any computer tecks out there

[wolf_bluejay]

Originally Posted by fishguyxd

I looking at new laptop or upgrading desktop
looking to see what a decent video card would be is any suggestions

I hate to say it, but I think gaming laptops are the worst of both worlds. They are usually much bigger for the screen, heavy from the extra hardware and have very short battery life. My usual recommendation (other than buy a console for games) is to buy a power desktop for gaming and a netbook if you need to be portable. Heck, buy both it would still be cheaper. That, and I see a lot of fancy gaming laptops that are usually dead in under a year due to overheating problems.

Think in terms of numbers -- a desktop with 8 or 16 Gig or ram ($10 per Gig nowadays) is easy to do, with dual hard drives, and dual head video (2 screens yippee) is not that much money. If you want that in a laptop, you are going to pay. I don't even think I've seen a laptop that goes over 4 Gig of ram, let alone 1TB of drive space. And yet, you can buy a 42" LCD TV and hook you're hdmi as the screen instead of a puney 16" or 18" laptop screen.


Disclaimer: this is coming from a guy that runs BIG machines that no laptop on the planet could do what I need to run So laptops are just for portability for me.