What should i do with my money!

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Pre warning this is a long post!

I have a couple options as to where I spend my money, I will list them below and I want your opinion on what I am doing.

  1. This option is the first and most questionable of the options for me, I buy a laptop for college and for when I am out the house so where ever I am I have full access to the power that I need, ignoring the fact I have a OnePlus One. Now I wont be using the laptop much at college since I have a main workstation at home and I prefer taking hand notes in class, I will primarily be using in free periods. I will also only be using the laptop when I am out of the house. With this option it leaves me with enough money to put a 970 into my main workstation and have a little money spare. The laptop will cost around £650 and with current prices the 970 will be around £250 - £300. The laptop only really needs to be able to play source games and some other light weight games.

  2. This option is where I go and ignore the laptop because I feel that I wont get enough use from the laptop and instead I go overhaul on my main rig and get an X99 motherboard, 16GB DDR4 RAM and I7 5820K. The choice of motherboard is at the moment between the ASUS X99 Pro or the ASUS X99 Deluxe (USB 3.1). This will cost me between £650 to £750 and MAY leave me with enough for a 970. I feel that I will get more use out of this option that I would option 1 but it would remove the convenience of having a laptop as well as my main rig, although as I have said I don't feel I would get masses of use out of a laptop anyway. With this option I will take my old kit and buy a cheap PSU, Case and HDD and make the old kit into a test bench style PC.

  3. I dont do either and I go and buys some kind of high power tablet that would be cheaper than a laptop and less powerful but I am left with some money to either go ham and get the X99 kit or a 970. Not so sure about this option but it is there.

  4. I save the money and do nothing with it, bit boring but that's an option

Now this is where you guys have to help me what option do I go for and what things would you change about my options. I need your opinions on what is wrong with my ideas etc. Do you have any cheaper laptops which can do the job in mind, are there ways that I can do bit of both. If you had not already guess option 2 will be by far the most expensive so if you have a cheaper motherboard which is just as good can you link it. This is all in the UK

Links -
- Laptop (Modified version of what on this link) http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/15in-gaming-laptop-nvidia-geforce-gt-940m It will have the I7 4710MQ, 16GB of my own memory which I already have, my own HDD and a 120GB mSATA drive.

My Current Rig Is
CPU - I7 4770K
Cooling - Corsair H110
RAM - 8GB Corsair Dominator
Mobo - ASUS Z-87 Pro
Storage - 2 x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, 2 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB
PSU - Corsair RM 750
Case - Corsair Air 540
Disk Drive - Some shitty one

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If you upgrade to X99 you could sell your current CPU, motherboard and RAM, and get enough for a decent refurbished laptop.

IMO, if you have a gaming rig already, there isn't much need to have a gaming laptop. Get an ultrabook. Your back will thank you.

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5. send the money via paypal to weare138

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Kappa

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Thats quite a good call, although i was gonna keep it and make some kind of jerry rigged server and TS hosting system

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I reckon a 970 or 390 now, then save the rest of the cash for when you need to buy a nice laptop/ultrabook for college.

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well your current setup is allready very decent.
which tasks are you doing with it mainaly?

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Pretty heavy gaming, will be restarting my folding@home stuff, moderate amounts of rendering, the odd server style task in the background while i game. That kind of stuff

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as you can see above, you should clearly go buy something from AMD :)
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What did i just watch

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Ah okay, yeah then an upgrade to X99 would make sense.
Especialy if you have allot of heavy rendering stuff.

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Get a workstation laptop and put linux on it. XD

Or invest

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Decided that for the meantime i am gonna put it on hold and get a 970 and extra 8GB of RAM, Then gonna move to the X99 platform at christmas when all the skylake hype has died down and any subtle price rises have dropped back to normal, in addition to that i will have more money by that point so i will have a larger buffer space also by that point DDR4 may be even cheaper, although its pretty low as it is. Thanks for the help though, i will just be acting on it a little later than i was initially planning now