Build Your Own Gaming Notebook

Are these good specs for a gaming notebook?

I am building a gaming laptop, but trying to make something that will be able to stay fairly competitive for a while. I am using cyberpower as the site i'm using, b/c i have found that the components they have are at the best value for the buck. The following are the specs of the one I was thinking of building. I need some advice as to whether or not this is going to be a decent notebook, for playing most current games, and games to come. Display LCD: 17" WSXGA+ Widescreen TFT Display 1680x1050 Pixels CPU: Mobile AMD Turion™64 X2 Dual-Core TL-64 CPU @ 2.2GHz 2x512KB L2 Cache 64-bit Low Voltage 35Watt Motherboard: ATI RS690 + SB600 Chipset Mainboard Memory: 4GB (2x2GB) PC5300 DDR2-667 SODIMM Memory (Corsair or Major Brand) Video Card: Built-in ATI Radeon HD2600 Mobile 512MB DDR2 Video Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM SATA150 HARD DRIVE Optical Drive: 8X DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE Thanks for the help.

Public Comments

1. very good laptop


2. increase the power of the CPU and i recommend to get the XT version of your graphic card thats what i got its alot better

   and make sure that motherboard got a PCI-E slot its a black SLOT buth other than that everything is good



3. sounds good but id recommend looking into a faster rw drive and maybe a faster processor and larger hard drive depending on games your planning to play


4. the 2600 isn't going to stay competitive for long. Even the 2600xt won't adequately cope with newer games like cod4, bioshock and crysis. requirements for games coming out this year will be high, (seen assissins creed specs?) so if u want to future-proof the machine as much as possible, better to look at an 8800m. You will find your options limited with a 2600. Have a look at some benchmarks and you'll see what I mean - in crysis your fps would be in the teens. The 8800 will give you a lot more gaming options in future.


5. I don't think those are bad specs, but I would recommend you just buy a cheap laptop for work purposes and then invest in a small form factor desktop computer system for gaming if you like taking your games on the go. It's far more powerful and cheaper, and far more upgradeable. If you really want to get a gaming notebook, I would suggest one of cyberpower's intel builds, their Core 2 generation of cpus tend to be more powerful clock for clock than their AMD equivalents and come with the more powerful 8600GT mobile at an equal price. And you have a little more to spend and truly want to future-proof, go for a widowpc laptop. They are the only ones I know that carry the mobile version of the 8800gtx.