Seems to be a good price for a mid ranged gaming laptop with the added bonus of a SSD and 1TB hdd to store games on.
31 comments
SamBalmforth
25 Aug 17#1
Actually good price, SSD and half decent gfx card, good buy if you're in the market!!
nick8427
25 Aug 17#2
the Dell laptop on amazon that got posted earlier had a similar spec (storage aside) but the screen got slated. does anybody know if this has a tn screen or ips? cheers
Agharta to nick8427
25 Aug 17#3
Best to check with the manufacturer and retailer; the horses' mouths so to speak. Neigh.
petermcgregor14 to nick8427
25 Aug 17#4
Not a 'bad' price. But if looking for a 'hot uk deal' i'd be looking to get a laptop with a 1060 for £100 more. Much more future proof and then can game on ultra at 1080p. For the price it is okay. Heat added for the effort.
From this notebookcheck.net/Asu…tml it looks to be a TN panel. But i'm not sure if there are variants of this model or not.
brilly to petermcgregor14
25 Aug 17#9
got a link to the laptop with 1060 for under 800?
petermcgregor14 to brilly
25 Aug 17#12
My bad I was thinking of this which I considered a few months ago. hotukdeals.com/dea…715 but this is a 1050 still for £100 less than this though.
For a 1060 cheapest I could see on HUKD was this hotukdeals.com/dea…935 obviously expired now. But there are deals out there.
MIDURIX to brilly
26 Aug 17#25
£150-200 more would be more accurate. Medion for £850 and Lenovo for £900. Think Lenovo had a really nice screen and Medion was 17", but other specs similar. The 1060 really does give the 1050 a kicking so if I was getting a laptop for gaming at 1080p I really think an extra £150-200 would be worth it. Although you could then say, we'll pay an extra £150-200 on that and get a 1070 etc
Picard123 to brilly
26 Aug 17#27
ROTFL. You've been hanging around in these 'gaming laptop' threads for the last 12 month and you STILL haven't manage to buy one yet. You sure are one heck of a tyre kicker! :laughing:
brilly to Picard123
26 Aug 17#28
well jean luc blowhard i ahve been hanging round them less than you so its a little ironic
Picard123 to brilly
27 Aug 17#29
With any luck by 2021, you might have mustered up enough courage to actual buy a laptop rather than constantly tyre kicking! I won't hold my breath though.... :laughing:
dozstanford to nick8427
25 Aug 17#5
non-reflective BEO TN panel
Response Time Grey 50% / Grey 80%: 43ms
Response Time Black / White: 11ms
PWM: N/A (Flicker free)
nick8427 to dozstanford
25 Aug 17#6
Thank you
dougan
25 Aug 17#7
Seems a decent deal, around £100 cheaper than other similar spec ones. Tempted, as I promised my Son a gaming laptop if he did well in his exams, he did!!!
dozstanford
25 Aug 17#8
Benchmarks of this laptop same model but different specs (7700HQ/1050GTX 2GB) I realise this isn't entirely relevant but it's at least a guide
The Witcher 3 1080p, High = 35.6fps, Med = 62.7fps Rise of the Tomb Raider, 1080p, High = 38fps, Med = 66fps Doom (2016), 1080p, High = 44fps, Med = 72fps
Noise under load is 47db, idle is 32.9db Chassis temperatures at 24c ambient, idle = 25.8 mx, load = 44.2 Just under 10 hours battery life (idle) and just 1 hour under full load or 6 hours browsing the web.
Battlefield 1 = 44fps on ultra Overwatch = 55fps on ultra GTA v = 66fps on High
ayjay123
25 Aug 17#13
128gb ssd, very low capacity
hg80 to ayjay123
25 Aug 17#14
What did you expect for this much money? It's more than enough for Windows and a couple of your favourite games. Most gaming laptops at this price bracket have a single hdd. At least here you're getting both an SSD and HDD, and nothing stopping you from upgrading one of the drives at a later date. Sometimes I think people expect everything for nothing...
ayjay123 to hg80
26 Aug 17#22
This is not enough for Windows and a couple favourite game, it's barely enough for Windows and a few programs
hg80 to ayjay123
26 Aug 17#24
Windows 10 Install is 12GB (clean), if you set it up correctly and remove constant system restore etc then it will never get much above 30-40GB. This then gives you about roughly 80GB for programs and games...
