A Tremendous Budget Gaming Laptop - Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 

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I bought this laptop about a month back and am mostly happy with it. The high refresh rate display is great for a budget priced laptop and on power saver the battery actually lasts for a few hours unlike gaming laptops I've owned previously. I do have a few gripes with it that are important to note: -The plastic is a fingerprint magnet. Small complaint but wanted to note -M.2 boot drive is a 42mm form factor. There is a second, full size M.2 slot, but it does not include the standoff needed to install the new drive -The charge cable has no 90-degree bend which could leave it more susceptible to damage, especially if you have bigger pets or children around -This one was bigger: On battery (NOT plugged in), every 10 seconds the laptop would stutter for a fraction of a second. This affected general windows tasks, scrolling in applications, and watching videos. SOLUTION for the fourth complaint: I found out it's an issue happening where the 3050ti tries to take over in place of the iGPU (despite being on battery and power saver where it should remain idle). To stop that happening, open device manager, under 'display adapters' find the 3050ti, right click it, and disable it if you have this problem when the laptop is not plugged in. That will leave just the iGPU running and stutters disappear - when you go to plug it back in, simply re-enable the 3050ti using these same steps and it'll work just fine!

I bought an Ideapad Gaming 3 with 5800h and RTX3060 with 1tb ssd and 32Gb ram.. It is awesome. Can do everything. And is cheap but pretty well built for the price.

I picked this up on black Friday for $550. I added a 1tb HDD and an extra 16gb ram (now it has 24). It's one of the best purchases I've made in a while. 100% recommend

I own this exact model, only mine has a GTX 1650 DDR6 4GB. I managed to get into my BIOS and reduce the integrated GPU VRAM on the Radeon Graphics to 512MB from 2GB. That way, I was able to regain 1.5GB back to my stock RAM. I have bought a second stick of memory and are running in dual channel 16GB but regaining 1.5GB definitely makes a difference despite having more memory. So if you're getting this laptop, definitely try this out. I found it to be extremely helpful. Happy gaming!

I've got one with 60hz, gtx 1650, ryzen 4000 series 5 - amd radeon graphics & 8gb ram. I like it for the fact that it doesnt scream gaming and was a very affordable price at only 399

i just got it for new years and i must say im pleased, every game i have played on this ive seen 90-240 fps on games set on medium/high.

I bought this laptop last year. The 3050 is pretty good for 1080p gaming. I added an 8gb stick of ram and a 1tb ssd. The keyboard is surprisingly good. Only grievances are the 250nits display, wish it was 300 and i get about 2 1/2 hrs on light usage.

I picked one up for $200 at my work where we rent appliances and electronics. I upgraded to 32gb ram and a 2tb m.2 . A year later I am still very pleased with that purchase.

I bought one about a year ago. Mines running a Ryzen 5 6600 H with an RTX 3050. It came with 8GB of RAM but I recently upgraded to 16GB. This might be the best laptop you can buy if you’re on a budget but still want a rig that can hang with the big boys.

I picked one of these up from Best Buy in Wesley Chapel, FL for $550 back in November. Walked out of the store with a second stick of ram and before even powering on, I put that ram in and a spare 1tb ssd I had at home. Haven't even used my desktop since then, I can't recommend this laptop enough!!

I got one with a 6600h, 8gb ram (I added 16gb more a few weeks ago) a 3050, and it came with game pass ultimate. It's amazing.

I bought two of the newer 2022 intel version during the black Friday sale from Lenovo, one for myself and one for my wife. I5 12500h, 8GB RAM, 256GB Gen 4 NVME, and RTX 3050Ti. With discounts they were $610 each. I added another crucial 8GB RAM and P5 1TB NVME storage drive to both. I'm very happy with them, except I wish the screen was better. We also got the Lenovo G27-20 1080P 144Hz monitors and the laptop screen has very washed out color in comparison, and doesn't get that bright. The integrated display also doesn't support adaptive sync. Something else that should be noted, I believe the USB-C video output on the model here is connected directly to the dedicated GPU, but on mine, the 2022 intel version, it and the built in display goes through the iGPU, while the HDMI port on the laptop is connected directly to the dGPU. So you get a little better performance using an external monitor through HDMI.

I love how understated "on the go streaming" sounds when it comes to the Cannonball.

Damn I should've came back to this video after watching the new upgrade video you just released. I immediately bought this today after watching your other video. Immediately sold my old laptop that I just bought a few months ago to my roommate to this. Now I can run decent games at work or school when I have some free time.

Dude, I have been sitting on the fence with this in my cart for like a week and it wasn't til your review, right now, that I am commiting to my shiny new baby. THANK YOU for giving me the clarity I needed to hear. 👍🏾, 🔔,💸

Yeah I got this. Dropped in 16gb kit. Thing works great.

