Need advice on gaming laptop

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mjk45 said:

I just bought my first gaming laptop a Razer 14  Ryzen 9 6900 HX 3070 Ti 1tb SSD QHD 165hz screen for aud $2,700, for those of you in NA $1840usd I got sick of the last few laptops I have owned that can be summed up as plastic crap that breaks, its not perfect my complaints are no expansion SSD slot and 16GB DDR5 non upgradable ram but  since it's just for gaming and some internet stuff  the 16GB DDR5 ram size shouldn't be a real problem, sure it cost but since it dropped from around AU 4 grand  to $2990 and because I had ordered parts from scorptec  when I used to build my own desktops I haggled them for a further $290 discount so I felt it wasn't to bad a price for all that beautiful aluminium.

That is a very impressive machine, if I didn't have a high-end desktop, I would probably opt for something similar... Although Razer is a premium brand.

I would rather just spend abolut $1,000 and replace the cheaper notebook more often, simply don't use it enough to justify the higher expense.

SvennoJ said:

Ahh good point. The faster memory wasn't available in 2021 so I settled for 32GB of 2667 mhz DDR4.

The problem is, most games, FS2020 included, are bottle necked by a single core doing most of the work. So it comes down to single core speed rather than more efficient multi threading. Boost makes a big difference in fps, yet then it gets throttled every minute to twice a minute and the fps crashes down. Turning off boost keeps this one under 88c, no throttling, more steady performance. Boost heats up the cpu real fast.

Anyway 50% or more boost in single threaded performance would be worth upgrading for if I can find it on sale. I rather double my performance between upgrades yet CPUs just don't really get faster anymore. I do spend most of my gaming time on my laptop nowadays so might as well focus my expenditure there. But I'll hold off until after PSVR2 :) Less than 1/3rd the price of a new gaming laptop, kinda easy choice!

More efficient multi-threading might get me back into video editing. Constantly having to stop waiting for previews to render with a lot of tracks overlapping kinda killed that for me.

You should see better CPU performance with better quality RAM as well.

What I did to get around throttling issues is to actually keep turbo enabled, but disable hyper-threading and/or set the affinity to just a few select cores that were physically the furthest from each other on my Ryzen APU's.

That way it could boost those single cores to net more overall performance.