Best Gaming Laptops under $1000

[LtDan459]

Disclaimer I'm no expert or tech guy I'll be honest.

I want to get back to the PC gaming field. Mostly a console guy. Anyway
I am looking for a gaming laptop under $1000.00 USD or around 600 to 700 bucks. Yea I know desktop is better but I'm always on the move and cant be carrying around a monitor and desktop. I also know good gaming laptops are not cheap but I have a budget.

The games I plan on playing are the classics witch consist of MOHAA, BF1942 and BF2, Delta Force Black Hawk Down, CS Sorce, CS Go, Left for Dead 1 and 2 and if possible Rising Storm Veitnam or any new WWII Shooter.

Operating System yea I know its out dated Windows 7 64 bit but if Windows 8.1 or 10 is able to play all or some of these I can go that route.

Looking for at least 16 gigs of ram, SSD and Hard Drive capacity 500 gigs to 700. Again I'm no tech guy when it comes to laptops especially gaming.

So Beside the Acer nitro series what if any gaming laptop would any of you suggest?

[Hintz]

I prefer Acer Predator Nitro 5

[xSOSxHawkens]

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16gb is a lot for a laptop. You have 3 options: allow a higher budget, sacrfice heavily on gpu, or sacrifice a little bit of ram.

A good laptop I goind under 1k was lenovo legion y540. 1660ti GDDR6

dude...

Not trying to be rude, but wtf... You need to take a break and lurk here a bit before posting... Litteraly just came from a thread where you said AMD is a garbage upgrade path, then told OP to stick with his 4th gen Intel build b/c he was upfgrading to 9th gen and there is no point jumping to a whole new build (pro-tip, cant do that)...

Then I open this and the very next thing I read is you saying that 16GB is "a lot for a laptop"...

Like... Any "gaming" laptop at all sold in 2020 (worth buying) and *anything* near 1K$ will have 16GB...

Its *not* allot for any gaming marketed laptop. Its actually the norm... quit giving bad advice my man...


@OP:

At the 1,000 range "or less" we have

1,000, Ryzen 5 3550h (sits between i7-7700hq and 8700hq in performance), 16GB Ram, RTX-2060 dedicated graphics, 120Hz IPS Panel, 512GB SSD. Asus Brand.

https://www.newegg.com/stealth-black-asus-tuf-gaming-fx505dv-eh54-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834235301

If you want to stick in the 600-700 range you will need to jump down to 1050ti and choose between an SSD or Ram capacity. If you are hard stuck to this budget I suggest signing up to the email lists on newegg and tigerdirect and waiting a month or so, as they will have some type fo sale on some laptop in the 600-1200 range with a normal 100-200 off, which might snab you the next model up at a decent price.

[Red™]

Most laptop comes in with only a single channel 8GB. I do recommend that you research deeply if your laptop you’re looking for allows dual channel ram upgrade.

[Red™]

And yes, it’s true. Ryzen are garbage ONLY if you’re running on single channel. Ryzen look ram. Yeah

[Red™]

I’ll recommend you buying a 2018 i5 8300H GTX 1050ti with 8GB RAM. You can install a 1TB HDD or keep your 256GB SSD. But upgrading your RAM is a must. First, you must research your system and the region you live in. Some laptop in Southeast Asia only get 4GB RAM variant.

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1050ti is too under powered for a $1000 laptop imo. Unless the price is more like $500.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Laptops that cheap are terrible.
Just spend that money on a Desktop Build.

If the laptop doesn't have at least gtx 1660, don't bother.

[Red™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Laptops that cheap are terrible.
Just spend that money on a Desktop Build.

If the laptop doesn't have at least gtx 1660, don't bother.

cept most laptop that have 1660 are usually above 1k lol
he'll have to wait for sale then. beside he's not going to buy a desktop. he even already said this.