30-40gb for program and games, is still reasonable, but some applications such as Photoshop can use well over 30gb temporarily from a feature known as 'scratch disk' which will give errors if it becomes full
Joe90_guy
25 Aug 17#15
As far as I recollect, this is the lowest priced 1050 gaming laptop deal we've seen on HUKD where the machine comes with an SSD. I remember a £699 machine from John Lewis which got hot but that only had a slow HDD.
Having said that I personally wouldn't go for this. My current, two year old ASUS laptop (which I paid £563 for) has a really good IPS display and I don't ever want to go back to a TN screen.
There was talk that Dell might be dumping the much maligned TN screen on their Inspiron 7000 laptops in favour of a 1080p IPS panel but as far as I can tell, whilst this has happened in the US, it hasn't happened here.
Heat added even though it's not for me...
jjmmww1
26 Aug 17#16
Think im might snap this one up my old laptop top seems to have finally given up aftet a few months of looming for a new onr
nick8427
26 Aug 17#17
so torn between this and the Dell... :thinking:
hg80 to nick8427
26 Aug 17#18
Personally i would get this one. ASUS have been making gaming laptops for years and I believe they are better at it then it at Dell, also this is pretty much the same specced machine as the Dell, but with added bonus of a SSD and HDD instead of single SSD. Whats not to love...
muttyhc
26 Aug 17#19
Can this handle 4k video editing?
hg80 to muttyhc
26 Aug 17#20
Depends if the program would use the GPU or CPU, can't see why not either way, just if the program could off load the work to the GPU then it would process faster and not bottleneck the CPU.
adam_rockon
26 Aug 17#21
This, the dell, the omen with 1050ti or the Lenovo with the 1060 for 899. Please help me decide I'm fed up and need to pull the trigger. Skeptical of Lenovo just because of the customer services and warranty etc.
bluepete1976
26 Aug 17#23
Is the 899 version of this worth the extra £200? It's got i7 7700, IPS screen, gtx 1050TI I'm seriously looking at this one instead as ticks all the boxes, could do with more ram though
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Seems to be a good price for a mid ranged gaming laptop with the added bonus of a SSD and 1TB hdd to store games on.
31 comments
From this notebookcheck.net/Asu…tml it looks to be a TN panel. But i'm not sure if there are variants of this model or not.
For a 1060 cheapest I could see on HUKD was this hotukdeals.com/dea…935 obviously expired now. But there are deals out there.
Response Time Grey 50% / Grey 80%: 43ms
Response Time Black / White: 11ms
PWM: N/A (Flicker free)
Tempted, as I promised my Son a gaming laptop if he did well in his exams, he did!!!
I realise this isn't entirely relevant but it's at least a guide
The Witcher 3 1080p, High = 35.6fps, Med = 62.7fps
Rise of the Tomb Raider, 1080p, High = 38fps, Med = 66fps
Doom (2016), 1080p, High = 44fps, Med = 72fps
Noise under load is 47db, idle is 32.9db
Chassis temperatures at 24c ambient, idle = 25.8 mx, load = 44.2
Just under 10 hours battery life (idle) and just 1 hour under full load or 6 hours browsing the web.
notebookcheck.net/Asu…tml
notebookcheck.net/NVI…tml
Battlefield 1 = 44fps on ultra
Overwatch = 55fps on ultra
GTA v = 66fps on High
Sometimes I think people expect everything for nothing...
This then gives you about roughly 80GB for programs and games...
if you want to reduce the windows 10 install further then try this windowscentral.com/how…int
Having said that I personally wouldn't go for this. My current, two year old ASUS laptop (which I paid £563 for) has a really good IPS display and I don't ever want to go back to a TN screen.
There was talk that Dell might be dumping the much maligned TN screen on their Inspiron 7000 laptops in favour of a 1080p IPS panel but as far as I can tell, whilst this has happened in the US, it hasn't happened here.
Heat added even though it's not for me...
ASUS have been making gaming laptops for years and I believe they are better at it then it at Dell, also this is pretty much the same specced machine as the Dell, but with added bonus of a SSD and HDD instead of single SSD.
Whats not to love...