Advice on Gaming Laptop

Bigkeg-twisting-nether · November 30, 2020, 12:10pm

Amazon is not the best shop for anything IMHO Compared to normal shops I rate it a disaster when looking for good offers. But the kits are on Amazon or other stores:

https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15903_DDR4%7E15903_SO-DIMM%7E2506_1.2%7E253_16384%7E254_3200%7E256_2x

It’s 8GB. Ok for WoW only but running some addons or other apps and you likely would want 16GB to have enough. RAM swapping in laptops is common and some laptop/PC dedicated shops offer such service even - they will replace it for you/sell with selected RAM config.

Note: before buying RAM check what your laptop is listed to support. 2933 MHz is default while 3200 MHz for the most part should be supported but there may be models not liking such frequency.

Polong-bronze-dragonflight · November 30, 2020, 12:44pm

Ok interesting, again, thanks. One more Q…I found the below, thoughts on this given it has 16GB Ram?

Medion Deputy P10 Core i5-10300H 16GB 512GB SSD 15.6 Inch GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Windows 10 Gaming Laptop

Bigkeg-twisting-nether · November 30, 2020, 4:02pm

depends on the price. The CPU is nothing special for 2020.

Hoisho-argent-dawn · November 30, 2020, 9:55pm

For laptop gaming I agree with BigKeg here, Ryzen all the way over Intel offerings. The 4000 series just wipes the floor in performance and should see some discounts coming from those soon as the 5000 laptop series cpu’s are coming early 2021.

The other important thing to think about is the speed of the ram inside said laptop and how much is inside of it, considering some of it will be used for the GPU as well. Unless it’s got a dedicated card inside of it (laptop) with it’s own ram of course.

But for gaming, best is the 4800U/H chip, they’re better than the i5/7/9 you can get in laptops.

Polong-bronze-dragonflight · November 30, 2020, 10:26pm

Thanks for your reply man, really helpful! I can’t seem to find any ryzen 4800 for around £850 though…

I did find the below though (intel I know)…how does that look? Can you recommend any 4800 models?

GRADE A1 - Acer Nitro 5 Core i7-10750H 8GB 512GB SSD 15.6 Inch Full HD 144Hz GeForce GTX 1660Ti Windows 10 Gaming Laptop

Retier-ravenholdt · November 30, 2020, 10:46pm

any of these cpus are plenty fast to deal with a 1660 ti. the main drawback of going with an intel cpu will be battery life. amd are struggling to meet the demand of the mobile cpus, so it may be hard to find or have a price premium that you’re not really well off spending due to the graphics card you have. given equal pricing, go with amd, but don’t spend a premium on it. not in this price range.

Polong-bronze-dragonflight · December 1, 2020, 10:24am

Thanks - really helpful that. I’ll see what I can find

Hoisho-argent-dawn · December 1, 2020, 4:40pm

There’s Lenovo. Legion 15" Phantom Black. The Ryzen 5 is out of stock but there’s a Ryzen 7 in stock but it’s £999. The R5 is £849

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/Lenovo-Legion-5-15ARH05/p/88GMY501444

They both come with 16gb ram and a 1650 ti graphics.

Polong-bronze-dragonflight · December 1, 2020, 5:01pm

Thanks! Super helpful - I see the r5 only comes with 8GB ram and only a 1650, not 1650ti.

Would that be ok? This is the £849 option I’m talking about.

Retier-ravenholdt · December 1, 2020, 5:36pm

if the intel one you listed before is priced similarly, it’ll be way faster in games. 1660 ti is way stronger than 1650 ti or 1650.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-GTX-1650-Ti-Mobile-vs-GeForce-GTX-1660-Ti-Max-Q_10227_9832.247598.0.html

+41% in time spy graphics score according to this. that’s the max-q 1660 ti as well, so the low power variant, not sure which one was in the one you were talking about. focus on the graphics card first. 8gb ram is kind of unfortunate with any of the models, so that’d be nice to bump up to 16 if at all possible, but otherwise you can upgrade it yourself if it proves problematic as has been explained before.

Polong-bronze-dragonflight · December 1, 2020, 5:44pm

Great thanks all! Really appreciate the input

Hoisho-argent-dawn · December 1, 2020, 9:03pm

Well, the Ryzen5 4600H is out of stock. Only the Ryzen 7 is in stock but it’s £999.

I’m sure there’s other makes out there, have to check their sites to see which ones are available and cheaper.

Seems to be that year with everyone stuck indoors that has made people splash out more on various electronic goods.

It’s a bit dearer but… You have.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-tuf-gaming-a15-fa506iu-nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-8gb-15.6-144hz-ryzen-r5-4600h-gaming-laptop-lt-2bh-as.html

Which comes with a 1660TI 6gb graphics but you can upgrade the ram.

Looking at it from another site:

Has spare slot to upgrade ram
An extra M.2 slot
An extra 2.5 inch SSD/hdd slot.

Those are for upgrading for ram and storage.

system · December 31, 2020, 9:03pm

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