Consoles rule, and game makers primarily target Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox as the game systems of choice. Intel's latest processing chips, known as Haswell, easily handle the rigors of the most demanding PC games. Calling MSI's GT70 a laptop is technically true, but it's a beast compare with the thin and light breed of laptops that dominate these days. The configuration I tested weighs 8.6 pounds and boasts a 17.3-inch screen, measured diagonally, with a resolution of 1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels for high-definition graphics. Coupled with 32 gigabytes of internal memory, the maximum this processor can use, the GT70 handles a demanding blend of titles without a hitch or hang-up. There's a generous 1 terabytes of hard drive space to store your games and 128 gigabytes of solid-state storage for faster access to data. "Wolfenstein," a first-person shooter involving Nazis and supernatural powers, recommends systems with at least at a 2.4 gigahertz processor and 2 gigabytes of memory. If you a purist gamer, you're likely in the market for a liquid-cooled PC running a quad-core Intel chip with enough fans to dissipate the heat of your overclocked microprocessor. Running the maximum shadow and detail settings while playing "Crysis" in full-screen mode, I still breezed up to 95 frames per second during full melee action. The base price for the Digital Storm Virtue is $1,509, but most gamers tend to choose specific component upgrades when ordering a PC to add RAM, extra hard disk space, Blu-Ray drives and other niceties.
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