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SvennoJ on 20 October 2025
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Davy said:
SvennoJ said:

It's a laptop CPU, i7-8750H. It can boost up to 4.1 ghz, but with games it then quickly gets too hot and throttles. So you can only really use it for gaming with Turbo disabled for steady performance, hence 2.2 ghz.

At least with a desktop you don't have to manage heat as well!

I guess there is no way to throttle it to 3.0ghz, dunno how Turbo works but ThrottleStop only has an on/off toggle for it. Same as setting max processor state to 99% in Windows (which doesn't work anymore, hence ThrottleStop)

Yeah it's obsolete
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-8750H+%40+2.20GHz&id=3237

It was good for 1080p gaming though, just now starting to struggle with new releases.

I don't like small screens for gaming , and you need to pay double for the same performance.

I bought a 32 inch 1440p monitor before 5 years and it's the best upgrade i had ever made.

The only reason to have a gaming laptop would be if i had a job that I had to travel all the time, but I don't. :P

My reason is space. Laptops fit where desktops plus big screens will not. I do use a mechanical keyboard with it, just resting on top of the shitty laptop keyboard and of course a good gaming mouse (eff those track pads)

The 144Hz screen of it is actually quite good and bigger sizes doesn't mean much when you tend to sit a lot closer to a laptop screen, like 1-1.5 ft, compared to 2-3 feet to a PC screen. 1 to 1.5ft from 15.6" gives you 59 to 41 degree fov, 2 to 3 ft from 32" gives you 60 to 42 degree fov, same ;)

But yeah it doesn't compare to a 65" 4K HDR screen, it has some fake windows HDR for videos, not impressive. Of course for proper HDR you're better off with consoles, and even better on PSVR2 (but games that actually handle HDR well are still rare)

Anyway if you have the space, don't bother with gaming laptops. Expensive, run hot, loud (fans), at most an hour of gaming on battery.  

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Still better than my old one, a 7700HQ coupled with a 1050Ti. And that Dell was so badly built it throttled on both of them without needing to stress them...

Ugh Dell laptops, my work always got them from Dell, Those things were build to die within 2 years. 

My previous 'gaming' laptop was a Toshiba Satellite with GT 740m. It only had a vent on the side and it ran so hot I burned my fingers on it. It was good to keep your coffee hot.