Laptop help

[Beef Supreme]

Looking for help on finding a laptop. The first time I bought one I just took the guys opinion at best buy. I know good idea. Anyways now that I've learned a little I'm still wanting some second opinions. It has to be a laptop though. I'm in the military so I take it every where. The one that's standing out the most is the new alienwear R3. The one that you can buy the amp for more of a desktop feel for when I'm home. I didn't know if anyone knew much about it or something better out there I should look into.
Thank you for any help.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Alienware is a total waste and double the price of what it should be.

Here, this should be all u ever need for USA Laptop buyer:
http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-gaming-laptops-ct-118-96-98.html#!/limit=100&no_cache=true&price=949.00%2C4999.00

[Cathulhu]

Alienware looks nice, but is rather meh on the inside. Alienware is look apple, all bling and shiny, but no real power inside and the price is rather high.

If it has to be a laptop you could take a look at the Asus Republic of Gamers models.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GS43VR-Phantom-Pro-006-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01IO9Y30G/

This is new generation laptop with GTX 1060 graphics card, GTX 1060, 1070, 1080 are dramatically better cards then GTX 960M, 970M, 980M that were so far used in laptops.
900 series laptop cards were much weaker then their desktop counterparts but the new 1000 series is basicly same as 1000 series desktop cards, only slightly weaker.
Also it's small size laptop so easy to carry around if you are in the military.

[Beef Supreme]

Thanks guys. Also one more question, I don't know much about any other brands besides alienwear and asus. I didn't know if there was a brand I should aim for. Thank you for all of the help.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, SAGER

Just get good specs in whatever you purchase:
- i7 MQ/HQ model CPU
- NVIDIA GPU; GTX 960M minimum
- 8 - 16 GB RAM
- SSD + HDD

If the laptop is too much w/ SSD; buy your own SSD (such as Samsung 850 EVO) later on and clone the HDD to that and then boot from your new SSD.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

ASUS and MSI are most known gaming laptop manufacturers.

[Beef Supreme]

Ok thank you guys for your time. Very helpful.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you wait a bit; look for the newer Laptops w/ GTX 1000 series GPUs.
They are now all full desktop GPUs in the newer laptops that offer them

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

If you wait a bit; look for the newer Laptops w/ GTX 1000 series GPUs.
They are now all full desktop GPUs in the newer laptops that offer them

MSI has GTX 1060 laptops already in stock at Amazon, no GTX 1070 and 1080 yet though.
But considering that GTX 1060 laptop card has basicly same performance as GTX 980 desktop graphics card then it wipes the floor with all the previous generation laptop graphics cards including the GTX 980M that was weaker then desktop GTX 980 anyway.

[pasa]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GS43VR-Phantom-Pro-006-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01IO9Y30G/

Looks really nice. But how they manage all the proper cooling for i7 + 1070? The nvidia pages list all kind of data except for TDP. the desktop version has 150W. With the 45 from i7HQ what keeps the notebook from melting down?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by pasa:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GS43VR-Phantom-Pro-006-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01IO9Y30G/

Looks really nice. But how they manage all the proper cooling for i7 + 1070? The nvidia pages list all kind of data except for TDP. the desktop version has 150W. With the 45 from i7HQ what keeps the notebook from melting down?

It's GTX 1060 not GTX 1070, 1060 is 120W.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Does it matter? a 980M is 150 watts; so is 1080 in Laptops.

So laptops w/ 1070 or 1080 will be roughly 180W TDP from AC Power

And in comparison, a 980M is very weak for GPU processing as previous Mobile GPUs were cut down; GTX 1000 are NOT CUT DOWN at all.

[pasa]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

It's GTX 1060 not GTX 1070, 1060 is 120W.

Yeah, I was looking at the 1070 one (which looks also released for laptops along with 1080).

!20 is still a huge figure. The laptop on the picture looks like a regular case, how does it work? And why do we bother with the massive heatsinks and big cases for desktop if it works fine?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

yes 1060, 1070 and 1080 are all out now for Laptop specs; but they are full specd/powered Desktop GPus now. All released on Aug 15/16

Here's the scoop on them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5TfJVSbVI

[Beef Supreme]

Ok guys I've narrowed it down to 2 laptops. One is an asus with gtx 1070 and a MSI gtx 1060 around a 300$ differents. Which one would be better.