Buying a gaming laptop for my girlfriend. Need advice!

Ive been poking around the idea of getting her one for a while and she seems to really want one. Thing is I know nothing about laptops, what they can run, how much they should be priced and most of what I've seen leads to stores like best buy or equivalent which I would never trust with my own desktop.

Any suggestions on some good models I could look out for? Or somewhere that builds them custom? I'd like to put a 1000$ budget on it but that can be quite flexible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated guys. Thank you.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/17-3-laptop-8gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive/8937112.p?id=1218954923465&skuId=8937112&st=asus%20laptop&cp=1&lp=1#tab=specifications

http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Valkyrie-CZ-28-Gaming-Laptop

^Here's a few suggestions.

Also, the ibuypower site lets you customize/build it.

Thanks! Those looks pretty awesome especially the Valkyrie.

I'll keep searching for sure but I'll checking out that website some more for sure.

Stay away from Intel HD graphics.

You can try xoticpc.com but honestly its not a really good time to buy a gaming laptop

I currently using Lenovo G580 with i5, it came with 4Gb RAM but I've added another 4Gb SODIM.

Pretty sweet laptop; I've bought wireless Logitech mouse real cheap and I'm satisfied

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g580/

Apparently they sold out but you can search it on amazon

Do you know what he means by a "gaming" laptop? Because integrated gpu is not going to be good for that.

Friend has the y510p and really likes it, I like it too, except it is loaded with a crap ton of bloatware and windows 8 sucks. Outside of that best bang for your buck you can possibly get out of any "gaming" laptop.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313584

Lenovo has started sucking more recently in terms of customer service (currently using an older x220t).

Also you can order a single gpu set up with an optical drive (you can actually order the second gpu seperately if you desire, that's also a neat feature) from lenovo for like 120$ less.

$859.99 w/ promo code Y510PHOLIDAY - Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p

Intel Core i5-4200M 2.5GHz CPU

15.6" 1080p Screen

6GB DDR3 RAM

1TB HDD + 8GB Hybrid SSHD

2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (SLI) 2GB

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$999.99 - CyberpowerPC Fangbook Evo HX6-110

Intel i7-4700MQ 2.4GHz

15.6" 1080p Screen

8GB DDR3 RAM

1TB HDD

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5

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If you don't get one of these, make sure that the laptop has a Class 1 videocard from this list...

A gaming laptop? Whats one of those?

Lots of them around.

I guess I missed that little word on the title XD

You can also look at refurbished models on Newegg or some other website... I got my G75-VX from newegg.ca for 900 with taxes and shipping compared to 1600$ for a brand new one. Works flawlessly and powerful enough to run BF4 @1080p on med/high settings running @50-60fps.

Buy a Lenovo Y510p..... /thread

^^ I mean its pretty much the only option in that price range and is incredibly good bang for your buck. Just SLI and the drivers on it are a pain in the ass.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152458

That's one of the two that I recommended. OP, I would get the Lenovo Y510P, personally...

You can also consider a msi gx 70 It has a Amd Radeon 8970m for the GPU but a Amd A10-6750m for a cpu.

I got mine in october I'm pretty happy with I like to stream skyrim on it on twitch.tv for time to time While it can't play games on the highest settings it still does pretty good in my opionio but If had the money I would of went for msi's GT 70 since That's got an I say I7 and a gtx 780m But the msi gx 70 was only $1150 so I went with it. One of these days I'm gonna get around to making a video for review for the laptop.

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Series-GX70-3BE-007US-17-3-Inch/dp/B00CU9GKUS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386436035&sr=8-1&keywords=msi+gx+70

http://www.twitch.tv/poochyena1986/c/3295052

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/61948-msi-gx70-gaming-notebook-review-amd-a10-5750m-tested.html

Edit: I was just thinking she might not like 17" laptop so u could go with the msi gx 60 instead since its pretty much the same thing but its 15.6" screen

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GX60-3BE-240US-9S7-16FK12-240-15-6-Inch/dp/B00DT70G9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386439465&sr=8-1&keywords=msi+gx+60

I personal suggest the ASUS G750JW-DB71 17.3" ROG Laptop I have one of the older models.. with the gtx 560 2gb... still play newest games around high/ultra In the between... Pretty good laptop... Oh yeah... The specs... I'm doing this off my head.. sorry If I get anything wrong...

GTX 780m

Intel 4th Gen CPU (Haswell-based)

1TB (two extra SO-DIMM DDR3 slots)

Up to 32gb ram

Thanks a lot guys. I decided to go with the Lenovo y510 :)

Really appreciate the help!

....now on to upgrading my desktops video card :P