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Like an RGB-encrusted loot box carousel, the holiday season has spun around yet again. But, like a harbinger of anxiety, it also brings the difficult decision on what to get for the gamers in your life, or even what to snag for yourself. Have no fear, however, as we’ve got you covered with our series of gift guides for the 2017 holiday season.
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TL;DR could be interesting to see an article about various gaming laptops.
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Computer upgrades should be purchased when you notice that you need them. If you decide to upgrade something now because you don't know what would be good Christmas gift you're more likely to end up buying something that's not a good upgrade decision.
Secondly there is a big price difference between a 1060 3GB graphics card and a 6GB one. Close to $100 and the 6GB are in short supply because of the miners.
Nvidia's 1080s are the best buy on the market right now as they are not favored by the miners and are in plentiful supply.
For most of us, hearing the difference between the sound card on the motherboard and a separate sound card is minuscule and only significant if you have an expensive speaker set up.
Some interesting comments here:
SSD: There's a noticeable performance improvement when going from SATA 6Gb/s to NVME M.2, but these are generally limited to boot and load times - heavy data transfer when you can saturate the bus. Whether that's worth the extra is up to you. Either way, stepping up from HDD to any SSD for boot is a huge improvement.
GPU: You're right in that the price differnce between the 1060 3GB and 6GB has grown, but it's not just a VRAM difference - the 6GB model has 10% more CUDA cores as well. From what I've seen, the 1070 seems to be a more popular pick for miners, so I'm not sure where you're seeing supply issues. In EU at least, they're easy to get hold of.
Sound card: It's a difficult thing - you need a decent speaker setup or good headphones to notice the difference. But, as more people are using their PC to stream Netflix/Pandora etc, it's worth investing in a good stack and soundcard to match. The difference in audio clarity is startling.
Currently playing: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Vain Glory.
Yeah I don't know about that.
A laptop will never have the same cooling capability as a desktop. Heat disspation=better higher performance threshold+less parts wear. Therefore desktop gaming is superior to laptop gaming in terms of performance.