Thank god I purchased this yesterday because now the prices are gonna RISE 📈📈📈

Strix g15 advantage edition is still going for 1100$

This is the best budget Gaming laptop in my opinion, the best (idea)pad To get for yourself or someone

My girlfriend got the HP Victus Intel 12450H, GTX 1650, 8GB 3200MHZ RAM (upgraded to 16GB 2666MHZ), 512GB SSD, 1080p IPS 144Hz laptop for $480 from Best Buy. Such a steal of a laptop for the price since she was on a budget for just a school laptop. Performs excellently for light gaming.

Been looking to get a new laptop for gaming with. This does sound like a promising budget laptop!

Bought one for my partner and they love it! Only downside is the battery life

A perfect laptop for the price only grievance is that I can’t download anything from Microsoft Store and have not been able to solve that problem since. The performance of the laptop is great though.

Bought this on sale a few days ago and holy shit, I love it. I haven't upgraded anything yet and just it's stock form is solid imo. I plan on adding an extra 8gb of RAM and a 1tb SSD to it soon! I also have spare external HDDs lying around because I love storage 🤣 My first ever gaming laptop and I think I found myself a keeper for quite a while!! I plan on building a desktop eventually, but this thing is a nice companion piece in its own right.

BEFORE BUYING THIS LAPTOP READ THIS!!!! The laptop mentioned in this video has the Ryzen 5 5600h, with the 3050ti. The Ryzen 5 processor is a pretty significant bottleneck at about 22.6%. that means you aren't using the full capability of the 3050ti graphics chip as its only running at 77.4%. Having this bottleneck means you are missing out on a lot of fps and there is simply nothing you can do about it. I highly recommend getting the same laptop but with the i5 12500h. That one will allow your 3050ti graphics to be utilized to its max 100%. I have years of gaming experience with custom built gaming desktops and laptops and and I Understand hoe bad these bottlenecks can be. But that being said I absolutely love my Lenovo Idea pad gaming 3 with the i5 12500h-3050ti-16gb ram.

My only concern is that display and it’s colour accuracy Those of you that have this laptop what is the colour gamut Reply asap please 🙏🏽

I missed out, I wish I could've seen this when it was on sale because I would've bought it!

I bought the i5 16gb RAM version, was the 100€ off good

“In the car with 4 sweaty dudes” Quote of the year

Been impressed with gaming on my current Lonovo laptop so would be open to upgrading to another Lonovo. Next laptop getting one that has a Dolby Vision supported display.

Shoutout to the Nitro 5 as well but the real selling point is that upgradable battery in the Gaming 3

Can't the Ryzen GPU be disabled so to use only the Nvidia GPU? And FREE up the Ram Allotment for Ryzen? Got an Asus ROG Strix R7 3060 LT,not even opened yet,reason i'm asking...

Small question, if you Upgrade the ram or storage, isnt the guarantee gone?

I’m buying this soon

I do have a good desktop pc but I'm thinking of getting this since my laptop broke and yes it seems like a good deal especially for me doing smaller gaming

You have a great channel man, I am happy that you guys are getting sponsored and I hope your channel grows as much as you want. I bet you would more subscribe if you pretend to have a British accent 😊

This vs Acer nitro 5 and HP Victus 15. Which one would you guys get?

I recently bought a lenovo gaming laptop and its fast to be very low battery and also its fast charging

Bad screen, always adjusting brightens by it self (according to something, looks like more bright when picture is whiter and more dark when it is darker), battery draining instantly from 82-83% to 2-3%. Should I continue? My first and last Lenovo for sure!

A perfect one to use while waiting for the 40 series laptops

Guys, whoever owns this is a gamer. What do you advise me to take, is it an Intel processor .. or a Ryzen ? Please answer because I am in dire need of sufficient information for the large number of types, and I am new in this field. Thanks in advance

Ngl planning on buying this to start streaming and making content is the laptop good with streaming??

what the difference between the i7 version and the one with the ryzen 7? Which one is better?

managed to get my hands on the Ideapad gaming 3 rtx 3060 (90w) and a 165hz 300 nit display for £712. Before this I bought, and am expecting, a legion 7i rtx 3060 (130w) for £999 on discount just a few days ago. I can't quite justify such a huge price bump for something that I will be hooking up to an external monitor pretty much 100% of the time (I use a Mac for work). Will return the legion 7i.

Does Lenovo IdeaPad 3 i5 11th gen rtx 2050 support 120hz cause I can choose 60hz in my refresh rate

I got my 16” mbp m1 maxx 32GB on launch day at Best Buy in Monroeville. The total tech membership saved my life I can’t believe how good it is, I had multiple things from Amazon break and their warranty offerings aren’t comprehensive like Best Buy. Worth every penny IMO

I use a laptop as my main system , haven't missed desktop PC's since , 16GB is the minimum ram I use in any gaming system/laptop

That's a great deal actually, the same laptop in my country is almost $900 which make it a bad deal.

