does anyone know any good gaming laptops/desktops? [lvl 3]

Hey, i would look desktop pc instead of laptop, since you already have a laptop.

There is a big difference performance-wise, and if you are planning to play games only on the home, it is pointless to buy a laptop.

Well, since you have a budget, the general rule would be buy the laptop with the best (non-Intel) GPU for the price. Don't go for anything less than 8GB RAM (unless it's upgradeable / has a spare slot, which is rare these days). And you probably don't want anything more than a 1080p display - a higher resolution will put much more demand on the GPU and lower battery life (if that matters in a gaming laptop).

The only recent experience I have is buying a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 about 2 years ago. I got it from the Dell Outlet store, for about £600 which at the time made it the cheapest laptop with a NVIDIA GTX 1050.

The kids use it almost exclusively for gaming, with a bit of light homework! It copes with Borderlands 2 just fine @ 1080p. Borderlands 3 we've only played via Stadia.

Perhaps not the best time to buy any PC parts, laptop, webcams right now. Because of #stayhome productions halted/lowered, stock sold out because of increased demand, prices went up. I bought a laptop in January, the same laptop costs 15-20% more now in the same store.

Does anyone have a gaming laptop that they can definitely recommend? I'm looking for something $1000 or under

$1000 or under is a possible price for a gaming desktop computer. Definitely not a laptop, unless you go for second-hand stuff

I haven't checked very recently, but as first approximation, I generally consider that for the same performance, laptop is +/- double the price of desktop. (but yes, I use a laptop too because reasons, and yes it costed a lot more than $1k)

A good gaming laptop can run about $3000. For your budget, a desktop is a better bet. Think on creative ways to use space. ;)

since you are familiar with ''build yourself one'' look into compal/similiar off brand types, price/quality ratio on some should be worthwile and you dont need to diy

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I got an amazing deal on a laptop on clearance from Walmart, $500 and runs everything I've tried. I found it in a thread on /r/buildapcsales. There or Slickdeals are the best places to look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/search/?q=laptop&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=month&sort=relevance

There's a particular Walmart laptop that shows up for $800 once in awhile that people seem to love.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/e3yw33/laptop_walmart_gaming_laptop_15_fhd_144hz_display/

That said, if you don't need the portability, you might just want to get a 2nd desktop as people have suggested.

I got an incredibly beefy laptop from PCSpecialist. A little too beefy actually. It's super heavy so it's not as portable as I was hoping. But that's my fault for picking a desktop GPU to go in it.

They give you a selection of parts for you to pick exactly what you want in your laptop, and they build it for you and send it to you.

Haven't been keeping up-to-date with hardware news lately so I can't help much in that aspect;
been playing Stardew Valley co-op myself these days also - we've been trying out various mods that help the experience a bit more too - seems to make things more fun

I use asus rog g G531GU. Everything runs 60 fps max settings.
Also 120hz so 120 fps in competitive games easily.
I've even tried VR and streaming on it and it works fine.

I had the option to buy it throughout a 12 month period ~120 euro a month so I took it, seemed like a good deal.

Another option is to try streaming like Nvidia geforce now or google stadia but those can either work well or don't work at all for you.

if you do decide to go ahead with a laptop, I've found the processor and graphics card benchmarks on notebookcheck to be enormously helpful.

Also extremely useful is the Amazon price tracker "keepa" which tells you if a deal is really as good as it looks, or lets you see if a product regularly has reduced prices. Really useful resource.

I would say go for a desktop for the possibility of changing pieces in the future. My brother and I bought a desktop and a notebook (MSI gaming side) for around 1000€ each. Till now, no problem at all, we can play any recent game easily. With 8GB minimum of RAM should go well and can be extended later. (But you know, the bigger the better so if its 16GB will be better and last longer before buying more memory). Try to find a PC with at least an Nvidia GT 1050 or 1060 (1060ti is better)or better but that will raise the price. Look and compare, usually when a PC is cheaper is because is laking of something (less memory, no dedicated graphic card, etc)
A Gaming desktop, not too big and that can run any game.
https://www.msi.com/Desktop/Aegis-3

a friend of mine got himself a new desktop for around 800€ last autumn based on a ryzen 3600.
not off the shelve but from an online store with assembly service.
terrible mainboard, piece of shit ssd and so on. but all the rgb! obviously...
he is happy with it. i think it's pretty bad but if you are THAT cheap you have to have pretty low standards.

don't forget you can always get decently powerful used hardware at a good price.
if you really want a desktop you should be clever about it. no point in buying cheap now and replacing most of the parts after 6 months because they all suck.

you are always paying a premium for laptops and you are always limited by cooling and battery.
don't bother unless you are on the road all the time (college) and you totally need a laptop to get around.
gaming laptops are for people with more money than brains (imho)

update: some time ago JayzTwoCents was impressed with the eluktronics (seriously) laptops. obviously he tested the best of the best: MAG-15 for 1600$. you can always go smaller but only 1000$ isn't going to cut it, really.

