Best cheap gaming laptops in South Africa

May 25, 2016

Gaming laptops are typically expensive devices, even more so in South Africa thanks to the current weakness of the rand.

However, if you don’t buy a top-of-the-range gaming laptop, you can get a machine capable of playing new games reasonably well at a far more affordable price.

To develop a list of the best affordable gaming laptops in South Africa, we looked at the picks and rankings of The Wire Cutter, Computer Shopper, and NotebookCheck.

The most highly-rated budget gaming laptops on these publications are given below.

Dell Inspiron 15 7000-series

Price	R22,475
Display	15.6-inch Full HD (1,920×1,080)
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
CPU	Intel i7-6700HQ quad core
RAM	8GB (1x8GB) DDR3L 1,600Mhz Memory
Hard drive	1TB 5,400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive + 8GB Embedded Flash Cache

Lenovo Ideapad Y700 (15.6-Inch)

Price	R21,999
Display	15.6-inch Full HD (1,920×1,080)
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
CPU	Intel Core i7 6700HQ (up to 3.5Ghz)
RAM	16GB DDR4 RAM
Hard drive	128GB Ultra-Fast SSD + 1TB Hard Drive

Gigabyte P55W v5

Price	R26,999
Display	15.6-inch Full HD (1,920×1,080)
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GDDR5 3GB
CPU	Intel Core i7-6700HQ (up to 3.50GHz)
RAM	8GB 2,133MHz DDR4
Hard drive	1TB 7,200RPM HDD

Acer Aspire V Nitro Black Edition

Price	R25,735
Display	17.3-inch (1,920×1,080) IPS
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
CPU	Intel Core i7–6700HQ
RAM	16GB
Hard drive	256GB SSD + 2TB HDD

MSI Apache Pro GE72

Price	R27,709
Display	17.3-inch Full HD (1,920×1,080)
Graphics	Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M 3GB GDDR5
CPU	Intel Core i7-6700HQ
RAM	8GB DDR4 2,133MHz
Hard drive	1TB HDD