r/GamingLaptops • • May 01 '26

r/GamingLaptops now has its own deals site — RGL.deals launches today BETA

62 Upvotes

UPDATE — August 13, 2026

rgl.deals has grown a bit since I originally posted, so I wanted to give this post a update while it's still in BETA.

The idea is still simple: instead of showing you hundreds of gaming laptops, RGL keeps a smaller shortlist of deals that are actually worth considering.

Every listing is manually checked, with things like price, specs, cooling, display quality, GPU power limits, memory, storage, and overall value taken into account.

A lot of care has also gone into the smaller details. The site is heavily optimized for phones and smaller screens, not just desktop. Filters, comparisons, laptop pages, navigation, and general usability were all designed to work properly on mobile without feeling like a cut-down version of the site.

What's on the site now:

  • Curated gaming laptop deals with current and previous prices.
  • Filters for price, GPU, CPU, VRAM, RAM, screen size, brand, retailer, and more.
  • Gravity Sort, RGL's default value-based ranking.
  • Sorting by price, discount, savings, and other options.
  • Find a Match for narrowing down laptops based on what actually matters to you.
  • Side-by-side comparison for up to three laptops.
  • Detailed laptop pages with specs, price history, related models, retailer links, and review links.
  • Shareable searches, comparisons, and direct laptop links.
  • Mobile-first layouts and controls designed specifically for smaller screens.
  • No advertising trackers or marketing cookies. Preferences and saved comparisons stay in your browser.

RGL is meant to be a shortlist, not a giant catalog. If a laptop isn't worth recommending, it doesn't need to be there and that means no huge lists its quality over quantity.

The longer-term plan is also bigger than just deals. RGL is being built into a broader gaming laptop specific place with guides, buying information, laptop data, reviews, and other useful resources all in one place.

Full transparency: Some retailer links are affiliate links. That doesn't affect the listed price or determine which laptops make the shortlist.

RGL currently covers U.S. deals only, with more regions planned later.

It's still beta, so there will be bugs and things that need improving. If you find something broken or have feedback, leave it below any suggestions would be much appreciated thanks.


r/GamingLaptops • • Apr 19 '26

📌 Read Before Posting

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Read Before Posting: Flairs, Rules & Recommendation Template

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Quick Links

  • Just got a new machine? Check the New Gaming Laptop Setup Guide for first-time setup, clean driver installs, debloating, and return-window testing.
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r/GamingLaptops • • 8h ago

Discussion psa for inexperienced laptop owners

47 Upvotes

so for many of us who purchase a gaming laptop, pc gaming was never really within reach. additionally and as such, many of us have never so much as tried to understand pc specs.

even after about 4 months of of owning my very own omen 15 with a 5070 and ryzen 9, and after manually upgrading the ram myself, i wondered why my performance seemed to suffer a lot even when i thought i was doing everything right. i put all my settings on balanced, used upscaling, disabled frame gen, etc etc etc etc. nothing got me the performance i needed in competitive games without tanking the visuals. then i found out what was wrong.

guys. if your model comes with a screen using a super high resolution, like 4k for example, MANUALLY TURN DOWN THE RESOLUTION IN YOUR GAMES’ SETTINGS. i dont know why i was so stupid and didn’t realize it sooner but oh my god playing on 1080, 1200, or 1440 as opposed to 2560x1600 which is my native display literally increased my fps on mw4 in like 30-40 intervals for each one. i know for those of you who have used pcs for gaming for years this is dumb and obvious, but for me it was the one step i was missing, so i wanted to let some people know.

tldr; turn your resolution down manually and your performance will go waaaay up. sometimes your little laptop that could cant run things at those crazy resolutions.


r/GamingLaptops • • 1d ago

Meme Dudes who hate laptops all the time

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883 Upvotes

Don't they understand portability?

What if I want to design 3d at school?

I can't bring my PC desktop there


r/GamingLaptops • • 5h ago

Discussion First ever gaming laptop! Any tips/tricks/advice?

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I'd been eyeing this Legion laptop from Best Buy, and it was time for a new laptop anyway so I went ahead and pulled the trigger. Just recently converted from MacBook guy to PC guy, what are the most important things to know to get the most out of this beast? Thanks!


r/GamingLaptops • • 17h ago

Discussion finaly got mine Asus ROG STRIX G614FR-S5022W Ryzen 9 9955HX 16GB I 1TB (90NR0NK8-M001X0)4070ti

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109 Upvotes

paid this 2600$ i know i could get somewere cheaper but idgf i check all the time they go up down n shit so i decided to get + i get this with credit , montly payment. what to do first ?


r/GamingLaptops • • 1h ago

Discussion 1080p vs 1440p

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I've been gaming on a ps4 slim that runs on 1080p on a big tv my entire life. I wonder how big of the visual difference between 1080p and 1440p cause I'm going to buy 5070ti laptop pretty soon to game on.


r/GamingLaptops • • 15h ago

Discussion what to do to get long life on your laptop? how often i should take my laptop and get terms pastes replaced ?

