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iBUYPOWER Gamer Valkyrie CZ-17 NE726x Notebook Intel Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 17.3" 16GB Memory DDR3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834227049
If I had money to burn would this be a bad deal?
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Sure does look secksy,
I know nothing of laptops for gaming but would be interested to see what those in the know have to say about a rig like this. $1300 seems f'ing great to me but what do i know.
I fancy the idea of playing on a laptop in a recliner, kinda like "total useless vegetable mode". Laptop in my face and bigscreen TV 15 degrees above or outside the monitor viewing area. Total immersion lol.
The question I wonder though is am I going to burn my balls off?
Well I bought my current pc from Ibuypower thru newegg and just upgraded the gpu and the case a year ago and only had to replace the psu a couple of weeks ago and have not had any issues with it besides the psu dying a year later. I do feel bad that you have had a bad experience and am not trying to downplay that. So from that maybe a $1300 risk might not be wise heh ty for reply.
One of my comps from them is still going, yes, but like I said these are some Shady mfs. If you are determined to buy one and not build I would really recommend AVADirect, tons of payment options, cheap as hell, great service, great reviews.
I know I am semi-ranting, and I'm sorry for my last post being a rant wall of text, but please do yourself a favor and avoid these guys. I usually only lurk, until I see someone asking if they should buy from IBuyPower. I know comp parts don't work someteims, it's the nature of the technology, but sending you a pic of a physically broken MB and trying to charge you 300 for it is just shady. Especially when the MB had a different serial then the one they originally sent me.
If you need more info just google them. There is a FB group called IBuyPowerSucks, I think that speaks for itself.
They were fined 14 thousand dollars by the FCC. Also, if you look at reseller ratings it's pretty apparent that most of their positive reviews are fake.
The company is owned by a loan shark. I forgot his name, but he is Chinese. Also, steer clear of cyberpowerpc, same company.
Check out AVADirect if you want to buy, my partner just bought one from them, everything perfect and cheap, couldn't be happier.
Good luck in your search.
Well it is a laptop so it cant be built per say, and the only reason I am considering it is it is on newegg as was the previous pc I bought and is on sale. I don't know if I would have even considered it if it was directly through Ibuypower.
I hear what you are saying, but I do have a desktop and don't plan on stopping my use of it, I just have difficulty sometimes buying stuff and wondering if I shouldn't just spend more now instead of a low price now and then coming to a point later where I wished I doled out more.
At the moment it is between the one I linked in this thread and this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B7K11MI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=vglnk-c864-20
lol its like 2 ends of a spectrum.
I wouldn't be dedicating my gaming to the laptop but I wonder if it wouldn't be worth it for the time I do play on it.
Make games you want to play.
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I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
I don't hate much, but I hate Apple© with a passion. If Steve Jobs was alive, I would punch him in the face.
Thanks for your input on that, as that is part of what makes me wonder if it would be better to spend more.
If you are looking for a quality laptop from an online retailer with a good reputation for their products I'd recommend you check out XOTIC PC. From a build quality stand point you really can't go wrong with any of the Sager (Clevo) models. They don't tend to be the best looking but they are sturdy and usually offer the most in upgradeability after you purchase them, something you don't normally associate with laptops.
http://www.xoticpc.com/
For most people, any capable gaming laptop would be a bad deal. Too heavy, too expensive, runs too hot, too short of a life expectancy before the excessive heat fries things.
Gaming laptops really only make sense for people who are going to take a laptop somewhere and play games away from home. It does have to be plugged into a wall, however, or else a gaming laptop will drain the battery really, really fast. If you're a business traveler who wants to play games in hotels, then have at it. But just because you need both a laptop and also a gaming system, it doesn't follow that you need a gaming laptop.
Laptops and desktops are very different matters. iBuyPower doesn't build their own laptops; they take a rig from MSI or Clevo or whoever and may change the memory or hard drive, but it's mostly a rig built by someone else.
If you buy directly from their web site, they'll give you a lot of choices of parts, and if you order cheap junk, they'll sell you cheap junk. The problem is the idiot buyer who ordered cheap junk. If you buy a prebuilt through New Egg, then they will load you up with cheap junk parts, and in particular, the power supply will be worthless garbage that you ought to replace immediately--certainly before playing any games on it.
