How much is my gaming laptop worth?

jetski

Hi all,

What do you guys think is a fair price for this?

http://www.adverts.ie/laptops/asus-g75vw-gaming-laptop-nvidia-gtx-660m/3912020

Cheers
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SteelyDanJalapeno

600 - 700 max

jetski

cheers for reply. Can you give me a little insight into your evaluation plz

TerrorFirmer

For the same price new, you could get a much better spec'd laptop with 4th gen i7 and significantly faster GTX765M or GTX770 - not to mention full warranty etc. I'd be slow to pay more than about 650 for that laptop.

SteelyDanJalapeno

It's a 3rd gen Intel processor, nearly a year old, you haven't mentioned the Hard disk, solid or rotational? I assumed rotational and no mention of warranty left.

jetski

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

For the same price new, you could get a much better spec'd laptop with 4th gen i7 and significantly faster GTX765M or GTX770 - not to mention full warranty etc. I'd be slow to pay more than about 650 for that laptop.

Cheers, not sure what u mean by the same price new? Im looking to buy the new version of this laptop with the 780M GPU and its over 2k?

jetski

TiltedBrain wrote: »

It's a 3rd gen Intel processor, nearly a year old, you haven't mentioned the Hard disk, solid or rotational? I assumed rotational and no mention of warranty left.

Its a vector 3 / sata 3 / 128Gb

SteelyDanJalapeno

jetski wrote: »

Cheers, not sure what u mean by the same price new? Im looking to buy the new version of this laptop with the 780M GPU and its over 2k?

I picked up a 17 inch HD on haswell launch week with 765 GPU, i7 4700MQ, 32 gig ram, 1tb HDD, 120 gig SSD for about 1200, there's pushin my valuation of yours down quite a bit.

jetski

TiltedBrain wrote: »

I picked up a 17 inch HD on haswell launch week with 765 GPU, i7 4700MQ, 32 gig ram, 1tb HDD, 120 gig SSD for about 1200, there's pushin my valuation of yours down quite a bit.

Cool, where did you get that? Don't suppose they got the 780m?

TerrorFirmer

If you go to Pc Specialist, who make fantastic laptops, you can get a 4th gen i7, 8gb ram, hdd+ssd, GTX765, 3 year warranty, etc, for about 1100, and it'd kill your laptop in games. I have no idea what the current model of your laptop costs, but obviously when you ask on a forum like this, people are going to give you a 'real' value of a laptop and make comparisons to other options - much the same way as anyone who spends 2k on say, a Dell 'Gaming machine' is only getting about 50% of the value they'd get self building.

Based on your laptops specs and ages, I can't see anyone paying anywhere near 1k for it.

If you had 2K to spend, you could actually buy the aforementioned Pc specialist laptop AND a gaming desktop that'd be much faster than it for the same price as that updated version of the Asus, which is a ridiculous price.

SteelyDanJalapeno

jetski wrote: »

Cool, where did you get that? Don't suppose they got the 780m?

PC specialist,

You'll get a configuration you're after for ~1600

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/SkyFireIII/

jetski

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

If you go to Pc Specialist, who make fantastic laptops, you can get a 4th gen i7, 8gb ram, hdd+ssd, GTX765, 3 year warranty, etc, for about 1100, and it'd kill your laptop in games. I have no idea what the current model of your laptop costs, but obviously when you ask on a forum like this, people are going to give you a 'real' value of a laptop and make comparisons to other options - much the same way as anyone who spends 2k on say, a Dell 'Gaming machine' is only getting about 50% of the value they'd get self building.

Based on your laptops specs and ages, I can't see anyone paying anywhere near 1k for it.

If you had 2K to spend, you could actually buy the aforementioned Pc specialist laptop AND a gaming desktop that'd be much faster than it for the same price as that updated version of the Asus, which is a ridiculous price.

Cheers, im only into the 780m, has very nice performance stats for the new BF4 coming out and desktops are not for me just don't like being stuck in a room. ive update the price to 900 so see what comes in

SteelyDanJalapeno

jetski wrote: »

Cheers, im only into the 780m, has very nice performance stats for the new BF4 coming out and desktops are not for me just don't like being stuck in a room. ive update the price to 900 so see what comes in

Hope you get it sold.

TerrorFirmer

With laptops, the more you spend, the more and faster you loose, unfortunately. The depreciation rate is brutal.

jetski

I know, such a pity the GPU are not easy to swap out! its only the 780M part I want! doh.