Understand that you can't recommend any particular company, but can you at least confirm that you have thoroughly tested that a high-end laptop can run ESO smoothly on ultra settings? And provide the general specifications of that laptop, like how much ghz the cpu had, without mentioning whether you used an Intel or AMD for instance. Thanks!

ChaosWotan wrote: »

I'm going to buy an expensive gaming laptop, so will appreciate it if some of you can recommend a laptop, as "cheap" as possible, in the range between 2-3 thousand dollars, which can run ESO in a way that is totally and completely smooth.

In other words, can you please recommend a laptop that you have tested thoroughly and know with one hundred certainty that it's able to run ESO on ultra-settings in a way that is smooth in such a degree that it will satisfy your average high-end gamer (not counting lag and stuttering caused by the occasional low ping.)

In particular, since ESO is cpu intensive, is it necessary to buy a laptop with the Intel i7-4980HQ which has a turbo boost of 4.0 ghz? Or is the 4710HQ, with a turbo boost of 3.5 ghz, enough to run ESO smoothly, without microstuttering, on ultra?

Please provide an accurate answer, because I don't want to invest three thousand dollars on a computer and then get the reply: "Oh, we are sorry that the laptop we recommended didn't work sufficiently after all".

Appreciate your help.

Want desktop performance in a laptop? How about the ability to upgrade key components like graphic cards or processers without having to buy a new unit. 3 years back I discovered a company called Sager Notebooks this place was a dream come true for me . This kinda sounds like I'm a rep lol

Anyways check out www.sagernotebook.com. WARNING!!! they are not cheap my latest laptop cost around 4300$ with a intell extreme processor and dual nvidia 880m cards I think they have the 900 series now.

I think there is a reseller called pcpower or something that has some extra cool features like adding heatsinks and custom carbon fiber case stuff like that

if you going cyrodill, there is no smooth gameplay. be ready for low fps.
just saying

I picked up an MSI GS Series GS60 Ghost Pro 3K-095 Gaming Laptop about 2 months ago, after reading really good reviews of it, and it runs on Ultra settings without a hitch. It was about $1700 from NewEgg at the time, so well under your budget, and it's crazy lightweight, under 4.5 pounds not counting power brick. (I bought it because I was about to start traveling internationally, and I wanted something a good gaming system that wouldn't add much weight to my trekking pack.)

It seems to perform well; I load in and out of areas fairly quickly, on par with my desktop-playing friends and the only obvious issues have been lag when I was playing in poor-wifi areas which is hardly the laptop's fault. I haven't seen any visual issues with it at all; it uses a very recent mobile graphics chip, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 3GB GDDR5. The screen is darker than the desktop+HDTV combo I'd been using, but the colors were much richer, and the detail was finer. I've been really happy with it, and I shared a gaming room last week with a couple of other ESO players and they liked how it looked also.

Update: I should include that the fan is a touch noisy when the system heats up during gameplay. I don't notice it when I'm wearing headphones, and it's not too distracting even when I'm not wearing them, but it's worth noting for completeness.

Katar_Bird wrote: »

ChaosWotan wrote: »

gaming laptop

Oxymoron right there.

Not really. They are just huge, heavy, hot and expensive. They can perform just as well as a desktop though.

Basically the adage "We can do anything...that you can afford" applies.

I'm running a Razer Blade 2014 because I travel a lot for work. Runs on ultra very well. I used to have a Clevo, but hated lugging that monster around. The blade looks exactly like a flat black MacBook...