Why not show the gaming performance with the extra 8GB added?

Why can’t you change the ssd

Would this laptop run my Oculus Quest 2 vr headset to play half life Alex? If so will it look descent or as good as my Quest 2 looks standalone?

i've had this laptop for 2 years...after using it for 3 month..i cannot even stream my game for my friends on anywhere...discord,youtube,tiktok, even google meet...i can play games like usual while streaming but to anyone who watch me...saw my live is lagging..my voice is lagging..idk why...i already change the thermal paste and everything but still the same...is it the wifi card? when the first time i use this laptop, i can do live stream on any platform...now not anymore...my specs is with gtx 1650 with 32gb ram 3200mhz...what do you think the problem is?

I bought this laptop but with the better cpu and 16 gigs of ram. It's an actual beast, the only thing that sucks about it is the battery. I can't watch a movie unplugged for more than about an hour. It can probbably be fixed with a battery upgrade, but thats somewhere in the future.

Thanks so much for your video Am planning to pick this days from now May I know about the display Many web reviewers are scary about it

I bought it about 2 weeks , I put an extra 16 GB ram 3200 hz is great. The only downside is the battery , lasts around 3 hrs max on light working

Great video! I want to buy this laptop with a 3060 6gb VRAM. Ryzen 5 5600U and 16gb Ram. And 60watt battery. I want to use it for school and gaming. How long would it last when using just Microsoft word and webbrowsing?

Can you review dash cam footage on the sd card with an adapter with this particular laptop? I'm new to computers so bare with me here.😂 If not, what is that port called?

I bought this laptop but I can't change refresh rate, it is stuck at 120hz and I barely get 1.5 hours battery backup with only video playback. Please help

as i dont have the room for a streaming pc, would this be ideal as a streaming laptop with obs to run with my ps5? ive been struggling with the laptop i have now as it just dont have the specs to run it foor what i use it for .

My laptop is ideapadgaming 3, rtx 3060, amd 6000, ryzen 5, 8gb + 8gb = 16gb of ram, windows 11, and my highest was 38° without box fan in the back of it, but when i have a box fan my average is 36° - 35° my lowest is 33° last night was 34° i was playing apex, league, minecraft, lethal company, but lethal company wont let me go above 70+ fps but stable with tuner fps capper at 60fps prolly because the engine is new or sumn, but i can run the rest at 144+ fps, (highest was reaching 300fps) my monitor has 144hz but i play 120fps mainly, capped for stability, idk why but fps capping is really underrated it helps overall plus its actually smoother because theres no stutter to the fps so id rather cap than go with unstable high fps. Also i got my laptop for 865$, im planning on upgrading my ram and ofc monthly clean of laptop myself, cpu fan, thermal paste.

Problem im having but apparently its common heavy gaming while charging it will discharge and its cause the power brick isnt good enough you gott upgrade it to a 200 watt. It does charge fast tho you if you wana deal with it discharging the power supply is fine.

Crucial's site now shows that a 32GB RAM combo is compatible with the Ideapad Gaming 3 now. So if 16GB (2x8GB) isn't enough, you can now have 32GB (2x16GB) of RAM.

7:45 "buy the 8 dollar upgrade to get to 16gb" 8 gig upgrade*

I do vr videos and I only use my Lenovo with some upgrades and it is wonderful but instead of getting a 3060 in the unit I got a 3050 for some reason

i bought this for my girlfriend for christmas, then for her birthday I upgraded it with a 1 tb SSD and 16 gb of RAM

Excuse me idk anything about laptops but i wanna confirm is this the or similar to the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15.6" FHD 15IGL05 Celeron N4020 8GB 256GB SSD W11H

Very helpful video.

For basic task of does pretty great.

i have the same laptop and with some specialised graphics it can run at 180 easily

I got the Ideapad Gaming 3 with the 3050ti with 1tb and 32gb ram. Runs flawlessly

Someone said in the comments that the power brick that comes with this laptop is 135W or 130W and that u need 170W to get it to full power. Can we discuss this further . is there any real reason for 170W in terms of FPS/stability/heat in games? Also what about Laptop Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6 (15ACH6 model) , is it the same story with power brick

the timings are not listed on the lenovo stick of ram are you sure the PNY stick will match the current DIM that is in the laptop?

i literally just bought this and grabbed 2 16gb ddr4 sticks and a 2tb nvme. i haven’t fired it up yet. i plan on putting fedora 38 on it

Can't wait for a 6600h version

One day mine stopped working entirely. It would turn on, the backlight remained on, but black screen.

