It died last year but my old acer predator 300 from 2017 really survived everything I give it in the covid. that 1060 was a warrior one day the motherboard died and well now is on my shelf as a memory really. good laptop it was

For $700 I got this ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 2021 with a Ryzen 9 5900HS, 8GB soldered DDR4-, upgraded with a 16GB stick of DDR4 to make 24GB total (planning on buying a 32GB stick soon), an RTX 3070, and 2TB of NVMe storage. Very good condition, LCD bezel needs replacing, battery getting replaced as well. Parts for this laptop aren’t as expensive as I thought they would be.

Managed to snag this beauty for £2400! 2 years warranty left with MSI, came with the box and original receipt also! Over the moon with this purchase, the guy just wanted rid of it. Specs:

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU (24GB GDDR7)

Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX

RAM: 32GB DDR5

Display: 16-inch IPS, 2560 × 1600, 240Hz

Graphics power: Up to 175W

Hello.

Recently, I purchased, well, my wife purchased this gaming laptop for me.

IT HAD BEEN 6 long years since I bought a laptop. The upgrade was from an hp omen 2019 with the 1660ti 6gb h9750.

How did the wifey do? Is it future proof?

Currently very happy.

some people say cooling pads sometimes go to cold form to warm and shit and create condensation, i got rog strix 16 g614fr 2025 amd version , and Strix has that liquid metal colling stuff ,i dont know if this makes sense but i wanted to say.

For context I am looking at financing to purchase either of these, the 7 pro has a lower upfront cost I can afford right now. The 9i has a much higher upfront cost and it will take me a month to save for it.

What I want to know is what are the big differences between the models and 5080 vs 5090 in these specific models.

Something I notice is the 7 has DDR5 listed as the ram whereas the 9i doesn’t have that label anywhere on the page, is it safe to assume it is?

I couldn’t find a 32gb version of the 7 pro that was on this financing deal otherwise the price difference would’ve made me pull the trigger - but the 9i is about £1000 more.

Any owners who have issues with either would be a blessing to hear from. Sorry if it seems like a stupid question I am new to the heavy duty laptop space.

Saw this on FB marketplace wondering if it’s a good deal, wanting to upgrade my current gaming laptop. Thanks!

Edit: I got it! Ended up paying $920 for it, factory resetting it now. OLED, 1TB SSD. I think I scored!

This has to be a scam-the retail price is easily £2.5k to £3k. I was looking to upgrade my laptop and stumbled upon this, but it's way too cheap, so there's definitely a catch. The seller has terrible reviews, and the description even says "32GB DDR5 Memory | PCIE Solid State Drive (Boot SSD), Original Factory Box will be opened and resealed for Upgrade."What's the deal with that? Am I right in thinking this is a total scam, or is it actually the deal of a lifetime?🫪

I think I accidentally stood on it? It’s a windows 11, is this able to be fixed and if it can, how much will it cost?

From what I see it’s a 20% single core performance bump.

Although I’m not sure which one will make up for the other in this case. I know unoptimized games will eat gpu and esports will favor the cpu.

if both are with 200 dollars of each other, what’s the best bet?

It does seem like at 2k the difference dwindles by a great degree vs 1080p

Does the thermal putty apply correctly in pic 1

In the pic 2 it the factory putty, do i need to reapply

Behold... hiding gold in my laptop experiment.

My Lenovo Legion lasted for a couple of years. It handles everything fine The GPU works adequately for the games I play, but the built-in IPS panel bothers me a whole lot. The backlight bleed is noticeable, especially in dark games, and after seeing my friends OLED laptop, I find it hard to go back to my old laptop.

I just don’t have the budget at the moment to drop 2k+ on a new gaming laptop. My laptop runs just fine. I have nowhere to set up a monitor that’s anywhere bigger than 27-inch. I am ok with just setting something temporary.

I looked around on Amazon but most of the standard budget portable screens seem to be capped at 60Hz. Saw this Uperfect GR16HQ model that supposedly has a 16-inch 3K OLED panel, running at 120Hz. One thing though, it relies on one of those magnetic smart covers to stand up instead of a built-in kickstand, so I’m a bit worried it’ll slip or wobble on my desk during intense gaming.

