Cheap Gaming Laptop

emodan · 9 Mar 2013 at 12:50

looking to buy a cheap gaming/normal laptop for my girlfriend
seeing as she only plays the Sims 3 looking for something that can handle it on high
not sure if i should get her a basic i3 or i5 laptop with hd 4000 graphics or a AMD based one

i want something that will likely handle the next Sims games and will be able to handle being hooked up to a 1080p display from time to time

roughavoc · 9 Mar 2013 at 16:26

Give us a number so we can work with ya!
£300-400?

Raikiri · 9 Mar 2013 at 18:45

If you can spend a little more you can pick up a nice Dell for less than £470 after codes/quidco:

Base Inspiron 15 Notebook (Inspiron 15z)
Operating System Windows 8 64bit, English
Processor 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3337U processor (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
Memory 8192MB (2x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Chiclet Backlit Keyboard with Multi-touch Touchpad
Video Card Nvidia® GeForce® GT630M 2G
Driver Driver : 2230 Wireless Card
Hard Drive 500GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD and 32GB mSATA SSD
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8x DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Wireless Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230, 802.11b/g/n + BT4.0
LCD 15.6" (39.6 cm) High Definition (720p) LED Display with Truelife

emodan · 10 Mar 2013 at 11:39

price isnt too much of a concern just spent £1200 on my PC so only fair she got something nice to use herself
mite check out the dell outlet during the week see what i can find

originalwood · 10 Mar 2013 at 18:05

i can recommend checking the dell outlet, i just picked up a Dell 17r SE - 7720 i believe for £450.

Intel i5-3210M, 6GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, 1GB Nvidea 650M GPU, should run most 2011-2012 games on High/Ultra which is what im hoping for as i play WoW currently on low and get 7FPS on average haha