I've been trying to find a custom laptop for gaming online, but there's too many brands to consider even with the limited range of specs that I'm looking for.

I'm trying to find a laptop that costs under 1400USD, and has minimum specs of

Intel i7-4700MQ
GTX 860M 2GB
1x8GB DDRL3
Preferably with a 2x2 AC Wireless
I don't care too much for the display type and hard drive.

Please suggest a company that delivers to Australia or Malaysia as I live there. I think that I might be desperate enough to buy something off ebay or amazon soon :(
Thanks in advance, here's a GA >http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NDqQe/frozen-synapse

tl;dr Buying laptop for AC Unity

Edit: Laptop is meant to be my pc for hopefully 7 years. I'm studying physics/computer science at uni and I don't think I'd like to drag my tank of a desktop across the world for work/study or even down to the lecture hall just to make a powerpoint presentation

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I've heard that AC Unity doesn't even run properly on the beast of TotalBiscuit (Intel Core i7-5930K and double Nvidia Geforce GTX 980)

source

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Somewhere out there, there's a website detailing all of the issues in acu, and I'm pretty sure lag is one of them. "Go offline to reduce lag"

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TB plays games on his desktop, on a same specs laptop it should run poorer, but they might have fixed something with patches, idk.

Also not filming it might help run it somewhat better. Though there are a bunch of bugs not related to performance which could impact your experience

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I can only repeat what I have found on the internet. I don't own a copy of AC Unity nor can my laptop handle it. (I have a GT 630m GPU)

Perhaps a disclaimer that you shouldn't believe anything I say is warranted.

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TB did run it on full ultra, for me high or even medium graphics would suffice

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He ran it on high, ultra ran too poorly for him as far as i remember, though i didn't see much difference in framerate on 30 fps youtube

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1st tip:
Don't buy a laptop for gaming. It's stupid.

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Why not? A laptop for gaming is meant to be powerful, so I can play games and use it for studies (physics and computer science at uni)

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If you don't mean to play games at College and can get a desktop I'd suggest getting a desktop for home and a laptop or a tablet while you are at classes or something, I'm not sure how University works at Australia, Malaysia or wherever exactly you live and if you have a roommate, a campus home or your own private home with your family.

A laptop can never be as powerful as a desktop and even for similar performance you will have to pay much, much, much more. Laptops have handicapped components so they are cooler and require less power but it shows a lot on the performance side

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It's portable so I can bring it into classes as well, do my notes, run my simulations etc, but if I got a desktop I'll have to get monitors and speakers and the sort

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The worst thing is you'd probably be able to get a desktop pc, a monitor and a cheap laptop for a similar price/performance as a gaming laptop :D

If you need to run performance heavy simulations in classes but have no access to college computer a better laptop might sadly be your only choice

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+1

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dont buy one

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This. I know a lot of people who have a so called "gaming laptop" (this is an oxymoron, by the way) and not a single one of them doesn't regret it.

Just don't. It may seem to be powerful but in reality games will run worse than on a PC you could buy for half of its price.

Once again: don't.

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I love my gaming laptop (MSi Dominator Pro GT70PE)

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gaming

laptop

The toppest kek right there.

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Firstly AC Unity has major issues, so it will be awhile before patches come out for it, whether that be official or unofficial. Also apparently the people at Ubisoft decided to fix the issues with the micro-transactions of the game before performance.... ROFL...

Anyway as people have said a Desktop will always be the best price to performance for a computer, you could easily get a computer running a GTX 970 with that budget of $1400, which will play anything at 1080p at ultra (other than Unity).

But I for one understand the need for a laptop as well, I have a gaming desktop as well though. I am actually in the process of buying a new gaming laptop and it is going to set me back $2000 (AUD) for a laptop with a GTX 970M. For the same performance a desktop would cost about ~$1200 (AUD).

Check out Metabox laptops in Australia, seems to be the best value for performance.

BTW I'm currently in Australia as well, and am a university student :D

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Don't you somewhat even out the differences when you consider that the laptop has built in wifi, probably FHD or higher monitor, camera, mic, speakers,keyboard, casing, and the sort? I'm hoping that the laptop can last me for around 7 years, where I can bring it around the world in my field of study/work

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Laptop
FHD screen

And you're gonna drag a car battery with you?

