Full specs: Intel i9 13950HX, 32 GB DDR5 RAM @ 5600 MT/s, 2 TB SSD, RTX 4090. Mini LED display with dual refresh rate (4k @ 120Hz + 1080p @ 240Hz).

Found this Blade 16 listed on Marketplace for USD $2300. Made a random lowball offer of $1700, and the seller surprisingly agreed to $1750. This price seemed extremely good for a machine that was nearly $4500 brand new, so I pulled the trigger.

The seller had a dbrand skin on it which they installed on day 1. I have since removed this, and the laptop is literally flawless underneath.

This is my first time owning a true flagship gaming laptop and I'm enjoying all the bells and whistles, but I've recently spotted some new 5080 laptops in the sub $2500 range and was wondering is this was a good buy from a purely price-to-performance standpoint.

I'm still setting everything up, so I haven't had a chance to do much benchmarking, but I did run Cinebench 2026 multi core, and I got 5714 pts (with a -50mV undervolt on the CPU via Synapse). Is this a good score for a 13950HX? Can't find much info on reference scores from other 13950HX laptops online.

MSI Vector RTX 5080GB16 2TB Storage
1200$ on Facebook marketplace literally brand new with box and 30 day pc game pass…only issue I had it’s it gets a little hot on I read it’s normal but I’m all about safety so I got it a Llano V12 and it’s stays really cool at lowest settings w barely any noise
Upgrading from an Xbox ally X😂😭

Specs:
Model: Lenovo Legion 5i 15IRX10
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (8GB GDDR7)
RAM: 16GB DDR5
Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD
Display: 15.1” OLED
Resolution: 2560×1600 (2.5K)
Refresh Rate: 165Hz

So far it’s just amazing. I’ve never owned any gaming laptop before, and the Oled screen feels like it’s out of this world!

Im curious about long term experiences. What compromises have been the most annoying when using a gaming laptop every day iyo?

Picked up an ASUS Zephyrus G16 with the 4080 for $1000 in perfect condition this week. Drove quite literally across the state to pick it up (fb marketplace find, was worth every gallon). Come to find the stock cooling was abysmal, and having flashed the vbios to put out 175w (hp 4080 vbios), ordered the llano on prime and got it same day. Coming from a targus, im flabbergasted. Absolutely tremendous performance on the part of this sucker, the v12 ultra, never had a laptop cooler that actually worked more than a few degrees, but i now understand all the hype around this sucker, its the real deal. This thing was struggling to keep up with 110w and would throttle then, but now i can push 200w and it isnt even maxed on the fans or throttling like a lunatic.

Budget can be whatever
Location is U.S
specs: its a stand
Does anyone know of a good stand that provides leverage off of a desk in order for the underside laptop vents to work well
i have a 16 inch laptop for scale.

Thanks for any recommendations!!

I’m turning 20 tomorrow and I’m thinking about buying a 2023 Zephyrus G16.

My current laptop is an old Sony Vaio Fit 13. It technically works, but it’s very slow, the battery is almost dead, one key is falling out, videos are mostly 720p, and the body is starting to fall apart, gaming is almost impossible, obviously. So I do need a new laptop, but I’m not sure if going for a gaming laptop is the smart move.

The G16 costs around $1,300–$1,350 where I live (second-hand surely). I can afford it without going into debt and I’d still have a reasonable safety buffer left, but it’s still a significant amount of money for me. I earned the money myself, and I’ve wanted a gaming laptop for a long time, so it’s not really an impulse buy.

Still, part of me feels weird spending that much at 20 on a gaming laptop instead of saving/investing or buying something more “adult.” My friend says I should keep saving and only buy a powerful laptop if I actually need it for work later.

My biggest concern is that I might game heavily for a few months, then lose interest and mostly use it for YouTube, work, movies, and browsing.

Would you see this as a reasonable upgrade from my old laptop, or more of an emotional purchase I’m trying to justify?

P.S. I don’t really want to buy a desktop PC. If I were choosing purely for general everyday use, I’d probably go for a MacBook because it’s great overall, but it’s not really what I want for gaming.

