looking for input. I am in the market for a laptop that would be good for gaming...

[Jack Gray Jr]

looking for input. I am in the market for a laptop that would be good for gaming (mostly FPS and open world RPG) but also good for streaming and needs to be able to handle a remote connection so my wife can log into her work computer from home. any idea what i should have just as far as minimum specs go?

 

[Zachary Abel]

I've got the Alienware 17 R4. It's pricey but it's a beast. It's also got a fantastic cooler on it. Under heavy gaming the keyboard barely gets warm. My other laptop, the keyboard will burn your fingerprints off.

 

[Jack Gray Jr]

hmmm i haven't even thought to look at Alienware yet.

 

[Jack Gray Jr]

but good to know, thanks!

 

[Zachary Abel]

My only complaint was this one only had a 1tb mechanical drive in it so it was kind of sluggish. After putting my 250gb M.2 in it alongside the 1TB, it's really sweet.

 

[Jack Gray Jr]

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[Jack Gray Jr]

this is what im eyeballing

 

[Lukas Stadler]

Check mysn and the evga series

 

[Zachary Abel]

I've got the 1050 in my other laptop and it's pretty lethargic. I'd recommend at least a 1060, but it boils down to what you're willing to spend. The 1070 in my Alienware doesn't bat an eye at anything.

 

[Lukas Stadler]

1060;for fhd 1080 for 4k. Try get a desktop cpu. 8 threads are a must at streaming. Remote connection should be possible at all of them depending what solution you are going with

 

[Jack Gray Jr]

what would be a good budge for a PC? I might just say screw a laptop and just upgrade my PC from the ground up

 

[Jack Gray Jr]

i take that last comment back due to the inflated prices of gpu's right now

 

[Zachary Abel]

A lot of people are finding it cheaper to buy a pre-built with a good GPU in order to avoid inflated GPU prices.

 

[Zachary Abel]

Also, supposedly Microcenter honors the GPU's MSRP if you buy all the components to upgrade from them ie: MOBO, RAM, CPU...

 

[Lukas Stadler]

evga has some nice bundles if you do a complete upgrade, so if you buy mobo+psu you get the gpu at msrp as far as I know, you could look into that.
For a PC that also is fine for streaming with no spare parts left I wouldn't go under 1200 with 1500 being the point where we talk about performance for your money