# Where to find inexpensive gaming laptops? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 2, 2015, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-inexpensive-gaming-laptops/711585 "2015-02-02T08:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-inexpensive-gaming-laptops/711585/41 "2015-03-01T15:26:57Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Ok, so I sent her the suggested laptop but I explained to her that with the budget she’s offering she’s not going to get much. She then bumped the budget up to a little over a thousand. She’s thinking between these two: > > [Lenovo Y50 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Gaming Laptop](http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-15-6-Inch-Touchscreen-Gaming-59426255/dp/B00K6ZIFFG/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424982670&sr=1-4&keywords=lenovo+y50#productDetails) or the [Lenovo Y70 17.3-Inch Touchscreen Gaming Laptop](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MCJQ6NW/ref=psdc_565108_t3_B00K6ZIFFG). > > Thoughts? I have the previous gen from Lenovo Y510P with a 2gig GTX-755M graphics card, I didn’t buy it in order to play games, simply wanted dedicated graphics for Sketchup, but it has been able to play Splinter Cell Blacklist\*, Borderlands 2 and the latest Tomb Raider at 1080p with pretty close to maxed out settings aside from the anti-aliasing. Now, that’s pretty much what others have said, I am playing last year’s games, had I known I wanted a gaming machine I probably would have looked a lot closer at the SLI option offered in the Y510P. \*The graphics got a bit glitchy when fast-roping down into dark areas, but that doesn’t happen that often. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-inexpensive-gaming-laptops/711585.md?page=2)