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Nope. Nada.
Wait, the same one is at Best Buy though. I was about buy a more expensive one with the same 256GB storage that was posted a few posts back. Went ahead and canceled that. I'll grab this one.
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I'm an idiot and thought that video was about replacing the thermal paste which was talked about earlier. I actually do have my CPU undervolted, but it's still feeling like it's getting warmer after consistent use for 1.5 years, even with max fans being used while gaming and having a cooling pad.
The post I quoted to had a quote of my post etc that link lol, it was sold out a BB
You'll be in a far better position entering this next-gen with the 2060. I highly recommend you take that and find a copy of Windows.
Looks like some of BB's Black Friday deals are up. You can get the HP for $449 with a 4600H and two expandable RAM slots for 32GB. That's a 10750H tier laptop CPU for less than $500. It is absolutely bananas. The Omen is about one of the best chassis you can get a 1660ti in. That terabyte of nvme SSD, responsive/colorful 144Hz screen, 16GB and 4800H makes it an excellent midrange gaming machine as well for $949. There is almost no need to open it up for upgrades for a good while. I feel so spoiled for choice that I don't know quite what to do. I feel like an eternal window shopper lol.
I remember seeing the leaks and coming to the conclusion that the 5700M was only a skip ahead of the 5600M. This would have been a great GPU to pair with the 4800H and 4900H (especially on the Dell 4900H model that's on bestbuy right now). That said....
Undervolted AMD RX 6800 with 183 W TGP offers clues about an upcoming RX 6800M laptop-grade GPU matching the desktop RTX 2080 Ti
The RX 6800 GPU particularly efficient when it comes to undervolting, as its TGP can be reduced by 45 W down to 183 W. These figures are already laptop-friendly if we look at Nvidia's RTX 2080 Super mobility GPUs, so we can expect to see an RX 6800M GPU with 150-180W TGPs that matches the...
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More Radeon RX 6700 Series Details Emerge For A Midrange Powerhouse
With the release of the Radeon RX 6800 Series behind us, we're looking now at info on the unannounced Radeon RX 6700 Series!
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AMD certainly has the necessary hardware to compete in the laptop space . The final question is whether or not TSMC has the output. A 12GB card sure would go nicely with a 1440p laptop screen, but those don't exist ye-
Oh my!
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Thoughts?
For me 1080p is fine for now since 1440p you'll need a flagship GPU to play at a high framerate.
Also I think 1440p might not be as noticable on 15.6" laptops.
And downscaling to 1080p looks bad if you want to trade looks for performance.
I've been waiting for a resolution bump on laptops for years. It does suck that this will hit our FPS, but the positives are too good imo. I'm starting to think I should just buy a cheap 6 core gaming laptop to last me for a couple of years. Then around 2023 I can upgrade to a RDNA 4/Nvidia chiplet GPU laptop that can properly push 1440p/144Hz.
Eight CPU cores, 8GB VRAM, DLSS 2.0 and RTX are pretty much everything you need for a machine that will last you many years at 1080p. RDNA 2 will very likely give us crazy powerful raster cards even if RTX and DLSS don't matter to you.
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The 5nm GPUs coming in Q1 of 2023 are currently my targeted time to upgrade. I also have an i7-9700K and RTX 2080 in my laptop though, so the wait if nothing for me.
I don't think Old School Runescape and Crusader Kings 2 are demanding games lol. Though with Cyberpunk coming out I guess I definitely should bite the bullet and do it. Just nervous I'll screw it up. I was iffy just opening it up to add a SSD.
I've never been a PC gamer before, but it was time for me to update my laptop and I went with that $450 one from BestBuy. Kind of excited to see what things I can play with it. I dunno how accurate some of these "can i run it" sites are, but from what I'm pulling from the BestBuy specs, it can seemingly run plenty of PS4 games. It even says it meets minimum requirements for Cyberpunk, which sounds wrong, lol. I'd just be happy to play stuff like Tales of Berseria or DBZ: Kakarot.
Looks like some of BB's Black Friday deals are up. You can get the HP for $449 with a 4600H and two expandable RAM slots for 32GB. That's a 10750H tier laptop CPU for less than $500. It is absolutely bananas. The Omen is about one of the best chassis you can get a 1660ti in. That terabyte of nvme SSD, responsive/colorful 144Hz screen, 16GB and 4800H makes it an excellent midrange gaming machine as well for $949. There is almost no need to open it up for upgrades for a good while. I feel so spoiled for choice that I don't know quite what to do. I feel like an eternal window shopper lol.
I remember seeing the leaks and coming to the conclusion that the 5700M was only a skip ahead of the 5600M. This would have been a great GPU to pair with the 4800H and 4900H (especially on the Dell 4900H model that's on bestbuy right now). That said....
