cheap gaming laptop?

So im looking for a cheap laptop that can run most games, and BeamNG Drive, my current laptop :
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 which has a Intel Core I3 which is crap, so i need something with at least a Core I5.

 

Is it very important for you to have a laptop which can do gaming? Because when talking cheap, desktop is often the answer.
But if it has to be a laptop, then I would look on the used market.

 

yes i need a laptop as its portable and i always keep changing the location where i keep my laptop!
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ill see the used market for some good laptops.

 

i wouldn't recommend a used one for gaming
do you have amazon in your country? if yes then tell me which country you're from and ill find you something
also let me know your budget in your currency

 

Why would you not recommend a used PC for gaming? That does not make much sense, especially on a budget.
Used does not = bad.

 

so i checked the used market, found some nice examples.. did some research, i might be getting a used one soon idk

 

a used is not gonna last long, especially for a gaming pc/laptop
+ the gpu for that pc could've been used for mining and shit which would've significantly decreased its life
its a risk that i wouldn't recommend taking unless you find a really good one for a nominal price

 

hey i dont know much about laptops and pcs but, can we replace current intel cpu in my laptop with a better one? like a Nvidia one

 

I understand what you're trying to say, but you are wrong.
I'm not talking a 10 year old laptop, but a 1-3 year old laptop should have lost some value and still will be pretty good for a budget. They won't just break like that. And if you need something cheap, you don't really have the luxury of buying new unless you want shit hardware.
Laptops are never used for mining, there is dedicated machines for this which are desktops.
Also the thing where you shouldn't buy a GPU that's been used for mining is a myth


@Yash_gamin144
Can you send some of the used ones you find? I can take a look at them, also what is your budget?
Replacing CPU's in laptops are often not possible because they are soldered to the motherboard.

 

Nvidia makes GPUs and not CPUs
you can try to replace parts in a laptop but its not advisable
and not as easy as in pcs

 

oh sorry i meant gpu xd
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i might get a gpu in my current laptop idk

 

Replacing gpu on a laptop is extremely hard or even impossible to do. Especially for people with less experience.

Firstly, laptops use different gpus than desktops, you cannot use desktop gpus on laptops, and vise versa. Often times even if the model name is the same, they would perform differently on a laptop than on a desktop (for example laptop rtx 3060 is a completely different performer compared to a desktop rtx 3060.) gpus are often slower on a laptop due to lack of space. Do keep in mind that 99% of the gpu you find on the used market are desktop gpus, NOT laptop gpus.

Secondly, by the sound of it you are using a office laptop with an i3 cpu, which suggests that it doesn't have a dedicated gpu to begin with, which means you likely are not going to put any laptop gpus even if you can find one.

• you can however, find a external gpu if you really really want to keep your current laptop, but they are rare, and it makes your portable laptop less portable, so it kinda defeats the point of a laptop. Plus external gpus are often more expensive than its desktop gpu brothers, so at that point just get a new laptop for gaming.

My suggestion is to buy a new laptop. I would say for a laptop, 8th gen i5 or better, gtx 1650 or better, and 8gb or more ram would do the job nicely for just gaming. You are not going to do 4k or 144fps gaming with a 1650, but on a laptop, you are not really going to notice the difference between 1080p 60fps and 4k 144fps, especially if you are on a budget. In North America with cybermonday and upcoming boxingday deals, you can grab a 1650, 8gb ram gaming laptop for around 700 usd, or sometimes even below that, which is not expensive at all for a laptop with a dedicated gpu. Of course price varies between regions, but it would be similar comparably.

Lastly, for laptops, I DO NOT recommend going second hand, hear me out.

• Laptops require all hardware to work together perfectly, if any one of them fails, your laptop would likely be doomed. Screen, ram, gpu, cpu, hard drive/ssd storage, battery, if any one of them fails, your system won't function well or at all. And on a modern laptop, besides maybe the storage and ram, nothing else can be easily upgraded. So you want your best chance on this, and that is to buy a new one.

As mentioned above, if you absolutely have to use a laptop, buy a new one, and a cheap one, because laptops are not easily upgradable, which is not nice for people on a budget. and when your laptop becomes outdated in a few years, you will need to buy an entirely new laptop despite the screen and ram and storage working perfectly still. Laptops are wasteful, that is the reason why they are more expensive and don't perform as well.
Wrote this out of boredom, and just realized its going too long. hopefully this helps, and I still recommend desktops for gaming, but it may not apply to you. Happy early Christmas everyone.

 

If nothing new fits your price budget, maybe go used. Perhaps i have been lucky but used laptops are a bargain as long as they have been well maintained. I've had issues with lenovo in the past, maybe just my experience, but acer and dell are quite good. Its up to you though... if you are tech savvy then you may be able to find an an egpu on ebay that plugs into a spare socket on the laptop mobo.. but there is no guarantee that it will work, and is a much nerdier and riskier option.

 

Don’t get anything from Lenovo, they’re shit and money pits.

 

I will have to disagree, the quality:
I know 2 people playing on Lenovo gaming laptops (700-800€ ones) for about 2 years each now and they are really happy with them, bulid quality seems correct for the price and no major problems
and I myself have a big Lenovo Laptop now and I have barely any complains about it. I'll see on the long run
Probably it depends on the model you take too :/

And for the price:
Speaking from experience I had a MSI laptop before, around the same price (even higher) than my friend's Lenovo, build quality felt pretty cheap was clearly underperforming. Yes that's more of a MSI problem in that case but still, Lenovo are far from the worst.
I do think Lenovo have a resonable price if you know which model to buy, like many brand

I'm not exaclty sure what you would call expensive or not, new gaming Laptops are always pricey anyway.
If you're not too exigent about the look, or you like gamer style PC you could get a
HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec2144nf, I don't know how much it would be in $ but it's around 700€
-Ryzen 5 5600H
-GTX 1650 4Go
-8Go Ram
-500 Go SSD
-And it seem to have a good cooling on the Ryzen version
You can always add more RAM and Storage

 

Don’t ever buy any laptop from Lenovo, they always look great and have tons of features but are built very poorly and end up falling apart after a couple years. I’ve had 4 and they’ve all had issues. All their other products are fine but their gaming laptops, especially from the legion brand are horrible
Buy stuff from asus, they always make the good stuff.

 

That's why my stuff is ROG.

 

Is it possible to get something decent now and invest in a second hand external GPU later? That's probably what I would do if I was in this situation.

 

Well... now I'm scared for my Legion...
But if they are so bad why did you buy 4 Lenovo ? ^^"

 

The only thing they ever made that was good were the old Thinkpads right after IBM sold it to them. Nowadays they are generally boring laptops.