And no, it will not last 7 years. It's gonna be cheap low quality plastic crap that will last three years, excluding the battery. Gaming laptops are a sham. Get a desktop and a netbook or something for taking notes and presentations, if your college has you buy an expensive laptop because they can't offer you running your simulations in class on their hardware, go somewhere else?

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Don't mid to high end laptops have at least FHD these days? I travel a lot and I'm looking for a laptop that can travel with me, not some gaming desktop that I can only play on for 1-2 hours on weekday nights

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1080p is the standard these days, it use to be 1366 x 768.

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They often do, but rarely have a fitting battery.

Also, I think you overstate the quality of mobile gaming. You're still limited to places with a table and a power outlet, you'll still need a rest for your hand and mouse and since wifi sucks for gaming, ethernet access. How mobile are you gonna be like that?

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Well most people that get gaming desktops will want to be playing off Ethernet if possible, but yes WiFi is a great help for portability.

A 1080p monitor for a 15.6 inch laptop is heaps. 3K and 4K displays on laptops are a waste unless you are going to have your eyes planted on the display the whole time. Also look out for IPS displays, as in my opinion they are much better suited as a laptop display then TN displays.

I don't find much use for a camera on any computer system really, but if you are going to video-call, then yes laptops have them built in. Even though they are horrible quality most the time. Same goes for Mic.

Speakers are good when you are alone, but these days having headphones are what I use, in public or alone.

Built in keyboards are nice, specially if backlit, though I would recommend you to buy a mouse. Trackpads can get annoying after an hour and are a no go for gaming.

I doubt any computer system can last for around 7 years, it just depends if you are going to update it every now and then or what your hopes are for that lifespan.

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I've been using a windows xp to game on for around 10 years with 512mb of ram, so I think I'll have the patience to drag out the lifespan of my next laptop

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Not to surprised at the fact that it's Windows XP, but 512mb ram wow ok then.

Anyways what size would you like the laptop? 15 or 17 inch. If you go much smaller there are less chances you will get a decent gpu.

I might be able to recommend something from Australia as I live here, and have done a bit of research myself lately. So it's a budget of 1600 AUD (1400 USD)?

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Preferably 15 inches for portability, though I'm willing to sacrifice that for a bigger/smaller screen for gpu power/lower price. And yea, should be around 1600AUD

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Well having a look you can get the min specs you wanted for around $1300-1400 AUD, but it will not play games that great, as its limited by the 860M card. Check out this site, mid way down for fps results on different settings. http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-860M.107794.0.html

Whereas if you willing to save up around ~$250 (on top of the $1600 budget) you could get a laptop with a GTX 970 that can play most of the latest games at 50fps ultra, so it should manage Unity when it gets fixed, if it gets fixed.

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you can build your own laptop there, www.originpc.com

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Seriously over-priced for what you get.
Also the minimum spec system is over his budget.
Also the fact that it doesn't deliver to where he lives.

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Considering that I have been "gaming" on a mac for 5 years (school loan), I just want 60fps in my game (or however high my monitor supports)

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Since you know what you want, just get it custom built. Can't really find you a good website to look at since google shows me the UK ones even if I try to search for one in Australia or Malaysia. They usually end up being cheaper than the store bought ones too.

But truthfully, buying a gaming laptop is a really bad idea. They will cost you at least $400 more than a desktop with the same specs and then you will also need to get something for extra cooling and such because they overheat way too easily and since everything is packed into such a small place, there's not enough cooling for everything.

The way I do it personally is I just have a gaming desktop at home for actually playing games and then I have some cheap used laptop for uni which still runs word, photoshop and can use for browsing.

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"Gaming" laptop is much more expensive than gaming desktop, yet you're going to get performance of a crippled gaming desktop at best. It's not worth it.

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TOSHIBA all the way.

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They will burn your cock off if you are not careful.

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Best tip anyone can give you is to NOT buy a gaming laptop. Anyone that says otherwise is WRONG.

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If you can, go for a Desktop.

