Gaming Laptop Deals & Offers

How would this deal with video editing? My lass is after a laptop

It’s a decent laptop, build quality is very good. Speed wise it’s pretty nippy, the SSD ensures that. The screen is nice and clear, obviously it’s a FHD screen but some can look awful but this one is very clear. What everyone is saying about the graphics card is basically correct, the laptop is just within the spectrum of a gaming laptop the 1050 can run Full HD Gaming on 60fps pretty easily, anything above it will struggle. Overall I still say for the price it’s very nice laptop obviously people have their own preferences and opinions, I personally would prefer an i5 8th gen or an i7, but in real life I have noticed nothing wrong with the Ryzen 7. If you are okay with the size of it (it’s not the thinnest laptop in the world) then I can’t imagine you would regret it. I don’t own this laptop I am just lucky enough to be able to test run a great deal of laptops :)

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Thanks (y) always great when a owner (I think by picture) replies ... What do you think of the laptop ? My 11 year old desktop is finally dead (not worth spending any time or money on so I am now more seriously looking) I'm also mainly looking for video/photo editing less in the going side. Thanks

I was reading something today about another laptop with a discrete GPU. Looks like the reason they may have designed it this way was that the 1050 kicks in only if you're gaming. For everything else, it uses the on-chip Vega. Makes sense - improves power consumption when you're not gaming.

Dont know about this graphics card in particular but have this laptop, and very impressed with it. Recommended

Glad some people dislike this laptop. I snapped this on ebay for £600, but mine has m.2 SSD in addition to 1TB, 120Hz screen and a 6GB GTX 1060. With an undervolted CPU these have no throttling and no thermal issues, while remaining some of the slimmest and lightest models out there. Brilliant laptop!

I5-8300H & GTX1050 for £524.99....and it's refurbished?? Rip-Off Britain at it's finest!

Yeah compared to this night and day, I personally went a bit more and got an MSI Raider! Fantastic laptop, IMO better to pay a bit more for a laptop that can actually perform like it should and look good too!

Is the dell g3 worth considering?

I've got the 8th gen I7 version of this laptop. Cool air is drawn from underneath (possibly as well as from on top - there are grills top and bottom, and on the sides). Build quality seems fine but as I've come from a seven-year old ASUS, I haven't really got anything to compare it to. I have had no thermal issues at all (whether during game play or video rendering). I have however seen power throttling (as indicated by the Intel Tuning Utility). I have not noticed any adverse effects as a result of that. I've been following an interesting thread (here) and trying various tweaks through throttlestop and afterburner to try and reduce the incidence of power throttling. But since I have not experienced any actual issues, this has been more out of curiosity than anything else. If willy-waving over cinebench scores is your thing, you may be disappointed with this laptop. However, if you just want a decent laptop that works, then on my experience this one is a good buy. And for anybody interested, there is a new BIOS update (305) which, oddly, only seems to be obtainable through updating the "System Firmware" in Device Manager.

What's the build quality like for Asus?

What's the best laptop for under £1000 for gaming / work?

Where do these take their input airstream from? I've read somewhere that it is from holes between the keys, at the topside of the laptop and not the underside - so using the laptop closed (as a desktop with external keyboard mouse and monitor) doesn't work well. I have a laptop tray that incorporates 4 Peltier coolers within it - blowing cooled air out the 1" square holes from which the blanking plates have been removed. So it is easy to line the holes up with the laptop air intake, if it;s in the bottom. Not good with a laptop that takes air from topside, though. Not idle curiosity - I need a laptop, but am a bit put off this one, by the thought of it over-heating.

One owner was saying it runs great (1080p 60fps ultra) and is happy while the other is looking into the specifics and noticing he's not getting max performance. If you're looking at casual gaming this is still a great choice for the price. It seems the throttling only happens to the GPU yet still manages to get 1080p 60fps at ultra, so how is this not a good deal? In fact a recent BIOS update apparently increased the performance 15-20%.

Retail price was £1799 but I got an open box one for a reasonable price

Was it 1699?

Intel version, Got it from Currys Pcworld Clearance

Did you get the AMD or Intel? Also where did you get it? Can't find any deals, let alone good deals on it at all right now.

If only it was still available ;(

Yeah thought so, you haven't been running any benchmarking/testing software to monitor it... oh dear... just an fps counter on Steam... :|

I can see the FPS, it's a setting in steam, and the FPS scores I'm getting are great... It doesn't freeze or stutter. Nothing but good experiences with this laptop personally...

Wrong, I take it you haven't tested or benchmarked on a gaming laptop then!? Just because you think everything seems okay on your screen doesn't mean that is the case, throttling affects FPS too. People on my channel commented my FPS numbers were lower than what it should be for that GPU, do you know why that was? It was throttling, I run throttlestop in the background and it was telling me while gaming the laptop was throttling. Not only was it reducing FPS it affected temps, and sometimes it caused stutters/freeze in games. Just so you know just because it doesn't do that for you or didn't do it all the time for me doesn't mean its not throttling, I know what I am talking about here! Its not just about smoothness/freezing/stutter, I can drop the FPS from what it really should be performing at because of throttling. I have my own channel, with many subscribers who like me are into PC Gaming and also benchmark/test games. I am just warning gamers to the issues these have, and as said above ASUS urgently should be recalling these as they are not fit for purpose!

It CAN but it's not. Like I said. I can see all these things if they happen...

I can see how it performs... If it stutters or slows down there's something wrong with it. If it runs everything I need at great FPS then it's working as it should...

Are MSI the best gaming laptops cost to performance wise? I'm lost with them all... I understand the spec isn't everything but also the cooling. I don't want to spend more than 1k....

Fair point made... I've been looking for so long for a gaming laptop that everything's looking the same! (lol)

1050 :( 4 GB >.< no SSD :o Wouldnt be claiming this to be high end tbh

Poor offer, needs to be closer to 500

(y) Good luck with the Mrs. (lol) (lol)

Same as me, the missus will hit the roof when she sees me unboxing a huge impractical gaming laptop and not a mac or something that we had been discussing. (lol) The noise wouldn't be a problem for me it's more the heat escaping through the keyboard and getting hot and sticky that used to do my head in years ago on an old budget gaming laptop. Got a friend who is a student and HP have upto 35% discount on UNIDAYS so if I can get a good discount I'll probably go for the OMEN but if I can't I'll think I'll be going for this (y) Cheers for sharing.

This is my first gaming pc for about 15 years so I'm a bit of a noob again, I'm used to console gaming these days but we needed a new laptop anyway so why not? :) I've not used it for an extended gaming session yet, I had to wait for the CoD download to be confirmed and I didn't have much else to play in the mean time. I have played a little Fortnite and Eve though, you can obviously hear the fans when playing but no more than I would expect and not noticeable at all with a headset on.

That seems fairly decent deal considering the spec. How is the fan noise and the thermals? I'm keen on getting this: store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=3ZV54EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB& from researching its a huge improvement on the one listed on this deal (2017 version) Only gripe is HP had a 15%off code that's now expired.

After a bit of research i decided on an offer from Box.co.uk for an MSI GP 73 Leopard in the end. It was £1389 with a few freebies thrown in (CoD Black Ops 4, Fortnite pack, headset, bag and soft toy Dragon :D ). It's a 17.3 inch, i7 8th gen, 16gb ram, 1070 8gb gpu, 256 SSD, 1tb HDD so worth the extra £££ even without the dragon imo (lol) . It was only listed as £10 off so I didn't post it here, however the day after I bought it, it went up to £1599! It is back down to £1399 now though (I just checked). (y)