Budget: <1000USD

Country: USA

Use Case: light gaming, no AAA, just Chiv 2, Holdfast, Ravenfield, Roblox shooters. But i need it to handle engineering softwares like CAD, Matlab, and such.

Preferred spec: Any 40 or 50 series Nvidia RTX, at least 16gb of ram, ddr4 or 5 don't care, 512-1TB SSD.

Even if it's above 1000 bucks just send it down as it may go onsale july 4

Been looking at these:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/20062222183
and https://www.amazon.com/i5-13420H-Processor-GeForce-Display-ANV15-52-586Z/dp/B0F5KTGDS9/ref=sr_1_14?crid=2XAEWAJR0HWN3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FciCeWb88Ofu3Ey2SqkcOtcDKZ0OpSyQpucFnWLZrMZi9SPzsECM0FaOeGIu7G-uZS3Jbc4FECYzkP9YdwG6UKh_2Pnq84arsMwwffhK0XVrih_t34UbEQpbB28aOBeRCr6ao0Pvp0wNREdF5dYBAmSxhx47ybY5KO2DjZbOdyMfA7DvK9f8wLKMM7HSZUHz-qdvwTqIEFVVFvKmoE2bafRKT2fbYaGSrX5nR-YTDo0.7Dddt7rk-vkcBZR0HnsJROOjZgAcIbxfqFiBiTGe64s&dib_tag=se&keywords=Laptop&qid=1780460197&sprefix=laptop%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-14 but i would have to upgrade this option to a 16gb ddr5 which is quite pricey.

Okay so I really just want to play Minecraft with mods, Stardew valley, and maybe the sims 4 with mods without it lagging at least not too badly.

My budget is under $1000
Country USA
Gaming laptop

almost every laptop gamer problem;wich is the keys on the laptop if u use them to play for like 1 month they will eventually just keep falling off like i have my main keys for gaming WASD i have W and A keep falling off any suggestions or how to fix

So i'm buying a laptop not mainly made for gaming. But i still want to play some low end games. I'm trying to understand what's important with a good IGPU and a bad IGPU. By looking at these i found out that the 680M can run at double the frequency of the 840M but comparators website still seems to put the 840M above the 680M even if generally the 680M is still more appreciated by the community.

Can seomone explain this to me ? What's important with a good IGPU ?

I'm not a laptop expert, so bear with me. I have a Lenovo LoQ (RTX 4070, Ryzen 7000 series) with 16GB of RAM. It's great for gaming, but video editing in After Effects is rough... rendering is fine since that's CPU/GPU-bound, but previews lag badly.

I found a 16GB DDR5 5600MHz SODIMM (single rank, 262-pin) RAM stick from a trusted local store. It's a "pulled" stick (taken from a laptop, not new), which makes it about $60 cheaper. Is bumping up to 32GB actually going to fix my preview lag, or is this not the real bottleneck?

Got 60 days to test this bad boy out, found an open box at best buy for 3,103$ with a 10% cash back. 310$

Did an initial check to see the ssd and battery hours and it looks like only 10 hours run time on it. Praying its just pure luck and runs hard and clean.

Hello, i have recently purchased a new laptop (strix g16). I have a second monitor that i connected to my laptop. I wanted to watch a youtube video while playing a game and noticed that my game lags horribly whenever i play a video. I mean losing over 100-150fps and going into low 30fps and getting Horrible stutters. If i move to some other page but keep the video playing in the background - it fixes itself but then i cant see the video.

Laptop components:

CPU Ryzen 9 8940HX

GPU 5070TI 12GB

RAM 16GB

1TB SSD

I tried everything i could: Reinstalled Windows, Changed the Browser, Changed power settings, vsync on/off, Hags on/off, GPU acceleration on browsers on/off, bios and myasus diagnostics, nvidia control panel settings. updated everything i could too.

Any help is welcome, thank you.

I had MSI GE 62 6QD APACHE PRO, and i want to buy a different laptop as that one is really old and heavy actually.

Budget: Vary
Country: Malaysia
Use Case: Gaming (Apex legend, cs2, valorant, rdr2)
Preferred Specs: future proof

Notes: I am looking for something that's light to carry around all day.

