"Gaming" laptop <$1100?

[Kanaric]

Recently had my car broken into because i left it for 10 minutes in las vegas which of course is a mistake since people steal anything not bolted to the ground (lie because they steal that too, there was a dead homeless man near where i live because he was cutting live power cable out of the ground to sell the copper)

Anyways had a Gateway FX 7905 and it was starting to be annoyingly slow. Don't need anything powerful, i don't play graphically intense games on the laptop just watch movies and play simple games like Crusader Kings 2 but want something with a decent enough video card to play games. Looking for 17", kind of similar to what the laptop I had at the time it was new. Any suggestions? Am behind on laptop video cards so I have no clue what is current.

Laptop buying guide seems horribly outdated.

[karamazovmm]

Yeah.... Im guilty on that.

For 1100 your only option is to get simply the msi force 1762. If you can go to 15 there is msi foce 16f3 and the np9130.

Now that you know the models, lets go for the gpus:

660m = new kepler cores, its slower than the 570m

570m = fermi core, with an overcclock it became the 670m, performance is relatively interesting

485m = fermi core, based on the 560 ti, with a slight oc you get the 580m, and this year it becomes the 675mm, performance is around 20-30% less than the desktop counterpart

7970m = gcn, one bad ass motherer its simply a 7870 with 15% clock reduction, performance is around 10% less than the desktop counterpart