$500 or lower Laptop Advice Requested

[Tooney712]

Hey, so I'm trying to help a friend find a good enough gaming laptop - it doesn't need to run the latest games, as long as it's 64-bit it'll be an upgrade to his old laptop. About the only requirement is that it has to run FFXIV at minimal settings.

 

Friend doesn't have a large budget, hence the 500 or under stipulation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

FFXIV'S minimum system requirements can be found here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/

Please keep in mind the game is getting an expansion in a couple months and the minimum requirements are subject to change, especially since the devs have indicated they are going to abandon 32-bit versions of the game, which indicates a probable increase in RAM for both the DirectX 9 and 11 versions.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, Tooney712 said:

 

Seems like laptops are horribly expensive right now

 

Best bet might be something used with at least a 960, or an R5 2500U potentially, just look for some benchmarks.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100167732 601285496 601286598

[techtim]

https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834850619&ignorebbr=1

[aisle9]

Dell made an ungodly number of Inspiron 7567 laptops a couple of years back with an i5-7300HQ and either a GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 Ti. Those are all over the used market right now.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, techtim said:

https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834850619&ignorebbr=1

Going to want an R5 2500U at minimum for the long run

 

There's supposed to be Ryzen 3000 laptops out already but I can't find anything about them.

[Wufflez]

38 minutes ago, Tooney712 said:

Hey, so I'm trying to help a friend find a good enough gaming laptop - it doesn't need to run the latest games, as long as it's 64-bit it'll be an upgrade to his old laptop. About the only requirement is that it has to run FFXIV at minimal settings.

 

Friend doesn't have a large budget, hence the 500 or under stipulation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

FFXIV'S minimum system requirements can be found here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/

Please keep in mind the game is getting an expansion in a couple months and the minimum requirements are subject to change, especially since the devs have indicated they are going to abandon 32-bit versions of the game, which indicates a probable increase in RAM for both the DirectX 9 and 11 versions.

I was able to find this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-Nitro-5-Gaming-Laptop-Intel-i5-2-30GHz-8GB-Ram-256GB-SSD-Windows-10-Home/263941141929?epid=17025213752&hash=item3d741e35a9:g:LAIAAOSwx~ZcsL5F
Yes it's refurbished, but the next cheapest thing that could of worked was $700+
- i5-8300H 2.30 GHz Processor
- 8 GB of Ram
- 15.6" Display with 1920 x 1080 Resolution
- Dedicated GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Windows 10 Home

Honestly for the price, it's really good.