considering building a laptop from scratch

[Mr.SoapPowder]

Hi yall

Im considering building me a gaming laptop buying all the parts seperate.
First time ive thought about it and was wondering if this is even an advisable to do so.
My thoughts were in a g75 or somewhere in that ball park.

Any opinions and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[samm]

how r you getting the chassis?

Its certainly doable, but Its easier and stable to get a new gaming laptop pre-built

 

[Mr.SoapPowder]

Well i saw a barebones laptop thats the whole laptop in it self with just a mobo and the screen. Everything else id have to get seperately. Which brings me to another question.
The g75 runs the 600 series mobile geforce cards, is it possible to slap a 770m on that board or will it not support it?

 

[samm]

It depends on the motherboard package. If the MB is coming with a soldered discrete card then answer is no, and only a different motherboard will solve that. However if the board has a mini pci express slot (its called something else for laptops) then, a simple swap should work.

 

[Mr.SoapPowder]

Well that sounds good atleast i have hope lol.
This will be my first attempt at a laptop but ive always been interested in learning how to build one. Thank you for your response ill be doing some more research on my required parts and then get started with this fun little project

 

[pxc]

Any opinions and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.

That way is going to be quite expensive.

A few things about GPU choices... Asus uses a non-standard MXM-like form factor for its GPU options on the G75 models. The only cards you can plug in there are the cards offered by Asus which are compatible with the G75, and Asus dropped AMD GPUs as options a while ago. IOW, you'll find zero AMD graphics cards for that laptop now, and the forecast is iffy for any in the forseeable future.

For all intents and purposes, the G75 has a proprietary video card slot with limited upgrade options. If that was the problem you were trying to avoid by going this route, sorry to disappoint you. At least you know in advance.

I would just buy a decent brand laptop with a good upgrade support track record. The price is likely to be similar to a DIY system, with a warranty that doesn't involve a lot of finger pointing by multiple vendors if something goes wrong.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

I would take a look at the MSI whitebook offerings as they have many options to choose from and have great build quality. There are many carriers of the whitebooks and would have really good people to ask questions about parts compatibility. If you are looking for some storage speed pick up an MSI whitebook that has SUPER raid (raid 0 MSATA 2-3 ). You probably would be best off getting a premade model to upgrade or one through a boutique customizer for warranty purposes

 

[netsider]

Build a mini ITX computer, and just attach a small screen onto whatever case you put it into.

I admire someone willing to do all the work to make a project out of building a laptop from scratch... but that just seems like a lot of work for not that much payoff.

 

[limitedaccess]

If you mean in terms of what netsider is actually suggesting that would be an interesting project. It's been done before though, I've seen project logs for it years ago, including getting battery support.

If you mean terms of using an existing presold chassis it depends on your expectations. You won't get anywhere near desktop level customization, upgrade ability, and pricing advantage though.