I'm tired of not being able to play my games properly so I'm saving for a gaming rig.
Suggestions? It must be powerful but affordable.

What are your requirements:

- what is "affordable"? $500? $2,000?
- screen size
- resolution
- what games do you plan to play?
- is battery life a concern?
- how much does portability matter? (no, this is not a stupid question in a laptop thread)
- does it need to look like a plain-jane laptop (for business situations) or can you go with something like an Asus ROG?
- need a NumPad?
- optical drive necessary?
- what else will you be doing on this PC?

Hello,

I take it when you say notebook you don't mean a laptop, as in something sub 14" for example?
That being the case, I can not recommend the Clevo w110er highly enough ( http://dr_fish.speedymail.org/techreport/w110er_open.jpg ).
It's an 11.6" mighty beast of a system that can take on many a real gaming pc (mine for example is rolling an i7, GT 650m , 8gb ram and a 512 SSD), its even able to hold its own running the Oculus Rift (be it with the 60mhz Intel HDMI pass through limitation).
Sadly these notebooks are not made anymore, but do the smart thing and have a search on ebay or similar, which is where I got mine, these things weren't cheap when they came out, so most owners tended to look after them (mine arrived almost as new, be it for some slight wear on the first mouse button).
A huge plus to the Clevo is that it isn't covered in LEDs, it just sits there looking cute and harmless, and then takes on every computer in a 2 mile radius and shows them how its done.
Keep in mind though that while these can be picked up pretty cheaply, you are going to be more or less on your own as far as spare parts go. Also while this is a tiny system, it is still a gaming system and weighs what you would expect of one, the heat sink for example is full copper ( http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/7761207918_faf05295db_h.jpg ).
Battery life is pants, but I've yet to hear of a gaming laptop that has anything better than pants. The screen is 'meh' it works (only 1366x768), though obviously you could just HDMI it into something else.
You buy it for the specs and it delivers on them.
A side note, its also sold under the name Sager np6110.

Hugs and Kisses,
Harley-Quinn

Around R$1500
15' to 17
1366X768 up
Most modern games
Sort of
Not much
Plain jane
No
No
Acessing the internet for leisure.

That's not a notebook.

I was just going to say that, that's a full sized laptop.
Notebooks are just that, the size of a notebook (so around an A4 sheet of paper).
Then there's netbooks, that tend to be around 8" give or take (and are generally useless thanks to phones/tablets).
If the OP is looking for a gaming LAPTOP, then that changes their options greatly.

I have a Lenovo y580 which has proven to be a very solid gaming machine for me personally as it plays everything I throw at it with no problems at all.

I play World of Warcraft and record videos for youtube on it and have never had a problem. Here is one showing the specs and fps in battlegrounds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5-pTYhrpuA&list=TLL-C_LzbzaVY

"Gaming notebook" is an oxymoron. "Gaming laptop" nearly so.

I have an Asus N750JK:

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N750JK/

I wanted a 17'' laptop, didn't need it to be very portable, but I wanted to be able to carry it around the house with ease. I think you can get it for about $1000. The most modern game I've tried it on is Age of Wonders 3, it runs ultra smooth with 1600x900 and medium settings. And about the looks, the consensus amogst my friends is that it is beautiful.

Gaming notebook:

Hardly, the two words are not in direct opposition to each other.
Gaming notebooks do exist, my Clevo is one of them, don't me wrong, I doubt it would be a whole chunk of use for a battlefield 4 match or something, but I was able to run Bioshock Infinite on it perfectly fine at its native resolution (mostly max settings too).
Tech is coming on along way, I've recently gotten myself an Nvidia Shield tablet, which for all accounts is able to out perform a PS3/Xbox 360 (at least it can when it wants to).
The moment companies started putting full desktop CPUs into laptops/notebooks, combining them with high end mobile GPUs and slapping on a desktop amount of RAM, the lines between the performance of a laptop to desktop system started to blur.

This.

You could try an Ultrabook. They are expensive but worth it. They have great build quality, they don't feel cheap, slim yet relatively powerful hardware.

Whatever you do, do NOT pick one with an integrated GPU.

I would suggest a Toshiba. They've served my gaming needs very well thus far and never had any hardware issues - even after being drenched in tea! :P

There's some Acer and HP laptops that has GeForce GPUs. I'll try to get one of those.

OK, I just checked the exchange rate and unless I got it badly wrong, that's just over £300.

Erm...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaa!

If you want anything that's going to play a modern title at all well you're going to need to double, if not triple, your budget. Unless by some mirace laptops are dirt cheap in Brazil - and if you can get a gaming laptop for that sort of money, sod it, I'll buy two and you can keep one if you'll post me the other... :)