Laptop pc gaming for 400$ or less

[Numide 💎]

Hello
My budget is 400€ . I want good FPS for low specs.. anyone suggest me? Btw im from France si I hope i Can find it in french websites ...

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Dual Channel has huge impact upon APU 3D performance but little on discrete GPU performance .

[Guydodge]

honestly your not going to find anything in that price range thats going to be
decent even low specs.better to go with a PS5.

[76561198343548661]

PS5 is too costly , XBox or PS 4

[Reaper]

If you don't care for portable then get a desktop.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0t-IHcTwElw
This $500 (500 euro is close to 500 usd) build is pretty good @1080p on high settings you would get above 60fps you can also turn down the graphics to get more fps.

If portable is want your looking for them get the steam deck. It will be the better and more powerful then a $500 laptop.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQH__XVa64

[StealthMode℠™©®]

I would suggest saving your money up until you can afford something decent.
A lot of these newer games are real intensive hardware requirement wise.

( looks around ) A lot of these newer software developers are amateurs. And have many, many bugs in their programming, and environment development. Causing excessive cpu/ram/gpu-vpu requirements.

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

for $150 bucks more ($550) you can get this laptop (I actually own 2): https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion-15-6-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-5-5500U-8GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-Horizon-Blue-Windows-11-15-eh1052wm/531869839?fulfillmentIntent=In-store&athbdg=L1300

You can easily upgrade the ram and the ssd, I upgraded mine to 32 gigs of ram and 2tb ssd. So far I have been playing all games on high / ultra graphics.

Since it's a laptop it does get warm / hot so I remedy that with this laptop cooling pad: https://www.amazon.com/IETS-Powerful-Turbo-Fan-Infinitely-13-17-3inch/dp/B09D6J56NS/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=laptop+cooling+pad+5000+rpm&qid=1672149951&sr=8-3

When I use that cooling pad the laptop gets cool / cold, so that cooling pad works great. If I am playing a game that is graphically intense I just turn the cooling pad up to the highest setting. My laptops have never ran hot with this cooling pad.

Good luck OP!

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

引用自 Freqsync：

Here is the question can one run a game from a USB stick?

Can one run the OS from the stick then run a game installed on stick?

Can one have an external Hardrive run the OS, Steam Package then the game installed?

Were talking start off point to go to a cafe or a library or a school or work computer? FREE

Talking an auction of those computers from say a cafe library school or work sites?

Cost of controller is probably gonna cost more.....You wanna save money or just checking France's Steam community as if this is some kind of craiglist.....Portable or just space saving for laptop? Holidays gonna probably kick off something somewhere in month or so since schools start again.... that 500$ gaming computer they have limited sales of and are held in the managers office until the sale is over so the business does not lose money....yeah gets tricky

An external hard drive:
Yes, they should get the job done.

But a cheap, normal, usb stick:
I wouldn't want to run games or an OS off of that.
It would in theory work. If you install an OS on your computer by yourself. (No matter if it's Windows or some GNU/Linux distro) You already run an OS from the usb stick. But it's really slow because of that and is only done to install the OS on a much faster drive.

Same for games. Just because you COULD run them off of the usb stick. Doesn't mean that it will be fast or even usable at all.

Usb sticks are great for keeping backups of sensitive information or simply moving files to another computer without cloud sync. But they were likely never meant for something as complex as running an OS or games.

Edit:
But if you have some spare time and want to try out something wacky. You could maybe give it a try and see how well it goes. ^^

[Numide 💎]

引用自 xAlphaStarOmegax：

for $150 bucks more ($550) you can get this laptop (I actually own 2): https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion-15-6-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-5-5500U-8GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-Horizon-Blue-Windows-11-15-eh1052wm/531869839?fulfillmentIntent=In-store&athbdg=L1300

You can easily upgrade the ram and the ssd, I upgraded mine to 32 gigs of ram and 2tb ssd. So far I have been playing all games on high / ultra graphics.

Since it's a laptop it does get warm / hot so I remedy that with this laptop cooling pad: https://www.amazon.com/IETS-Powerful-Turbo-Fan-Infinitely-13-17-3inch/dp/B09D6J56NS/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=laptop+cooling+pad+5000+rpm&qid=1672149951&sr=8-3

When I use that cooling pad the laptop gets cool / cold, so that cooling pad works great. If I am playing a game that is graphically intense I just turn the cooling pad up to the highest setting. My laptops have never ran hot with this cooling pad.

Good luck OP!

Thx

[xSOSxHawkens]

Steam deck tbh.

[Hung]

Many options but focus on specs. 1080p screen max resolution, intel i3 minimum if newer, i5 if older generation chipset, HDD is fine for this, 16bg ram max, NO CHROMEBOOKS

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

引用自 Hung：

Many options but focus on specs. 1080p screen max resolution, intel i3 minimum if newer, i5 if older generation chipset, HDD is fine for this, 16bg ram max, NO CHROMEBOOKS

I hope you mean an hdd for games.

The OS should DEFINITELY be on an ssd (a sata one is going to be just fine) and that's already the standard for most laptops which aren't extremely cheap.

[Numide 💎]

引用自 The Nintendo Guy：

引用自 Freqsync：

Here is the question can one run a game from a USB stick?

Can one run the OS from the stick then run a game installed on stick?

Can one have an external Hardrive run the OS, Steam Package then the game installed?

Were talking start off point to go to a cafe or a library or a school or work computer? FREE

Talking an auction of those computers from say a cafe library school or work sites?

Cost of controller is probably gonna cost more.....You wanna save money or just checking France's Steam community as if this is some kind of craiglist.....Portable or just space saving for laptop? Holidays gonna probably kick off something somewhere in month or so since schools start again.... that 500$ gaming computer they have limited sales of and are held in the managers office until the sale is over so the business does not lose money....yeah gets tricky

An external hard drive:
Yes, they should get the job done.

But a cheap, normal, usb stick:
I wouldn't want to run games or an OS off of that.
It would in theory work. If you install an OS on your computer by yourself. (No matter if it's Windows or some GNU/Linux distro) You already run an OS from the usb stick. But it's really slow because of that and is only done to install the OS on a much faster drive.

Same for games. Just because you COULD run them off of the usb stick. Doesn't mean that it will be fast or even usable at all.

Usb sticks are great for keeping backups of sensitive information or simply moving files to another computer without cloud sync. But they were likely never meant for something as complex as running an OS or games.

Edit:
But if you have some spare time and want to try out something wacky. You could maybe give it a try and see how well it goes. ^^

I tought gaming laptops have already enough fans to keep it cool ...

[Guydodge]

引用自 smallcat：

PS5 is too costly , XBox or PS 4

a PS5 with no disc 459.00

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

If you only play games like CSGO /Rainbow Siege/ Fortnite, a 500 to 600 dollars laptop can get the job done. Look for laptops with 11th gen i3 or i5 mobile CPU, or Ryzen 5000 mobile series.

If your goal is AAA games, you need at least GTX 1650/Ti laptop.

[Elucidator]

引用自 Massi：

Hello
My budget is 400€ . I want good FPS for low specs.. anyone suggest me? Btw im from France si I hope i Can find it in french websites ...

Steam Deck maybe an option.