Entry level gaming laptop
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I would appreciate some thoughts on best way forward.
My daughter has been using her 2017 Acer Swift 3 laptop for few years for homework and some digital art, including for some light gaming (risk of rain, Minecraft, don’t starve together) but recently the laptop is struggling with onboard Intel 520 graphics.
I have spare Dell Optiplex 7010 SFF lying around which I can upgrade with slim profile GTX 1650. I did this for my son and it’s decent enough for the usage. However the prices for this video card is around £220 which is (to me) slightly expensive. I’ve bought for around £150 2 years ago. Not too sure if this is the correct upgrade path.
I’ve looked at a few budget gaming laptops and they are mostly over £700. I’m not that familiar with gaming laptops so hopefully someone can advise. Don’t mind going down the refurbed route if can find something decent circa £400ish. Would prefer a mobile GPU instead of onboard, unless this is much better in newer CPUs.
My daughter has been using her 2017 Acer Swift 3 laptop for few years for homework and some digital art, including for some light gaming (risk of rain, Minecraft, don’t starve together) but recently the laptop is struggling with onboard Intel 520 graphics.
I have spare Dell Optiplex 7010 SFF lying around which I can upgrade with slim profile GTX 1650. I did this for my son and it’s decent enough for the usage. However the prices for this video card is around £220 which is (to me) slightly expensive. I’ve bought for around £150 2 years ago. Not too sure if this is the correct upgrade path.
I’ve looked at a few budget gaming laptops and they are mostly over £700. I’m not that familiar with gaming laptops so hopefully someone can advise. Don’t mind going down the refurbed route if can find something decent circa £400ish. Would prefer a mobile GPU instead of onboard, unless this is much better in newer CPUs.
I bought one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Vivobook-OLED-Screen... at Christmas for less than £500 new.
It's a great entry level gaming laptop - the Ryzen CPU/GPU managed to run Civ 6 and Witcher 3 at 1080p without too much struggle. The OLED screen is excellent too.
It's a great entry level gaming laptop - the Ryzen CPU/GPU managed to run Civ 6 and Witcher 3 at 1080p without too much struggle. The OLED screen is excellent too.
Camelot1971 said:
I bought one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Vivobook-OLED-Screen... at Christmas for less than £500 new.
It's a great entry level gaming laptop - the Ryzen CPU/GPU managed to run Civ 6 and Witcher 3 at 1080p without too much struggle. The OLED screen is excellent too.
A good laptop, but it doesn't have a dedicated GPU so will struggle with anything too intensive. I hate to say it, but for £400 you are not really going to get much of a gaming laptop.It's a great entry level gaming laptop - the Ryzen CPU/GPU managed to run Civ 6 and Witcher 3 at 1080p without too much struggle. The OLED screen is excellent too.
The cheapest new/refurbished laptop I can find is £550 for a laptop with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 which is pretty old now.
For £630 you could get a 3050 powered laptop
https://www.box.co.uk/FA506IC-HN011W-ASUS-TUF-Gami...
It really depends on what games you want to play, if you are expecting to play the latest games at max quality then you will need to up that budget to over £1K
This 3050 from the dell outlet is £588 with an additional 14% off that price
https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInven...
To be honest, that Dell is by far the best deal I could find and would be just over £500 with the discount and would be your best option.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 10th August 13:12
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