Need advice on gaming laptop

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SvennoJ said:

I'm using an Acer Predator laptop, 1060 GPU. It does the job, ran FS2020 quite decently, but one USB port has failed and several keys on the keyboard don't work anymore so I'm using an external keyboard with it :/ Gaming laptops get hot, the number keys can burn my fingers while flying... The 144hz screen is awesome though, wish it had a more durable keyboard.

Prices have gone up as well, a new model with 3060 card now casts CAD 2,300, then add memory upgrade. (I guess I can re-use the memory sticks from my current one and put the old 16GB back in this one). All custom decked out models are over CAD 4,000


Btw is a Intel Core i7-12700H actually better than the i7-8750H? As a gaming laptop I have to disable turbo to prevent thermal throttling and the thing going up to 95c. So I'm pretty much CPU limited in most cases. My current CPU runs at 2.2ghz, so going to 2.3ghz seems like a waste of money... But maybe the i7-12700H runs much cooler and will survive with boost on?

Keep in mind that your old system may be using older, higher latency and/or slower memory sticks.

My old Ryzen 2700u notebook had DDR4 2400mhz and my Ryzen 4700u notebook had DDR4 3000mhz memory for instance.
So it was better to just get DDR4 3200mhz memory sticks to drop into my 11400H. - No point holding back CPU performance with DDR4 2400mhz/3200Mhz, especially when you are already held back by the CPU.

And yes, the 12700H is vastly superior to the 8750H... It's a more efficient architecture in general.
Plus in heavily threaded workloads, it can leverage all 14 cores/20 threads verses the 6 cores/12 threads on the 8750H.

Then you have the 9MB vs 24MB of cache, 4.7Ghz vs 4.1Ghz boost clockspeeds and more.

I wouldn't be surprised if you had anywhere between 50% to a doubling in single threaded performance... And much more in heavily threaded.

I wouldn't bother turning boost off, unless I was running with integrated graphics that shared TDP.