I'm arbitrarily capping my budget around $1k with ~$800 being preferable, but I am flexible (e.g. if someone happens to know of one at like $1.1k that is just super goddamn amazing, I'd be willing to work with that).
I've been searching a bit, but I have very little knowledge of hardware and performance. It is my understanding that the GPU is the most important, with most CPUs and RAM being sufficient. Most everything I've found within my price range seems to be i5/i7, >=8 GB RAM, and GeForce 940M, 940MX, or 960M.
These are the ones I found that, as best as I can tell, seem decent:
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 8GB DDR4, 1TB HDD + 128GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M - $950 (Q&A says 4GB VRAM, but it's not actually listed in the specs)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 8GB DDR4, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB - $869
Intel Core i7-7500U 2.7 GHz, 12GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 4GB - $750
I have a 250 GB mSATA SSD, but unfortunately it looks like the only one listed there has a different kind of slot (M.2, which google tells me superseded mSATA).
So my specific questions are:
- Are there any more specific GPUs I should look for, or are these ones fine? My friend said 10xx series, but 960M was the highest I saw within the price range.
- Am I on the right track (specs are fine, not overlooking or trivializing anything), and if so are there any better stores I might try than Amazon? I haven't looked at newegg, I'll probably look there next.
- Is, by some mircale, one of the ones I've already found a good enough choice? I'll probably still check newegg and around to compare prices.
- Any further suggestions or things to consider?
As I said before I don't know much about hardware, so any input is greatly appreciated.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 13 2016, 12:23 am by FaRTy1billion.
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