[AlanHell]

love your keyboard!!!!

 

[SkitZ0]

Do laptops count?  I'm currently running an AMD A8 3500M (HD Radeon 6620G integrated.....somehow it plays Planetside 2 @ 768p) with 8GB of RAM and a 640GB HDD........aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's aging.  Fast.  So I'm looking to upgrade to the Asus G750JZ.

 

[zennoukinkai]

  Do laptops count?  I'm currently running an AMD A8 3500M (HD Radeon 6620G integrated.....somehow it plays Planetside 2 @ 768p) with 8GB of RAM and a 640GB HDD........aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's aging.  Fast.  So I'm looking to upgrade to the Asus G750JZ.

If your laptop is ageing I would suggest you look into a desktop as they are more powerful... much more especially for the same price. Keep the current laptop for light gaming on the go and other work related things. Either way its a win win imho.

 

[whitedragon551]

Just built a computer from parts in our bone yard for my dad since he is still using the PC from 15 years ago when I was in middle school.
 
Dell Precision T3400 chassis, 4Gbs of RAM, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.6Ghz Quad core CPU, Nvidia Quadro  1700FX GPU as main, Nvidia 6200GT as secondary GPU, 250Gb 7200RPM HD.

 

[SkitZ0]

  If your laptop is ageing I would suggest you look into a desktop as they are more powerful... much more especially for the same price. Keep the current laptop for light gaming on the go and other work related things. Either way its a win win imho.

 
I can't.  I'm a computer science major and they require us to have a laptop.  If I could I would, and would easily spend $3000+ on it lulz.  Water-cooling e-peen

 

[rawrster]

Laptops have come a long way from my first core2duo in 2006 or so. I have my macbook air for a similar reason. It doesn't do games but basic stuff is good

 

[pfurey89]

3.5 i7
32gb ram
1tb ssd 
 
New iMac, love it for photo editing.

 

[Jon L]

Anybody know how to disable Nvidia's Optimus function?  Googling didn't lead to a good answer.
 
I did a clean install of Win 8 (then 8.1) onto Sandisk Extreme II 480 GB SSD for Dell 17R SE (1980x1020, i7, 8GB), and now Windows Experience Index is quite high for all, Except for graphics performance.  Intel graphics HD4000 and Nvidia GT650M (with Optimus) can't be as bad as this ChrisPC Win experience says? (Win 8.1 dropped genuine Win Experience ap)
 
 
 

 
 

 

[sub50hz]

The Windows Experience ratings are highly inaccurate. If you want an objective assessment of graphics performance, use 3DMark or a similar benching utility.

 

[Sxooter]

  Do laptops count?  I'm currently running an AMD A8 3500M (HD Radeon 6620G integrated.....somehow it plays Planetside 2 @ 768p) with 8GB of RAM and a 640GB HDD........aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's aging.  Fast.  So I'm looking to upgrade to the Asus G750JZ.
 

 
Take a look at the N56JR if you can find one still. GT760M, Core i7 QC CPU and 1080p screen. Microcenter has them for $999.

 

[Jon L]

  The Windows Experience ratings are highly inaccurate. If you want an objective assessment of graphics performance, use 3DMark or a similar benching utility.

Well, it seemed to do just fine, until Fire Strike which stuttered.  
 

 

[sub50hz]

  Well, it seemed to do just fine, until Fire Strike which stuttered.  
 

 
Fire Strike isn't really meant for low-tier mobile GPUs, but the database for  the results should offer you a decent comparison.

 

[NamelessPFG]

Fire Strike makes a single desktop GTX 760 choke and SLI GTX 760s barely manage...until you set the quality to Extreme. I'm not even sure SLI GTX 780 Ti cards would provide a good framerate there.

3DMark has always been absolutely brutal on contemporary desktop hardware, needing a few years for the very top-of-the-line components to catch up. I doubt we'll see a worthy laptop at any price for two or three more years.

On the flip side, 3DMark is also much more demanding than any contemporary game, with very few exceptions. A system that chokes on Fire Strike but churns smoothly through Cloud Gate should still be viable for gaming.

 

[gradofan1]

Any Mac fans here? I have 3 primary and 2 backup...
 
1) 2009 Mac Pro (the huge tower desktop) with 8-cores (2x 2.26Ghz Quad-core Xeon), 16GB Ram, 2.5TB storage between 4 HDD's RAID, 1GB ATI 5770 HD graphics card, with 27" Apple Thunderbolt Monitor. Needs a 1TB SSD, soon...
 
2) 2011 TOTL fully loaded Macbook Pro 15", Quad-Core i7 2.3Ghz w/ TurboBoost, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, ATI 1GB 6750M Dedicated Graphics and Intel 3000 Integrated Graphics, Hi-Res screen (non-retina, but close) 1680x1050.
 
3) 2011 Macbook Air 13" Dual Core 1.7Ghz i5 w/TurboBoost, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel 3000 Graphics Integrated
 
POST YOUR MAC SPECS!

 

[brhfl]

  Any Mac fans here? I have 3 primary and 2 backup...
 
1) 2009 Mac Pro (the huge tower desktop) with 8-cores (2x 2.26Ghz Quad-core Xeon), 16GB Ram, 2.5TB storage between 4 HDD's RAID, 1GB ATI 5770 HD graphics card, with 27" Apple Thunderbolt Monitor. Needs a 1TB SSD, soon...
 
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You don't need to run your heat in the winter either, I take it?
I love my Mac Pro 3,1 (2 quad Xeons, 3 SSDs, 2HDDS, 2 optical drives, 16GB RAM...), but boy is it ever unbearable to sit near in the summer months... Thinking I might scale down once this one gives up the ghost... Which is a shame, my computer graveyard is full of Apple towers - G3, G4, and G5. Other than that, I haven't owned a laptop since my first-gen MacBook (Core Duo), and that thing was a piece of crap. I don't think the original Core processors were great, and the transition to Intel and new hardware brought with it some expected snags, but that machine and I had some fights. But I did manage to run both FCP and Avid on it, and it got me through school as my secondary machine, and still technically runs so... Can't complain too much!