so much this
with the cost of parts, the hassle of the labor, all the things that can go wrong, it makes so much more sense to just splurge on a laptop
they're powerful, efficient and even have 4K screens now so you're getting all the benefits of PC gaming and you basically can just plug and play
Heat sinks, enough said, now kys OP.
Laptop usb fan and throttlestop software. I used to hit 90c with no artifacts.
battery powered devices are for morons
It's a whole different ball game. PC's are fully modular, open hardware platform.
getting a laptop repaired is insanely expensive and not worth it at all.
I need some portable gaming device for potential future dog sittings where ill be at someone's house for literally a week+ . still can't find anything, the Steam Deck looks like a nightmare and Rog Ally seems like it needs a couple more iterations of refinement
I paid some guy 40 bucks to install replacement fans to my laptop and it probably took him 30 minutes to do.
Ok, who cares about fans dumbass? Come talk to me when you have to replace an actual component that matters you fricking moron
It's called a switch, anon.
>the Steam Deck looks like a nightmare
Are you talking about just its appearance or what? Because it's by far the best handheld option.
I know this is bait. But gaming laptops are expensive as frick, difficult to repair, and sound like jet engines if you put them under any kind of strain.
>I'm a journalist, here is what is best for you because I say so
>and be sure to consoom product using my affiliate links so I get some shekels too!
Ive played on gaming laptops for 1000 years but now I just wanna build a pc 🙁
choose 1
>laptop has insufficient cooling, sounds like a jet engine while throttling hard
or
>laptop has sufficient cooling. it flies away
So something broke in his modular PC and his conclusion was that he'd rather buy something which is more difficult and expensive for him to fix?
Journos are trash.
Anon that's most likely a paid article to shill laptops.
That's why I said journos are trash.
>I've been building PC's for 20 years
>My rig broke YET AGAIN
So he doesn't know how to build them and has gotten it wrong for 20 years.
Next thread
This
I've already built not much (like 4 PCs) and none of them had any hardware problem.
The only problem I had back then was when I bought a cheap-ass FX5500 and didn't knew that overclocking it a bit would overwork and overheat the video card (and it was a PC that was a family budget PC)
I don't understand this. I've built a few pcs. I usually build it, and set it under the desk and ignore it until I upgrade something and then I'll blow the dust out. So we're talking like once every 5 years. I've never had one of these computers die on me, last time I gave it away to a friend and it was still going at 12 years old. And yet somehow like three of my friends manage to fricking murder their computers all the time and then they just turn into consolegays. And one of them has managed to kill two consoles as well. What the frick are these people doing Gankeranon, I need to know
Probably overheating.
I'd wager that not capping your FPS puts a huge strain on your GPU that you never notice until it's too late.
This
Only time anything has ever, ever, fricking ever gone wrong with one of my builds is after I tried to first boot and realized I made an error during assembly. That or a part failure such as fans wearing down over time. The author of that article is clinically moronic and isn't anywhere close to competent at building PCs if he has this problem on a regular basis, or he buys his parts from wack indepdent merchant sites not expecting to get retired bitcoin components, which still makes him a moron.
If I upgrade my PC what do I do with the old bits? If I buy a new prebuilt what do I do with with the Old PC............ Dilemmas dilemmas
Plug it into your TV as a media center/emulator box. Home server, torrent station, etc etc
Torrent station sounds perfect actually, wow thanks anon!
Sell them on ebay. I got 150 bucks off some 6 year old parts and I wasn't even trying. Just threw them up for $.99 starting bids
I’ve had a pc I built and have upgraded over 10 years and it never “broke” once.
This doesn’t make sense. It’s like buying a really expensive moped because you’re getting tired that your crappy self-assembled cars are crappy.
Only if you run a Framework. Otherwise, when something breaks, you're done. Least if something fails on a framework, you got a chance to fix it, and there are replacement GPUs to upgrade with. Anything else is a waste of cash.
old guy gets old and checks out of the hobby
>here's why you should too!
laptops cost twice as much for the equivalent parts in a PC.
the portable form factor is what you're paying for.
I hate modern journalism so much. Also, have a nice day.
White boy can't handle it lmao
where'd you steal these from?
GIVE IT BACK
Did you just invent that computer Shaquan?
>so embarrassed about the GPU he has to hide it through obfuscation
lol
lmao
>im too stupid to build pcs even after 2 decades of trying
>I'm sick of hardware failure so I'll just splurge on a system where I can't fix anything that goes wrong
How could someone who's been building PCs for 20 years be this moronic?
no thanks, dogshit position for screen and arms
dogshit thermals
if you are too stupid to get deals / buy used parts and put it all together then you should stick with a console like the rest of the morons
Bought a Legion 5 for like $350 and just lay in bed playing vidya all day. I've mastered trackpad gaming and have a nice wireless controller. Mustards really are missing out on the laptop pill.
