gaming laptop? What will we call? cheap. However, they are often more cost-effective build your own gaming PC, peripherals and all, with the added benefit of being much more travel-friendly. That’s right, you can spend more than $2,500 on a complete laptop, but still have strong value to be found in the lower end of the market (around $1,000). We’ve played all sorts of games on a wide range of cheap gaming laptops and have narrowed the list down to the best games.
We prefer laptops with Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards, at least 11th Gen Intel or AMD Ryzen 5000-series chips and 16 GB of RAM. These specs aim to benchmark around 60 fps (fps) at 1080p pixels in graphically rich titles and up to 120 fps in competitive games.
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