I bought this in lieu of building a gaming pc . This laptop performed well with the current games I play without too many issues. When you first get the laptop you have to go into the Graphic card's setting to allow it to use the GEforce graphics card on your games/applications otherwise it uses the "main" GPU which is....bad. It does run hot when playing at higher settings ~80C and the battery life is subpar to put it lightly. Overall decent for the price.