Undervolted AMD RX 6800 with 183 W TGP offers clues about an upcoming RX 6800M laptop-grade GPU matching the desktop RTX 2080 Ti
The RX 6800 GPU particularly efficient when it comes to undervolting, as its TGP can be reduced by 45 W down to 183 W. These figures are already laptop-friendly if we look at Nvidia's RTX 2080 Super mobility GPUs, so we can expect to see an RX 6800M GPU with 150-180W TGPs that matches the...
More Radeon RX 6700 Series Details Emerge For A Midrange Powerhouse
With the release of the Radeon RX 6800 Series behind us, we're looking now at info on the unannounced Radeon RX 6700 Series!
AMD certainly has the necessary hardware to compete in the laptop space . The final question is whether or not TSMC has the output. A 12GB card sure would go nicely with a 1440p laptop screen, but those don't exist ye-
Oh my!
I've been waiting for a resolution bump on laptops for years. It does suck that this will hit our FPS, but the positives are too good imo. I'm starting to think I should just buy a cheap 6 core gaming laptop to last me for a couple of years. Then around 2023 I can upgrade to a RDNA 4/Nvidia chiplet GPU laptop that can properly push 1440p/144Hz.
Eight CPU cores, 8GB VRAM, DLSS 2.0 and RTX are pretty much everything you need for a machine that will last you many years at 1080p. RDNA 2 will very likely give us crazy powerful raster cards even if RTX and DLSS don't matter to you.
I guess now I have to start paying attention to Steam sales and things, haha.
Just bought the Best Buy laptop $450 one. Would anyone recommend adding ram? If so what's the best brand/type to use?
My 1 year Lenovo gaming laptop from last year is having screen problems, going to have to repaired and then sell it
i want a high quality good feeling laptop, is there any huge mark against a razer? I don't mind spending the extra money
i have a really really good desktop already, prolly going to keep it to a1660ti or 2660
should I wait for amd and 3000 series to release?
i want a high quality good feeling laptop, is there any huge mark against a razer? I don't mind spending the extra money
i have a really really good desktop already, prolly going to keep it to a1660ti or 2660
should I wait for amd and 3000 series to release?
The link you had worked for me. There was only one left in my area though. It was too far for me.
I'm on the lookout for a budget gaming laptop for my daughter, these seems reasonable and within my price range:
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How does it look? FWIW she doesn't play demanding games but may want to as she grows up.
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How does it look? FWIW she doesn't play demanding games but may want to as she grows up.
I bought this last year on Black Friday:
It's been great, but it seems that more and more games want 16GB RAM while still supporting my GPU and CPU. So i want to install another 8GB on this to make it 16GB. Never did this before so I just want to make sure everything will be fine.
Will this:
work with this:
It's been great, but it seems that more and more games want 16GB RAM while still supporting my GPU and CPU. So i want to install another 8GB on this to make it 16GB. Never did this before so I just want to make sure everything will be fine.
Will this:
work with this:
anyone have any opinions on the omen 15 that best buy is doing (4800H, 1660ti) vs. the lenovo legion 5 with the amd cpu (it's not available right now but it's also the 4800H with an rtx 2060). $949 for the omen vs. $1109 for the legion
checking out the deals for black friday it seems like gaming laptops have come a long way in the past 5 years, kind of blown away by the value you can get nowadays
checking out the deals for black friday it seems like gaming laptops have come a long way in the past 5 years, kind of blown away by the value you can get nowadays
I found one at Best Buy in a bundle deal that included a mouse and a mouse pad for $500. It won't come until December though. Extra sad face
Ok got my laptop opened up and the old thermal paste off. That wasn't too bad. Hopefully it'll be easy to put it back together as well. Just waiting on Amazon to drop off the new stuff and I should be done. Guess I need to figure out how to clean the fans because man they are dirty.
Lucky you
Welcome to the club. Your wallet will hate you.
Another 8GB should be enough if you are a light user. I tried searching for the RAM, but the process is unecessarily complicated. I personally feel more comfortable with 32GB, but that's an investment that should probably be made on a more expensive gaming laptop.
You should probably get the 4600H one.I'm on the lookout for a budget gaming laptop for my daughter, these seems reasonable and within my price range:
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How does it look? FWIW she doesn't play demanding games but may want to as she grows up.
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The 3550H is mediocre even for a four core processor. The 4600H is easily worth that extra amount of money and you even get a so-so 120Hz screen.
Apparently the lenovo legion allows you disable nvidia optimus which improves performance and it's screen has a larger freesync range. I personally really like the aesthetics of the Omen. It's a real tossup, but if you're willin to spend a little more then you do get those extras and DLSS (much more valuable than FPS sucking RTX imo).
