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Without spending hours looking for a specific deal, the 950M or older 860M GPU is likely the best you can fit in your budget. You may fit a refurbished 960M. Here are some benchmarks for the 950M http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-950M.1380 is that good enough. If yes, then...

What budget does 'cheaper' mean? Where in the world are you located. this affects relative price and availability.

The Vive and software properly designed for it are a way off yet. Read this: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/05/quadcore-gaming/ I am uncertain if any current AMD CPU will do the 90Hz business well enough. At best it will be very marginal for a good experience. Likely, just OK at...

It's a decent laptop. i5 is good, a Broadwell would be better, but likely more expensive, good amount of memory, good SSD, and good resolution screen. What other options do you have in your price range? The CPU is equivalent to a low-end desktop i3, with two cores, hyperthreading and 2.9Ghz...

What games? The CPU part of the APU is comparatively weak. Download 3dMark (free) benchmark software and run all four tests (Ice Storm, Cloud Gate, Sky Diver, and Fire Strike) and let us know the results. That will help pinpoint the slow-down.

How much clockspeed did you add?

That is a laptop GPU. You may not have the thermal overhead to overclock anything like 25% (Or even 10%) I would use something like MSI's Afterburner and research it very carefully before I did anything. First check on the internet that what you plan to do is safe or even possible for...

Break, no, slow maybe. What else are you doing with it?

Both of my last two laptops, HP Pavilions, slowly overheated and one died after only a year. The next one got taken to a local computer repair store and was opened and cleaned out thoroughly ever 18months or so. I have/had six dogs and quite a bit of dog hair got in, but worse, the very small...

When was it cleaned out last?

Thanks for the photo. It looks like they are just bent, unless you are sure at least one has actually broken off. If you are lucky and careful you can straighten them with the right tool. I use an empty mechanical pencil of the right diameter. You can turn the power OFF! slip the pencil...

Yes. Use (img] url to picture (/img] syntax, but with [ instead of ( Here's one of mine (img]http://i62.tinypic.com/2crkj6r.jpg(/img]

You computer does not have a graphics card to change, it has only the iGPU built into your microprocessor.

So no discrete GPU, only the iGPU. Minimum specs require a GPU GTX275 or better, which isn't much,

What laptop?