A few of your more recent comments suggested you might look at desktops based on pricing. You might want to look for 'small form factor desktops' or 'micro itx' builds. I think there are fewer ready built pc's this size, but they might help with space issues.

I found one store as an example. Quick disclaimer though, I don't know anything about this store so I'm not recommending them. It's just to see what other kind of options are available and the size of the pc's. :)

https://xoticpc.com/collections/compact-series-desktops

A suggestion for the space issue and possibly for lower cost. You could wall mount your monitor and use a large lapdesk for keyboard and mouse. My PC sits fairly close to my wall directly under my mounted monitor and my accessories all go into a nightstand next to it when not in use.

Does anyone know if this desktop is worth buying?

https://www.amazon.com/GA15DH-Desktop-Graphics-Windows-GA15DH-ES557/dp/B085T3YXCJ/ref=sr_1_32?dchild=1&keywords=gaming+desktop&qid=1587196897&s=electronics&sr=1-32&swrs=669844631CC5B53C0945736106642D96

Sorry just an amazon link

If you're going with a laptop, you should be able to get a GTX 1660Ti for that price. I have seen RTX 2060s in that price range (for example, this one), but they tend to compromise on the CPU, which will hurt in some games. The Ryzen 7 3750H version of this laptop was on sale for $1000 earlier this month, so it might be worth looking out for again.

This one has a better CPU but cuts the RAM in half. Probably would be a better gaming laptop than the two above, though.

One other thing is that AMD is releasing their new Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs and they're rather excellent. If you can, I'd try to get them over the Ryzen 3000 ones. Here is an example of one that comes with a 1660 Ti.

Ultimately, when it comes down to 1660 Ti vs 2060, the 2060 is ~5-10% faster given the same CPU. So I probably wouldn't spend $200 more just to get the 2060. 1660 Ti laptops with decent CPUs go on sale for $800-$900 often enough (the EVOO laptops from Walmart are one example - they're surprisingly good value).

Now, if you do want a desktop, you can get something more powerful. Assuming the $1000 budget doesn't include the monitor/keyboard/mouse, you could get a tower with an RTX 2070 Super for just a smidge above $1000 if you wait for sales. This was just on sale earlier this week for $1050. Alternatively, for a similar price, you can get a system with an RX 5700 XT, which is, on average, about 6% slower than a 2070 Super. This was $1000 even like a week or two ago. If you make a deal alert on Slickdeals for things like "2070" and "5700", you should be notified the next time they're available.

try NVIDIA GeForce NOW, or Playstation NOW

bump, i had always put together desktop chosen components

Hey, in case you didn't make up your mind yet. I recently build my PC and put some decent amount of time into searching for the best value for my money. It's approximately $800 in my country. I would still highly suggest deciding on your own because everyone's preferences are different. Here is the part list

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
• Motherboard: Asrock B450M-HDV R4.0
• RAM: Adata DDR4 16GB(2x8GB) 3200MHz
• GPU: Galax GeForce GTX1660 Super 6GB 192Bit GDDR6 (About Galax GPUs, they're not popular on the market but my research showed they're reliable and better value for the price.)
• SSD: Adata SU630 480GB 520-450MB/s SSD
• HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM 210MB/s 64MB Cache
• Case: Dark Vega (I'm pretty sure these cases aren't available in most countries, they're made in Turkey and mostly sold in here but you can find another case, just be sure you can fit all of the parts in it)
• PSU: Dark Force+ 500W 80+ (This is also from the same brand and is not sold anywhere other than Turkey AFAIK but any other equivalent PSU will do the job.)

I tried to choose the best price/performance brands because my budget was very limited but you can choose more mainstream brands if you just want to be more confident with them. I'm using the system for a week now and parts work flawlessly well together. I didn't have a chance to try it on many AAA titles yet but I played Bannerlord for 20 hours, except for VERY crowded fights, I have 90+ FPS on high graphics quality. I hope it's useful.

I have had decent gaming with the ASUS TUF FX505DT laptop. Costs around $600 USD. Don't buy older models of this line as there were numerous issues with the motherboard in previous years. Those issues seem to have been fixed with this line.