Gaming Laptops For 500$?

get an AMD a6 or A8 i have one and i play bf3 on medium or high setting smoothly if you're in a budget and want your money well spent also Get ASUS proven by consumer surveys, best durability, outstanding performance and quality also has nice style. perfect for gaming not mention they make the best mother boards, and their internal systems are good and solid I have one and i am overwhelmed with how great it is, they are built to last

While you might find one with enough ram and hard-drive space. You might find that they are low quality in construction and die out after only a few years.

Would like to explain before the true answer detail, so you understand, as Y/A is supposed to be: - Summary - Not good, but barely with a Walmart closeout. Details follow. Off the top you have to say that desktops in general do a lot better than laptops because of power and cooling. But, you're talking a laptop. There is no clear definition of what level a laptop has to be to be called "gaming". In my mind, for serious gaming, I set the low number at G3D of 1000. Reference here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php where graphics performance is of course most important, but things like CPU and RAM and bus speed and HDD speed and internet connection, and a lot of other factors affect the flow rates and frames per second. Game-Debate.com likes a higher minimum than game designers and sellers state, and notebookcheck has listed frames per second for many game-GPU combinations that assumes an appropriate CPU coupled with it not to gate the performance: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html Very intensive web site using a lot of ram to even use the list, but it usually works without freezing up. That is the site I refer to and not the games listed. They decided about 35 frames per second without freeze is normal play. A higher pixel density screen sucks more GPU power and drags down performance of frames per second. Using all of above starting with Lenovo Ideapad Y570 bought at Lenovo.com in the US with 10% first order discount by signing up for their notices starts on a big sale now at $647 plus tax. http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=F41BC8E1656C5F85171FBDB172571912&action=init Intel i5-2450M, GT 555M with 1 GB GDDR5 memory, 4GB system RAM, plenty of good features, but drawback is the 720P standard screen 1366x768. Still a fabulous deal among laptops. It has HDMI to use a higher density external, but that would affect frames per second. At this level, noting the slightly below par CPU but still very nice, Star Wars TOR- High (not ultra), skyrim at low to medium, COD-MW3: High (not ultra), BF3- Low to medium, WoW medium Now, you want $500, best I have seen lately is a Walmart close-out. In-store or online ship to store until they run out, and $550-600 elsewhere. Gone very soon: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-Series-3-15.6-Laptop-PC-with-AMD-Quad-Core-A8-Series-Accelerated-Processor-and-Windows-7-Home-Premium/17492781 The A8-3510MX is Passmark 2557 quad core and can be called OK, but less than i5-2450M 3647 rating. It has a 6620G GPU half as good as the Lenovo at 466 though the dual crossfiring 6520+7450 in an A6 by HP and a few companies gets very mixed results of frame freeze and choppiness as it runs crossfire in DX10+DX11 games. Cheap and weird and may be around at $500, but unstable system. The Samsung at Walmart at $500 plus tax (a little over net price), MAYBE SWTOR-low, skyrim+BF3 too choppy and laggy unless you are satisfied with that on low with lag, CODMW3: Medium-high or medium, WoW should get medium, so if you are satisfied with missing a few games but playing others in various settings, That Walmart closeout barely squeeks by, but you really could use more money for a world of difference in the Ideapad Y570, and of course over $1000 gets you serious GTX 560 and higher at Newegg for some systems.