High-end laptop for less than £900, CANT GET BETTER SPECS FOR LESS MONEY THAT I CAN SEE
Should be able to play most high end games on good settings
Just specced:- Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor 7700HQ (2.8GHz, 3.8GHz Turbo) Memory (RAM) - 8GB Kingston SODIMM DDR4 2133MHz (1 x 8GB) Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti - 4.0GB GDDR5 1st Hard Disk - 120GB KINGSTON UV400 2.5" SSD
Chosen without an Operating system, you can get a W10 license a lot cheaper on ebay - or add £92 if you want to buy it from them.
Top comments
The_Hoff
15 Feb 175#3
Such a strange build.
CPU - Significantly better than any other component.
GPU - Underwhelming given CPU is much more capable than it.
SSD - Too small to be useful. 60GB Fallout 4 texture pack anyone? Not that a 1050 would play it well enough.
RAM - 8GB, ok for today but in 18 months? I'd want 16.
I'd have much preferred to see a decent i5 with a 250GB SSD, a 1060 and 16GB of RAM.
Not voting.
steevio_uk
15 Feb 174#23
I think the fact that some people require a decent laptop first and foremost, rather than just purely looking at gaming, is lost on some people and they tend to rate any given system with 95% bias on whether it's a good gaming machine.
Take the 3rd reply in this thread for example.
This above is an excellent laptop for working on. In my own requirements I have needed all the processing power I can get for some spreadsheets I work on.
Add to that, this will play any game you want. I won't get into all the Ultra and FPS arguments, but it will play any game well and at levels better than consoles.
This isn't a pure gaming laptop. But make no mistake, it's great for gaming.
8gb of Ram will be fine. Cheaply upgraded to 16gb in 12 months if required.
Is the SSD small? Yes. But you don't have to install your games onto it. Install them onto a larger, cheap secondary HDD (which I believe this chassis has the room for) and you'll get the same performance, just at the deficit of loading times.
That said, I personally would omit the SSD altogether and source my own larger one.
Specs alone. This is a good deal.
For those that don't hold gaming with as much of a priority as others - such as myself - this is a great deal.
The only questions are over such things as heat dissipation and build quality.
All comments (55)
rivellangel
15 Feb 17#1
This is a good price. The processor is good and the 1050 is a solid budget card and probably the best you'll get in a laptop sub-£1000. Heat.
HasanG
15 Feb 17#2
Very good price for this laptop spec
The_Hoff
15 Feb 175#3
Such a strange build.
CPU - Significantly better than any other component.
GPU - Underwhelming given CPU is much more capable than it.
SSD - Too small to be useful. 60GB Fallout 4 texture pack anyone? Not that a 1050 would play it well enough.
RAM - 8GB, ok for today but in 18 months? I'd want 16.
I'd have much preferred to see a decent i5 with a 250GB SSD, a 1060 and 16GB of RAM.
Not voting.
Zeipher to The_Hoff
15 Feb 17#5
My 850m graphics card plays FallOut 4 decently at 1080p, so why should a 1050 struggle?
8gb RAM is perfectly adequate these days, and I see nothing that suggests 16gb should be the new standard in the next 18 months, but I agree about the SSD. Way too small. Should come with an HDD too or even instead.
118luke to The_Hoff
15 Feb 171#8
The closest you can get would bring this lappy upto £909, thats with an i5, 16GB RAM and 250GB ssd.
I would imagine a 1060 would come in well above £1000 if it was available. But looking at laptops with that card in are coming in around £1150
Spod to The_Hoff
15 Feb 172#25
You can use the dropdowns to downgrade to a quad core I5 and upgrade to 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD for £862 if you prefer a more balanced system.
Marekj
15 Feb 17#4
I'd drop the cpu down to an i5 in exchange for a bigger ssd, in order to make it a more balanced machine, but other than that it seems like a very decent spec for the money. If ram became an issue during the life of the machine, then you have a free bank to upgrade.
The_Hoff
15 Feb 17#6
Yeah it seems they will push 50ish FPS with the right level of compromise. I'm pretty out of touch with the lower end of the market graphically :smiley:
RAM wise, I was speaking with reference to a nicer balance of build, not necessarily that its a requirement for gaming today. 16GB has been the sweet spot for some time.
More RAM
More storage
Better GPU
2 Year parts warranty
£150~ more, but £30 Quidco and perhaps some codes floating around. So could be nearer £100 more.
