Laptop Longevity Survey

Hello, which one do you recommend I buy? Asus Tuf gaming f15 2023 core i7 13620h rtx 4060 16gb, 1tb ssd Lenovo Legion Slim 5 Ryzen 7 7840HS, 16 GB RAM, 1T GB SSD, RTX4070-8GB

I have an rtx 3060 130watt (flashed vbios from 90) and a ryzen5 5600h lenovo ideapad,it performs well in every game except lol and fortnite where fps stays at around 100-130 for fortnite and 100-150 for league of legends,these numbers were lower cause i was using a force auto hdr program.

All that because the gpu stays at 50-70% gpu usage and a max of 70 wattage,i dont have vsync on any of these games and i tried reinstalling,also on fortnite the usage goes to like 80% with same wattage and 250+fps when i look up the sky,so what can be the issue here,ive been trying to figure this out for at least a month now.

I write this note for all those who have doubts about buying an Asus laptop, since these days I have seen various questions (I should buy this rather than that laptop?). I'll tell you about my experience. I'm a graphic designer, I don't need any power to do Photoshop and some other photo editing program, but I also like to play, and above all I like to play new games, mainly single player and with beautiful graphics. Then I like to watch movies and videos while I'm comfortably lying in bed with my partner. I own a desktop, assembled by me, that I use for work, with 9800x3d, 64gb of ram and rtx 4090, and this is the PC that I use in my studio to work. I bought these two laptops, to work remotely (and play) when I'm traveling and to use them at home, if we want to see some videos at dinner and to use them in bed: a strix scar 16 2023 with intel 13980hx and 4080, 32 gb ram and a zephyrus g16 with amd hx 370 and 4070, 16gb of ram, because I could not, here in Italy, find the same laptop for reasonable amounts. As powerful as it is, the Scar has defects that make it inferior to the Zephyrus: -the battery is ridiculous, it is useless to put it in eco mode, reduce the refresh rate of the screen or take other precautions with ghelper... it's ridiculous and that's it, the battery of the zephyrus lasts 8 times as long -the mini LED screen is bright and cute but you can not compare to the screen of the zephyrus, we are talking about different worlds, the screen of the zephyrus is beautiful

• absurd coil whine, just like you hit the mouse and the coil whine begins... the zephyrus has no coil whine

-the weight: the scar is a brick and it is also ugly, in my opinion, taking it with one hand is painful, while the zephyrus is light, it is beautiful and it is a pleasure to hold it in your hand -the fans: the scar makes noise and is hot, it always makes noise and is always hot, there is no way to solve the thing. ghelper is not enough.... the zephyrus in ecomode and silent mode you can hold it in your arms, the fans STOP at 0 rpm and the cpu is at 47 ° C if I want to watch Netflix

Obviously the 4080 is more powerful and the games go faster, but I managed to play all the games I wanted the same with the 4070, I just lowered the detail a bit... for now I haven't had any chance where I decided to give up. I didn't make big measurements, but I'll just tell you that yesterday, out of curiosity, I tried Cyberpunk in 1660p, with the new model dls transformer in performance mode, without raytracing, and the game was wonderful, a real show... Obviously if you want a laptop exclusively to play, probably the Zephyrus is not the best choice, but for everything else it is superior, and also in terms of balance between portability / pleasure to use / battery life is a much higher product, although it cost me less...

Finally I add that it has an IMPRESSIVE SOUND, never heard anything like this in a laptop, and the fact that it only has 16gb of ram has never weighed me until now, it's all wonderful... I hope I've been useful to you

Edit: sorry for the poor english, I hope what I meant was clear

I have a Dell G15 5530 and I've had it for a good 5 months now and l've always have had disconnecting issues as it randomly disconnects from my WiFi and recently have been restarting my WiFi adapter through troubleshooting settings. Someone please tell me what I can do to stop this issue.

I've seen some good deals on US especially when it comes to Zeph/Legion line up. Which is like a night & day here on Canada when it comes to pricing.

I'm aiming for a gaming laptop since December however I'm still waiting for the "best price" as possible. Now tariffs around, would it be more challenging if I still wait?

4060 is 220$ more

Lenovo specs say 32GB max, but I recall a post from a long time ago where somebody tried 64 and it could handle it without a problem. Can anybody confirm one way or the other?

Is this laptop decent for 1k. It’s available in store Walmart on roll back.

Mainly want to play hunt showdown. The one drawback I see is the ram may not be upgradable.

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I saw this offer from lenovo for this laptop wich seems all around very good for gaming and general purposes. I looked at other topic about this kind of laptop and i feel like it's really overpriced.

Am i missing somthing or should i buy it?

Otherwise should i keep waiting for new offers even tho i might need a laptop really soon?

Thank you all for your answers!

(Sorry for my bad english)

Just got my Legion Slim 5 Gen 9 and it has 2x 8 gigs 5600 Mhz RAM sticks, so If I want to upgrade to say 32 gigs do I replace both with a 16 gig stick each or do I replace one with a 24 gig?

