Hello!

I have a friends that's looking for a laptop to play games and edit photos on.

Budget: 300-450 for a factory built laptop
Games/Apps: League of Legends/DOTA, The SIM, minecraft, Crysis 3, Battle Field (perhaps more graphic demanding games later on...), Twitch viewer (doubt they'd be streaming), Photoshop

Please let me know if you need anymore information!

Would any of you be able to tell me what parts should I be looking for when buying a laptop good enough to run the Games/Apps above?

Thanks!

This post was edited by Kerberos on Jul 5 2016 05:44pm

you'll be spending like double that..

For new definenly.

He can find a old Lenovo y500 on the bay of E or Craigslist for 450 though.
And run all of those games on meduim at least. League and dota on max.


You should look for one with an i7

You could probably get a 650m or 750m in sli ( 2 graphics cards in the same lappy) if you shop around

This post was edited by kclla on Jul 5 2016 06:55pm

Thanks all, I found this link after some research. What you think?

http://teradatariver.com/874/best-gaming-laptop-under-500/#hp-laptop-for-gaming-15-ay011nr

Alot of these suck for gaming lol. I try used or spend a bit more

in general, google the graphics card and whatever games you're interested in and look at the frame rates. if the review doesn't even mention the graphics card, it's gonna suck.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jul 10 2016 03:42pm

You will have a bad time with an integrated graphics chip.

You 100% need an discreet graphics card.

For that price You can really only find that used.

LOL 300-450$ for a laptop being able to play crysis 3?

I want a car at least 245MPH got about 5000$. Preferable a Ferrari

What do you guys think about these?

http://www.com/itm/Lenovo-Y580-15-6-WIN10-500GB-Intel-i7-2-3GHz-8GB-Gaming-Notebook-/322195523302?hash=item4b045986e6:g:3T0AAOSwtnpXi77h


or perhaps this one

http://www.com/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y500-15-6-1TB-Intel-Core-i7-3rd-Gen-2-4GHz-8GB-GT750M-SLI-/252465150136?hash=item3ac81878b8:g:GwsAAOSwayZXi9Ux

and here's this last one
http://www.%2A%2A%2Acom/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y500-15-6-1-TB-Intel-Core-i7-3rd-Gen-2-4-GHz-12-GB-/172096888134?hash=item2811c61d46:g:55IAAOSwQYZWuMF9#viTabs_0

This post was edited by Kerberos on Jul 21 2016 08:30am

Lowest mGPU I would even think about, would be a GTX 960m...and even at that, it'll probably ONLY get you in the door for games like these. I mean they won't be fun to play, but they might run.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100167748 4814 600555758&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30