Actually, you needed to replace the power supply the day it arrived, and apparently didn't realize it until much later. Hopefully the garbage power supply didn't damage anything else in the meantime.
That comes with a memory channel left vacant, so if you want to play games on it, you really should buy another memory module and add it yourself. A 4 GB module costs about $25 or so.
If you just want a cheap laptop that will work, that will get the job done. But it's cheap for a reason.
If you want a touchpad that works, get an external mouse and plug it in. You're never going to find a touchpad that is anywhere near as good as a simple wired laser mouse. Sometimes plugging in an external mouse isn't an option, but if it is, then do it.
If you actually set a gaming laptop on your lap and then play games on it, then yes, you do risk sterilizing yourself. Gaming laptops are fundamentally a proposition of too much heat in too little space. Computer chips can handle temperatures like 150 Fahrenheit a lot better than human skin. The bottom of the laptop won't be nearly as hot as the GPU chip itself, but it will be a lot hotter than is comfortable to touch.
There's another category of player who needs gaming laptops, people who have to sit in the living room and pretend to watch TV with their wife while actually gaming.
Now, I understand what you are saying about the heat issue, pretty sure that was the cause of all issues I experienced on my first Dell and then Gateway laptop. In fact, when the Gateway killed its 2nd motherboard, they gave up and sent me a new Acer to replace it, and fortunately I've gotten almost 2 years on it with no issues.
My advice is when purchasing high end gaming laptops always buy the best, maximum warranty you can and make sure the vendor is strong enough to support it. I've avoided literally thousands of dollars in repairs by having them in place, and like I said, got a free laptop about 2.5 yrs in on my last laptop.
Speaking of which, Quzzical, if you had to buy a gaming laptop right now, what do you think would be the best bet? Something in the under 2K range I'm thinking.
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Yeah, 1300 gaming laptop?
Or 800 dollar gaming PC and 500 dollar laptop for sake of laptop.
Quiz is right, as always - unless you are doing LOTS of gaming on the go, gaming laptop is a terrible idea.
Even then, if you are playing games like WoW or LoL or even like D3 etc. you can get away with a decent laptop with integrated graphics (APU) and spend the rest of your money on a much, much better gaming desktop PC.
But I always think - if you're traveling, you should probably be doing something more interesting than playing games.
Like going for walks, exploring local sites/hot spots, spending time with friends/family etc.
If you want mobile gaming - buy a smartphone and a tablet.
IMO, of course.
Ah yes, they do get quite hot, and I do keep mine on my lap at all times. I solved this issue by stealing a solid plastic cutting board (about 3/8" thick) from my wife that actually had raised rubber feet and grooves along the bottom which when turned upside down, the laptop rides on and actually provides bottom ventilation. Never seen anything like it for sale since, so not sure you could find one.
Edit: OK, 3 grown children (20+) later and I'm not too concerned with sterilization, but your results may vary.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
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Cant resist:
I need to do a price comparisson. My wafe has been urging me to get a vascectomy, I am pro so meh, but maybe I can lobby for a gaming laptop instead of the price point is close.
hello there,
here's another angle at it:
you can wait till june for the haswell processors from intel, they will be sporting new integrated graphics with adequate gaming performance and lower battery consumption than discreet gpus for laptops. then, you have some options: 1) if you want a desktop replacement and do not care about battery life and portability (i.e. using the laptop at home/friends' homes/hotels only), you can take advantage of the price drops in current models, or 2) if you do care about portability, get an 13.3 inch ultrabook with nice performance (ssd, i7, fast ram) and a nice display (paramount for me) and, if you don't mind, stick to games that do not have insane reqs or play at lower settings.
An ultrabook means that you sacrifice everything else for the sake of making it thinner. For starters, it's a high price tag for low performance and few features. They're also borderline impossible to upgrade or repair. Want a new battery? Replace the whole laptop outright. Want to replace a memory chip that failed? Replace the whole laptop outright. Low power, yes, but they can still be prone to overheating because they try to squeeze things into far too small of a space. If you value thinness above all else, then sure, look at ultrabooks. But for most people, there's no reason to even consider an ultrabook.
It looks like a capable gaming laptop for sure. I might look around at some other sites and see what else is available for around that price. Personally if I were going to spend that much money on a laptop I would go ahead and splurge for an SSD.