Good 15.6 inch gaming laptop?

patdx

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I've been eyeing the Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 Laptop - Dual Graphics with the following specs. It's on sale for only 1150$

  • Dual NVIDIA GeForce GT750M GDDR5 2GB
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor( 2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
    15.6" FHD LED Anti-Glare Wedge 1920x1080
    Windows 8
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Should I go with this laptop? or do you have any other recommendations for me?
Is it a big of a diff if I would have a dual gpu?
Are Lenovo laptops good on quality?
 
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bigcyco1

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The Lenovo Y580 15.6-Inch laptop is an all around great gaming laptop boasting a 15.6inch HD screen, a massive amount of system memory installed and a highly capable NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M graphics card with 2GB of dedicated video memory.

This is one the best choices as a gaming laptop having an unparalleled price to performance ratio and integrating a lot of useful features which span beyond a gaming ready portable machine. It runs on an Intel Core i7-3630QM which is accompanied by 6GB of RAM and a 750 GB hard drive for storage.
 

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Yes, I have seen the y580. But the latest y500 comes with two NVIDIA GeForce GT750M GDDR5 2GB. And it's on sale until May 1. I need to decide with in 12 hours by the way since I will be out of town tom. :??:
 

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I have a Y580 and its really great! A real beast.
But.. it heats up a ton and especially the harddrive reaches dangerous level temps (53C+) so you might want to keep that in mind, other than that its just everything you could ask from a laptop.
 

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Thanks! Will officially buy the y500.