Cheap Gaming Laptop

[Korten12]

Alright, so story short, [HEADING=3]my friend[/HEADING] has a budget of $600 to $700... And he wants to get a gaming laptop that will last long. It should be able to play games like Guild Wars 2 and such and maybe some higher end games (albiet not the greatest settings.)

Anyone know of such a thing?

 

[octafish]

You might be able to build your own ITX rig for that sort of money, not including monitor and kb/mouse. As portable as a true gaming rig will get. That budget will buy you a high end GPU in Australia...and nothing else.

You might get a laptop that can play some games but you won't get a gaming laptop.

 

[Baralak]

You might be able to build your own ITX rig for that sort of money, not including monitor and kb/mouse. As portable as a true gaming rig will get. That budget will buy you a high end GPU in Australia...and nothing else.

You might get a laptop that can play some games but you won't get a gaming laptop.

Well, it's not a dedicated gaming laptop, but this one I'm on cost me $500, off Newegg, and runs Skyrim in high settings, and Guild Wars 2 on low/medium settings, so yeah.

 

[Baralak]

You might be able to build your own ITX rig for that sort of money, not including monitor and kb/mouse. As portable as a true gaming rig will get. That budget will buy you a high end GPU in Australia...and nothing else.

You might get a laptop that can play some games but you won't get a gaming laptop.

Well, it's not a dedicated gaming laptop, but this one I'm on cost me $500, off Newegg, and runs Skyrim in high settings, and Guild Wars 2 on low/medium settings, so yeah.

Skyrim can run on a piece of toast so there is that.

The game isn't a massive GPU hog, uses the CPU power more which laptops usually have plenty of.

What resolution were you running at, 1366x768?

Yeah, that's the max resolution. Still, I haven't had much trouble with games on here, although I save the really hardcore stuff to my gaming rig, just using my laptop when I'd rather use keyboard+mouse over a controller. The way my living room is set up, it's just awkward using a keyboard and mouse on my gaming rig, since it's attached to my TV. So this baby usually winds up running things like EverQuest 2, Tribes: Ascend (on medium/low), Mount & Blade and the like.


According to CCleaner, my laptop is:

Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i3-233M CPU
6.0 gigs of RAM
Intel HD Graphics Family. So yeah, not sure what the actual graphics card is, but it came with an Nvidia GEFORCE with CUDA sticker on it.

 

[Solo-Wing]

According to CCleaner, my laptop is:

Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i3-233M CPU
6.0 gigs of RAM
Intel HD Graphics Family. So yeah, not sure what the actual graphics card is, but it came with an Nvidia GEFORCE with CUDA sticker on it.

Whaaaaaaa... It has intel... But Nvidia sticker....

I is confuzzeled.

Ok go to nvidia's site and see if there are any drivers you are missing...

 

[Baralak]

According to CCleaner, my laptop is:

Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i3-233M CPU
6.0 gigs of RAM
Intel HD Graphics Family. So yeah, not sure what the actual graphics card is, but it came with an Nvidia GEFORCE with CUDA sticker on it.

Whaaaaaaa... It has intel... But Nvidia sticker....

I is confuzzeled.

Ok go to nvidia's site and see if there are any drivers you are missing...

Apparently there is a new driver! I haven't checked for any updates to them since I first got this back in February! Thanks for the idea!

Nvidia says the latest driver, after autodetecting is for my GeForce GT 520M

 

[Solo-Wing]

According to CCleaner, my laptop is:

Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i3-233M CPU
6.0 gigs of RAM
Intel HD Graphics Family. So yeah, not sure what the actual graphics card is, but it came with an Nvidia GEFORCE with CUDA sticker on it.

Whaaaaaaa... It has intel... But Nvidia sticker....

I is confuzzeled.

Ok go to nvidia's site and see if there are any drivers you are missing...

Apparently there is a new driver! I haven't checked for any updates to them since I first got this back in February! Thanks for the idea!

Nvidia says the latest driver, after autodetecting is for my GeForce GT 520M

Well there you go. The GT 520 is a great Low-end gaming GPU. I myself am running off it.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Anyways Cheap, Gaming, and laptop should never be in the same sentence... Other then in the sentence I just used.

You should just build a desktop. That would save you money, and you will be able to choose what goes in it, both Hardware and Software wise. (Pre-built stuff always has Third-Party Software in them and they can be quite annoying...)

 

[Baralak]

Anyways Cheap, Gaming, and laptop should never be in the same sentence... Other then in the sentence I just used.

You should just build a desktop. That would save you money, and you will be able to choose what goes in it, both Hardware and Software wise. (Pre-built stuff always has Third-Party Software in them and they can be quite annoying...)

Yeah, although the software that came on mine has been pretty helpful. Mine's a Lenovo (the bought the IBM Thinkpad stuff, but they're essentially the same) and it came with a program to limit my battery charging, to preserve it's health, since my laptop's always plugged in.