LegendPanda
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Hello,
I was thinking of building a laptop for gaming, which I now realise is almost impossible. Can anyone clarify, whether building a gaming laptop is possible or not?
Many people say that you can buy the parts and the barebones laptop, then fit them in, but I can't find anything similar to buy, even on ebay for a decent price. I would also need the motherboard for that particular barebones laptop, which would then limit compatibility, which means I need a new barebones laptop that would have a new motherboard so it would have compatibility with the new hardware and so on and on. The more I get into it, the more I doubt that it's possible.
Buying a gaming laptop is a complete waste of money, I'd rather travel to france to skii for a month for the same 2 grand that I'd pay for a laptop. The price is just silly. I have built a gaming desktop for 1200 pounds with i7, 780gtx overclocked, watercooling, 8gb of dual channeled RAM, 64gb SSD and a 24" monitor = no sound, awesome graphics that would last at least a decade with maybe an upgrade to SLI if the games improve a lot.
2000 pounds for i7 and some mediocre video card is just completely dumb, I don't even need quad core processor to play most of the games and some stupid Windows 8 PRO for a 140pounds just makes it look completely ridiculous... Apparently, according to Alienware, a medium-range gaming laptop has i5 processor, 320gb of hdd space and 4 gb of ram, who the hell cares about some hard space or ram that I can buy for several pounds???? I bet I couldn't get a stable 100fps on Dishonored or AC4.
Let's buy an "ultrabook" (another stupid term made by advertisers for laptops that do nothing and cost thousands) with touch screen and the screen that flips! Would be a nice toy for a kid to play with, since it's useless for anything else apart from flipping the screen.
Sorry to make this into a rant, but I just had to get this off my shoulders Is it possible?
EDIT: Oh and I want a laptop, because I'm travelling a lot.
I was thinking of building a laptop for gaming, which I now realise is almost impossible. Can anyone clarify, whether building a gaming laptop is possible or not?
Many people say that you can buy the parts and the barebones laptop, then fit them in, but I can't find anything similar to buy, even on ebay for a decent price. I would also need the motherboard for that particular barebones laptop, which would then limit compatibility, which means I need a new barebones laptop that would have a new motherboard so it would have compatibility with the new hardware and so on and on. The more I get into it, the more I doubt that it's possible.
Buying a gaming laptop is a complete waste of money, I'd rather travel to france to skii for a month for the same 2 grand that I'd pay for a laptop. The price is just silly. I have built a gaming desktop for 1200 pounds with i7, 780gtx overclocked, watercooling, 8gb of dual channeled RAM, 64gb SSD and a 24" monitor = no sound, awesome graphics that would last at least a decade with maybe an upgrade to SLI if the games improve a lot.
2000 pounds for i7 and some mediocre video card is just completely dumb, I don't even need quad core processor to play most of the games and some stupid Windows 8 PRO for a 140pounds just makes it look completely ridiculous... Apparently, according to Alienware, a medium-range gaming laptop has i5 processor, 320gb of hdd space and 4 gb of ram, who the hell cares about some hard space or ram that I can buy for several pounds???? I bet I couldn't get a stable 100fps on Dishonored or AC4.
Let's buy an "ultrabook" (another stupid term made by advertisers for laptops that do nothing and cost thousands) with touch screen and the screen that flips! Would be a nice toy for a kid to play with, since it's useless for anything else apart from flipping the screen.
Sorry to make this into a rant, but I just had to get this off my shoulders Is it possible?
EDIT: Oh and I want a laptop, because I'm travelling a lot.
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