Lenovo - Ideapad Gaming 3 15.6" FHD Laptop - Ryzen 5 5600H - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti - 256GB SSD - Shadow Black

THIS IS the best budget laptop i could find after hours of research, it is fast, has a great screen with a 120hz panel and has great performance. If you don't want to read my full review, here's the tldr: TLDR; This is the best gaming laptop for the money and has a great screen, gpu, and other specs. If you are a gaming enthusiast, you will absolutely love this! The battery life is well, a gaming laptop battery, and isn't the best. Depending on how hardware intense the game is, it will drain battery much faster. If you are writing something down, or doing much simpler tasks, it will have a much longer battery, but for most games it will last 25-60 minutes depending on the game. The laptop has many good ports, here are all of them: 1x audio jack (headphone) 1x hdmi in, 2x usb ports, 1x usb-c port, power cable port. I would recommend a usb multiplier if needed. The screen is 1080p and has a 120hz panel meaning it can display video up to 120 frames per second (fps) and is very rare for a laptop at this price range. I dont know what type of hdmi port it has, but it runs my 144hz monitor perfectly fine at 1080p. Specs: the gpu is an rtx 3050 ti and is very good for a laptop at this price, it is great for gaming. The cpu on the other hand, isn't anything to talk about as it is a ryzen 5600H, which is an ok cpu. You will definitely have to change the nvidia driver so it will rely more on the gpu than the cpu for gaming, that way games run much better and smoothly. Certain games rely mostly on cpu and you can't change that, but most are fine. here is some stats for games that you might play: FORTNITE: 120 fps + on performance mode, and 90-120 on DirectX 11, on DirectX 12 is more like 20-50 fps with ray tracing and max settings and has lag spikes often on max settings; runs perfectly fine on DirectX 11 or lower graphics mode, and would recommend that over DirectX 12. (DirectX 12 is basically how high or low graphically you want to run your game at, DX11 will run game with shaders but no ray tracing or other fancy stuff, but DX12 will run game with ratracing and other fancy lights and shadow improvements. Low performance mode gets rid of shaders and has low poly textures, and overall looks a lot worse, but in return gets a much higher frame rate. I would highly recommend DX11 as it has solid shaders and textures with great fps.) MINECRAFT: easily 120 fps + with max settings with the iris + sodium mod. With shaders, (bsl, chocapic shaders,) you can also get 100-120 fps with settings tweaks. If you want a ray tracing shader, (seus, etc) you can get 30-60 fps depending on how hard the shader is to run. ( the better looking the harder it is to run) ROCKET LEAGUE: easily gets max 120 + fps on certain settings. (performance mode makes very little difference and gets much more fps) 2d indie games such as hollow knight, undertale, and brawlhalla (not an indie but similar) will easily run at 120 fps or more if the game allows it.

This is a great gaming laptop for $599. I took it at this price and am very pleased, as the manufacturer has invested the entire amount in performance. From this we get a very small 256 GB drive and only 8 GB of RAM. I also didn't like the brightness of the screen. In this state, the laptop can still easily handle games such as Minecraft and GTA 5. But I bought an additional 1 TB ssd and an 8 GB RAM stick. It cost me $60 and 10 minutes to install. An additional bracket allows you to have 16 gigabytes of RAM and activates the rather important dual-channel mode. Now I can easily play GTA 5 on ultra settings at 110-120 fps. I also play some other modern games and he handles them quite easily. CPU and GPU temperatures do not exceed 176 degrees Fahrenheit, which is absolutely normal for a gaming laptop. I am very pleased and recommend this laptop for $599. I also recommend adding a RAM bar and another ssd for more storage after purchase.

In my opinion this was a steal when it’s on sale, so far I loving this gaming laptop from Lenovo. I have an high-end desktop gaming pc but I wanted a gaming laptop so I could take when traveling or just laying down in bed. One complaint I heard was the battery drains a lot when gaming but that’s normal for any laptop these days. I’d upgraded the storage to 1tb and adding another 8gb ram stick which I really recommend doing right away when buying this laptop especially for gaming on it. The display is not the brightest display but it’ll get the job done. If you already have a high-end gaming pc at home don’t waste a lot of money on a gaming laptop, usually I see this laptop on sale all the time so if you see this on sale and you want a laptop that could game and do other task I recommend buying it immediately

I had been looking for a laptop that could play games and handle programming and graphic design software like Poser and Photoshop. I'm on a fixed income so my budget was no more than $700. I know, that's not much for what I wanted. But, I found the perfect laptop for me with the purchase of this Lenovo Ideapad 3 Gaming Laptop at a sale price of $550! I also added another 8 gigs of memory and another M.2 1 TB SSD to my initial purchase for another $102, bringing it to $652. I also read about the included 135w AC adapter issues and spent another $29 on a 170w adapter for a total of $681, under my budget! I could not be happier with my laptop and feel the money was well spent. With 16 gigs of RAM and the additional 1 TB SSD, it's handled everything I've thrown at it. And the 170w adapter works great, solving the problem of the battery losing charge while playing games or anything that uses the Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti video card. Speaking of which, the 3050 card was also a deciding factor in my decision as I wanted to buy a laptop with the best video card that my budget would allow, since you can't upgrade a laptops video card. Most budget gaming laptops come with a 1650, 1660 card so this Ideapad 3 is a step up. So, even with the upgrades, which is another plus since it can be upgraded, this particular machine is a solid investment for those looking for a gaming and/or graphics design laptop. Highly recommended!!

This thing has some power! For a laptop i am beyond impressed. Installing additional ram was so easy and made a big difference. The storage is a little on the small side but a 2tb external ssd connected to the single usb type c took care of that. Us b ports arent abundant but once again a splitter did the job. I have no issues running just about anything. Starfield plays like a dream along with rdr2, gta, overwatch, etc. I play all of these while also running obs and streaming with multiple programs running all at once. Wifi and lan are available. 10/10 recommend!

I put 32gb of RAM in and it runs flawlessly. Playing Hogwarts at 120fps is amazing. Only downside is the battery life

Great gaming laptop for the price. I’m able to use it for all my needs. It’s fast whenever I surf the web and also it’s good enough for the games I play.

Very fast PC, runs high end games very well. Only complaint is that the fans are very loud and it heats up pretty quickly.