Customer Ratings & Reviews

This PC is awesome, been using it for a month now, it gets even better once you upgrade the RAM on it. It supports DDR5 5200mHz SO-DIMM RAM and it became a beast once I put 2x16gb sticks of Crucial RAM on it, more than I'll ever need but leaves extra room for smooth performance. It only cost 80$ for that upgrade and it was an easy install. You do need a T6 Torx Tool and some kind of guitar pick to open it up but it doesn't take long. The lock for the RAM that was originally there was so hard to take out I thought I would give up and not risk breaking it, but it came out with a bit of downforce close to where the lock got stuck, not sure why but I'm guessing it's the tape was gluing it very well on the board. The 1080p 144hz display is well built with no creak sound and barely any backlight. At this price point it is a laptop that feels premium and is very sturdy, although the case being a dark grey makes your fingerprints very visible even when you try to avoid it. My personal favorite detail is probably the touchpad with the holographic colored effect. The Gigabyte control center is very useful and gives you lots of control. The only problem I had so far is related to the BIOS. I'm still not sure if it is a hardware or software problem, but when I try to warm reboot my PC it gets stuck on the BIOS. If I do a cold restart it boots up normally with no problem. I'm guessing the BIOS is new cause I can't find any help online, no BIOS looks like mine. It doesn't have a Boot Priority option so I can't even change that to try and solve it, and I'm not currently living in the U.S. so I'm guessing Best Buy can't help me. But oh well, cold restarts are better anyways. But I wish this hadn't happened.

