•Budget: ~1300
•More specific use (what games, what programs): warcraft, assassins creed, shadows of mordor, cod
•Planned time until purchase: ASAP
•Do you have any specific preferred components?: needs to have a 480GB+ ssd (or enough budget left to purchase separately) backlit keyboard would be nice but not a deal breaker
•Zip code/location? (Shipping costs): 56301

this laptop is going to be a replacement for my desktop. prefer to stay around $1,300 or less. I thought I saw a computer yesterday for about $1,100 with everything I needed. I will post the link if I find it again.
would like to get extended warranty for parts, accidentally shouldn't be needed unless cheap it wouldn't hurt to add that on.

This post was edited by ghc on Mar 24 2015 09:04am

Lenovo y50, then replace HDD with SSD for 200 bucks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232404
$1,099.00
then put this ssd in it
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct500bx100ssd1

or if u still wanna keep 1tb, + have ssd
either of these
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct500mx200ssd4
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzn5e500bw

This post was edited by Secksii on Mar 24 2015 09:49am

good call i didn't even think of those types of ssds. also for comparison I was looking at the lenovo website and found this laptop
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y50/?sb=:000001C9:0001434E:#tab-customize
what are the main things to look at when comparing the 2? they look very similar

they're basically the same, except the screen, GPU & brand.
Asus is TN, Lenovo is IPS.
Asus is 960M gpu, Lenovo is 860M, their 960M is $1,469.99.. + 200 on a SSD. Could get a better laptop @ 1.7k

maybe it didn't bring the right link. the lenovo I ws looking at was $1079.00 and had this gpu NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB

then it would just be the monitor and brand difference, with sshd

alright sounds good. I will do some more digging comparing the 2 and reading others reviews/opinions on them. wish lenovo named their laptops different.. lol hard finding up to date comparisons with these 2 laptops actually having the correct hardware to compare.

thanks for your input!

I just got the y50 yeaterday , so far no complaints but only play CS on it

u don't need a ssd
spend the full amound on laptop
add ssd later on