Would you choose this laptop with Lenovo 3 15ARH7 GAMING AMD Ryzen™ 7 7735HS 512GB SSD 16GB 15.6" (1920x1080) 120Hz WIN11 NVIDIA® RTX 4050 6144MB Or MSI THIN GF63 GAMING Core™ i7-12650H 512GB SSD 16GB 15.6" (1920x1080) 144Hz WIN11 NVIDIA® RTX 4050 6144MB ? Thank you

got the this laptop for 600 at bestbuy during a sale and it had the 3050ti i put 32gb of ram (i know is too much but it was cheap at the time) and put a 1 terabyte ssd as this laptop has two ssd slots so i ended up spending around 750 for all the stuff i put in it and i love it it is more powerful than my main rig lol so i gotta upgrade that a little bit

If you buy this laptop do not buy the suggested ram upgrade I bought one it made my laptop crash randomly while playing games so I bought a second one thinking it would fix the problem because they would match perfectly but no it made matters worse and crashed excessively I ended up buying a different brand and my laptop is now running smoothly so I suggest matching the exact one that it comes stock with or buying a matching set of another brand with the same specs other than that the laptop is perfect and is actually worth the actual price of 899 because it’s not on sale anymore at last I checked

Im planning on getting one, with i5-12450h, RTX 3050 and 16GB RAM will it perform better?

hi could u please guide me on this.....will a laptop with 4gb rtx 3050 be sufficient to watch 4k videos ( i mean without stuttering) at 60hz on a 4k monitor connected thru HDMI.....or do we need 8gb graphics capacity

For people who already own this laptop any is there anything i should keep in mind when purchasing this laptop (I heard the battery keeps draining whilw gaming because the 135w power supply isnt enough) and some things you might not like in the ideapd gaming 3

Why is it that my specs are the same on mine that I have just bought apart from mine has 16gb ram why?

Hello, can you let me know it dosent give display through dedicated gpu though hdmi right, and can it give display though dedicated through type c port?

Please help me I searched up the gigabyte thing online and one of them says 16 which would give me 16 I think but on his video it says to buy the eight gig so I’m confused I’m new to PCs and computers which one should I get

Is it possible to overclock this laptop using Lenovo Vantage to get the most performance, and if so what settings worked for you?

I have the same laptop difference is mine have 165Hz and 512GB. But I have problem with a game....it's not rendering. Can you help me with that. Maybe what drivers I need to install on it. I also installed windows 2 times and it's not working.

i have the same laptop but with i5 11320h gtx 1650 16 ram ddr4 3200mhz but in single channel and 60 hz display screen and 512 gb nvme samsung ssd and its great on games like fortnite on max settings mine does 60 fps even higher , or even gta 5 very high 60- 90 fps everything plays really good and i am happy and good review

May be a stupid question I'm new to pc gaming will my lenovo IdeaPad 3 run helldivers 2?

Got the Lenovo Legion 5 with Ryzen 7 and 3050Ti for 780 on best buy

I got this by mistake from Amazon because they listed a Lenovo Legion 5. This laptop is okay, battery life sucks just wish there was a way to upgrade it. We ended up getting a 50$ discount from the $700 we spent so I guess that's a win

Can some one help me with my laptopbecause mine is so slow and I don't even do much nor have I downloaded anything on it and when search for stuff it take so long to load and it's like it never loads it's just a blank white screen with what ever I search up in the search bar

Hey! Im currently looking to upgrade from a GE63 Raider RGB 8RE, would you say this is a good choice or no? Ill be honest I have litterally no idea about computers and cant find any good comparison sites.

You guys are showing off your good deals.... I cant make the purchase at the moment after reading comment.. ...

The laptop from amazon is also good , or has some problems

I'm digging the chin hair

I just bought this on Amazon for $859... I'm no computer expert... did I get a good deal? : Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 Laptop Computer, 15.6" FHD Display 120Hz, AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD Storage, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti, Windows 11 Home, TGC Accessories

Hi I want to buy a new laptop.Which one should I get? Laptop Gaming IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ARH7 cu procesor AMD Ryzen™ 5 7535HS pana la 4.55 GHz, 15.6" Full HD, IPS, 120Hz, 16GB, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 6GB GDDR6(It has 120hz display) OR Laptop Gaming Lenovo LOQ 15IRH8 cu procesor Intel® Core™ i5-12450H pana la 4.4 GHz, 15.6", Full HD, IPS, 16GB, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 6GB GDDR6(It has 60hz display) The ideapad is cheaper by 65 usd

Bro spoke about Best buy for 4min wtf 😭

I have this and i notice the single channel ram is holding it back greatly. Anyone else?