My money is on no.

A laptop MADE for gaming? No.

However, there are plenty of laptops that can handle some hefty games. My wife has a Dell, not sure of the exact model, which costed about $300 USD (I believe that converts to like 250 Euros), and it can play games like Left 4 Dead 2, Tomb Raider 2013, Outlast, etc., and all on medium to high settings.

It depends on what games you are willing to play on it:

• If you plan on playing some indie/low-resource games (e.g. The Binding Of Isaac, Awesomenauts, Telltale games...) I guess you could find something in that range that handles them pretty well.

• If you plan on playing some AAA/high-end games (e.g. The Witcher, The Division, Battlefront...) I'm afraid you will probably need a bigger budget, around 900$ and up from there.

I personally have a pretty similar laptop to this one and it can handle almost everything, but most AAA games need to be played on medium-low settings at 1080p, the FPS drop is too hard past that point with a mobile graphics card and 8 gigs of RAM.

I hope it was at least little bit helpful, have a nice day!

My 2cents :

Laptop and gaming doesn't go well combined. Laptop are usually more expansive and perform less for the same price counterpart of a desktop PC.

For that price is almost impossible to get anything good even if you were assembling a Desktop.

However if you need it because you travel a lot, you could tell us what you want to play and with which setting so we could help better.
If you don't need it because of whatever reason a desktop is way better.

Check newegg.com. They usually start at around $700 and go to about $2500.
NewEgg Gaming Laptops
I dont think Newegg ships internationally unless you were to go through a parcel forwarder but at least you can get an idea of whats available.

Got a Dell Inspiron 3542(GeForce 840M 1GB,8 GB RAM, Core i7 4th) for ~400$ and I can run everything I want to play except the new AAA games like Arkham Knight and Mad Max, having less than 30 FPS is uncomfortable to play =d

If you want to play games, I'd suggest you to build a desktop computer, not a laptop.

If you want the laptop, choose wisely, you need a decent cooling system and a GPU, Intel Core i5 3rd+ generation, 4 GB RAM+, and not a bad display, pay attention to weight and display resolution, how long can battery work on a high performance mode etc.

Also take a look at the "cooling holes" because if they are under the laptop and you need to play on a table, they can end up blocked which will overheat all the parts...

You can buy a special additional thing to a laptop if it has its holes below(?) =d

If you're looking to play games that demand powerful hardware, I'd say you should look for a PC and possibly even used screen to meet that price. I advise you check www.systemrequirementslab.com to find the most demanding game you're looking and choose computer parts according to it's system requirements. You should pick slightly more powerful parts than listed for the PC will be more future proof.

You can get decent performance on older games like Witcher 1 or port like Final Fantasy X but would see horrible FPS on newer games like Witcher 3.

Just make sure you pick laptop with dedicated GPU. There should be variety of laptop within that range with dedicated GPU (probably AMD), but it's better than integrated ones like Intel HD.

I might be possible but it won't be able to run newer games perfectly. Or just run games which don't need the high specs. Should be fine.

I can recommend this one (I have It since a year I like it :) )
It's ASUS's cheapest gamer notebook
It can run today's AAA titles on mid graphics but you need more money for this one

ASUS ROG GL552JX
Display: 15.6'' 1080p LED Matte
Processor: Intel Core i7-4720HQ (2.6 - 3.6 Ghz)
RAM: 8Gb DDR3
VGA: NVidia GeForce GTX 950M (4Gb VRAM, DDR3, Dx12)
HDD: 1Tb
full Windows 10 compatible

View attached image.

For that price you could get a decent laptop that can run most low demand games. However, if you want to run game that have higher demands (so about every AAA game from 2013 or later) you will have to pay more then that. If you really want a laptop, you will come close to 1000 bucks, if not more. A desktop can be cheaper then that, so unless you really want a laptop, go for a desktop.

At best, and if you're lucky you might be able to get a refurbished or used laptop with a 930m for that kind of price. Benchmarks can be found here if you scroll down. They put those in quite a lot of Toshiba Satellite models, they're in some HP Envy's and at the cheap end Medion Akoya laptops.

For new, it will probably have to be a 920m. Benchmarks here. You could get an Acer Aspire E5-573G or some of the ones off here for that kind of money.