However if you want a gaming Laptop, one thing that you need to consider heavily is build quality. A lot of modern laptops have frankly diabolical build quality and suffer from insane overheating issues due to bad fan placement and vents. You may be able to cram a fair bit of good tech for a $1,400 laptop but I am not confident you will get a good enough build quality.

tl;dr No point getting a "gaming" laptop if it's just going to shut itself down due to overheating issues.

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At what point do laptops usually overheat? I've been using a mac for 5 years and my cpu usually goes up to around 101º at the most. The only limits I'm aware of right now is overclocking, and I believe that physics simulations tend to be more cpu intensive than gpu intensive

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Well with a gaming laptop these days, I would recommend that the CPU doesn't go over at least 85C and the GPU around the same, but that all changes with what conditions you are playing in.

For a CPU to be at 101C, is quite bad for it and can degrade it's lifetime quite a bit.

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I have my Asus G750jz woth GeForce Gtx 880m. I can run Watch Dogs, Crysis 3 on Ultra setting. Yeas, it is heavy laptop (4kg), but with the backpack it is not problem to take it to university. It is very silent and cold, since it have optimus you can use it for about 6.5 hour on wifi and web surfing only. If you want something not that heavy you can buy MSI ghost pro or something. If you don't care about size you can buy new Asus G751 with the GeForce 980m which is 60% more powerfull than 880m. There are also few good MSI, or Clevo laptops for the same size.

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How hot do asus laptops get and what kind of cooling systems do they use? I know that there's an option to have IC diamond thermal compound with sager laptops

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While playing Watch Dogs or Crysis 3 after few hours of playing on Ulta, temperature gets to around 70/80 which depends on temperature at houme. It has dual fan colling, very silent and cold, this laptop have possibility to be overclocked. Thermal paste is different in different country and shops but it is usually good one. The only problem with that laptop is that it weight's 4 kg and that it is quite expensive. When i benchmarked my laptop it got around 72 degrees.

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For the same price as a 'gaming' laptop, you can build a good gaming pc, get all the accessories and still get a budget laptop to use at university to take notes and do assignments during class.

Gaming laptops run hot, you are going to annoy the shit out of your classmates when they have to hear your laptop fans running full blast all the time. Not to mention the thing will weigh a ton, which means lugging around extra weight every day. Battery life will suck. And last but not least, you will pretty much have to buy the extended warranty and "drops and spills" warranty if offered, because the thing will cost so much to repair/replace.

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Not all the laptops are noisy. My Asus G750 since it have dual fans, doesn't make noises and doesn't achieve temperature higher than 75 even when playing Watch Dogs on Ultra which 40 Fps.

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A lot of misinformation is here, obviously you either hate gaming laptops or you have never had one.

Gaming laptop can run hot, but only after a few hours of gaming with a heavy duty game load. There is no way a laptop will sound loud or be hot if you are browsing the web or writing documents.

Gaming laptops can easily be less than 2.5kg, which is like nothing if you have a decent bag to carry it around in. Battery life can last for over 3-4 hours if just web browsing or using Microsoft Word or such. Of course if you start playing games it's going to go down faster, but at that point he will probably be near a power point.

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Or he just has outdated information.
I own an Asus G51VX-rx05. It's heavy and loud. It's also heating so I have to clean it a lot. It's a real pain, because without removing the whole cooling system I can't really clean the fan, so every time I clean it I have to reapply thermal paste on the GPU and the CPU as their cooling systems can't be separated. Even freshly cleaned the temperature of the GPU is around 80 °C and under heavy usage it goes over 100. But I have to clean it, otherwise it'll go over 107°C, where it shuts itself down.
But I have to say that it's a 5 years old model, recently released gaming laptops barely have any of these issues.

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Since i have Asus G750 my information can't be outdated. Your Asus G51VX-rx05 is not Asus G750 which has dual fan and is just few month old.

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I did not mean you, I meant travathian.
But if you check again I replied to a post that was a reply to his post ;)

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Don't buy laptop, buy desktop. My brother agrees, because he has a laptop.

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I have laptop and i dissagrees, OP need to take it to university and across the world, i did knew guy that taked the deskopt to university, it looked ridiculously.

The new GTX 980M has the power of 75% of the best deskopt, but it is damn expensive.
Deskopt = Only home, cheaper.
Laptop = Everywhere when you desire, cost more.

