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Post Date: 2014-08-09
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Felp471 View Drop Down
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    Posted: 09 Aug 2014 at 8:11pm
Budget:
Up to $2200

Expectations:
Play most recent games and upcoming ones on High/Ultra settings at 30 FPS average

Usage:
Playing games, general web surfing and school works

Special Needs:
Something around 1TB storage

Saved Ticket #: 1027390

Specifications:
i7 4810MQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, 16GB RAM

Also, is there a big difference between GTX 870M and GTX 880M?

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Posts: 20391 		  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 10 Aug 2014 at 3:01am
Hi Felp471..... Welcome to the forums.   Looks like a real nice build to me.   The 880m is a stronger card, by about 20-25% over the 870m.   I think either will give you what you want, game dependant of course, but the the extra money does give you more longevity.

Here's a link comparing the cards with BF4, etc.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-800m-graphics-performance,3800-5.html

Good luck.

Edited by bprat22 - 10 Aug 2014 at 3:04am
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Posts: 951 		  Quote Roykirk Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 10 Aug 2014 at 8:04pm
Agree with bprat22.  If you can move to the 880M, do it.

I've compromised in the past, and won't do it again.  Get the beefiest system you can afford and think not about what you want now, but what's going to come down the pike.

If you can swing an SSD, do so as well.  That's the biggest bottleneck for everything else you do on the laptop other than gaming.  There's nothing like the sweet, sweet joy of booting to the desktop (in Windows 8.1) in less than 10 seconds.  And launching applications in a second or two.
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Posts: 1581 		  Quote Nav Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 11 Aug 2014 at 10:54am
Roykirk and bprat22 seemed to have have answered everything before I could get here :)
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