The pascal 1000 series from Nvidia truly brought console class gaming to laptops and changed the game big time. The new 6-8 core laptop CPUs (especially AMD's Renoir processors) now bring tremendous processing power to the $400-$800 budget realm as well. It's a good time to be a PC gamer.
You might want to invest in something like a datavac. They're great for cleaning dusty computer internals. I got mine for $60 years ago, but it seems like Covid might have resulted in price hikes.
I bought a16gig stick. That'll be good enough for me. I have a series x which I'll probably do most my gaming on but just wanted something I could do work and experience some pc gaming.
nice thanks
it really is crazy. I got a gaming laptop back when the "but can it run crysis??" was in full bloom and that's how I spec'd it out. it was some piece of shit hp pavilion and it cost over $2000. did the job I guess but what you can get today in the $800-$1300 range is crazy.
Which gaming laptops have the best build quality/customer service?
I am absolutely done with Lenovo
I am absolutely done with Lenovo
Yeah but that's like £150 more which is over my budget.
I'm looking for a laptop for some gaming and currently have my eyes on a G3 15-3500 from Dell. I7, 16GB, RTX 2060...
I can get it for approx. 1000€ , which seems ok if a little bit over my budget. The only things I'm worrying about are noise levels and heat. I'm guessing with specs like these, it's bound to be pretty noisy and prone to high temperatures. Is this something I should really look at or does that come with laptop gaming territory in the "you just have to deal with it" sense?
I might bite on a less powerful laptop (say something with 8GB and a 1650) if noise and heat are a lot less of an issue with these lower specs.
I can get it for approx. 1000€ , which seems ok if a little bit over my budget. The only things I'm worrying about are noise levels and heat. I'm guessing with specs like these, it's bound to be pretty noisy and prone to high temperatures. Is this something I should really look at or does that come with laptop gaming territory in the "you just have to deal with it" sense?
I might bite on a less powerful laptop (say something with 8GB and a 1650) if noise and heat are a lot less of an issue with these lower specs.
the legion 5 I wanted changed from temporarily unavailable to coming soon! think I'm gonna wait on that. the omen 15 looks great too but it was really just that it was available for same day pickup at best buy. though coming from a thinkpad I am worried about the durability of their consumer grade stuff and posts like this:
don't fill me with confidence! what kind of lenovo did you have? I have two thinkpads and they're both still going strong (though one is a glorified paperweight because it's just old. long live the thinkpad twist, really love that form factor) and the one I'm using now has been absolutely abused. my understanding is that their consumer grade laptops are no better or worse than any of the other brands which is making me a little hesitant dropping $1000 on something I want to last
don't fill me with confidence! what kind of lenovo did you have? I have two thinkpads and they're both still going strong (though one is a glorified paperweight because it's just old. long live the thinkpad twist, really love that form factor) and the one I'm using now has been absolutely abused. my understanding is that their consumer grade laptops are no better or worse than any of the other brands which is making me a little hesitant dropping $1000 on something I want to last
For anyone that hasn't seen it already, Nvidia has announced their next batch of laptop GPUs that will be launching in the next few months if people want to hold off a bit. There's a chart in the article showing what price ranges for laptops will be getting which GPUs, and what they'll be replacing. For example laptops starting at around $999 that currently have RTX 2060s will be replaced with RTX 3060s. Info in the article below. Apologies if posted already, didn't see anything about it in my quick skim.
wccftech.com
Exclusive: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Mobility Series Lineup, Roadmap 1H 2021 And AMD CPU Support!
Update 1/1/2021 10:34 PM GMT+5: Embargo lift date is currently 1/12/2021 9:45 AM PST. I went for a late-night sitting with Jensen and have a pretty big update for our readers. Great news: NVIDIA's RTX 3000 mobility series is going to be landing as soon as January 2021 and the company is finally...
wccftech.com
For anyone that hasn't seen it already, Nvidia has announced their next batch of laptop GPUs that will be launching in the next few months if people want to hold off a bit. There's a chart in the article showing what price ranges for laptops will be getting which GPUs, and what they'll be replacing. For example laptops starting at around $999 that currently have RTX 2060s will be replaced with RTX 3060s. Info in the article below. Apologies if posted already, didn't see anything about it in my quick skim.
Exclusive: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Mobility Series Lineup, Roadmap 1H 2021 And AMD CPU Support!
Update 1/1/2021 10:34 PM GMT+5: Embargo lift date is currently 1/12/2021 9:45 AM PST. I went for a late-night sitting with Jensen and have a pretty big update for our readers. Great news: NVIDIA's RTX 3000 mobility series is going to be landing as soon as January 2021 and the company is finally...
Hoping Walmart does another Overpowered launch with the 3000 series. Would love to upgrade down the line.
