{"id":2246,"date":"2017-12-24T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2017-12-24T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:27:12","slug":"help-notebook-need-lightweight-gaming-rig-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/help-notebook-need-lightweight-gaming-rig-budget.htm","title":{"rendered":"Help Me, Notebook: I Need a Lightweight Gaming Rig on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to game on a budget. Games require powerful\u00a0GPUs\u00a0that are expensive and bulky. But forum user ws479099412 is willing to compromise power if they can get a good price.<\/p>\n

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They asked\u00a0for a recommendation on a\u00a0laptop that costs less than $1,000,\u00a0weighs under 5 pounds\u00a0and can be used for gaming. They already conceded that they may have to give up on getting an\u00a0Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU\u00a0in favor of a light workstation card like an MX150 to get that size. We\u00a0wouldn’t do that personally, but hey, who are we to judge?<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there are a few options out there for ws479099412, some of which sell for way cheaper than $1,000. However, I think spending the most you can will get you more gaming performance in the long run.<\/p>\n

What are the best options? Let’s dig in:<\/p>\n

Lenovo Yoga 720<\/h3>\n

After a bunch of searching, I think the ideal computer for ws497008412 is the\u00a0Lenovo Yoga 720. It starts at $950 and weighs 4.6 pounds. While that’s heavy for a 2-in-1, it’s still below ws479099412’s weight requirement. But most importantly, this laptop has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU, which will play most games, though not at the highest settings.<\/p>\n

The 15.6-inch,\u00a01080p display\u00a0is bright and vivid, though the base model comes with only\u00a0256GB of SSD\u00a0storage, so you’ll want an\u00a0external hard drive\u00a0to hold your Steam library. The other base-model specs include 8GB of\u00a0RAM\u00a0and an\u00a0Intel Core i5-7300HQ CPU.<\/p>\n

Acer<\/a> Nitro 5 Spin<\/h3>\n

Ws479099412 mentioned that they were looking into the\u00a0Acer Nitro 5 Spin, and it seems like a great choice. The caveat here is that we haven’t had the opportunity to review that machine, so I can’t vouch for it. The Nitro costs $949 and comes with a GTX 1050, a 15.6-inch display, 8GB of RAM and an\u00a08th-Gen Intel Core i7 CPU.<\/p>\n

That’s a newer processor than the Yoga has, which is nice, though most games are GPU-bound, so you shouldn’t see a huge difference when gaming. The Nitro weighs 4.9 pounds, so it’s just under ws479099412’s weight limit.<\/p>\n

Acer Aspire E15 (E5-576G-5762)<\/h3>\n

If you’re looking to save money and don’t care about how your games look, I don’t understand you, but I have an option for you. This\u00a0Acer Aspire E15 (E5-576G-5762)\u00a0is just $599 and comes with an Intel Core i5-8250U CPU, 8GB of RAM,a good longer\u00a0ACER Aspire 5513WLMi Laptop Battery,<\/b><\/a>a 256GB SSD and an Nvidia MX150 GPU.<\/p>\n

That GPU won’t touch the GTX 1050, but it should be fine for less-intensive games, like\u00a0Overwatch\u00a0and World of Warcraft. Most games won’t look great on this machine, though, and if you’re serious about gaming, you’ll consider a laptop with at least a GTX 1050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to game on a budget. Games require powerful\u00a0GPUs\u00a0that are expensive and bulky. But forum user ws479099412 is willing to compromise power if they can get a good price. They asked\u00a0for a recommendation on a\u00a0laptop that costs less than $1,000,\u00a0weighs under 5 pounds\u00a0and can be used for gaming. They already conceded that they may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[863,689],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledge-base","category-laptop-batteries-tips","tag-acer-as07b32-laptop-battery","tag-acer-aspire-5513wlmi-laptop-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}