The Gigabyte Aorus 15 is a good entry level gaming laptop with the potential to be great. It has a couple of component choices that take away from the experience but they’re nothing that cant be fixed with a few more bucks and a YouTube video. More on that in a bit. The Aorus has what I consider amazing build quality. I have had a couple of gaming laptops before that were much more expensive ad did not feel as quality or as solid, had massive back light bleed, or all the above. It has no chassis flex, no creaking, and most everything feels like metal, even the non metal bits. It a nice looking matte black color with a nice gloss Aorus logo in the center of of the lid. It has an RGB strip in the bottom of the monitor that reflects off the cooler and the can match or be different that the RGB keyboard. While it looks very nice, it IS a finger print magnet, but nothing a damp cloth wont take off. The laptop is easy to maintain and mostly easy to work on as the internal components are smartly laid out and the expansion slots are easy to find. My biggest knock is they used Torx T6 screws to put the bottom shell on instead of more common #1 or #2 Phillips screws. Unless you have a purpose built electronics kit the likelihood of you having a Torx driver lying around isn't that great. Oddly enough the internals ARE held together with #0 and #1 Phillips. It weighs in a roughly 5.5lbs, and combined with the big CPU GPU cooler it is not the most portable laptop, but its nowhere near as bad as a lot out there. It comes with a pretty chonky 240w power brick that is able to power the i5-13500H and RTX 4050 very well, and when not plugged in allows the MUX switch to run the integrated graphics and give you a reasonable 6-7hr web-surfing time and 3-4 streaming time. Gaming on a gaming laptop while on battery is generally a terrible idea and it proved true on this one as well. FPS suffers heavily running on integrated graphics and unless you drop settings to as low as they’ll go and the battery dies pretty quick after about an hour and a half or so in my testing. It has a 99Wh battery which is as big as airlines allow so you can fly and frag if you so desire. The laptop has a 15” 144hz panel that for some reason is labeled both 144hz and 165hz on Gigabytes product page, but I have not found any screen overclocking feature and Windows says its 144hz so that's what I’m going with. Gigabyte again doesn’t inform us if its TN or IPS instead saying its TUV Rhineland certified, but judging by the poor side viewing angle I’m willing to say its a TN panel, which seems fairly common at this price range. Its also NOT G-Sync or Free Sync compatible so something to be aware of. I noticed screen tearing the most when in smokey environments in fast paced games, or in foggy environments. Most other game play situations were crystal clear and I really REALLY had to be looking for any screen tear just so I could nit pick about it. It also has no noticeable back light bleed (at least on my model). The RTX 4050 is the bottom of the NVIDIA GPU lineup, however it doesn’t perform as such in modern games. My other laptop has a Ryzen 5900HS and a RTX 3060 and the i5-13500H / RTX 4050 easily outpaces it. At 1080p, running the same balanced settings in MW2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider bench tests I was easily getting another 25-35 fps on this laptop with its bigger 15” display vs my other laptop with its 14” screen. Part of this is the i5-13500H being better than the 5900HS, but the 4050 is improved over the 3060 by a noticeable amount. All games I played were playable and ran smoothly for the most part, however this is where the laptops first shortcut shows its head. If you are just doing average tasks like browsing the web, looking at e-mail, etc, 8GB or ram is fine. But the fact it is a gaming laptop with only 8GB of ram really hurts it. Its sluggish in Windows menus when trying to open Edge, type to your friends in Discord, download games, let alone trying to get a game up and going. Once in game the game play is fine, but graphically heavy games have problems loading all textures in menus. For example, looking at my guns, camos, operators, or the Battle Pass in MW2 caused many textures to fail to load, giving a lump of mud appearance on everything. Game play was normally fine as those textures are prioritized as they should be but every now and then there would be some hitching that wasn't network related as more information was being loaded into the ram. Same issues in the menu and Item Shop in Fortnite. Task Manager shows just doing basic Windows tasks eats up 40-60% of the available ram. Games immediately sent it to 100%. Luckily Windows is fantastic at ram management and gives the game priority while shutting down and shifting priority away from other tasks you don’t need at the time. It really sucks they couldn’t include at least 16GB but I understand why at this price point. It is an easy upgrade even if you