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The best three Gaming Laptop under $1200 on Amazon

Mar 25, 2017 6:11AM PDT

I thought this post helped me a ton, so I wanted to share the love over at this forum as well. I hope it helps.

In all of our rankings, we focus on several crucial areas to determine which laptop is better, best, worse, or worst. These areas that we focus on are:

* Performance Specs
* Display Quality
* Heat management (cooling)
* Build quality
* Battery Life (for gaming systems ranking, to a lesser extent).
* Upgrade-ability

In picking the top 3 gaming laptops under $1200 as at March 23,2017, we ensured that all three systems have at least an i7 quad core 6th generation processor , 8 GB RAM which of course is ideal for any gaming at this point in time, the GTX 1060 dedicated graphics card, an SSD and 1080p display or better.

Here you go:

[Gigabyte P55Wv6-PC3D Gaming Laptop]

[Eluktronics P650RP6 Premium VR Ready Gaming Laptop]

[ASUS FX502VM-AS73 Gaming Laptop]

You might be wondering why the Asus with the newer processor and of course, having a better storage and Memory (RAM) than both the Gigabyte and Eluktronics ends up at 3rd place.

It's fall down points:

* It uses a TN panel which is of a lower quality than the IPS panel used by the other two competitors.
* It tends to get very hot when put under serious workload (other two laptops have much better cooling systems).
* It's build quality is not bad at all, but the Gigabyte and Eluktronics have better.
* It has the GTX 1060 graphics card with only 3 GB V-RAM Versus the 6 GB version the Eluktronics and Gigabyte have. In addition, the version in those those two laptops has more cuda-cores which can be very advantageous in certain games and applications.

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