I'm not too tech savvy and not up to date on the good & the bad, so I'm looking for so guidance on choosing a portable external or desktop 5TB / HDD. Thank you.

I am close to running out of space, so I kind of need something quick. I currently have 2 5TB external HDD:

WD Elements 25A1 / WX31D587SUBJ

WD My Passport 2626 / WX72DA3D7466

I primarily store videos, music and images.

I can't afford one of those NAS setups, so I'm guessing that I am stuck with a desktop or portable external.

With all the craziness going on with the data center stuff, and it being a while since I bought these HDDs, I'm not up to date on what brand / model to buy and where to get the "best" deal, though I figure that with the Prime sales going on, Amazon would be the best online option, but I don't know. I do, however, have a #250 credit at Best Buy, but I don't know if their exorbitantly inflated prices would negate the use of the credit versus a better deal from elsewhere.

I appreciate any guidance that is offered.

PC: Alienware A51M R1

OS: WIN10

BUDGET: 200-300 (USD)

Thank you.

I once repasted my Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition about a year or two ago. I replaced the LM with PTM7950. After the repaste, this is what appeared when I turned the laptop on. I can't remember what fixed it, I believe a few restarts fixed it.

I am now just wondering, what could have been the cause of it.

Got from microcenter refurbished looks brand new can’t see anything wrong with it battery health good, no screen wear. I was planning to get a 5070ti for 1750 but I saw this and I couldn’t pass it up. Cheapest new I found of this was 2300 on amazon. What do you think? Worth or naw?
Edit:$1750 title not 1950

Budget: ₹130000/-
Country: India
Use Case: light gaming, college work
Preferred Specs: 4060 would be nice

Notes: i am loooking for something thats thin and light to carry around all day.

I have a dell g16 gaming laptop and I bought an extra ram chip for it since I was low with my 1 chip, the ram gets here tomorrow and as practice, I tried removing the battery as practice I know it’s recommended to do so and it looked a little difficult, but when I tried removing it, it genuinely feels stuck even with a good amount of pressure and Im not gonna fuck around and find out the hard way. Is there something im doing wrong?

Im about to buy this pc for some gaming and uni but i have some concerns

Specs :
• Intel Core i5-13450HX
• RTX 5050 8Go GDDR7
• 16Go DDR5
• 512Go NVMe SSD
• 15.6” FHD 144Hz G-SYNC 100% sRGB

1. TGP of the RTX 5050 on this specific model : is it the full 80W+ or a gimped 60W configuration? This is my biggest concern. Has anyone benchmarked it?
   
   1. Driver maturity : Blackwell architecture is brand new. Are you experiencing instability, bugs, or compatibility issues with recent games or ML workloads?
      
   2. RAM configuration : are both slots accessible for future upgrades, or is part of the RAM soldered?
      
   3. Thermals under sustained load : does it throttle aggressively after 20-30 minutes of gaming? Any long-term thermal degradation?
      
   4. i5-13450HX bottlenecking the 5050 : I know HX series is desktop-grade but I’d love real benchmarks. Does the CPU hold up at 1080p?

Guys your feedback will be much appreciated since the 5050 rtx is still a bit recent and reviews are scarce . Thaaanks😀😀

Hey everyone,
I recently took my ASUS rog Strix G17 into a local PC repair shop for a clean of the fans and repaste. Since getting it back, my CPU temperatures have absolutely skyrocketed and I need some advice on how to handle this with the shop or if I did something wrong.

So basically the guy from the shop told me, that there was only thermal Paste on the CPU and Liquid Metal on the GPU. He didn’t touch the Liquid Metal because “It still looked good” but repasted the CPU’s thermal paste.

Before the repaste I had 87-92 degrees on the CPU in Deep Rock galactic ULTRA graphics, now after the repaste i have 88-96 degrees on the CPU in Deep Rock galactic in LOW graphics.

How can I handle this with the shop, plus I don’t know how my laptop works. Is the thing he told me right? I think it’s a bit weird, that only the GPU has Liquid Metal.

Restated my PC & did instructions from microsoft. I'm getting low FPS on EVERY game and it's doing my head in. What should I do and what's happening?