Hello everyone
I'm building a gaming laptop for when I'm not at home, i spend quite a lot of time on trains or at my partners place so I'm away from my desktop or console and my current laptop is just a bog standard thing with integrated graphics. I'm building on a site called pcspecialist.co.uk and the current build I've selected comes out at about £750 and that's really as high as I'm willing to go. I don't expect massive performance out of this so please don't just recommend me top of the line changes, the only advice i want is whether or not the parts I've selected work well together and I'm not wasting any power or bottlenecking the GPU. Thanks
If you want to have a play around with the full options I have available then this is the base model I have selected -
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/cosmosII-17/but please try and stick as close as possible to £750 total if you do find a better configuration. Thank you.
Chassis & Display
Cosmos Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 850M - 2.0GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk
500GB SEAGATE HYBRID SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless
WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery
Cosmos Series 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (48.84WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 90W AC Adaptor
So again, all I'm looking for is confirmation that these parts will work well together and I'm not wasting anything. As far as CPU goes I can't afford to upgrade it to a better Quad Core so any changes would have to be a downgrade to Dual Core with higher GHz but lower Cache size (I mat have just said something ridiculous but I'm not very knowledgeable on hardware so forgive me!)
Thanks again