don’t know much about the internals on computers and whether you want to just get one 8GB stick or go for 32GB, you have 2 REAL SO-DIM slots instead of some of the ram being soldered to the motherboard like many laptops are guilty of. I stuck another 8GB stick in and Windows and a few background tasks immediately jump ram usage to 45% (so near the old total ram amount) and MW2 jumped it to 73% and Fortnite jumped it to 85%. Other AAA games were within this range as well. So if you throw ram at this laptop it will benefit. Textures immediate load as they should, games run even better with no more hitching and stuttering, etc. Frame rates went from an average of 134 to 148 in MW2 and from 127 to 149 in Tomb Raider. VERY impressive.. Next on the list is the 512GB gen 4 m.2 SSD. 512GB is not a lot of room anymore with games easily taking 50+GB and some well over 100GB. Many people would knock it, and I’m one of them, however I understand at this price point. I applaud Gigabyte for at least including another 2280 length m.2 slot so you can easily pop in another drive unlike many other laptops that cost even more that require you to buy an external housing to flash your operating system and all the drives contents onto a new drive before replacing it , or just losing everything and starting from scratch. However before you go buy another drive ask yourself how what all will be on your PC. I currently have 15 games ranging from AAA titles eating up 100GB to a few Indy games barely over 500MB and still have 90GB free. Even if you end up needing more room, if you have fast internet you can quickly get them again. If not, unlike current gen consoles, you can use a standard external hard drive to easily expand your gaming storage instead of having to buy a special designed SSD cartridge in the case or an expensive gen 4 m.2 with a heat-sink. I ended up putting in a 1TB gen 3 SSD, bringing total capacity to 1.5TB and now have more room than I will need for a long time. The laptop also includes a genuine Intel AX211 WiFi 6E card instead of off brand card. This card proved very fast getting 400-600MB/s on my 1gig internet. It never dropped nor did I experience really any more lag than with a wired connections. Speaking of, this laptop actually includes a real Ethernet port so if you are in a situation that allows you to plug in to get faster and more stable internet you will be able to without buying a USB to Ethernet adapter like many other laptops require. When it comes to a clean Windows install, Gigabyte deserves some credit here. Other than standard Microsoft programs, the only things installed were Gigabyte Control Center and Network Dragon, and NVIDIA Control Center. Network Dragon can be uninstalled, as you don’t need anything monitoring your internet while you play a game, as you really shouldn’t be doing any major background tasks while gaming in the first place. Control Center is decent. You go there to adjust the computers mode from gaming to battery saver to anything in between, adjust fan curves and RGB settings, etc. Its light and the settings are not buried in dozens of sub menus like one of my other laptops. The one of two thing that annoys me is that even though I can turn the track pad off to keep from bumping it while using a mouse, I cant disable the Windows key without installing a third party program or editing the Windows registry. I use the left Alt key to ping items in-game, and I kept hitting the Windows key instead and pulling me out of the game! Super simple thing they could fix in a future Control Center update. The other thing that bugged me was the lack of disabling the RGB turning off. If you don’t use the keyboard in 60 seconds or so, the back-lighting turns off. Again there should be an option to enable always on if you’re plugged into an outlet. Last on the list is how the PC runs… or doesn’t? This laptop has an amazing processor and a stupid fast Gen 4 m.2 SSD. Yet for some reason this laptop takes an ETERNITY to turn on, restart, and even enter and exit the BIOS menu. I have 0 idea why this is a thing, but it reminds me of a PC with an old spinning hard drive. You can turn it on and literally go get a cup of coffee before it gets to the Windows log in screen. I believe this is squarely on Gigabytes shoulders and hopefully a future update will fix this issue. In conclusion, for $1,000 you get a very well built laptop with an amazing processor, a surprisingly great GPU, and can easily upgrade the ram, SSD, and WiFi cards. That price tag limits you to a screen without G-Sync / Free Sync, the bare minimum ram to run, and a OK size SSD and a sluggish boot sequence. Are these problems? Yes. Will they reduce your enjoyment of the product? For most people who are new to PC gaming or buying this for their kids, I say no. Other than the screen and the boot sequence the problems can be fixed with $100 and a couple YouTube videos or you can always take it to Best Buy and have them do it for you.

