Selling my Clevo P170EM, what's a good build to get (laptop or desktop)?

I've put my Clevo P170EM on eBay with less than 7 hours left (still with zero bids). It's a little sad to say good bye but I've been thinking about building a desktop for a while now. Before I do that, is there a Clevo build out there that might keep me in the gaming laptop world? I just want to double check and make sure before I blow some dough on a desktop.

 

Depends what you consider enough frames per second on games.

The higher end 17" Clevo builds have dual 880M's, which for games that allow SLI, tends to come close or even exceed a GeForce Titan. The high end 17" even has a desktop i7 processor with a good raid configuration.

The only things you won't have are:
1. SLI Titan performance you can get in a desktop.
2. Higher than 1920x1080 resolution in a screen (short of an external monitor or three)
3. Raid 5 capabilities (short of external disk)
4. Some ghosting with keyboards with very specific games (like BF4) that an external keyboard would take care of.
5. Liquid cooling the rig.

So #2 and #3 (to some extent) and #4 can be worked around. #1 would be your bottleneck.

#5 would be possible with some serious hacking, but I've heard rumors of some people trying it, no idea on the success rate, and I'd be nervous with a liquid cooled mobile solution.

So, is extreme high-end gaming possible with a Clevo solution? Absolutely.

Would it hit every checkmark you're looking for out of the box? That's up to you.

 

you could also try selling it on our own > NBR Marketplace

 

id recommend looking into some other resources. i tend to look through reddit.com/r/buildapc every now and then.

edit: my apologies i misunderstood your post