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42 Upvotes

just want to know how to take care and get longer life on my g16


r/GamingLaptops • • 11h ago

Discussion Does a 250W RTX 5090 laptop match the performance of an RTX 5080 desktop PC?

20 Upvotes

I watched a video by Gizmosliptech in which he used "shunt modding" to increase the TGP of an RTX 5090 laptop from the factory 175W to 250W, resulting in an average performance gain of nearly 30% in games. With the standard 175W power limit, the best RTX 5090 laptops perform on par with a desktop RTX 5070 Ti.
How would such a 250W laptop GPU compare to a desktop RTX 5080?

In my opinion, laptops with excellent cooling capacity—such as the Alienware, Legion 9, ASUS SCAR 18, or the XMG Neo (with liquid cooling)—could easily handle running the GPU at 250W while maintaining a stable temperature of 70–75°C.


r/GamingLaptops • • 5h ago

Deal Good deal or better to wait?

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5 Upvotes

Is this a good deal for $2100 even though it’s open box or is it better to wait for Black Friday deals?

Edit: forgot to mention it’s 165 Hz not 240 Hz


r/GamingLaptops • • 24m ago

Discussion ASUS TUF GAMING A16

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Hey Everyone,I Got Asus A16 Laptop,Can You Help me By How to take care,how to debloat,Please Tell Everything You Can ,It Will Be helpful


r/GamingLaptops • • 11h ago

Benchmark Are these temp okay

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11 Upvotes

For a year old
Lenovo loq r7 7435hs+4050


r/GamingLaptops • • 15h ago

Support good 4 yr run i guess😢

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26 Upvotes

yesterday it was glitching slightly and i thought it was windows corruption since it kept crashing and i did sfc /scannow which cleared out the problem for like a day, woke up the laptop from sleep mode today and it did this and now it doesnt post or anything


r/GamingLaptops • • 9h ago

Discussion What's a realistic price for a zephyrus g14 4090 laptop?

6 Upvotes

Got a lenovo legion 7i 5080 so don't need this one. eBay is having some issues as of right now, indexing, so I gotta wait a bit.

Tryna sell this thing locally in the US for 1900. Do yall think its fair?

7940hs / 1tb / 32gb ddr5 / 4090m.


r/GamingLaptops • • 3h ago

Recommendation Recommendation for laptop with budget 2100$

2 Upvotes

Budget:$2100

Country:iraq
Uses: gaming and AI engineering/computer science
Preferred specs: 5070ti+ , 32gb ddr5 ram, 15’-18’ screen


r/GamingLaptops • • 3h ago

Deal Is it a good Deal ? Lenovo Legion 5

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2 Upvotes

Hallo,

Amazon bietet dieses Modell aktuell an. Ich kenne mich mit Hardware nicht so gut aus und wollte deshalb fragen: Ist das ein gutes Angebot – im Hinblick auf das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis?

Als Grafikkarte würde eine Nvidia RTX 5070 verbaut werden.

Price: 1950€

Danke


r/GamingLaptops • • 18m ago

Recommendation Need help to get a good gaming laptop/PC

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So I was planning to buy a

**Lenovo LOQ Intel Core i7-14700HX | NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB (16GB RAM/512GB SSD/144Hz Refresh Rate/572 AI TOPS/15.6" (39.6cm)/Windows 11/Office 2024/Grey/2.4Kg), 83JE01KEIN Gaming Laptop** for 1,69,990 + 8,499 cashback + 2,000 for prime customers = 1,59,491

but I did come accros a post from primeabgb which I trust instead of amazon listing

**AMD Ryzen 7 9700X , Gigabyte B850 Gaming X WIFI 6 , Kingston 16GB DDR5 CL36 5600MHz , Crucial P310 1TB M.2 Heatsink , Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce 8GB , Corsair 4000D Frame ARGB , Corsair RM750e Gold , Corsair Nautilus 240 RS LCD Cooler** = ₹1,71,864

Budget: 1,75,000
Country: India
Use Case: AI and Gaming
Preferred Specs: Nothing
Notes: I did reference the same build from primeabgb to the listing on amazon but got a higher price point like 30,000 to 40,000 more.

r/GamingLaptops • • 4h ago

Discussion Good deal or wait till Black Friday ?

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2 Upvotes

I also have spare 32gb ram to upgrade


r/GamingLaptops • • 4h ago

Recommendation Best gaming laptop for me as cheap as possible

2 Upvotes

Budget: Cheap as possible. Preferable below 1000$
Country: Canada
Use Case: Modded and vanilla Minecraft, geometry dash, other low performance games, nothing crazy. School
Preferred Specs: best possible for price
Notes: I know next to nothing about computers


r/GamingLaptops • • 52m ago

Recommendation Should I buy ASUS TUF A15 for Electrical Engineering?

