Good computer for gaming?

Im wondering what is a good computer to just play games in general, because the one i currently have cant even play a youtube video without lagging.

 

laptop/pc?

You can get a 300$ laptop and it can play most games.

 

Yeah preferably a laptop

 

Razer ftw.

 

If it's between a desktop or a laptop, definately choose a desktop computer. For $500 you can build a nice little PC that will perform as good as a PS4.

Laptop's aren't good for gaming unless you're spending $1,500 minimum on one that will perform great for gaming.

 

Moved to Technology. You'll get more help here.

 

What is your budget? How set are you on a laptop?

Desktops are better for gaming, they're easily upgradeable, etc.

I'll try and help you out once you give me more information.

 

I would never ever suggest a laptop for gaming.

Have you ever considered building your own? It sounds difficult but trust me it really isn't.

 

Thanks for the answers guys, I guess I'm gonna get one of those build yourself desktop, at first I was thinking more towards laptop because I'm usually very mobile, but now I realize I won't have alot of time to use it anyways.

 

try pc partpicker, and ask around. I am going to build my own one, and have done a fair bit of research on it. What is your budget?

 

Well im looking to spend up to 1-2k usd on this

 

Ill take a much better and price though wouldnt mind spending $250 that you guys tell me is good

 

wait what, 1-2k or 250 usd? i'm confused.

 

I'm in a pretty remote area using a cell with only "e" internet signal so it is difficult for me to help you at this moment as I need to hop all over different sites to find prices for you. But at 1k-2k you can build one heck of a machine.

how computer savvy are you? Plans to overclock? What will you play long term? You can build a nasty machine in that range, but if you're not gonna tweak the machine then you can save a lot of cash in a lot of areas. Give us more details and we can help you better. And ill happily chime in with more detail once I can get a better connection.

 

This guy here will tell you anything you need to know.

If you have a $1000-2000 budget, you can build a godly machine.

 

he said laptops, I think ASUS ROG series are good, MSI and gigabyte. Alienware are very good but overpriced. Laptops aren't as good as desktops for obvious reasons but for that amount of money you can get a good laptop. YOu want one with the gtx 970/980m (GPU)

 

Yeah, I personally am a huge fan of MSi Laptops and Clevo/Sager laptops. For right at $1550 you can get a sager NP86XX laptop with a GTX 980M and an I7. You wont find that much power for that price in any other brand, and they're fantastic laptops to boot. The name is not as commonly known, as they've always been a private boutique brand much like VooDooPC was for years and years.

 

Hey thanks again, I'm not that great of a computer savvy so i really wouldn't know what to get with building a machine, so if you guys can please show me to the best in that price range ill really appreciate it, and ill start learning about it, shouldn't be that difficult, spent five years in another technical field

 

Im not that computer savvy, but I'm interested in the experience of building one great machine, and then playing whatever games i can in my free time for now, and I'm not that sure that i can tweak the machine at the moment because I've never really done this, but i would love to be able to. Thanks for the help, really appreciate it

 

intel i5 or above would do u good. I can play planetside full gfx on an i5 touch screen.