Zeipher
15 Feb 17#7
Ahh, I always thought with graphics cards having decent speeds these days only 4gb ram was a good standard. This laptop seems to be torn between supporting gaming and high end image/video editing.
explosiveblarg
15 Feb 17#9
What is the build quality like on these?
haritori to explosiveblarg
15 Feb 171#14
Pretty good but I would never use them again, the screens i got had massive clouding and was suppose to be a quality 1080p screen.. if it wasnt for the subpar screen used i woudl of been happy.. they considered it fine so i had to pay a returns fee.
dannykerner1990 to explosiveblarg
15 Feb 17#19
They are not too bad just watch the hinges as they can break away from the base and are slightly hard to replace.
mikecalm to explosiveblarg
24 Feb 17#50
Hi. I have previous generation Optimus V 17.3 as well. After two years .... screen flex ribbon cable is broken, must be open in certain angle range to have picture. GPU got soldering issues, practically no gaming anymore, otherwise freezes, palm rest started loosing paint. When CPU demanding task running, gets hot and noisy. Ribbon can be replaced, but resoldering might work or not (can't risk).With big regret I will not buy this brand anymore (and any Clevo based laptop).
MBeeching
15 Feb 172#10
Quite tempting at £764 (i5 / no storage / no OS).
Could retire an SSD from my desktop or keep an eye out for a 250gb+ at a better price.
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Opening post
CANT GET BETTER SPECS FOR LESS MONEY THAT I CAN SEE
Should be able to play most high end games on good settings
Just specced:-
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor 7700HQ (2.8GHz, 3.8GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) - 8GB Kingston SODIMM DDR4 2133MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti - 4.0GB GDDR5
1st Hard Disk - 120GB KINGSTON UV400 2.5" SSD
Chosen without an Operating system, you can get a W10 license a lot cheaper on ebay - or add £92 if you want to buy it from them.
Top comments
CPU - Significantly better than any other component.
GPU - Underwhelming given CPU is much more capable than it.
SSD - Too small to be useful. 60GB Fallout 4 texture pack anyone? Not that a 1050 would play it well enough.
RAM - 8GB, ok for today but in 18 months? I'd want 16.
I'd have much preferred to see a decent i5 with a 250GB SSD, a 1060 and 16GB of RAM.
Not voting.
Take the 3rd reply in this thread for example.
This above is an excellent laptop for working on. In my own requirements I have needed all the processing power I can get for some spreadsheets I work on.
Add to that, this will play any game you want. I won't get into all the Ultra and FPS arguments, but it will play any game well and at levels better than consoles.
This isn't a pure gaming laptop. But make no mistake, it's great for gaming.
8gb of Ram will be fine. Cheaply upgraded to 16gb in 12 months if required.
Is the SSD small? Yes. But you don't have to install your games onto it. Install them onto a larger, cheap secondary HDD (which I believe this chassis has the room for) and you'll get the same performance, just at the deficit of loading times.
That said, I personally would omit the SSD altogether and source my own larger one.
Specs alone. This is a good deal.
For those that don't hold gaming with as much of a priority as others - such as myself - this is a great deal.
The only questions are over such things as heat dissipation and build quality.
All comments (55)
CPU - Significantly better than any other component.
GPU - Underwhelming given CPU is much more capable than it.
SSD - Too small to be useful. 60GB Fallout 4 texture pack anyone? Not that a 1050 would play it well enough.
RAM - 8GB, ok for today but in 18 months? I'd want 16.
I'd have much preferred to see a decent i5 with a 250GB SSD, a 1060 and 16GB of RAM.
Not voting.
8gb RAM is perfectly adequate these days, and I see nothing that suggests 16gb should be the new standard in the next 18 months, but I agree about the SSD. Way too small. Should come with an HDD too or even instead.
I would imagine a 1060 would come in well above £1000 if it was available. But looking at laptops with that card in are coming in around £1150
RAM wise, I was speaking with reference to a nicer balance of build, not necessarily that its a requirement for gaming today. 16GB has been the sweet spot for some time.
Something like this I think is a better buy:
http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/gaming-laptops-medion-erazer-x7843-17-3-high-performance-gaming-laptop-130020268.html
More RAM
More storage
Better GPU
2 Year parts warranty
£150~ more, but £30 Quidco and perhaps some codes floating around. So could be nearer £100 more.
Hi. I have previous generation Optimus V 17.3 as well. After two years .... screen flex ribbon cable is broken, must be open in certain angle range to have picture. GPU got soldering issues, practically no gaming anymore, otherwise freezes, palm rest started loosing paint. When CPU demanding task running, gets hot and noisy. Ribbon can be replaced, but resoldering might work or not (can't risk).With big regret I will not buy this brand anymore (and any Clevo based laptop).
Could retire an SSD from my desktop or keep an eye out for a 250gb+ at a better price.
(I should have purchased that Medion from Argos last year...).