Looking for help on a gaming laptop please?

[kinkladze10]

Hoping to find some help on the sweet spot of cost v spec.

I know a 4080 GPU and i9 is a lot but wondering what I could get for around £1000 £1500?

Would like to play all decent games at a good setting and also plug in to my 85” 4k tv for couch gaming too.

Hoping to find one that doesn’t have fans screaming under load as well.

Screen size 15/17” is fine

Thanks

[MrJim]

I just had a quick look over on HUKD, & this seems like quite a good deal in the middle of your price range, although the offer expires just before midnight tonight, I believe:

https://www.very.co.uk/acer-predator...utm_content=na

Here's another one which is only a bit more money but better spec'd:

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/lapto...m_campaign=BAU

You can see the full list on Hukd here:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/search?q=gaming%20laptop

[Kanoe]

I guess the other thing that is very annoying for these GPUs is to pay close attention to the GPU max power they are allowed in the design as for the same GPU there are several different configured power draws for the same GPU SKU that will affect performance.

There are some 4080 "gaming" laptops out there that limit the GPU to 65w which means it performs at the same level to a mobile 4050 and is therefore a waste of money.

They have made it easy for customers to get ripped off for this generation of mobile GPUs.

[ik9000]

i wouldn't buy anything with a 13th or 14th gen intel processor in it given the current shambles going on with those burning themselves out.

[Dreaming]

Do you have a desktop gaming rig?

I would seriously consider steam streaming if so, I currently do that with my lenovo legion 7, streaming from ryzen 3600 / amd 6800 system and it's an awesome experience.

Even modest gaming on my relatively high end gaming laptop does cause the fans to spin up.

[Saracen999]

That. Very much that.

I think nVidia play a bit fast and loose with naming and marketing, and at the very least, lead to consumer expectations being misleading.

Theree are gaming laptops with power limits much higher than others and higher-end GPUs but they will be very expensive, pretty large (comparatively), and there's no getting round the fact that the higher the GPU power limit, the more noise fans are going to make. Yeah, there are coolers that are better than others but even so ....

My 'gaming' laptop is a couple of years old now, and wasn't bought solely (or primarily) for gaming. It's a Ryzen 9 (5900HS) and a 'mobile' 3080. It can certainly be clearly heard under load .... but Ive heard much worse.

One thing to bear in mind is that while their might (or might not) be some configurability after purchase (like RAM or SSD upgrades or increases), there also might not be. And you do tend to find other aspects of spec are only found on the higher models, with the obvious example being the screen. You want the best screen, it's usually going to be on the models with most memory, top-end GPU and so forth. And you sure pay for it.

In my case though, the purchase was predicated on video editing workloads more than gaming, and I wanted as powerful a CPU as I could get, a chunky GPU for encoding speed, a decent size/speed SSD and a nice screen. I got a great keyboard, very good build qualty and overall great spec because my needs drove me to a high end model.

BUT .... I timed it carefully. I bought the high end of the current range just as a new generation were being released, and I managed to find a very substantial (like about a grand) discount, due to what I assume was stock-clearing sales.

I'm not familiar enough with current models to offer specific advice though, but I sure would echo the bit about dodging any Intel 13th/14th Gen CPU that even MIGHT be affected by the current woes. For me, personally, I'd only be cnsidering AMD right now but if you do that, be VERY careful to check out the changes to their CPU naming conventions. AMD aren't, it seems, above being a bit misleading, too. Model numbers do not, it seems, mean what you might think. Steve at GN gave it his usual cynical treatment.