Thanks for the help guys, another question which may sound totally stupid.
Is there such a thing as a gaming laptop?
And what specs should I be looking for on a gaming computer/laptop ie. Graphics card, GHz whatever that is, memory and or ram. Haha I don't even know what I just asked.
Well I don't do laptops to begin with, so I neither can nor will be able to help on that end.
If you want to go all out on a video card, I'd say go for an EVGA product (or whatever the AMD equivalent to EVGA would be, I don't keep tabs on AMD so I can't say) like their Geforce GTX580/680 Classified Hydro-Copper 3GB line (I've a GTX580 3GB, and going SLI with it in a few months rather than upgrading to a 600-series myself). When it comes to memory, I've had best results with Corsair's Dominator and Dominator GT products (albeit I generally will recommend Corsair, Kingston, and G.Skill when it comes to memory), and general recommendations are between 8~12GB (which also has a clockspeed, and I'd honestly suggest 1600MHz or higher at least).
In terms of your CPU, I tend to stick to Intel so I don't keep tabs on AMD where the CPU is concerned either, and unless you are planning to build your own I won't go into the extra details. Anyways, you should look for a CPU with 4
physical cores, a clockspeed of the high-2GHz (like no lower than 2.66GHz), but preferably around 3.1~3.3GHz I think it is, which for Intel is the new generation of i5 processors (though Intel's i7 processors more than qualifies).
Of course there are other things to look out for, like your PSU (I'd say go with 750w so you can have room to expand in the future and to over-clock; it is actually an important device in your computer despite its usual low-ranking in suggestion posts as one bad PSU can fry the entire computer), hard drives (I'd say go for a Samsung F3~F4 hard drive or Western Digital RE4/Velociraptor if you can; most people don't usually use more than 500~750GB, but if you're like me and have lots of games, hentai, anime, roms, torrents, etc., the works, you'll need much more eventually - I have almost 5TB of hard drives filled up and working on expanding that to 10~20TB by next year as I prefer keeping a hard drive no fuller than 50%) or as some would suggest a solid-state drive/disk (I've not used one yet, but I do plan on getting one in a few months to be used for my OS & games drive).
I know I've said a lot more for someone buying a desktop PC (I can't help it), so I'll try to recap.
1. Nvidia/AMD
GPU with 3GB memory. Sorry, meant 1.5GB memory (AKA video memory), otherwise perhaps a GTX560Ti or AMD equivalent at least.
2. Triple channel of 12GB, Quad-channel of 8GB, or higher. Preferably with a +1600MHz clockspeed if possible (I've quite honestly forgotten if any desktop brand-names advertise the memory clockspeed).
3. PSU with 750w for plenty of room to grow, and needs to be a good quality build too unless you don't mind your desktop frying eggs for breakfast instead of letting you play. (I've never trusted most desktop PC brand-name manufacturers' PSU to begin with though, but I do believe both CyberpowerPC and iBuypower give you good options.)
4. Intel/AMD 4-physical core 3GHz (also a higher cache is good too)
5. 500~750GB 7200 RPM hard drive (unless again you're like me) and perhaps a SSD if optional.
6. I prefer NZXT Phantom cases, they're like the best thing since cheesecake for me. (And I absolutely love cheesecake!)
7. Windows 64bit OS (preferably Windows 7 IMO... I don't like Windows 8's MetroUI for a desktop, and I don't even like Windows OS anymore (I love how Linux operates), but I'm practically forced to use it since no one wants to support what I want to use.)
Now if you ever want to build your own computer (it is always cheaper, even if you buy the parts but pay someone else to build it for you), I like to miss around with Newegg wishlists to see what could be built for what budget and that kind of stuff. XD
