Looking for Good gaming laptop for 400 or less
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Are you okay with going used? New "gaming" laptops don't really exist around 400 dollars, hard to find anything new with a halfway decent or any dedicated GPU in that price range.
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He has to go used. New gaming laptops normally start around $1,000.
It would be best to know what kind of games(if specific) you plan on playing & seeing if there's anything in that price range(used).
It would be best to know what kind of games(if specific) you plan on playing & seeing if there's anything in that price range(used).
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You can buy a new laptop for $400, but it will only have integrated graphics which can be good enough for some games, but may not be good enough for the games you want to play.
At $400 you are basically looking at an older used laptop with dedicated graphics. I recommend you consider the following Dell Latitude 3540 "Business Laptop" with a 4th generation dual core i5-4210u and Radeon HD 8850m GPU (competes directly with the GTX 660m) for $335. The least expensive laptop on ebay with the GTX 660m is $500 but it did have a 3rd generation quad core i7 CPU.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-3540-Intel-i5-4210U-1-7GHz-8GB-RAM-500GB-SSHD-WIN-10-Pro-15-6/232689154903?hash=item362d5abb57:g:hcIAAOSwk3xang2n
I actually have this laptop. I bought refurbished back in early 2014 somewhere between $475 and $500. It is pretty decent. The Radeon HD 8850m is ranked a little better than the more modern nVidia 940mx at Notebookcheck.net. Click link below to see game benchmarks. The most demanding game I played with that laptop is Fallout 4, but only at 1600x900 resolution using medium graphic settings to get something like 40 FPS to 45 FPS most of the time, if I remember correctly.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-8850M.87118.0.html
Here's a review:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-3540-Notebook.105885.0.html
At $400 you are basically looking at an older used laptop with dedicated graphics. I recommend you consider the following Dell Latitude 3540 "Business Laptop" with a 4th generation dual core i5-4210u and Radeon HD 8850m GPU (competes directly with the GTX 660m) for $335. The least expensive laptop on ebay with the GTX 660m is $500 but it did have a 3rd generation quad core i7 CPU.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-3540-Intel-i5-4210U-1-7GHz-8GB-RAM-500GB-SSHD-WIN-10-Pro-15-6/232689154903?hash=item362d5abb57:g:hcIAAOSwk3xang2n
I actually have this laptop. I bought refurbished back in early 2014 somewhere between $475 and $500. It is pretty decent. The Radeon HD 8850m is ranked a little better than the more modern nVidia 940mx at Notebookcheck.net. Click link below to see game benchmarks. The most demanding game I played with that laptop is Fallout 4, but only at 1600x900 resolution using medium graphic settings to get something like 40 FPS to 45 FPS most of the time, if I remember correctly.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-8850M.87118.0.html
Here's a review:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-3540-Notebook.105885.0.html
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