GAMING LAPTOP QUESTION

[Bwils]

Considering buying a gaming laptop for my brother for his wedding/bday present. Most laptops I see are 1080p or 4k pixel counts. All I can afford is a nvidia gtx 970m graphics. Would that gpu take a dump with a 4k laptop screen? I know 4k graphics kill fps but would that matter on mmos? (he doesn't play first person shooters) Would new mmos lag out with a 4k screen with a gtx 970m? If anyone had any input let me know thanks!

[big_ole_jpn]

getting a 4k screen on a gaming laptop is dumb, as you suspect. He will be forced to downres to non-native resolution to get decent frames, especially new mmos. 1080p is plenty good.

[fash]

Sure he will be using it for gaming? The retina displays on macbooks are glorious. I'm never going back to non-retina laptops. (however, I primarily use it for non-gaming tasks)

[Daywolf]

Yeah it's way better to game in native resolution with a lappy. And you don't want to stick him with something that generates a lot of heat, it kills the life of the laptop (actually SSD drive is one of the best things you could upgrade to to avoid heat). In fact, something around 720p is fine for a laptop (it's not a giant screen), especially in games w/o a good UI interface to size them up enough to read.

I run in ~720p (little above), I'm on my laptop right now, it looks very clean to me. But the 1080p/4k is nice for running HD video... which likely you/he/they would watch on the regular tv anyway.

[joppykid]

Yeah, Laptop wise get 1080p. 4k takes too beefy of a card to be functional at a good FPS on a laptop. Desktop would be a different story. 970m would be probably fine for 4k but it would be a beast for 1080p. Granted you can always scale down but then it would be kind of pointless to have the 4k ha.

[Bwils]

yeah, I was worried he would have to down res to play games. Not using the screens native resolution makes it look funky. Didn't really want to go with 1920x1080 because I just switched out my desktop monitor from 1080 to 2560x1440 and the 1440 looks so much better. He would only be using the laptop for gaming he has a crappy work laptop for other things.

[Bwils]

Aye I agree a ssd makes a big difference it will definitely have one. PS I hate apple products I wouldn't buy him one for gaming.