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Gaming Laptop that can run SWTOR high settings

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Discussion Gaming Laptop that can run SWTOR high settings

1. What is your budget?

Hopefully as little as I have to pay. Pref less than $1500.

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?

17in

3. What screen resolution do you want?

best

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?

SWTO on high.

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)

I guess the option to use this "toy" for after effects/PS and sony vegas would be nice.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?

N/A

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?

Don't need anything special.

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.

Pref not msi.

13. What country do you live in?

USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.

Pretty much will be used for gaming wirelessly. Dont have a desktop, so this thing will have to do it all.

Currently have a Sony Vaio i7, 8gb, Nvidia 310m. Useless for SWTOR.

I have looked at a Sagar NP8150

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index [...] _id=250264

an Asus G73SW

http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-g73sw [...] 75860.html

and an Alienware Mx17

http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-M17x-r3/pd.aspx.

Any way to get the higher vid cards in a $1200 range?

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834230142

This one has GTX570 but is MSI. Nothing wrong with MSI though http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834152295 .

Message edited by samuelspark on 01-25-2012 at 12:24:02 PM

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myztery wrote :

Any way to get the higher vid cards in a $1200 range?

Hello myztery;
Just barely - with compromises. You have 'pay to play' when you're talking about laptops.

From the THG article: Star Wars: The Old Republic: PC Performance, Benchmarked

Judging by the desktop video card performance we can expect that the GTX 560M equipped notebooks will perform just a bit below the GTX 550Ti / Radeon HD 5770. With the GTX 570M notebook graphics cards you get gaming performance just a bit above the same cards.
You have to step up to the GTX 580M or Radeon HD 6990M to get performance above the desktop GTX 460 / HD 6850.
Looking for HD 6970 performance? You need to be looking at HD 6970M CrossfireX notebooks.

For around $1120 you can get a FORCE 1761 17" notebook
The compromises? It's a MSI chassis and a dual core 5-2430M 2.4Ghz CPU with GTX 570M graphics.
Includes 8GB RAM, 640GB 5400rpm HDD, 17.3" 1920x1080 LCD and Win7 Home Premium.

And a bit over $1500 for a Radeon HD 6990M equipped Sager NP 8170