Best Gaming Laptop

[_NukeWarm_]

I need to know what the best gaming laptop I can get is. Is it really alienware? I need a good enough laptop that can run super high end games such as Aion and also be able to run super large scale battles smoothly. My laptop is currently annoying me now. Everytime I get into a good pt to grind on those late game higher lvl mobs, at some point if the party is too big or theres too much animation going on (skills, environment, etc) my computer sick lags up. I press a button and I get dont get a response for a good few seconds. It's really effin annoying. Someone help me. Any suggestions for good laptops? Try and give 2 suggestions. One with no budget range and another option for a good laptop that isn't too pricy. (the cheaper laptop still has to be able to run all that was said above)

[Ronin]

Aion is way way way not super highend...

Spec wise:
Clevo W860CU, for under 15"; M980NU, 18".

Deliver the same (usually a little ahead of time), cost half than AW and are by a manufacturer that used to handle the production of the AW laptops, before they were taken over by Dell (and before all the heavy quality problems started).

Also, we happen to have a tech-section.

[cinderboy]

Aion is way way way not super highend...

for a mmorpg, it is =/

[SnOwBunZz]

Any reason why you want a laptop?

[Ronin]

for a mmorpg, it is =/

Video Card

Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 5900 Ultra with 128MB RAM / ATI Radeon X700 with 128MB RAM or higher
Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 with 256MB RAM / ATI Radeon X800 with 256MB or higher

No comment.

[SnOwBunZz]

No comment.

An 8600m GT struggles it to run Aion at highest with 4x aa with 1680*1050 as resolution.
It probably will explode during sieges, where my desktop (q9550, 4gb ddr2, gtx285) runs at an average of 10fps.

[Ronin]

An 8600m GT struggles it to run Aion at highest with 4x aa with 1680*1050 as resolution.
It probably will explode during sieges, where my desktop (q9550, 4gb ddr2, gtx285) runs at an average of 10fps.

It's not the video that is lagging you.
I doubt that you will notice a performance difference between 4AA and 0AA, but even if you do; It's practically as if you would take a game with hundreds of randomly called delay functions in it and use it to test performance.

[SnOwBunZz]

It's not the video that is lagging you.

I know, but rendering about 400 people on a high or low resolution (changing resolution on Aion is pretty much useless) is still a big hit on your GPU (along your CPU), not to mention the heat it'll produce... a big issue for laptops.

[Paladuck]

The listed minimum and recommended specs for Aion are a JOKE. The recommended should be the minimum. Well, I guess all video games do it like that.

Besides, the game looks awful on lowest settings so you might as well get a beastly rig anyway

[Peter Griffin]

It's not the video that is lagging you.
I doubt that you will notice a performance difference between 4AA and 0AA, but even if you do; It's practically as if you would take a game with hundreds of randomly called delay functions in it and use it to test performance.

Uh, I thought there was a huge performance difference between AA and no AA.

[SnOwBunZz]

Uh, I thought there was a huge performance difference between AA and no AA.

Depends on resolution, GPU and settings (both of the game and AA settings).
4x AA isn't that stressful either.

[_NukeWarm_]

Any reason why you want a laptop?

I don't plan on getting a desktop til I get a place of my own. For now, portability is more important to me. I want to be able to play all my games wherever I go. A desktop will be my home base where all the magic happens xD but until I can have a place of my own to call my gaming fortress, I'm pretty much gonna be interrupted with people coming in and out of the room if I go with a desktop. I don't know too much about computers so all the previous spec information and what not totally just flew by me lol so I'm pretty much just leaving it up to the forums to help me with a solution. I will go with whatever the general concensus decides.

Help me ):


Edit: Also, if possible, try and suggest laptops that will be easy to get. (e.g. off a website with easy configurations; like how for alienware, all you have to is go to dell.com and customize your alienware with easy step by step instructions. add to cart. pay. and your done.) Kinda don't wanna go scavenger hunting and dealing with all these hard laptop optionals that people like me who aren't too computer savy wouldn't understand.

[Ronin]

The lag is the hundreds of people you need to pull info on @ a spread lag from optimal to gruesome.
That's where the not so much really random delays jump in.

Imagine the fun of them starting to switching gears randomly as fast as they can.

It's all networking issues, not gfx.

[_NukeWarm_]

CPU power, no, but it should be close. GPU power, yes. If both rigs were at stock config, I'd pick the ones mentioned earlier.

Wow, ok second noob question, omg almost don't wanna ask lol Simplest way put.. GPU power = wha? and also what's the difference between CPU power and GPU power? (e.g. What would I experience with getting an alienware with not as good "GPU" power)

[_NukeWarm_]

Sweet, thanx bro. Very thorough and helpful information. I'm still leaning towards an m15x just because it would be the easiest choice for me to buy. But as said earlier, the gpu on other computers are better apparently. Is there gonna be some sort of bottlenecking or significant difference between the alienware and the other laptops mentioned? If there is a difference but not too significant?