Advice on spec of laptop

[Craigsup]

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series:17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£79)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3720QM (2.60GHz) 6MB

Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

Memory - Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)

Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound Card
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack

Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH

USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD

Price: £1,476.00 including VAT and delivery.

I'll be using the laptop for the next 3-4 years, so I am planning to spend a lot on it now to cope with changing technology!
I'll be using it for: University work, Gaming (not sure which games yet - however maybe Diablo 3, Counter Strike Source / GO), Possible video making/rendering of gameplay however this will be minimal use compared to the time spent gaming.

I've tried to balance the CPU / Ram as previously i was going to go for a much higher CPU. What are your thoughts on the build?
I plan to buy an external 1/2TB hard drive to store all media and non-essential stuff.

 

[mantadog]

You could drop the CPU back a notch, as really for the money it's not worth the upgrade for gaming. The slight downgrade wont have a limiting effect even with that GPU and will still spit out very high FPS.

Those games you mention are not exactly that taxing on the GPU/CPU anyway so no need to wrry about it right now, but i know what your saying regarding the future, but i would still drop a notch on the CPU as that CPU is only 10% faster which isn't that much for the money.