Laptop ideas?

Ive been gaming on my work laptop for the last 4 years or so. AC is currently the only thing I play. I don't run full everything on the graphics, but it is smooth enough on all the stock AC content. Some of the mod tracks give me problems (Mid Ohio, Monaco) but not all of them. As my stuff is now 4 years old, I'd expect a current laptop to perform better. I built my machine off of Xoticpc.com with the intention to be able to run heavy duty engineering programs for work. Ive been very happy with it and would do it again. CPU is an i7 2630QM @ 2.0 Ghz, GPU is a GTX 560m, 8 GB ram. I always play with it plugged into an external 27" monitor and use a Fanatec CSW/BMW and Clubsport pedals.

All that said I am planning a desktop machine for when the consumer Oculus Rift comes out, solely for playing AC.

 

1500 is your budget? 750 for laptop and 750 for desktop should both be able to get high end specs. One suited well for your work and the desktop definatly good enough for AC (even very high settings)

 

I always see laptops as a dead end, when it goes out of date you just have to replace it.

 

http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/ Check out this site , might find some good info.

 

CLEVO if you know how to figure things out, it's the best choice

 

Why not?
My m18x runs Assetto flawlessly, max settings since day one.

 

because you pay for the name.

 

I suppose you do but you know your getting best of the best. That goes for build quality, performance and support.

 

http://www.dell.com/nl/p/alienware-14/pd?oc=n00aw441&model_id=alienware-14
http://www.alternate.nl/MSI/GE70-2PC-272NL-17-3-notebook/html/product/1144264?tk=6980&lk=6994

Of course I don't expect you to read dutch so here a small summary

Spoiler: comparison

Alienware/msi
Intel® Core™ i5-4210M / Intel® Core™ i7-4710HQ
14,0 inch 1.920 x 1.080 / 17.3 inch 1.920 x 1.080
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 750M 2GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 2GB
8 GB / 8192 MB
500 GB 5.400 rpm hybrid SSD / 1000 GB 7200 RPM

Now unless that GTX is worse than the GT, I know which one I would choose.

Now, I did just pick a random price class, so maybe at other price classes it may be different.

 

MSI is great as far as build quality and reliability goes w/o price shooting into stratosphere.
Take a look at the new GT-72 Dominator
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT72-2PE-Dominator-Pro.html#hero-overview
If you can, wait a little bit for their refresh with Maxwell GPUs.
I have MSI GS70 Dragon, it does the job with AC, forget about PP effects though, but will go for desktop next time, not sure if it will handle Project Cars eye candy.

Any recommendations on good gaming desktop. How IBuyPower fares, they seem to be quite budgety.

 

So according to tclf i can buy a desktop that can run ac on high for 750 euro's? Show me where

 

build it yourself is the answer. otherwise you'll get some throw away stuff in it. The CPU and GPU are the most expensive parts, so build it around those components. In the end you will be able to find a balanced config and build a machine (def with the new nvidea out) that can run it on almost the highest settings. At least it will be better than a 1500 euro laptop

 

Of course! You could do it with significantly less I'd say. If you buy an i5 and a R9 280 (for example) and build your PC around that you don't hacve to spend more than 700€. That would run AC perfectly!

 

Okay guys, what do you think about this?

CPU: Intel i7 4770 4-Core (8 threads) 3.4GHz (turbo 3.9Ghz) socket 1150 8MB cache 84 watt retail
Motherboard: AsRock B85 Killer series socket 1150 PCIe3 USB 3.0 Sata3
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5
Memory: 32GB DDR3 G.Skill (4x8GB)
SSD: 120GB SATAIII V300
HDD: 2TB Toshiba 7200 64mb
Coolermaster 700 watt
Windows 8.1 64

Anyone know about the GTX970?

 

from what I've heard it's a very good card. On par, if not better, than a titan. I have no experience nor have read any reviews of people who used it though.

 

You don't need 32GB RAM, downgrade to 16GB.

 

Well, what is it for? Just for AC? Then it's overkill.

 

This is good, is not overkill for AC or any new 2014/2015 game. Overkill just the 32gb ram, 16 is very good, even for the gaming future (maybe up to 3 years from now). You want 32gb ram to run virtual machines, work with CAD or Maya etc..? Gaming nowadays only needs 8gb, and 16gb as future proof, 32 for gaming only maybe in 10 years

 

Can anyone recommend a good, budget PC builder in US. Seems like ibuypower and cyberpower are not very reliable and pack cheap components with poor assembly, support is nightmare as well.
I've been looking at xoticpc, are their custom desktops worth the price?
I have laptop from them, so as a build quality and support go they've been pretty solid and reliable so far.

 

When it comes to components they're pretty much the top notch stuff, the way how they've laid out all the stuff to put into a PC is a nightmare, I'm not gonna mention support because I haven't had any needs for it, but shipping looks horrible.