Get a Lenovo Legion Y520 gaming laptop with GTX 1060 for $950

News
By published

This sub-$1,000 laptop pairs a Core i7-7700HQ CPU with a GTX 1060 GPU and an SSD to boot.

Limiting your budget to under a grand for a gaming laptop does not mean you have to settle for crummy specs. Over at Lenovo, you can pick up a 15.6-inch Legion Y520 with a respectable amount of horsepower underneath the hood for $950.

Lenovo's Legion Y520 employs an IPS display with a 1920x1080 resolution. This is powered by an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor and GeForce GTX 1060 GPU with 3GB of onboard memory.

The laptop also sports 8GB of DDR4-2400 RAM. For storage chores, Lenovo paired a 128GB PCIe SSD with 1TB HDD (5,400 RPM). That is not a ton of storage for the OS and games, but for $950, it's nice to see an SSD here, and one that taps into the PCIe bus rather than SATA.

Wireless connectivity consists of 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.1. There is also a GbE LAN port for wired connections, along with a USB 3.0 Type-C port, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, a USB 2.0 port, headphone and microphone jacks, HDMI output, and a 4-in-1 media card reader.

You can buy the laptop here.

Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affiliate policy for more info.

Paul Lilly
Paul Lilly

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).