Help with Gaming Laptop in UK please!

[captainsazzman 83]

Hello can anyone help me with finding a new gaming laptop pretty please? Kyle?Ryan Maziarz? There are thousands  of you and I know we have some PC geniuses amoung us!

 

Hello there guys, My birthday is coming up and Im in the market for a new *gaming laptop 15 inch* and I hope you can offer some expertise. Im in London and im stuck between getting the new  alienware 15, the cyber power pc 15 or the

pc-specialist 15 inch http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/octane-15/

 

Im gonna use - and + to share my thoughts so far, please feel free to recommend options, forget the price for now, I just need help seeing whats out there (Remember Im in the UK)

 

I need help finding beast processor (up to 4ghz w/boost), best gpu (nvidia gtx 980m or higher) and monster screen (4K resolution). So far, alienware fails with a processor only maxing at 3.5ghz with boost and is (-)the most expensive option (+)BUT it has a 4K screen but then again (-) their nvida gtx 980m is only 4GB (Ive seen 8 GB models out there) but (+) their graphics amplifier looks nice. Warranty up to three years (for extra amount) ~ £2,850 for what I want

 

 

Cyber power PC has all I want in terms of CPU and GPU but fails in terms of screen resolution. They have a standard 1080p when What I want is 4K. Also their support seems pretty poor only offering a 1 year warranty (for all that money) and asking me to pay for laptop insurance from a thrid party company against theft/accidents/fire. ~£2,765 for what I want

https://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/Xplorer_Xtreme_X5_Gaming_Laptop

 

 

Pc specialist so far is looking like the best option satisfying my CPU requirements, GPU requirements AND a 4K screen. Also, they include a 3 year warrant already with the price but you can pay a bit more for "premium support". Out of all three, this is the most affordable too. The only drawback I can see here is that I have never heard of them until today and their exterior seems quite plain but at least there is a multi coloured backlit keyboard.Please not I also picked an antivirus, office student and two hard drives (1 TB SATA) and 240 SSD.   ~£2,573 for what I want

 

 

 

Any thoughts? Also please remember 15.6 inches only and a company that ships affordably to the UK
I am very mobile so a desktop is out of the question

The reason why I want all that power is because I barely come in contact with consoles becaus of my mobility and I do everything on my PC for once Im willing to pay a bit more to make running games/applications a piece of cake


Thanks


Valesius Faulkner

 

 

 

 

 

[misterit 0]

In Germany there is one who specialised on FSX.
Sorry is german website but check out the hardware configuration then maybe you get a idea.

http://www.mifcom.de/72/fsx-pc-special-edition.html

[captainsazzman 83]

In Germany there is one who specialised on FSX.

Sorry is german website but check out the hardware configuration then maybe you get a idea.

 

http://www.mifcom.de/72/fsx-pc-special-edition.html

Thanks buddy!

[PMDG777 231]

Go to the hardware forums. This is the PMDG support forums.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/forum/326-mobo-ram-cpus-other-hardware/

 

As a hint, you'll never play FSX on a laptop at 4K.

[captainsazzman 83]

Go to the hardware forums. This is the PMDG support forums.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/forum/326-mobo-ram-cpus-other-hardware/

 

As a hint, you'll never play FSX on a laptop at 4K.

I use Prepa3d most of the time anyway tho thanks

[PMDG777 231]

I use Prepa3d most of the time anyway tho thanks

Either way you'll still never run it at 4K.

[captainsazzman 83]

Either way you'll still never run it at 4K.

 

Remember Im considering this as an investment for minimum 4 years but as  for as long as I can keep it alive. Although not many games are optimised for 4K NOW, there is a growing number of games that are and will support it. Remember back when people laughed at the idea of a 3.0 ghz laptop, saying its stupid? Well we got 4.0 ghz and some machines out there are so powerful they  are basically folding desktops

 

Now, my thoughts are divided on these:

4K ?(I know its still young, but I need something to challenge apple's retina

 

16 VS 32 GB?:   32gb is within my budget but is it worth it? I dont want to pay for something i will nerver need, not even in the future

 

2MSata SSD drives vs just one? (I can afford a single 500GB 200 SSD OR a double setup with one lower end 120gb and another lower end 240gb

 

 

Cooling pad? it costs £26 pounds extra I have had serious heating issues with my current dell insporon 15r se

 

thoughts?

