There’s no reason to strive for expensive 4K screens, since the GPUs in these laptops can’t play games well at resolutions above 1080p anyway. Any pick we make for the best cheap gaming laptop needs to have a 1920×1080 screen-no exceptions. Display: In our research we found that 15-inch laptops strike a good balance between screen size and relative portability, but there are also 17.3-inch laptops in our budget.Keyboard: The keyboard should be comfortable and responsive, as you use it for the majority of game inputs.

The fans shouldn’t blast during non-gaming activities, either.

Noise: Noisy fans are a reasonable trade-off for a cool laptop, but ideally a gaming laptop can keep high-contact areas cool without drowning out the speakers with loud fans.

It’s more forgivable for a laptop to get hot in areas where you make less direct skin contact.

But a laptop must keep its high-contact areas, such as the WASD keys and the left palm rest, cool the same goes for its internal components. 1 No gaming laptop can keep completely cool-all the heat from the CPU and GPU has to go somewhere. Heat: Without an effective cooling system, a gaming laptop can overheat while playing more-demanding games, which can slow gaming performance, shorten the laptop’s lifespan, or even burn you.Gigabyte doesn’t offer phone support, so the Auros isn’t a good choice if you aren’t comfortable doing some of your own troubleshooting, or waiting a few days for a response on a support ticket. Also, the keyboard’s backlight shines only through the main letters and symbols on each key, which makes the secondary media keys and symbols that don’t light up a strain to read. However, the short battery life and unflattering webcam placement make the Aorus 15P less than ideal for leisure and work on the go. It has the same great graphics card and processor as the Predator Triton 300, and both should be able to play games smoothly for years. The beautiful display on the Gigabyte Aorus 15P (KD-72US223SH) has an impressive 240 Hz refresh rate, and it consistently delivered the highest frames-per-second (fps) rates of any laptop we tested across the board.

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