Just pray things don't go wrong. Repairing laptops are a hassle.
if the motherboard on my laptop fries all the components, warranty will cover everything.
if my motherboard on my desktop fries all the components, i'm down at least a thousand bucks and have to rebuy everything again (which actually happened, so i just bought a laptop)
>puts his dirty fingers on the pin side of the cpu
i know intel is flat but still
>Getting a new PC because mine is 12 years old
>friend telling me to build it myself
How hard is it anons? I got all the parts coming, but I've never done this and I've sunk 1k into parts, would have been more if not for all the sales during the 4th. I just really don't wanna ruin it.
It's literally Legos. You have to be a moron to frick it up
You're right
I've seen a lot of articles like OP's
Almost like journos are moronic or something
I remember an article where some guy imported multiple scalped 3090s and kept fricking up the build and did some kind of cope article
If you're still here, don't forget the i/o shield.
What's an i/o shield?
the plate that covers the back of the motherboard
The highest chance you have of fricking something up is mounting the CPU or plugging the PSU into the wrong voltage slots, but most PSUs are color coded and hard to frick up
Use your common sense judgement. If you're unsure about something, stop, think, consult the internet. Don't apply force to anything you're not 100% sure about.
For more specific tips, keep all the pc part boxes, makes warranty easier later. Put your motherboard on whatever styrofoam it comes with, then put the ram in while still on that styrofoam, so you don't apply too much pressure, bending the board and breaking it, as might happen inside the case. Also good idea to slot in the CPU at that point, and the cooler if it's not too large to handle and move around. Don't forget you still have to insert it into the case afterwards.
GPU comes last, it's a big guy, make sure to slot it in vertically, not horizontally, PCIe slots really don't like several pounds of force applied to them in the wrong direction.
It's incredibly easy. You'll be fine, anon.
With a follow along youtube video, the only possible step you could mess up is ordering incompatible parts. These days a very possible mistake is a case too small for the graphics card.
The three hardest parts (depending on what your experience with putting stuff together in general is) are;
Mounting the CPU to the Motherboard (if yer not paying attention you CAN just wreck yer chip. Most computer shops will take 20 bucks from you to do it for you if yer feeling scared of this one part)
Mounting the Motherboard to the case (if you over tighten the screws you can crack the board and cause problems, just take it slow and get it a slightly firm tight)
Plugging in the Power Supply to the Motherboard (if you don't plan ahead and the MB layout is tight, yer gonna have a bad time plugging in with what little clearance is left between the case, the MB and the Cooler. The bigger yer hands the harder this is. Speaking from personal experience and having hands larger then an Android 21 with a case on it)
After that, it's legos with specific fittings
>overheats
>been using my Lenovo Y740 with RTX 2080MQ for 4 years, had the first BSOD about 6 months ago but nothing since, has even run VR games decently at lower settings
How much longer will it last?
I've built my PCs for 20 years too and I have never had a rig break.
I don't really see how it's possible unless you got bad parts, which you can just return on warranty.
>gaming laptop breaks
>can't replace anything out of it
now what?
Consume new product of course, stupid goy
> the hassle of the labor
Lol
Lmao even
It’s literally just snapping legos together in a box. You can’t do that with laptops because all of the parts are SMASHED and SLAMMED together.
>Instead of building a PC where I have total control I'll buy one that's guaranteed to thermal throttle at all times
Just buy a console. Oh wait...that thermal throttles too.
I spend too long time at my computer. And I expect too much of it. Gaming laptop would melt in similar conditions. So frick that. It's fine for normies I guess but you're not a normie, are you Anon?
>Be me
>Build desktop pc
>Runs perfectly fine no workarounds needed or frickery
>Buy gaymen laptop with novideo gpu
>Since I bought it last year to around this last week it has only been a source of issues and headaches
If there were full amd gaming laptops I'd probably had wasted less time setting it up than this shit with njudea cards.
AMD fusion laptops with infinity cache been out for 5 years
The only one comparable to my 12700h + 32GB + RTX 3070ti was the zephyrus g14 and costed almost 1000€ more than mine.
And since it's an ASUS it would have been the same shit as with the nvidia one but because of asus.
You got a 14 inch laptop with a 3070ti? This homie money different.
I usually get midrange laptops for 800. Screen not big enough to notice lower graphics.
I bought a gaming laptop 50% off. It was so heavily discounted that it seemed like a good deal, so I jumped on it. And it's been doing me good since.
I am no stranger to assembling my own desktop computers though. But from my experience individual parts are seldom so heavily discounted.