Solved! Is the Asus K550 Series a decent budget gaming PC?

[Kieran_GB]

Looking for a decent laptop so I can carry on the go and was wondering if the K550 would play the likes of GTA 5 on medium graphics, what would be the max graphics it could handle? And finally, would I be able to swap the CPU out and put an I3/I5/I7 in? Not sure if it's soldered. I know it's old, but I found one with the following specs.

CPU, Memory and Operating System:
• AMD Quad Core FX-9830P processor.
• 3GHz processor speed.
• 8GB RAM.
• Microsoft Windows 10.

Graphics:
• AMD Radeon HDamd radeon rx 460 graphics card.
• Dedicated graphics card.

Also does anyone know the max RAM or even better, where a service manual is for it?

Thanks in advance for input, hope you can answer some if not all of my questions.

 

[King_V]

Not a good processor - that's a Bristol Ridge AMD, and, while that particular one is a new one (that works on AM4 sockets) it's still basically based on the older pre-Ryzen CPUs from AMD. I'd avoid it.

 

[AgentTryHard]

With some quick research I was able to find some benchmarks with this graphics card playing GTA V on high settings with around 50 FPS. Because it will be on a laptop I wouldn't expect this kind of performance but I would think it will play alright on medium settings. Keep in mind thought if the laptop isn't plugged in you most likely won't get the same performance.

Hope this helps!

 

[Kieran_GB]

Not a good processor - that's a Bristol Ridge AMD, and, while that particular one is a new one (that works on AM4 sockets) it's still basically based on the older pre-Ryzen CPUs from AMD. I'd avoid it.

Thanks for the quick response, but do you know if there is a decent CPU from AMD/Intel that would be compatible with the BIOS? Also is the CPU soldered? I know U series ones are from a quick search, but not sure, found ones with i5/i7online.