Gamer Laptop become more powerful as laptop technology offers new platforms and increasing performance. In the past days when a serious PC gamer would laugh at the idea of using a laptop for gaming. While gaming PCs still hold a slight advantage over gamer laptop (mainly when it comes to upgrade), gamer laptop now offer a alternative, even for hardcore PC gamers. If your next computer purchase is a laptop you should consider or these five major factors or components to get the best gamer laptop. These five features are: Graphics Card, Processor, RAM, Hard Drive and Display.

Graphics Card for Gamer Laptop

The major part of a gamer laptop is the Graphics Card. You want a high-end Graphics card with dedicated RAM to take care all the latest video games. Integrating graphics simply won’t be able to process all the complex features of modern 3-D games. Most top branded or high-end gamer laptop now have two or more Graphics Cards working together in CrossFire or SLI (Scalable Link Interface) to give premium handling power. You should also check to see if your new gaming system has at least 256MB of video memory as this will help with the smooth running of your games.

Most Gamer Laptop use the latest NVIDIA or ATI GPUs

Graphics Chipset which are highly rated by gamer are ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, ATI’s Mobility FireGL V3200 or NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 is a high quality Graphics Card or VPU (Visual Processing Unit) present in next generation gamer laptop. This will give you higher performance at a lower power level, which save battery power. It also makes your gamer laptop capable of many functions such as 3D games, wide-screen HDTV, dynamic presentations, mobile video editing studio and graphic processor.

For NVIDIA gamer laptop graphics card, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 would be best the choice with new dual-GPU card that support 1GB of graphics processing power. This 1GB GPU is the same as putting two 512MB cards together through SLI technology.

Many gamer laptop now come with integrated graphics, where components interact and are sometimes shared, especially memory. If you want a gamer laptop for 3D games, you should check the amount of video RAM, which is the memory that is dedicated to graphic or video applications. Other common graphic chipset for gamer laptop are STMicro, 3D Labs, Matrox, Trident S3 and SIS.