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I have to agree, sure laptops are more expansive and may be a tad less powerful (though that is changing). The one main advantage is their portability.

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Sure gaming laptops are for university, well at least he can decently play games, because I see most of ppl in university with not powerful laptops only playing indie games.

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There is also BM P751ZM GAMING which is good too.

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Asus G551JM

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Take gtx 900 series. 800 Pc series are 60% stronger then on laptop. The new series is only 20% stronger!

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Don't do that, ever, if any i can sell you my GT783 with faulty graphics :P

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I can only recommend MSI laptops if you are looking for gaming laptops, the rest are seriously overpriced (especially Alienware).

Give extra care to your laptop and it will last you years, my MSI GE60 is 2.5 years now and it is still running superbly. Any laptop worse enemy is heat (even more if gaming one), so simply ensure the heat vent not blocked, and \use some sort of laptop base, don't just put your laptop directly on your sofa or your bed, sure it will break fast.

Research the MSI G series and find one suit your budget/specs.

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MSI are really overheating and throttling and new Asus g751 or g750 are cheaper than MSI which the same or even better specs. But yeah, MSI are good too, they just need some cooling stand. If you want to buy MSI buy MSI ghost pro, which weight little more than 2kg.

Also Clevo are good for game & bussines.
BM P751ZM GAMING has the best laptop cooling ever made.

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MSI and ASUS both make great laptops, but after the research I've done lately to get my own in Australia, they are overpriced most the time. Or at least not available yet, with new releases.

Metabox, which I suggested beforehand are rebranded Clevo, which seems to be getting great reviews from Australians, saying that the build quality is great. The one I'm looking at is a 2.5kg laptop, while I have a Toshiba one currently weighing at 2.6kg.

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Speaking of Clevo reminded me of Sager.

OP can also try researching Sager laptops, afaik they are very customizable so you can easily design/find one that suits your needs. They are usually bulky though.

Sadly to get the best value in laptops you usually must buy it from the US. Usually by having someone buy it for you and carry it personally to your country (some online sites specifically offering this kind of service, for a fee of course). Prices after reaching SE Asia or Australia can be like 200-300 USD more expensive due to taxes and whatsnot.

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Speaking of a fee to get a laptop from overseas into Australia. When I first started looking for a laptop for myself, I was like ok let's see the import price for a Digital Storm laptop. On their site it just says at there is a fee and to email them for a quote. So I asked for a quote on a 15.6 inch laptop and they said the shipping fee would start at $800. I was like.... Ok goodbye lol

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I have a tip for buying a gaming laptop. Don't do it.

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Seriously wish some people would get over the recommendation of not buying a gaming laptop. There are cases that people should get a desktop instead of a laptop, and this isn't one.....

There are many reasons that people may just want a powerful laptop instead of a desktop.

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At least you could say why you think not to buy gaming laptop. Otherwise it is just hating.

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Get a desktop if You don't need to carry Your computer around that much :)

Pros

  • You get more for Your money.

  • Easier to clean.

  • Easier to upgrade.


Cons

  • Not portable.
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Than one con just bulldozed all the pros away considering that I travel a fair bit

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http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-gaming-laptops-ct-118_96_98.html

A couple of the laptops offered there have a 970m for around your budget, $1400 USD, though you might have to pay more than that for international shipping. A 980m will run you around $1800 USD and 2x 970m SLI will go to around $2000 USD. There's a lot of different options though so look it over and customize to your heart's content.

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Fucking hell, I was typing an extra long post, and I hit the "back" button on my browser by mistake. UGH.
Not retyping it, but here's a TL;DR:

For gaming, go with a desktop if you can, since you can easily upgrade it.
For light gaming, everyday use and work, go with a laptop as it is easy to move around.

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FWIW, when I was looking for a laptop that would be good for gaming about ~1.5 years ago, I heard that Sager and MSI were probably the best choices. I went with an MSI from a seller that would customize it for me (XOTIC PC, if you're wondering), and it's been great so far. Its default configuration sold for around $1350 give or take IIRC, but my changes bumped it up to around $1900 I think. I'm guessing you could get a newer model Sager or MSI that should have the specs you listed for about your price limit if you look around a bit. Good luck!

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