best budget laptop for lite gaming under $300

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hello all i am trying to find the best laptop for $300 or less for lite gaming such as league of legends d3 and maybe as risky as fallout 4 if possible any and all suggestions are welcomed currently looking at a laptop for $300 that has an i3-5005u processor in it with hd 5500 clocked at 2ghz with 4gb of ram and a 500gb hdd let me know what you think
 
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$300 for a laptop with a Core i3-5005u and the integrated Intel HD 5500 graphics core is a good deal.

However, you will not be able to play Fallout 4 with it. Getting Fallout 4 to run using Intel's iGPU is problematic at best. I attempted to play it on my laptop using the Intel HD 4400 instead of the dedicated Radeon HD 8850m (a bit more powerful than the nVidia 940m). I tried several solutions to get the game to run on with the HD 4400 and nothing worked.

People who managed to get the game running on the Intel HD 520 (which is a bit more powerful than the Intel HD 5500) with a 6th generation core i5 / i7 CPU only managed to get around 15 FPS -20 FPS FPS with minimum graphic settings and below 1366x768 resolution.

It's possible to...
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You need to about double your budget to get a starter gaming laptop for low settings at lower resolutions.

For $300 look for a used laptop with an 850m or 950m video card, that should fit into your budget in a used laptop. You may be able to find a system with an 860m or 960m in that price range also.

Anything new for $300 would be for basic tasks like documents and email.
 
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$300 for a laptop with a Core i3-5005u and the integrated Intel HD 5500 graphics core is a good deal.

However, you will not be able to play Fallout 4 with it. Getting Fallout 4 to run using Intel's iGPU is problematic at best. I attempted to play it on my laptop using the Intel HD 4400 instead of the dedicated Radeon HD 8850m (a bit more powerful than the nVidia 940m). I tried several solutions to get the game to run on with the HD 4400 and nothing worked.

People who managed to get the game running on the Intel HD 520 (which is a bit more powerful than the Intel HD 5500) with a 6th generation core i5 / i7 CPU only managed to get around 15 FPS -20 FPS FPS with minimum graphic settings and below 1366x768 resolution.

It's possible to play Fallout 3, but you will need the following file to get the game to run with any Intel HD graphics core.

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/20371/
 
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