Hi all looking at buying a Gaming Laptop sli or not to sli is the question?

[Danny boy]

Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4910MQ (2.90GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 880M - 8.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 1TB SEAGATE HYBRID GEN3 SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
RAID NONE
mSATA SSD Drive 120GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd mSATA SSD Drive 120GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 6x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE

Budget of 2000 to 2400 but would please the wife if it was more around the 2000 mark

 

[keynes]

Is this just for gaming? I personally wouldn't go with a SLI setup in a laptop due to limited cooling, the cpu seems also overkill just for gaming. If it was me I would buy a vortex with a single GTX 880m and upgrade in a couple of years.

 

[Danny boy]

What GPU would you get?

The wife would be happy without the sli :yes:

 

[keynes]

Just for gaming, a Vortex with the GTX 880m, 240gb SSD with a 750gb Scorpio black, 8gb ram and the i7-4710mq. Around £1500 and I would save the rest for a new laptop in a couple of years.

 

[Danny boy]

Thanks the wife will be happier!