For anyone that hasn't seen it already, Nvidia has announced their next batch of laptop GPUs that will be launching in the next few months if people want to hold off a bit. There's a chart in the article showing what price ranges for laptops will be getting which GPUs, and what they'll be replacing. For example laptops starting at around $999 that currently have RTX 2060s will be replaced with RTX 3060s. Info in the article below. Apologies if posted already, didn't see anything about it in my quick skim.
Exclusive: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Mobility Series Lineup, Roadmap 1H 2021 And AMD CPU Support!
Update 1/1/2021 10:34 PM GMT+5: Embargo lift date is currently 1/12/2021 9:45 AM PST. I went for a late-night sitting with Jensen and have a pretty big update for our readers. Great news: NVIDIA's RTX 3000 mobility series is going to be landing as soon as January 2021 and the company is finally...
my planned summer purchase is looking good. I should have plenty of 3080m options by then. I'm looking for either a great 1440p/144hz (like the one Dave Lee had a video about the other day) or a 4k OLED (like the one currently in the Razer Blade 15"). All I do is play Warhammer, so a high resolution is what I want. 4k OLED would look soooooo nice. Here's hoping its easy enough to browse at Microcenter in person by spring/summer.
I just sold my Razer Blade Pro 2080 Max Q with 32GB ram...I want to purchase another laptop but I want to get the 2080 super Max Q or next year wait for the 3080 Max Q laptops...lol.
I'd say wait, and I say that as a Asus Zephyrus S15 with 2080 Super Max-Q owner lol.
Unless you REALLY need it right now, like I did when I bought it, then it's better to wait.
Probably the best bang for your buck and the reviews are good too.
The mobile 1650 is pretty close to the GTX 1060, just to give you a relative idea. You're definitely be playing PS4 games well at 1080p.
You should be fine, though I'd try to find an identical RAM stick if possible.
The 2060 is absolutely worth the extra money, for longevity's sake.
A single 16GB stick paired with the 8GB stick means you won't have dual channel though.
Can you do £699.00?
No one has better CS than Dell/Alienware. Sending someone to your home is pretty much the win.
Finding those specs within your budget, you take it and run the CPU/GPU on balanced profile so the temps/noise stay down.
Go with the 1650 and you'll be wanting to upgrade in a year anyway.
I'm mad skeptical of RTX 3060 SKUs being anywhere near $1k on day one. Nvidia also said the RTX 2060 would be available for $999 in 2020 laptops, and that never really came to fruition.For anyone that hasn't seen it already, Nvidia has announced their next batch of laptop GPUs that will be launching in the next few months if people want to hold off a bit. There's a chart in the article showing what price ranges for laptops will be getting which GPUs, and what they'll be replacing. For example laptops starting at around $999 that currently have RTX 2060s will be replaced with RTX 3060s. Info in the article below. Apologies if posted already, didn't see anything about it in my quick skim.
Exclusive: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Mobility Series Lineup, Roadmap 1H 2021 And AMD CPU Support!
Update 1/1/2021 10:34 PM GMT+5: Embargo lift date is currently 1/12/2021 9:45 AM PST. I went for a late-night sitting with Jensen and have a pretty big update for our readers. Great news: NVIDIA's RTX 3000 mobility series is going to be landing as soon as January 2021 and the company is finally...
Nvidia can "suggest" it, but I expect $1,199 as usual.
I'm on the lookout for a budget gaming laptop for my daughter, these seems reasonable and within my price range:
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How does it look? FWIW she doesn't play demanding games but may want to as she grows up.
This is the best buy I see around both of your budgets.
Crap... should I just get another 8 gig then? I don't know what that means if I'm honest.
Yes, just one more 8GB stick would be best.
Watch this Jarrod's Tech video to see why dual channel is so important for gaming:
The bechmarks speak for themselves.
Kind of randomly bought a Razer Blade 15 2020 base model as it was on a pretty big sale price for BF in Germany. I've always been content with kind of bad performance and adjusted my 'pc gaming' accordingly, i.e. by only playing certain titles that would run on whatever Thinkpad I currently use, but I'm playing FFXIV lately and the 23fps I was fine with dropped to like 14 in certain expansion raids so it made me upgrade lol.
Old news at this point but I've never really experienced 144hz + FPS. Pretty wild.
Old news at this point but I've never really experienced 144hz + FPS. Pretty wild.
Alright! I canceled it. I'll look into just grabbing another 8.
Does anyone here have the legion 5? Anyone know if it can be currently undervolted?
Looks like the AMD version is dropping to $1000 tomorrow too
Looks like the AMD version is dropping to $1000 tomorrow too
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Great find, OOS on Amazon, will go looking around. Cheers dude!
I...uh...can't believe I didn't know this. For years I just bought small increases for my laptop. I think my current gaming laptop came with a single stick of 8GB RAM back in 2015 and I chucked in a second stick of 4GB. Sounds like I should have sprung for the 8GB.