Has anyone here actually tried gaming on a portable OLED display via Type-C? Does pushing the display through the USB-C port, does it lag? Is this set up viable or am I wasting my time? So any input would be great.

First deal I've found on a legion. Should I pull the trigger or just wait to see what happens on black Friday?

Valorant Fps

I am getting 120~130 fps when playing valorant is this normal for a:

i5-13450HX

with

Rtx 5050 (65 W)

or should I be getting more from these specs.

It's a Dream Machines RT5090-16NA31 with two 2,600RPM 140mm fans strapped to the cooler, and the laptop itself floating on a cooling pad?

Budget: $2,000
Country: USA
Use Case: Gaming, coding, and watching videos
Preferred Specs: RTX 5070 Ti, 12 GB VRAM, 1 TB SSD, and 32 GB RAM

Pretty much the title, my laptop is a Nitro 5 AN515-58

I’ll obviously need audio, WiFi, gpu drivers. Any other necessary drivers i should have?

Budget: Sub 600$ CAD used preferably
Country: Canada
Use Case: School and gaming, Modded Minecraft, geometry dash, marvel rivals other relatively low demanding games nothing crazy
Preferred Specs: 16g of ram. I don’t know much about specs
Notes: just want something light that I can take around pretty easily and won’t break the bank for a used laptop. Thanks

I've seen it's usually 144hz and 60hz, but my laptop shows 48hz, it's a new one acer aspire7 intel core 5 210h. Is this normal?

I do software dev during the day and game at night on the same machine. Lately I've been running local LLMs for coding help, and they chew through VRAM fast. My current laptop has an RTX 4070 with 8GB VRAM. Games run fine, but loading even a 7B model while keeping a game paused in the background usually triggers out of memory errors.

Just curious….trying to look at Zephyrus G16 Duo either on 5070ti vs 5090….all the online reviews and youtube i see are only for 5090. I want to see how much avg FPS difference it’ll make on games if i were to choose 5070ti variant. Because for non-duo g16 i noticed that 5070ti vs 5080 it was only about 3-4fps difference due to thermal, so no point in getting 5080. Lastly, i want to know battery life difference too on duo 5070ti vs 5090, because again, g16 non-duo virtually had no difference.

Or i’m wondering if i should hold off until next year version comes out…if it will come out…as i noticed some constraints happened in this duo…but man dual touchscreen with OLED and 16” was so tempting lol

Budget: $2,500 (can go up to $3k, but would prefer not to)

Country: USA

Use Case: School/work (word, excel, powerpoint, basic Adobe, video conference calls) and gaming (Baldur’s Gate 3, Expedition 33, Resident Evil games, Tiny Glade)

Preferred Specs / Form Factor: strong preference for under 5lbs (physical disability reasons); decent/good cooling; would prefer a quiet fan but not a dealbreaker

Portability Needs: Mostly will be used at home on desk/lap desk, but needs to be able to travel in a backpack for occasional work travel.

Notes: Hi! Apologies if my ask isn’t specific with specs. I’ve never bought a gaming laptop before and am very new to all the terminology. I’ve been trying to do my own research but am feeling overwhelmed by my own lack of understanding of all the different terms, so thought I’d come here for recommendations. My current laptop is not a gaming laptop, so while I was able to play something like Gris on it, it absolutely cannot handle something like BG3 or even Tiny Glade. I think the issue may have been the GPU, but I’m not 100% certain. My current laptop is on its last legs anyway, though, so I figured I’d look at finally getting a laptop that can handle the games I’m interested in while still being good for my everyday work needs/going to grad school. I would also prefer a laptop that is more on the intuitive/user-friendly side and has good longevity.

Budget: $3.5k

Country: US

Use case: gaming and gamedev

Planning on getting this one. Anybody that's used this model before?

The main purpose will be gaming and unity gamedev. Will be a desktop replacement with some light travel, so battery life and weight won't be a problem. Usually spends hours (6+) at a time, so need some good thermal stability.

Will also be doing some artwork, hence going for the 4k screen. Heard there's some blooming issue, but is the color accuracy good?

Will wait till Black Friday to see if any offers come up. My Max budget is $3.5k including taxes, are there any other laptop recommendations for that spec in this budget?