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Laptop vs. Desktop: Gamers Perspective
fohfoh:
You can't compare.
Gaming wise, for laptops, always ramp it up a little so a bit of air can get underneath. You'll see a drop of average temperature of maybe 10 celcius. Laptop fans are a necessity if you game extended periods of time.
I agree with Proin. A decent laptop >$1000 will play most games. Hell, the buy in for i7 laptops is now $700 here. Probably cheaper in the USA. But portability and a "built in UPS" would be the only arguments you get for the laptop. Essentially all other comparisons would be a "fuck you, you fail" vs a desktop.
vicious796:
Laptops definitely bring portability to the table but, honestly, who LANs outside out college anymore? I mean, LAN parties were so early 2000s, neh? Then again, that's when I was still in High School and College so perhaps I've just grown out of it.
In today's world I'd say the argument really is customization vs. convenience. While laptops can be customized they are very expensive to upgrade and much, much more difficult - especially those of us with thick fingers. A tower, on the other hand, can be the simplest thing ever if you put in slides and clips. For example, I can replace anything in every tower in my house (3) aside from the processor and mobo in under 2 minutes without the need of a screwdriver.
That said, I also have a high-end laptop, a netbook, and a tablet. The laptop is mine, the netbook is something I bought for my wife when she was studying for some pharmaceutical registration certification, and the tablet was a Christmas gift for her. That laptop, though, is my "I've got to go spend time with your fucking relatives/friends that live in the middle of nowhere... guess I'll play Skyrim" laptop and, let me tell you, it works like a charm.
When I'm at home, though, it's straight to the tower - I never look twice at the laptop. It's an expensive coffee table decoration at my house. It's worth every penny when we're in PA or MD, though. More than every penny.
While the laptop's specs are comparable to my best tower, it does seem to lag behind. Is it cooling? Maybe but probably not. I still have that old-timer sense that the tiny parts just don't work as well as the less tiny parts. I'm not a real techie - not like many of you here - but I firmly believe that, for the near future, laptops will be lagging behind. If you travel a lot, though, the difference isn't so major.
mgz:
there should almost never be a time when the more mobile option outperforms the larger stationary option because if nothing else the stationary/larger option can just have more shit put in it. If processors and everything get smaller just means i can have more in there. Until a move is made away from the likes of PCs and your computer simply becomes the gateway to the quantum computers that do all the processing desktops will always win
Malakai0:
Desktop all the way.
You can't build your own laptops. I don't buy store bought oem junk or overpriced boutique gamer pc's :)
I also need lots of hd space for anime & tv series. Currently have 3 1tb drives and a 640gb os drive (150 for os, rest for more storage), mostly all anime and a few tv series I like such as vampire diaries (go ahead and laugh, nina dobrev is fine).
And overclocking laptops is not recommended. I did overclock the hell out of my netbook though. RIP Acer netbook, which met its end last year by impacting the heavy ceramic tile floor from 4ft up, my mom tripped over cord and it fell off the counter, my fault for leaving it plugged in and on the edge of a counter (ore no baka). I played wow on it at lowest possible settings lol. And lots of starcraft 1. Mostly while at work.
My current box, while a bit dated now, is o/c from 3.2ghz to 3.8, mem, busses, vid card all o/c'ed, with 4 120mm fans and a 180mm top exhaust fan. A quad core ph2 puts out a lot of heat when doing something like DC projects (folding@home), I fold on this box during winter to make my pc a space heater. Rest of the year I have phenommsrtweaker keeping the cpu clocked way down when idle (800mhz 0.75v) to minimize heat output, florida summers suck. Surprisingly it can do everything but game, even watch 1080p video (well I have my gpu doing video rendering via dxva & media player classic), at 800mhz x4 :)
Yes I'm a big compgeek/tweaker. Used to have a sweet custom h2o cooling setup back in the amd thunderbird days. Modern heatpipe air heatsinks today are just as good, maybe better.
ASecondChance:
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though the first one was a dell its understandable but even gaming laptops like my Asus failed me
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I'm really interested in hearing your experiences with the Asus, I'm not being sarcastic here and I am serious.
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sorry about the late reply
it was a G72GX, it was really nice and big upgrade from your everyday Dell laptop i think it was more my fault though i never gave it a rest always turned on and just playing high demanding games every now and then... after 8-10 months it gave me that damn black screen lol
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