Hi. I am a new user to this forum and was hoping for some help in regards to a decision I need to make. I have just finished high school and am rewarding myself by upgrading my crappy dell inspiron 1525. However, I am at a loss as to what I want to upgrade to: a DTR or a full desktop.
If I get a laptop, I will spend $2750 on an Alienware m17x R4 with the following specs:
CPU = i7 3740QM
OS = Win 7 Premium
Memory = 12GB DDR3 1600mhz
Hard Drive = 64gb mSATA SSD + 500GB 7200rpm HDD
GPU = 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Optical Drive = Blu-ray RW
WiFi = Intel Centrino Wireless-N w/ Bluetooth 4.0
However, I have been contemplating buying a desktop and getting one of the new hybrid tablet/ultrabooks to take to uni. I expect to spend about $1000 on the tablet ultrabook which leaves me with $1700 for the desktop. Will this $1700 be enough for a computer to match the above laptop specs in performance? I've been looking at the i7 3770K and nvidia 670. But should I wait for the new haswell chips to come out? I'm really looking for a combo of power and upgradability, because I plan to study IT and Mathematics (who knows what I might need to do) and playing games at 1080p would be nice as well. Anyway For the MoBo i was thinking Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 and I would build around that with the 3770k and the nvidia 670.
Thanks for your help,
Sup
If I get a laptop, I will spend $2750 on an Alienware m17x R4 with the following specs:
CPU = i7 3740QM
OS = Win 7 Premium
Memory = 12GB DDR3 1600mhz
Hard Drive = 64gb mSATA SSD + 500GB 7200rpm HDD
GPU = 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Optical Drive = Blu-ray RW
WiFi = Intel Centrino Wireless-N w/ Bluetooth 4.0
However, I have been contemplating buying a desktop and getting one of the new hybrid tablet/ultrabooks to take to uni. I expect to spend about $1000 on the tablet ultrabook which leaves me with $1700 for the desktop. Will this $1700 be enough for a computer to match the above laptop specs in performance? I've been looking at the i7 3770K and nvidia 670. But should I wait for the new haswell chips to come out? I'm really looking for a combo of power and upgradability, because I plan to study IT and Mathematics (who knows what I might need to do) and playing games at 1080p would be nice as well. Anyway For the MoBo i was thinking Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 and I would build around that with the 3770k and the nvidia 670.
Thanks for your help,
Sup