[PMDG777 231]

Remember Im considering this as an investment for minimum 4 years but as  for as long as I can keep it alive. Although not many games are optimised for 4K NOW, there is a growing number of games that are and will support it. Remember back when people laughed at the idea of a 3.0 ghz laptop, saying its stupid? Well we got 4.0 ghz and some machines out there are so powerful they  are basically folding desktops

 

Now, my thoughts are divided on these:

4K ?(I know its still young, but I need something to challenge apple's retina

 

16 VS 32 GB?:   32gb is within my budget but is it worth it? I dont want to pay for something i will nerver need, not even in the future

 

2MSata SSD drives vs just one? (I can afford a single 500GB 200 SSD OR a double setup with one lower end 120gb and another lower end 240gb

 

 

Cooling pad? it costs £26 pounds extra I have had serious heating issues with my current dell insporon 15r se

 

thoughts?

Doesn't matter FSX and P3D are based off a 9 year old platform that is terribly optimised. If the latest games can't be run in 4K, there is practically zero chance a 9 year old game will. Unless LM make extreme changes to P3D (like 64 bit but nothing guarantees this will be the major fix), even a GTX Titan Black would struggle with FSX on 4K.

 

As I said before, for hardware advice go to the hardware forums (that's what they're for), not a developers support forums.

[captainsazzman 83]

Doesn't matter FSX and P3D are based off a 9 year old platform that is terribly optimised. If the latest games can't be run in 4K, there is practically zero chance a 9 year old game will. Unless LM make extreme changes to P3D (like 64 bit but nothing guarantees this will be the major fix), even a GTX Titan Black would struggle with FSX on 4K.

 

As I said before, for hardware advice go to the hardware forums (that's what they're for), not a developers support forums.

Ok I did some asking and called a developer friend and was recommended to invest in 4K as in 2+ years it will be as mainstream as DVD. Anyway I posted on hardware forum, now we wait... I just gotta decide on 16gb or 32gb ram next

[PMDG777 231]

Ok I did some asking and called a developer friend and was recommended to invest in 4K as in 2+ years it will be as mainstream as DVD. Anyway I posted on hardware forum, now we wait... I just gotta decide on 16gb or 32gb ram next

If you're using it solely for P3D or FSX, don't bother with 4K, extra money for no use. If you're going to play a lot of other games and keep up with the latest games, then the choice is yours. 16GB of RAM is more than enough. Unless you're doing hardcore video/photo editing and running heaps of applications, 32GB will be pointless.

[nugat 1]

I hear what you're saying about 4k resolution, sure it's nice and will become more popular in the following years. However I don't think any laptop that you can buy today will be capable of running current games in 4k let alone games that will release in 2 years.

 

To get 4k running smoothly (>30fps) on a desktop machine requires some serious clout, you'd need to be running two GTX 980 cards (or AMD equivalent). No laptop graphics chip compete with one GTX 980 let alone two.

 

4k really comes into its own on larger screens, I question whether you'd see much benefit over 1080p on a relatively small 15" laptop screen. Unless you have a need for 4k outside of gaming e.g image editing, I'd save some money and go for a good quailty 1080p screen.

[PMDG777 231]

I hear what you're saying about 4k resolution, sure it's nice and will become more popular in the following years. However I don't think any laptop that you can buy today will be capable of running current games in 4k let alone games that will release in 2 years.

 

To get 4k running smoothly (>30fps) on a desktop machine requires some serious clout, you'd need to be running two GTX 980 cards (or AMD equivalent). No laptop graphics chip compete with one GTX 980 let alone two.

 

4k really comes into its own on larger screens, I question whether you'd see much benefit over 1080p on a relatively small 15" laptop screen. Unless you have a need for 4k outside of gaming e.g image editing, I'd save some money and go for a good quailty 1080p screen.

Not to mention the latency on some 4K screens is crazy. Only the ridiculously expensive monitors (external) have 4K + good gaming latency. I doubt any laptop monitor would have low latency.

[srcraig 6]

Try looking at www.scan.co.uk, plenty of choice there.

[captainsazzman 83]

Not to mention the latency on some 4K screens is crazy. Only the ridiculously expensive monitors (external) have 4K + good gaming latency. I doubt any laptop monitor would have low latency.

Good news gettin 4k now (yes!) but will obviously run most games at 1080 -3k but i have an external gpu dock lined up will just hook it to my laptop later when i'll need to

[PMDG777 231]

Good news gettin 4k now (yes!) but will obviously run most games at 1080 -3k but i have an external gpu dock lined up will just hook it to my laptop later when i'll need to

What do you mean by external gpu dock?