Cheap Gaming Laptop

If you are a gamer, you must be aware of how games have changed over the last few years. Nowadays even the smallest and the most simplest game demands huge resources to run smoothly and flawlessly. It is common to suffer lagging and slow frame rates due to slow processing and thus slow rendering by an old machine. A computer or cheap notebook you bought four or even two years back would not be able to run the latest games and 3D software flawlessly. As a solution to all this, you should invest in a cheap gaming laptop.

What makes a laptop a gaming laptop?

Games demand high resources in terms of memory (both HDD and RAM) and Graphic Card. Ram is found in all computers whether desktop, hand help or even laptops. But a Graphic Card is special to a gaming laptop or high end laptops used by animators and people involved in 3D modelling and rendering stuff. Graphic card is so important that it can be found in cheap gaming laptops too. Apart from graphics, certain models have dedicated keys to play games. These keys may or may not be present in cheap gaming laptops. Most of the people think that for gaming, when it comes to screen, the bigger the better. But in my opinion, you should go for the screen size that makes you feel comfortable. A cheap gaming laptop may have the perfect size you may need to frag your opponents easily.

Here are the things that you should keep in mind before buying a cheap gaming laptop.

Processor

For a cheap gaming laptop, you should consider investing in a quad core and preferably 2.0 Ghz. If you can not afford a quad core processor, an i7 or an i5 should serve the purpose too. These high end processors are a must because we need very high transfer speeds to run games flawlessly.

Audio and Video

These are the 2 things that will decide the experience you will have on your cheap gaming laptop. Graphic cards in desktop computers are common and thus desktop computers are more powerful than

laptops. But recent developments have enabled us to put graphic cards in laptops easily. The latest technology by Nvidia makes use of two graphic cards simultaneously and has been a success in gaming laptops too. Although you will probably not find this new technology in a cheap gaming laptop, but a 1 GB graphic card will be easily available in a cheap gaming laptop.

Battery Backup

You can not have your machine always plugged in the power source. That said, a gaming laptop consumes large amount of energy for running, thanks to quick and high resource requirement. A good cheap gaming laptop will provide a battery backup of around 2 hours. Higher end gaming laptops may provide backup of more than 3 hours.

Memory

If the main motive of you buying a gaming laptop is to play games, a HDD with 120 GB will be sufficient. Although the bigger the better but to keep the laptop cheap, we need to set some limit. Instead of going for more HDD space, invest in RAM and Graphic Card. 1 GB graphic card is what most games demand today.