best Buy and we have a gateway laptop with an 8800 GTS gaming card in it with 3 GB of ram for about 1350 last I checked.
I would heavily recommend this laptop, it has a C2D T5500 I think.
Have a good one, we also have an Asus with a 9600 I think in it, but it is a 15.4" screen whereas the gateway has 17"