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gaming laptop that's quiet?

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dennador

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I have a budget of $1500-$1600 and I was drooling over the gs60 003, but all the reviews I have found say that it is very loud, cooks laps, and the gaming temp almost overheats the cpu/gpu. I am a college student so this doesn't work for me. I LOVE the look of the simple black brushed aluminum, I just wish it was quiet. :(

xoticpc builds? I am looking for something thin, light, and quiet to game with, but none of the laptops on xoticpc list how loud they are.

I can compromise on the size and weight somewhat, but I would like it to stay portable, MSI's GT series is simply humongous, but if they are completely silent, I would consider them.

I would like it to have a GTX 860M gpu at least. I plan to be able to play AC IV, BF4, Bioshock Infinite, and Batman Arkham Knight at full graphics
 
The Asus laptops do really well that vent out of the back. Read the reviews they don't even cook your lap lol you can check one out at your local best buy.
 
Those do look really sweet. I wonder if it would fit into a backpack. I know that most people can't get the MSI GT series to fit into anything but a burlap sack. A 15.6 inch screen would be much more preferable, but this is very nice.
 
More consumer multimedia oriented devices like the Lenovo Y50 would also be more likely due to the target audience. The y510p/410p for example were very quiet (arguably to a detrimental point) and newer y50 is more compact. However there aren't any actual reviews and test data out for these yet. Also the screens are not as good (lower quality TNs) judging by early impressions and past history (and Lenovo in general).

A GTX 860m is not going to however play the all games you listed at full graphics (at 1080p anyways, and depending on what you mean), especially depending on what FPS level you are looking at. A GTX 860m is roughly equal to a desktop GTX 750ti (slightly slower, lower memory speed). Even the GTX 880m is still slower than the desktop GTX 770, and more comparable to a GTX 760 (even then it can be much slower depending on workload which is more memory bandwidth constrained).

Just something to keep in mind in terms of expectations with mobile gaming and graphics performance, especially if you are also looking for thin, light, size and quiet.
 
The Asus G750 seems to be one of the coolest and quietest running laptops out there for gaming centric needs. However it seems to only be available in 17" screen size that could be a bit too big for you.

Consider also the Asus G550JK that is much thinner and lighter and is a 15.6" laptop with a IPS 1080p display along with similar cooling to it's big bro.
 
The Asus G550JK uses a GTX850m instead of a 860m but the bigger issue is that it also uses DDR3 as opposed GDDR5 for VRAM (so yes the early reports that GTX 850m's would no longer come in DDR3 configs were in error, there are other examples as well).

So the performance drop in comparison to a GTX 860m GDDR5 laptop would be rather significant.
 
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