How to Buy the Best Gaming Laptop

If you are reading this article you are probably a fan of laptop gaming. You know how much advanced graphics, quality audio, fast speed interactivity contribute to your gaming process and to the pleasure you get from it. Previously all these you might have got only if you had a very powerful desktop computer. But today the line between personal computers and laptops are becoming less and less distinctive. Modern gaming laptops can give you everything you want for your game time as well as for work if needed (a webcam, multi-card reader, USB ports, etc). And you don’t have to sacrifice any power or functions.

And now I suggest having a look at the specs that you need to pay attention to if you want to buy a truly good laptop for your gaming.

Video Card of the Laptop

It is a video controller that provides the base for the dynamic lighting, all kinds of explosions, landscapes originality and action speed. And you know how important these for your game process. That’s why the developers decided to add dual video cards to truly good gaming laptops.

If to compare different manufacturers (ATI, NVIDIA, Intel are the leaders) and the models of video cards they, there is some hierarchy of them.

If you want to have a perfect performance, choose a laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 4xx series or ATI Mobility Radeon 5xxx series card. To have a good performance it will be ok to buy NVIDIA GeForce 3xx series card or ATI Mobility Radeon 4xxx. What concerns Intel video cards they are supposed to have a very low productivity in gaming, as well as all the others cards.

The video hardware is a part of the laptop mainboard and that’s why there is no possibility to change it.
But bear in mind that the more progressive the video card is, the higher price you will pay.

Processor of the laptop

If to speak generally, the more cores your processor will have, the better. Today it is a very common thing when gaming laptops have quad-core processors. And if to choose among the same generation of the processors, pick up the fastest.

But! If to compare the multi-core processors of older generations with single-cores of later generation, the first ones have the better performance.

Today the best CPUs are made by Intel. The i7, i7 extreme, i5 series will be perfect for your game experience.
AMD processors, unfortunately, can’t compete with the Intel’s ones.

ROM and RAM of the Laptop

The maximum depends only from you, your needs and the offers of the manufacturers. But if you want to play the recent games, which take up 30 GB of hard disk space, and store movies, music and photos there, 320GB hard disk won’t be enough for you.

Draw your attention to the hard drive speed. If it is about 7.200 RPMs it fine. If you have some extra-money think about buying a solid-state drive as it work much faster than traditional drives.

Speaking about RAM, it should be not less than 4 GB to have a good and fast game.

Additional Specs

Of course, the gaming laptops also differ in other features like size, weight, dimensions and resolutions capabilities, etc. So, here are some short tips about them.

Size: it depends mainly on your financial possibilities and your personal wishes. But I believe it is better to play on 20+” displays than on a 15” one.

Dimension and resolution: there are gaming laptops with HD and 1080p quality of the video. The price is relevant. But in a couple of years it will be much lower. So, just device if it is the very feature you want to have in your laptop.

 

Blu-ray: if to choose among different optical drives, it is the best variant today. However, is the most important one.
In conclusion I would like to note that before you start choosing a gaming laptop, decide what sum of money you are ready to spend. Then choose the 3 basic things for you laptop – video card, processor and RAM and ROM size. And as a final stage of your search compare other characteristics of the laptops. And here you are, the choice is made!

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