I Need Help With Choosing a Budget Gaming Laptop

[Hohen]

My budget is about $1000 - $1200, and I have no experience in buying gaming laptops or any laptops at all since my history of using laptops have been mostly hand-me-downs (MacBooks which are trash, and HP work laptops) from other people.

Now I have finally saved up enough to buy something entry-level, but need help with recommendations.

I looked at the Acer Predator Helios 300 and MSI GS65 Stealth THIN - 051 since they were around my budget, but I believe that asking others for help before choosing is always a better thing to do.

Any suggestions, comments, advice, or recommendations would be much appreciated.

I don’t know a thing about PC components or terms like “GPU” so please go easy on me, thanks!

Edit: In case anyone is wondering, games that I would like to run on the laptop include games like Doom Eternal, The Witcher 3, Division 2, Apex Legends, Elder Scrolls Online. Hopefully this will help you guys. Again, thanks a lot!

 

[hang-the-9]

My favorite place to pick out gaming laptops is www.xoticpc.com I have not actually ordered anything from them, but I love how they organize the systems. Much better to find things there than on Amazon or Newegg and such. Anything in your price range there will be about equal, the differences would be in disk size, screen size and display type. You may find a system with a bit slower CPU and smaller drive but faster video card for gaming.

If the laptop will be used often for gaming without a monitor, and you are not worried about bulk, go for a 17" screen system like https://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6876-clevo-nh70rcq.html In fact for the specs, and the 500gb SSD, that is what I would pick for the price.

This has a smaller screen but has higher refresh rate so games will feel smoother https://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6856-s-clevo-nh58rcq.html

This is a bit out of your budget but is good, good screen and specs https://www.xoticpc.com/aorus-7-na-7us1021sh.html

 

[yousefff]

i have acer predator hellios 300 and everything is fine BUT ! when i play BF 5 OR PUBG ( with LOW Setting ) the frames is DROP and the CPU going with 97 90 , but its very good laptop i play many of games and all of them was perfect but only i have problem with BF5 and pubg

 

[Hohen]

My favorite place to pick out gaming laptops is www.xoticpc.com I have not actually ordered anything from them, but I love how they organize the systems. Much better to find things there than on Amazon or Newegg and such. Anything in your price range there will be about equal, the differences would be in disk size, screen size and display type. You may find a system with a bit slower CPU and smaller drive but faster video card for gaming.

If the laptop will be used often for gaming without a monitor, and you are not worried about bulk, go for a 17" screen system like https://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6876-clevo-nh70rcq.html In fact for the specs, and the 500gb SSD, that is what I would pick for the price.

This has a smaller screen but has higher refresh rate so games will feel smoother https://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6856-s-clevo-nh58rcq.html

This is a bit out of your budget but is good, good screen and specs https://www.xoticpc.com/aorus-7-na-7us1021sh.html

Thanks for your input, I’ll certainly check out xoticpc.

 

[Hohen]

i have acer predator hellios 300 and everything is fine BUT ! when i play BF 5 OR PUBG ( with LOW Setting ) the frames is DROP and the CPU going with 97 90 , but its very good laptop i play many of games and all of them was perfect but only i have problem with BF5 and pubg

Thanks for your comment.

Not being able to play BF5 or PUBG is not really a problem for me, but if it can’t handle those games, I wonder how it may be able to handle other modern games...

 

[yousefff]

Thanks for your comment.

Not being able to play BF5 or PUBG is not really a problem for me, but if it can’t handle those games, I wonder how it may be able to handle other modern games...

i just bought fans ( under the laptop ) for most of my games gpu 75/80 and cpu 80/95
but remember im playing over 2 hours , i really like this laptop ( as budget laptop ) this is good choice

about modern games i dont know sorry i just playing pubg and bf5 sorry

 

[yousefff]

the other games i playing them on XBOX one not in this laptop sorry