Hey all,

Posting as I am honestly incredibly clueless on gaming laptops. My current laptop can no longer run the games I like effectively- I managed to push through Veilguard on minimum with around 30 FPS, but with Avowed coming out I don't meet the minimum settings.

Current setup: Intel Core i7-11800H 8-Core (24M Cache up to 4.6 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti 4GB GDDR6 VRAM (75W TGP) Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut - Ultra High Performance Thermal Dissipation 17.3" FHD 1920 x 1080 IPS-Grade Edge-to-Edge Matte 144Hz LED 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ (2 x 8GB) Performance 500GB PCIe NVME M.2 SSD

My laptop really struggles with not enough VRAM.

I'm looking for a laptop that can run new and upcoming RPGs, and ideally I'd want it to be able to do so for around 5 years at least.

Looking at the 50 series, people look underwhelmed, and I honestly have no clue what the jump between 50 - 90 is.

Top end budget would be 2k GBP, but would be happy to break it for a good 'deal'.

Thanks all,

I was wondering if the Rx is worse, considering that Nvidia has more advancements regarding upscaling

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6576659.p?skuId=6576659&sb_share_source=PDP

I currently have this gigbyte laptop and overall it has good specs but the screen ghosting kills me. I have until Feb 2 (tomorrow) to return it to best buy and I prefer to get something from best buy as I have that total tech warranty that I got for free (2 yrs). I paid $899 for this laptop. Can someone recommend something similar but has a good screen?

I know I won't find the same specs for the price and a good screen without paying a lot more. So something within the ballpark.

16" I7 13620 32 gig ram 4060 1tb ssd

So, have you experienced such issue when trying to enforce DLSS 4 and then you just get a blue screen of death or the PC just shuts down? (I used only NVIDIA APP TO ENABLE) This happens to me actually... I have even tested using 3dmark and it also crashes there. So, I installed new drivers and everything, but so far the enforced DLSS only works for me in Hunt Showdown... Any other game is just crashing the system

For example ready or not with DLSS and FG gives blue screen. I have 4080 in my laptop

I want to buy a good cooling pad but should not be overpriced. Drop some recommendations.

Im in process of moving to German for 2-3 years because of job and I wanted to buy gaming laptop because probably there won't be space for whole PC. Mostly looking for one that can handle upcoming games like kingdom come deliverance 2 and others

Do you think it's worth the price? Keep in mind that don't live in Us so we don't have sales here.

I have a Victus Ryzen 5 5600 H 3060 and wanting to upgrade to victus ryzen 7 8700H with 4060

Whats the difference between these that cause the £200 price difference. The left doesnt mention the pointing device, form factor, screen resolutoion or ports but that doeant mean it doesnt come with those... right? Surely 4zone rgb and having an eshutter doesnt equate to £200

Anybody know what’s a good gaming laptop to run big games like Gta, 2k, madden etc and I can mod on? looking to get one

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I knooooow I bought a budget laptop but even on just world of Warcraft classic the fans are insanely loud. Is there anything I should do to optimize the settings in general? I’m fine with the fans being loud but I was really surprised given the game I was playing. Anything I should change in general?

Edit to add: with 16gb of ram it’s almost capping out too with wow open. I haven’t upgraded anything in a long time. My pc is still an i7-6700k with a 1080 (old I know) but runs great still. Not sure if I need to upgrade the ram to 32gbs.

bruh what in the fuck is this i have a legion pro 5 and this radar looking thing gets in my screen sometimes for no reason and it goes after i restart my game like 4-5 times

Correct me if I'm wrong but the vram should be 8gb in a 4070 right? Why is showing 6

Hello and I will describe how I came to my problem.

I own a Legion Pro 5 16IRX9 and I use Lenovo toolkit to control the fan speed. My fans were set at the lowest temperature to 2100 RPM and they kept spinning no matter how much the temperature dropped, so when idle the temperature dropped to about 35 degrees. Recently, there was an update to Intel Management Engine 16.1 Firmware for Windows 11 (64-bit) - Legion Pro 5 16IRX9 (N0ME29WW) and a BIOS update (

N0CN29WW)

After these updates, my speed control stopped working - now the fans turn on at about 52 degrees and turn off at 45 degrees no matter how I set them.

I used SREP to access the hidden Lenovo Bios settings (I didn't change anything - I just looked) now I can't downgrade my Bios version with the Boot Guard message.

The laptop is working normally but I am annoyed by the fan curve changing. Can anyone advise?

I am currently using microcode 12B

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It is asus rog strix g15 with amd ryzen 7 16 gb ram 1 tb ssd and win 11

I decided to finally invest in a solid gaming laptop with a budget of $1200. Does anyone have any current suggestions that I could possibly get from Best Buy?

Still in warranty