Thin, quiet, cool 'gamig' laptop that doesn't cost a fortune?

[morguk]

I'm after something that won't spin up with crazy loud fans or burn my legs after an hour of playing.

I'm assuming a high end Ryzen chip might be best option with integrated graphics as they are fair priced and look slim. Is it powerful enough?

Doesn't need to be blistering performance, low with good FPS on reasonably modern titles is fine.

 

[morguk]

Think what games you are wanting to play will determine what level you will likely need however, Bought a thinkpad T16 gen 2 for work with a ryzen 7040 pro in it as got fed up using phone/tablet.

Tried Boarderlands2 just to see how it would do. 250+ fps . No clue on how it would do on a modern AAA game though.
Battey life is nuts too though thats in general usage. Also not using windows.

Nice. I'm mainly going to play UE5 based games but on low settings/performance options on.

I've got a Ryzen 4700u laptop from a few generations ago (bought 2020, I think) and I'm still super impressed by it. I haven't tried anything incredibly modern on it for a while, but it runs things like Civ VI flawlessly, and I've played lots of Arma3 on it without problems (albeit at middle-low settings).

That's great to hear. It looks like the 4700u uses a RX Vega 7 while the Ryzen I was looking at has a Radeon 780M. The 780M looks to be 2-3x faster which sounds like it will fit the bill nicely.

 

[morguk]

Ue5?

Good luck with that.