So I want a laptop as a grad present and I want to get the best gaming laptop for around 1300 at the max! Here's what im looking at right now it's a MSI. Am I missing any sweet deals? I need help finding the fastest laptop for 1300 please help :)

Not normally a big fan of buying stuff straight from Best Buy, but they do usually have some good gaming laptops on sale.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=255166896991439272&id=pcmcat150700050002&type=category&usc=abcat0500000&cp=1&sp=%2Bcurrentprice+skuid&nrp=15&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~cabcat0500000%23%230%23%2321a~~cabcat0502000%23%230%23%233g~~ncpcmcat150700050002%23%230%23%235&pagetype=listing

Specifically

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172511&type=product&id=1218043606827

Proc: P8400
Memory : 4 GB 1066mhz
GPU: nVidia 9800 GTS
HDD: 320 GB 7200 RPM
Screen: WXGA 17"

Price 1089.99

That's definitely the best deal for that price point on NewEgg. Really solid videocard, 7200 RPM drive, 1680x1050 res.

I have that same laptop which I purchased back when it was up around 1150. No regrets here, although I wasn't one of the lucky few that have the nicer 1650x1080 lcd version of the same laptop, the 1440x900 17" LCD screen is still very enjoyable. Very nice performance for a budget gaming laptop, runs pretty smooth with ARMA 2 and Empires: TW which are the only games I'm playing right now. Only thing that sucks is the stock Vista Home Premium it comes bundled with but you can easily solve that.