This laptop is amazing it's a good buy for somebody who wants to get into PC gaming but doesn't necessarily want to put their own PC together yes it's easy to build your own PC for the same price or possibly cheaper but there's a whole lot of headaches that go into that and it's really easy to mess it up so if you want to avoid headaches go straight to gaming this is your option this is your best bet one word of advice though if you don't want the fans to blow like crazy all the time open up nitro sense and select battery saver option for both AC and battery mode I get 200 FPS and rocket league 150 FPS and Counter-Strike very satisfied awesome computer.