The GIGABYTE AORUS 15 is a good entry level budget gaming laptop with a modern cpu and graphics card. The overall design is nice and has a good sturdy feel and the available ports should be plenty for on the go. In anticipation of Diablo IV tested D3 with all setting maxed out and was easily able to run >144fps thanks to the RTX4050 and the 6GB of video ram and the 13th gen i5 13500 processor. When under load the fans are loud but that is expected to keep the temps down, but when not under load the laptop is very quiet. Bootup is a little on the slow side, but that can be addressed with a few minor upgrades. The screen is clear and bright and the sound is decent for this formfactor. The 1080p webcam is great and will support Windows hello, so you can utilize facial recognition to bypass password entry. The bundled Gigabyte control center software is very helpful with keeping the drivers up-to-date as well as providing you with quick and easy customization options and controls. One drawback though is the lack of number pad, but that is somewhat expected with the footprint. As spec'd his laptop twill get you started, but to get the most out of it does require some additional hardware upgrades as it is limited on the storage space and available RAM, but the expansion ports are available when you are ready to do so.

The Gigabyte AORUS is a gorgeous laptop with a glaring problem: not enough RAM. Over the years, software has become more demanding and hardware has to work to keep up. The lack of System RAM in this device gives an incomplete gaming experience. [PROS] The laptop showcases a simple yet sleek design. I really love the engraved emblem and subtle inclusion of other colors within the trackpad and keyboard. All of the components inside this laptop are of the newest generation which is a huge win for the consumer. The SSD is PCIe Gen 4 (both NVMe slots), the RAM is DDR5, the Thunderbolt port is Gen 4, the CPU is Intel's 13th generation processor, and the GPU is a 40 Series card. With this construction, no performance is left on the table Another highlight is that the 144hz panel and 4050 GPU pair well for 1080p gaming. The display is perfect for eSports and other competitive multiplayer games while being on the go. The fan noise level can be high, but thermals are awesome for a slim gaming device I've dealt with laptops being hot to the touch during gameplay, but the cooling system of this computer is very effective. This PC also contains a diverse and healthy amount of ports for connection. I'm used to gaming laptops only containing 1 USB C port, but this device contains 2 making it versatile for different types of equipment needing to be plugged in. [MIXED BAG] One of the highlights for this laptop is also one of its biggest drawback which is storage. Can you add another SSD? Yes. As a matter of fact, you can upgrade the primary drive and/or add a secondary NVMe SSD. Both will be PCIe Gen 4 ensuring that you get the latest speeds. Will you need to add or upgrade the storage? It very likely. The reason being is that mainstream titles are ever increasing in size. Here a few examples: God of War (64GB), Horizon Zero Dawn (72GB), Far Cry 6 (60GB), and Forza Horizon 5 (132GB) are fan favorites. If you plan on playing these types of games then that leaves you with enough room for two more 60GB titles (a total of 6 installed games) because only 454GB of that 512GB drive is usable. If you only prefer games like Fortnite (27GB), Apex Legends (38GB), or content from smaller Indie developers then there's nothing to worry about. [CONS] I dealt with a number of crashes from the lack of system memory (RAM) as opposed to video memory (GPU VRAM). After porting my library over into the new PC, I was able to get a number of titles running, but I noticed that a few of them were crashing after 5-10 minutes of gameplay such as Forza Horizon 5 and Spiderman Remastered. For the record, this laptop doesn't meet the recommended requirements specified for these games, but it does meet the minimum. Graphically impressive, popular games seemed to be very problematic unless I used a medium preset at 1080p, and obviously without ray tracing. I was able isolate the issue after noticing that the PC was using 6.1 out of 7.7 (Usable) GB of RAM from me only being in the menu of FH5. When no other applications were open, the system averaged 3.9 to 4.1GBs of RAM used. This clearly lets me know that the system needs a bit more muscle to manage a healthy gaming workload. Another quirk was that the laptop was very slow to setup. Every computer upon initial setup will need to download and install crucial updates which is normal. With a Gigabit wired internet connection, the update took over an hour to complete. Furthermore, I also had to deal with the Gigabyte Control Center closing constantly forcing me to restart updates. [CONCLUSION] The Gigabyte AORUS is an entry level laptop for this generation that will require upgrades to reach its full potential. Because it only contains 8GB of RAM, it will require an additional purchase. Upgrading RAM is a very easy task, but the person buying an entry level gaming laptop/desktop may not be comfortable enough (or desire) to do so. On the other hand, if you don't upgrade the RAM then it is highly unlikely to do other tasks while gaming such as streaming, chatting, or etc. due to system resource limitations. In recent times, GPUs with 8GB of VRAM are starting to be concerning, but the 6GB of VRAM found within the 4050 should be still adequate for 1080p. I look forward to what the laptop can be, I just can't full enjoy it because of what it is right now.