Can be tricky to find a good or even reasonable performing laptop for a budget price. You're going to struggle to run the latest games. I remember when I got back into gaming in winter 2011, Skyrim had come out, I needed a new laptop anyway and wanted to play it. Didn't have much of a budget and ended up getting a refurbed Dell from their official site with a scratched case that made it cheaper for £330 which is about €400. Spent absolutely ages putting research in and trawling websites to find that.

Edit: Another thing you could do is look at youtube vids running different games on different laptop cards. Obviously that comes with a warning that sometimes people are BS'ing about the settings they're running the game at or even which GPU they're using.

No.

not going to get a laptop for gaming for that price unless you can find something used somewhere if you can double how much you want to spend then maybe..maybe something newish.

500 euros... I would highly recommend a desktop for you, but you will need to learn to build it or have someone else help you with it, it's not THAT hard anyway :] And a 500 desktop will most likely wipe the floor with a 800 euros laptop (or even more expensive).

But the advantages of upgradability and buying used (very good) parts is unparalleled! I just hope you don't need the portability of a laptop... for some kind of reference at what parts to aim for an specific total budget check Logical Increments as a reference, but don't necessarily go for the part models listed there, you can do much better or cheaper in most cases and you can mix up parts from different tiers depending on your upgrade route in the future.

Find someone with 4-8 GB RAM and an i3-6100U or i5-6300U. Their iGPUs can handle a lot of games on low/medium settings, especially in windowed 720p on Win10.

My brother bargain hunted for computer parts that all together should have costed him around 800 USD but he got everything on sale for a total of around 500 USD

laptops are not meant to play games on,
get real and save for a desktop !

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-CX62-Gaming-Laptop-Black/dp/B01DGK3OW6/
Cheapest i found with a ok gpu.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940MX.156033.0.html

On that range the only gaming laptops worth it have a 940M or a 940MX - and both of these are plagued by memory bandwidth.
950M and better GPUs have GDDR5 instead of DDR3, and the performance gains make it absolutely worth it assuming you can save up and go somewhat higher than your current price range allows.

Whatever the guys above me said, ignore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3AD2grovo

I had an Alienware M11X, the first version of the M11X that was produced. Yes I know that Alienware PC's are overhyped and that they are supposedly not as good as they were before the company was bought out by Dell, but I wanted a gaming PC and with the living situation that I had at the time, I was constantly on the go and constantly setting up and tearing down a desktop was just not feasible so it was laptop or nothing. I shopped around for awhile and went with the M11X because at the time it was the best value that I could find in terms of performance for the price.

It ended up being a huge mistake and two years later, when I built my next desktop after my living situation became more stable, I sold it as-is on eBay for less than half of what I paid for it; not too bad considering a couple of years had passed but it never was what I had hoped it would be. It overheated constantly, to the point that I could not safely run it without using an external fan. It would get so hot that it would shut down and after awhile I was worried that every time I would play a game, with or without the external fan, that I was risking burning it up completely. I became so worried that I didn't even want to play games on it anymore, and it became more of a movie streaming device. Also the hinge on one side began splitting open almost immediately after the manufacturer's warranty expired, and dust and other particles started getting in behind the plastic that was covering the actual LCD panel. I know because of the size the manufacturer had fewer options and space to work with when it came to cooling for the system, but when I told a co-worker I had at the time, he put the whole issue into perspective, and while I can't remember his exact words, he basically said that laptops and gaming don't really mix. Unless you are constantly on the go (like you have a job where you are living out of hotel rooms or in the cab of an 18-wheeler) I would advise against getting a laptop for gaming. If semi-portability interests you think about getting or building a desktop in a LAN-party style case. And myself personally, I'm in between actual gaming rigs and I'm currently using a portable desktop called the Kangaroo. It is a full fledged Windows 10 PC but it's the size of a cellphone. I can play Delver and some of the roguelikes I like to play but it isn't much for gaming, I just bought it because it was 100 USD and is getting me by until I can afford to build my next rig. If that interests you at all, until you can save up more money, it's only for sale on the Microsoft Store and NewEgg. https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/InFocus-Kangaroo-Signature-Edition-Mobile-Desktop/productID.328073600

If you really really have to get a gaming laptop, I'd wait until you can buy one of those behemoth ASUS gaming laptops, but again just think about how much less it would cost to build a desktop with more power.

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