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My price range is 550-850 ish dollars, and I've narrowed down my options the Asus TUF fx505dd & Lenovo L340, and I wanted some more perspective on this, since reviews seem mixed. These two laptops have basically the same specs (same gtx 1050, 8gb ram and 512 ssd), albeit the Lenovo has a i5 9300h and the Asus has the ryzen 5 3550h, which is weaker. The way I see it, is that the Asus costs about 40 dollars less and has the TUF build properties and more gaming features at a cost of some cpu horsepower. This would be fine, however I do plan on playing some cpu heavy games like BeamNG and Cities Skylines. My country is Bulgaria if that helps

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4 minutes ago, ExpandWeiner said:

My price range is 550-850 ish dollars, and I've narrowed down my options the Asus TUF fx505dd & Lenovo L340, and I wanted some more perspective on this, since reviews seem mixed. These two laptops have basically the same specs (same gtx 1050, 8gb ram and 512 ssd), albeit the Lenovo has a i5 9300h and the Asus has the ryzen 5 3550h, which is weaker. The way I see it, is that the Asus costs about 40 dollars less and has the TUF build properties and more gaming features at a cost of some cpu horsepower. This would be fine, however I do plan on playing some cpu heavy games like BeamNG and Cities Skylines. My country is Bulgaria if that helps

The way I see it, a laptop with atleast a GTX 1650 and a i5 9th gen would be enough for all your cpu and gpu intensive games. 1050 is just ancient mate.

No offence intended tho. :)

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If you get a used one, you might be able to get better specs. in UK we have webuy.com, not sure about USA

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500ish is too little to get a decent gaming experience out of a laptop, so going used in this price range is the better option, a 1050 too weak for most more demanding games these days. 

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-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Build Systems

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Well guys I took your advice and went with a GTX1650 and I don't regret it, thanks everyone.

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