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The HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition is a good starting point. Its base price is $499 and can be made into a great portable gaming machine while still sticking to your budget.
EDIT: of course, mertsen swoops in and proves me wrong preemptively. How did I not find that one before now?!
http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/4616?cPage=3&all=False&sort=0&page=5&slug=llano-in-the-wild-toshibas-satellite-l775ds7206
You'll be able to Crossfire the graphics for a little boost, but it will not beat i5 from what I saw. Very usable real world though.
I built it with those two options and a 1080p screen, came out to $794.99. I would add a SSD (purchased separately from Newegg or the like) and call it a day. If you will have access to a monitor, or don't care about 1080p content, that will drop $150 off your price.
(edit for my terrible mousing skills):
HP wants $290 for the 160GB mystery brand SSD upgrade. There's a nice 240GB Corsair Force III SSD for $15 less. Probably add another five minutes or so if you're upgrading at the same time as your RAM.
have you look into the ASUS G serie? the 15.6" and 17" has 4 DIMM slots... like seriously.... as ram so cheap, i rather have that many slots, btw if do get ASUS and has empty slots let me know, i got a box of 2GB sticks free of charge.
the G53SX is going about 900$ for standard spec...pop mroe free ram from you, you are golden...!
Geforce 560GTX M...
http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G53SX/#specifications
My laptop is going in for its sixth, and final, RMA. It's being replaced because they just can't get it working correctly.
I'm not saying every ASUS notebook is like this, because they couldn't possibly stay in business if it were the case. I am saying that their warranty repair service has not been a pleasant experience. I'm placing their "Republic of Gamers" G-series notebooks in the category of "Cheap for a Reason".
• AMD Quad-Core A8-3550MX Accelerated Processor (2.7GHz/2.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache)
• 1GB AMD Radeon(TM) HD 7690M GDDR5 Discrete Graphics(TM) [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE UPGRADE to 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 750GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• 9 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
• 15.6" Full HD HP Anti-glare LED (1920 x 1080)
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• 802.11b/g/n WLAN
PROCESSOR 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2450M processor (2.50GHz, with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.10GHz)
MEMORY 6GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
HARD DRIVE 750GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE 8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
SYSTEM COLOR Switch by Design Studio - Diamond Black
DISPLAY 15.6" High Definition (720p) LED Display with Truelife™
WEBCAM Integrated 1.0 mega pixel widescreen HD Webcam
BATTERY OPTIONS 48 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
WIRELESS CARDS Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030, 1x2 bgn + Bluetooth
SOUND OPTIONS HD Audio 2.0 Support SRS™ Premium Sound
NETWORK CARD Integrated 10/100 Network Card
the color issue is mostlikey due to BGA fultige, one reason i prefer asus is the board layout, and 98% of time i can fix the board myself... unlike Dell which is made by Quanta, the board is auto generation and alot of mix analog and digital circuits, i hate it, it usually take longer for me to troubleshoot/ fix one