KEY FEATURES nVidia GTX 4050 Graphics Card with 6GB Dedicated VRAM Display capable of 100% DCI-P3 Color Range Intel Core i5-13500H – 12 Cores / 16 Threads DDR5 Memory Support Upgradeable to 64GB RAM and Larger NVMe SSD’s INITIAL SET-UP AND CONFIGURATION The Aorus 15 ships with the latest edition of Windows 11 Home, 64-bit. Windows set-up and initial configuration proved trouble-free with all initial necessary drivers included. This is not a totally clean install of Windows 11, as Gigabyte throws in their share of software, they believe to be a value add. Among the included software is their Gigabyte Control Center and Realtek Dragon Network monitoring tool. The Gigabyte Control Center is supposed to be your one-stop shop for customizing the laptop and for driver updates, while the Realtek Dragon software monitors your network throughput and allows you to prioritize traffic and applications if you so choose. All was going well as Windows Update ran and updated 11 as well as found any additional driver updates that occurred since manufacture and shipping. Once all was updated, I started the Gigabyte Control Center to check for any pending Bios and/or Firmware updates. The program found several updates and that is when things took a turn for the worse. While this was a VERY time-consuming process, most went without fuss (although the length of time required to make some updates was quite worrisome), some did not. A keyboard firmware update downloaded and installed, immediately bricking my RGB lighting and keyboard. The trackpad worked and a USB mouse worked, but all the RGB lighting and keyboard were dead. This lasted quite some time. Had I not had an extra USB keyboard, I would have been dead in the water. After several restarts and yet another keyboard firmware update, things began to work properly again, but not after close to a half hour of fussing and troubleshooting. USE My go-to program to test CPU power is always Handbrake. Scouring through some old home videos, I found a 21:12 minute video that was recorded in 1080p and weighed in a lofty 8GB. I set up Handbrake to compress the 1080p home video to a much smaller 480p/30fps file. Using only the CPU to render the encode, the new Intel Raptor Lake CPU was able to compress the video in 2 minutes, 47 seconds, averaging 191 fps with an average CPU utilization of 40%. As a comparison, I took the same video file and performed the same compression on a 2022 gaming laptop. This laptop sports a Ryzen 7 5800X processor that has 8 physical cores and 16 threads. The Aorus’ competitor was able to match the average framerate and completed the file compression in 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Within the margin of error. What wasn’t in the margin of error, was the CPU utilization. While the Aorus kept its cool, barely breaking a sweat at 40% utilization, the Ryzen 7 used all 100% of its available resources to complete the task with the cooling fans at a much less tolerable sound level. GAMING Gigabyte bills this laptop as a gaming system and in theory, it is. It has the power potential to play nearly anything and everything that is out today. However, that low amount of RAM kills the overall performance. Even so, it wasn’t a total wash. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 played excellently at high settings. With a GPU utilization of 85% and a RAM utilization at 90%, I was still able to achieve 150fps on High. CoD MW2 looked great and played smoothly, free of any lags or stutters. Next up was Forza Horizon 5. Using the built-in benchmarking software, the game reported back a lackluster 72fps with only 45% GPU utilization. This was all on Low and Medium settings. What? How can that be? This is a GTX 4050. Time to manually tweak settings. I set everything to Ultra, the highest setting allowed in FH5. Manual testing revealed 95% GPU utilization, 90% RAM utilization, and 88fps. AWESOME!! Why didn’t the game pick this to begin with? I left everything as is and went straight to a race. After about 30 seconds into a race, I found out while the system had dialed itself back. Low System Resources. Forza kept producing errors and giving low resources warning. Ultra? Nope. High. Nope. Medium? So-So. Low? Yes. There just isn't enough RAM. I encountered the same issues queuing up Microsoft Flight Simulator too. With 98% GPU utilization, I was able to achieve a best of 60fps with most time spent in the 40’s. There was just not enough overhead to allow the computer for function as it should. CONCLUSIONS For a laptop that has this long of a list of high-end parts, this is the most frustratingly slow laptop I’ve used in quite some time. It honestly feels like a much less powerful machine than it is. Most of this can be blamed on the limited amount of RAM installed in the system. One stick of 8GB DDR5-4800 memory is all that is installed, and it is NOT enough. After all updates and restarts were performed and the machine sitting idle, RAM usage did not drop below 42%, often hovering in the mid to high 70% range. Opening any applications or additional software immediately caused a spike and RAM usage that was not uncommon to be in the 90% range. As it ships from Gigabyte, I can’t give it a recommendation. There is just too much left wanting. The machine is powerhouse and can easily be brought to life, but not without additional hardware, at an additional expense. Most any gamer will find the results garnered from buying the laptop and leaving it as is, as unacceptable. Not only is the laptop crippled by its lack of RAM, it is also frustrating to use on a day-to-day basis. Powering up the laptop from fully off takes what seems like FOREVER. I can power up the Aorus, then power up my Ryzen-based gaming laptop or my other 12th generation i7 based gaming machine and be playing Call of Duty before the Aorus even boots to the Windows login screen. Not sure what Gigabyte has done in the bios, but startup times are unacceptably slow. It is comparable to an old school machine I’ve got a spinning hard drive in. What gives? Not sure. I haven’t been able to figure out a setting to make it boot faster in the bios. Can the laptop be fixed to perform as intended? Yes, it can. But what did it take? For me, it involved purchasing a Predator Gen 4x4 1TB NVMe drive rated at a throughput of 7000MB/s and 32GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 RAM. The extra RAM, working in dual channel configuration, was a game changer for this machine. It was a night and day type of difference. EVERYTHING was much more peppy and snappy feeling. RAM utilization went from highs in the 90’s to highs in the 40’s. It was sorely needed and should be considered an essential change, if not 32GB, then at least increase RAM to 16GB. Not only is the laptop crippled by low amount of RAM, it is also hobbled by the slowest DDR5 RAM available. The i5-13500H is capable of supporting 5200MHz RAM and my addition of 5600MHz DDR5 immediately triggered faster RAM timings and clock speeds in the system bios, matching the 5200MHz spec by Intel. Sadly, even with the additional RAM and much faster SSD, bios boot times failed to improve. The laptop’s potential alone are the only thing earning this a 3 star rating. The addition of extra RAM and a bigger hard drive would encourage me to give a 4 star rating, but that isn’t the point. The fact of the matter is, there are better performing laptops with more accurate displays at this price point. NOT RECOMMENDED.