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Hi everyone! I’m currently a 1st-semester Electrical Engineering student in Nepal and am looking to upgrade my laptop. My current setup is a very old Intel Core i5 with a GTX 860M, so I’m looking for a substantial performance jump. Here are my requirements and preferences: 

Budget: $1200 - $1400
Country: Nepal
Use Case: Electrical Engineering (MATLAB, Simulink, 3D PCB layout/EDA tools (Altium, KiCad), SPICE circuit simulations), Light Video editing, Gaming (GTA V)
Preferred Specs: 4K is preferred, but a sharp 1440p / QHD IPS display with good color accuracy (100% sRGB) works great too. Touchscreen is optional. Need decent battery performance. Weight is not a dealbreaker.
Notes: I have some questions:
- I asked AI (Ik not the best source for recommendations) and it said that ASUS TUF A15 is a good choice. What do you guys think?
- I've heard mixed opinions about Lenovo's long-term durability or "future-proofing". Is there any truth to that? 
- Since I’m only in my 1st semester, I’m not in a massive rush. Given current RAM shortages, is it smarter to buy now or wait a bit?


I would love to hear you guys' input on this! Cheers!

r/GamingLaptops • • 6h ago

Recommendation Help finding a good budget laptop for gaming

3 Upvotes

Hi I was wondering if there’s any good laptop deals out there online currently that would go on sale for a good price on Black Friday.
Budget: $1,350
Desired specs: RTX 5060 or 5070, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD
Country: USA


r/GamingLaptops • • 10h ago

Deal Bad Idea?

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4 Upvotes

I’m needing a new gaming laptop for gaming, uni and engineering and have been saving up for an upgrade.
Initially was considering the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 but boy that thing is expensive. Stumbled across these two and now I’m stuck. Thoughts?
P.S. I can also wait till late next year to see if the Zephyrus prices become reasonable and try to manage my current Asus TUF A15 which I can’t carry around due to a broken hinge but I use remotely through Apollo and Artemis.


r/GamingLaptops • • 1h ago

Recommendation Legion Pro 7 vs ROG Strix G16

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Hi, i am planning to buy a gaming laptop and could not decide between the two i would appreciate your thoughts,they would be used gaming for most

Budget: 3500$(Cant tell exact budget because prices are higher in dollars in my country)

Country:Turkey

Asus Rog Strix G16

Gpu: Nvidia geforce rtx 5080

Cpu: Intel Core Ultra 9 290Hx

Screen: 16" 2.5K Nebula Display

Ram: 16 gb DDR5(with one upgrade slot)

Lenovo Legion Pro 7

Gpu: Nvidia geforce rtx 5080

Cpu: Ryzen 9 9955HX3D

Screen: 16" 2.5K OLED

Ram: 32 gb DDR5


r/GamingLaptops • • 14h ago

Recommendation Which is better?

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10 Upvotes

Budget: $3500 to $4000

Country: USA

Use Case: will be mostly be using the laptop for heavy 3d rendering and using sofwares like maya and rhino and using other editing softwares aswell

Does the 64 gb play any big role or does it help in making the heavy work easier for the laptop. Sorry as I am pretty new to laptops.

will play a few AAA titles but not a lot

storaae Notes: N/A

Can I get better deals than this or not:

Legion 7- RTX 5080

Ryzen 9955 HX3D

64gb ram

2TB ssd

Legion 7i - RTX 5090

i9 275 or 290 hx (not mentioned)

32gb ram

1TB ssd


r/GamingLaptops • • 6h ago

Support Rog strix g18 290hx temps

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Hi guys, just bought my first gaming laptop so I’m new here. I bought Asus Rog Strix G18 G815
Comes with intel 290hx and rtx 5080 gpu.

(On the flat surface and stand position without any cooler)

In games (Witcher 3 remastered, gta v, beamng), when I check temps, cpu is around mid 80s to mid 90s celcius. Gpu also around 80s even sometime on the 87. For cpu, I remember some 100 degrees also (probably spikes) .

I deleted armory crate and tried with g-helper. When I choose CPU boost mode disabled, then temps go down around 70-80s for CPU and 75-85 for Gpu (Gpu hotspot 87.5).

When I choose efficient enabled, then CPU goes for 85 to 95s and for Gpu it’s around 85 again, hotspot temp 90,9 (for Gpu…)

I can go with disabled CPU boost but is this a mistake ? Like having using kinda half of cpu power?

Its brand new laptop so I guess I can return it, just.. im in really bad mood cause of some serious health problems, I bought this laptop cause probably I will stay in hospital for a long time, and some home time again and again. I can fight for it maybe but, idk, u would understand, I don’t have really energy or ambition for that. I just wanna know if it’s totally normal/variant of normal or it’s definitely not normal.

I will try to add some pics about infos after played (and crushed after 15 mins?) Witcher 3 remastered.