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Laptops have their place. I was firmly in the 'laptops are garbage' camp until I had a kid. Now that I have a budget gaming laptop I can still spend time with my family with a computer in the living room or play room instead of being sequestered in my office on my gaming desktop.

[_I_]

or get a lower laptop and stream from the gaming pc

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I got an ASUS TUF FX505DY for myself, but it was only around $600 when I got it, looks like the price has gone up since then. For that price I bought a 16GB kit of ram and added a 2TB HDD and it works great as a 1080p medium detail gaming laptop. I don't think I could recommend that same setup though if the price was up near $800.

For $1000 I would probably be looking at something like this -
https://www.newegg.com/stealth-black-asus-tuf-gaming-fx505dv-eh54-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834235301?Item=N82E16834235301&quicklink=true

Ryzen 5 3550H (4c/8t 3.7GHz boost), RTX 2060 dedicated GPU, 16GB ram, 512GB NVMe SSD, and 120Hz IPS display. The only downside, if it's anything like my machine, the battery is woefully inadequate.

[Red™]

Publicado originalmente por Ad Hominem:

I got an ASUS TUF FX505DY for myself, but it was only around $600 when I got it, looks like the price has gone up since then. For that price I bought a 16GB kit of ram and added a 2TB HDD and it works great as a 1080p medium detail gaming laptop. I don't think I could recommend that same setup though if the price was up near $800.

For $1000 I would probably be looking at something like this -
https://www.newegg.com/stealth-black-asus-tuf-gaming-fx505dv-eh54-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834235301?Item=N82E16834235301&quicklink=true

Ryzen 5 3550H (4c/8t 3.7GHz boost), RTX 2060 dedicated GPU, 16GB ram, 512GB NVMe SSD, and 120Hz IPS display. The only downside, if it's anything like my machine, the battery is woefully inadequate.

ASUS TUFF? Yikes. Heard the laptop sucks in cooling and it’s impossible to overclock due to locked voltage

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From what I've seen on my FX505DY, yes and yes. The cooling actually isnt that bad, it's just loud when it gets spun up. Temps up around 70 under heavy gaming load. I just did a quick search but I didn't see many other options that had that much performance for that price point tho.

Overclocking laptops is a bit of tricky business. I imagine most laptops are going to have voltage control locked out just because they typically push the cooling solution to the hairy edge at stock - so you won't every have that much room to gain performance anyway before hitting thermal limits.

[Red™]

Publicado originalmente por Ad Hominem:

From what I've seen on my FX505DY, yes and yes. The cooling actually isnt that bad, it's just loud when it gets spun up. Temps up around 70 under heavy gaming load. I just did a quick search but I didn't see many other options that had that much performance for that price point tho.

Overclocking laptops is a bit of tricky business. I imagine most laptops are going to have voltage control locked out just because they typically push the cooling solution to the hairy edge at stock - so you won't every have that much room to gain performance anyway before hitting thermal limits.

And that's why if you're on laptop, stick to GPU-Only overclock. My overclock is 1435/1570 and running on memory timing level 2. My laptop keep a cool temp of 60 degree celsius under heavy load. i got 2018 acer nitro ryzen

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Publicado originalmente por Ad Hominem:

From what I've seen on my FX505DY, yes and yes. The cooling actually isnt that bad, it's just loud when it gets spun up. Temps up around 70 under heavy gaming load. I just did a quick search but I didn't see many other options that had that much performance for that price point tho.

Overclocking laptops is a bit of tricky business. I imagine most laptops are going to have voltage control locked out just because they typically push the cooling solution to the hairy edge at stock - so you won't every have that much room to gain performance anyway before hitting thermal limits.

And that's why if you're on laptop, stick to GPU-Only overclock. My overclock is 1435/1570 and running on memory timing level 2. My laptop keep a cool temp of 60 degree celsius under heavy load. i got 2018 acer nitro ryzen

On my machine anyway, I think all that stuff is locked down. Or at least I can't figure out how to do it inside the new Adrenalin 2020 driver.