Surprisingly good laptop for the price point. I was able to max out or near max out any of my games at 10:80 P. This includes BauldersGate 3. even with the fans going at max, it’s not that loud. The RAM and SSD is upgradable with an additional SSD slot.

This is a really good gaming laptop, good for on the move travelling. I move around for work and I use this to play games, talk to my friends and family, and for work purposes. Overall, it works really well and can run my games smoothly with the right output of ram. I've run into a few issues with the lighting and keyboard disabling but it was nothing I couldn't figure out through a little bit of research. I would highly recommend this laptop to anyone who moves around often or is just looking for a good laptop to play games with friends!

Pretty good does everything i want. Just need to upgrade ram and storage which crucial has a kit for which is nice. Cyber punk rins 100fps plus with fram generation on

Best budget laptop you could buy I upgraded ram to 32gig and 2 tb ssd and haven’t had any issues running top notch games.

Amazing Pc ! I use the Pc to programming and gaming (not high performance games). You can set Ubuntu and windows at the time. Eventually you can upgrade de dd or even the ram

Great price on this laptop! Rgb under monitor is a nice touch. Upgraded ssd and ram runs sweet

The cons....Takes a while for bios to boot. Sometimes bios boot takes at most 2 minutes. Loading time on windows 11 took me 30.2 seconds. The pros.... two nvme slots two ram slots. 16 cores decent 4050.

Is good and looks really nice and had a really good cpu

This was my first gaming laptop, and it was super you can upgrade the ram and the storage. Very useful

Good deal, maybe with 16GB of DDR memory will be perfect.

The Gigabyte Aorus gaming laptop is a nice entry level gaming laptop which will play many modern games at decent settings, however, there are a couple noticable shortcomings which are hard to ignore. This laptop comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of DDR5 RAM, 512 GB SSD, 1920x1080 15.6inch 165hz display, and an NVIDIA RTX 4050 graphics card. These are somewhat decent specs for an entry level gaming laptop, and will more than get the job done to play most modern games. I tested it out on a number of different games such as Doom Eternal and Forza Horizon 5. In most games I could set the graphics settings right around the middle and get over 100 fps. So if you're used to playing on a beefed up gaming desktop that maxes out settings and gets you 165 fps, you may be disappointed, but if you are just getting into PC gaming and want something portable, this is a great option. A couple things in particular really bugged me though. The SSD is only 512 GB, and much of that is taken up by the OS. So realistically, you can only fit a hand full of modern games on this system. Even consoles come with 1TB and 2TB ssds now a days. I really wish they had at least included a 1TB drive. You will either have to constantly uninstall and reinstall games, or get an external drive. This was my biggest problem with the system. A couple other things that I didn't care for but weren't as big a deal are the screen resolution and the RAM. The screen is only HD, 1920x1080. This just feels a bit outdated at this point. I would at least prefer 1440p, if not full 4K. And the RAM also seems outdated. 8GB, especially for a gaming laptop just seems cheap. This should at least be 16GB. But, as I said before, this will still get the job done. Overall, this system feels like it had a bit more potential, but I think they cut back on some of the components to hit that sub-$1000 mark. I have mixed feelings about this system overall, because I personally wouldn't buy it, but if you are someone who wants a system that is capable of playing modern games, is portable, and don't want to spend over $1000, then this is a perfect system for you, and I would definitely recommend it. As long as you fully understand the specs that you are getting with this system, I think you won't be disappointed. It is a well built system and is very nice to use.

I got this laptop for Christmas. I love the rainbow keyboard. The laptop itself seems pretty sturdy and is a little on the heavier side. I had the RAM upgraded to 16GB and the SSD to 1TB. The boot up process is a bit slow and when gaming the fans do get a little loud. I’m very hsppy with this laptop.

This laptop comes with a charging cable, a quick start guide and runs Windows 11. There are more ports than usual for a laptop with 3 USB-A, 2 USB-C ports, an Ethernet port, HDMI and Display ports and an audio jack. This gives you plenty of room for anything you want to use with this laptop. This is a rarity I was looking for in a laptop. The display is FHD with a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 graphic card with 6G of dedicated memory and the CPU is an Intel i5-13500H. Most games will work well with this laptop. The keyboard is backlit and can easily be seen in a dark room. The laptop has 8 GB of memory and comes with a 512 GB SSD hard drive. If you have games that take up a lot of space, you may not be able to fit them all on this hard drive. If you have that many games, you might want to use this as a back up for traveling. The audio on this laptop is pretty good also. It is great for game play and movies at any volume, and it does have some volume. If you are looking for a great sound for music though, you may want to invest in a good headset. But as far as sound goes for a laptop, it is pretty decent. The price range and features of this laptop make this great for any gamer starting out or a great addition for gamers that want to be on the move.

I didn't buy this one, but I bought the GIGABYTE - G5 MD 15.6" FHD IPS Gaming Laptop - Intel i5-11400H - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti - 512GB SSD Item Total:$516.99 Including taxes by the way. I added CORSAIR - VENGEANCE Performance 32GB (1PK 32GB) 3200MHz DDR4 C22 SODIMM Laptop Memory - Black 40 Ram Now $60.00 PNY - CS1030 1TB Internal SSD PCIe NVMe Gen 3 x4 C:500 D:1 Terra Bite About Total Cost $650.00 Its supper fast, Plays all games. Added a laptop fan pad. My wife loves it for work. Just add ram/stick to the 4050 it should run fine. FYI bought everything from best buy. I looked at all deals

Pretty good for heavy gaming to me, getting more ram would be extremely beneficial