Gaming laptops?

Achtung!Baby

Achtung!Baby

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I seriously want a laptop and there's no use in me spending money on both a laptop and a new PC, since mine is ancient. So I need advice for a laptop that will play games. I'm not looking for something that will play games yet to be released. I just want to play The Witcher 2 (even if I must turn down the graphics) and older games. My bugdet is below R10 000. Actually it's below R8000. Maybe even below R7000 if that's possible. I know nothing about specs and I'm clueless should it have a graphics card or not.

Any advice?
 
I would strongly, no strongly, no STRONGLY.. STRONGLY recommend that you rather get a desktop if your budget is below 7k and you want to game. You will be able to get a decent desktop for gaming, but you won't be able to get a decent notebook for gaming at that price. Sorry.
 
Jip im with Wyzak here... if your budget is 7k rather get the desktop. otherwise your gonna have to save more as i think you will need about 12k for a decent-ish gaming laptop.
 
Achtung!Baby said:
That's grim :/ Okay what if I want a laptop that can play, lets say Mass Effect 1?
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Dont think there is any laptops for that price without having an onboard graphics, but if the onboard graphics can run it fine it should work.

Only once I had GMA graphics card onboard and it ran all the games on low/medium.

You should look at the Lenovo range you may be able to get a good graphics card on it for under R10k

http://www.nivo.co.za/c/computers/notebooks/lenovo/sort.by~price

Lenovo IdeaPad Z Series Z570 for R7319.01 with good graphics card NVIDIA Geforce GT520M 1GB Graphics
http://www.nivo.co.za/#buy~lenovo.i...ebook.computer.59311801.gun.metal.grey~p31195

Lenovo IdeaPad Z Series Z570 for R7999.99 with good graphics card NVIDIA Geforce GT520M 1GB Graphics
http://www.incredible.co.za/ProductDescription.aspx?SKU=80198
 
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If the laptop is going to cost me R8000 I might as well buy a R4000/5000 one and an xbox so I can play The Witcher 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction. Think I'll just do that :/ Thanks guys. Think I've got my solution.
 
Yeah rather go down that path then... GLWS @ Achtung!Baby

You know what I can always try and find nice prices for you in PMB! WE could even go look for it together, would save you a lot of pain in the end of the day.
 
all current intel laptops i3/i5/i7's have the HD graphics intergrated on the cpu and the performance is roughly equivalent to an Radeon 5450 desktop gpu's imo.
 
From what I've seen a R7000.00 laptop can only do what a R3000.00 desktop can do. Office work.
It is flippin unfortunate.
 
Ichigo is right... if you look in the right places you can find some epic laptops that'll play most games fine.
 
I own a HP Pavillion dv6 which plays games fantastically. Then again, it did cost R12 000. That said, it has better specs than the entry-level Alienware going for R20 000. I've had it for a year and a half and it has yet to disappoint.

At the moment I'm playing Dead Space 2 on mine with all graphic specs set to high and it runs without any glitchiness or drop in frame rate. These mythical gaming laptops do exist! And not all will cost you an arm and a leg.
 
Achtung!Baby said:
If the laptop is going to cost me R8000 I might as well buy a R4000/5000 one and an xbox so I can play The Witcher 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction. Think I'll just do that :/ Thanks guys. Think I've got my solution.
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Even for R5000 you should be looking at going Core i5 laptop, which will handle some older games fairly well, not really Witcher 2 but definitely games from 2010 to early 2011.
 
Dohc-WP said:
all current intel laptops i3/i5/i7's have the HD graphics intergrated on the cpu and the performance is roughly equivalent to an Radeon 5450 desktop gpu's imo.
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I actually saw a decently priced laptop today for R6500. Was a Sony Vaio, intel core i3, nvidia geforce GT410M graphics card. 3 GB Ram. What do you guys think?
 
Achtung!Baby said:
I actually saw a decently priced laptop today for R6500. Was a Sony Vaio, intel core i3, nvidia geforce GT410M graphics card. 3 GB Ram. What do you guys think?
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Zones usually have those for around R4000 and for R5000 you can buy something with a much better graphics card. The reality is that this is a mobile system, so everything is underclocked in a way to save on power consumption. So the core i3 in a laptop would be mediocre.
 
Yesterday I played around with a Mecer "gaming" laptop (R6800). Not sure the model, but it had an i5 2nd gen, 4gb mem, 500gb hdd, and a 540M gfx card. It played MW3 maxed, BF3 (not sure the settings), Crysis 2. I know its not much info but I was impressed.
 
axon1988 said:
Zones usually have those for around R4000 and for R5000 you can buy something with a much better graphics card. The reality is that this is a mobile system, so everything is underclocked in a way to save on power consumption. So the core i3 in a laptop would be mediocre.
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I'm fine with mediocre. If it plays older games even with graphics turned down. I'm not going to be using it mainly for gaming. I just want to be able to play the games I already own. If it can play new games great if not it's not a train smash.

DeaDm0nkeY said:
Yesterday I played around with a Mecer "gaming" laptop (R6800). Not sure the model, but it had an i5 2nd gen, 4gb mem, 500gb hdd, and a 540M gfx card. It played MW3 maxed, BF3 (not sure the settings), Crysis 2. I know its not much info but I was impressed.
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Thanks, I'll look around a bit more. See what I can find. This town doesn't have many options.
 
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