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Best place to buy Gaming PC or Laptop

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  • 17-03-2012 1:40pm
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    andre2010
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 237 ✭✭


    Hey

    Im looking to buy a top of the range PC or Laptop for gaming. Id prefer a laptop although i know i wont get the power of a desktop out of one. Do you guys know a decent place online to shop for one, not dell, i think alienware is a rip off, great machines, just overly priced once you add all the components into it.

    Any advice would be great.

    Cheers


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    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Unless you build it yourself, you're pretty much always going to be ripped off when buying a gaming machine. It's actually pretty easy to build a machine, the lads and ladies on the PC Building and Upgrading forum would be well able to help. You'll build a very impressive machine for €800 - less than €1000 if you need to include monitor, mouse, keyboard etc.


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    #3
    andre2010
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 237 ✭✭andre2010


    Shiminay wrote: »
    Unless you build it yourself, you're pretty much always going to be ripped off when buying a gaming machine. It's actually pretty easy to build a machine, the lads and ladies on the PC Building and Upgrading forum would be well able to help. You'll build a very impressive machine for €800 - less than €1000 if you need to include monitor, mouse, keyboard etc.

    Thank you for that. i will check that out


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    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    If you are going to go for a desktop then putting it together yourself is the best option, infact a lot of sites even offer that service for just a couple of euro extra.

    If you want a gaming laptop then I'd recommend this crowd http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/. I bought a clevo p150hm from them and its brillant. They are custom made so might take up to a month to get it but its worth it.

    Should note though that a comparable desktop to a gaming laptop would be about a 500-600 euro cheaper (maybe even more...). Plus they are more 'desktop replacements' then laptops, the battery life would never get past 2 hours and thats just from normal use nevermind gaming. So unless you really need it to be a laptop (space restrictions/traveling) then I would go for the desktop any day of the week.


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    cgarrad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭cgarrad


    http://www.scan.co.uk


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