It came down to the Dell g3 and the Asus nitro 5.
I ended up with the Asus nitro 5 with the following
i5 8300h quad core processor
GTX 1050 Ti graphics card
8gb ddr4
256 gb SSD
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H2XQ7KW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1I'm pretty happy with my purchase, I watched quite a few videos of gamers playing AAA games with medium to high settings and hanging anywhere from 40 frames on the high settings to 60+ on medium and low settings.. I'm sure it'll do exactly what I need it for.