>be me, travel abroad every 3/4 months >need laptop for work but I'm also a gamer >buy MSi GE76 in early 2021 during the desktop gpu shortage with RTX 3080 mobile >performs like a 3070 desktop despite the name >good enough given the fact it's portable.jpg >has 16Gb of VRAM, which everyone says is overkill >new games come out, people with desktop RTX 3070, 3070 Ti and even 3080 cannot max Resident Evil 4 remake with RT and everything because not enough VRAM >I can max the shit out of the game and push it to more than 14 Gb VRAM usage. >more games coming up need way more than 8Gb and even 10Gb is not enough
not really, it gets hot but never overheats, it's packing a decent cooling system and I only play with a headset
>travel abroad every 3/4 months
I pity you anon, it's so fricking comfy in my home
I work remotely and often move between Spain, Italy and some asian countries. Trust me, I travel comfy.
I was gonna fricking buy an amd card when they were claiming the 6800 could perform like a 3070, but for cheaper and had 16gb vram instead of 8.
The reviews were shit and it was more AMD lies, so I didn't get it and got a 3070, but knew going into it that vram would be a future problem.
I can't believe it's already starting to be a problem. Frick you Nvidia, you morons. I knew this shit woudl happen.
gotta say, while I would still get Nvidia because DLSS is overall always better, the fact that the 3070 and 3070Ti came with the same VRAM of a GTX 1070 was honestly a red flag and while enough at launch time, I feared it wouldn't be future proof.
Turns out even the 10Gb on a 3080 desktop aren't all that good.
I was gonna fricking buy an amd card when they were claiming the 6800 could perform like a 3070, but for cheaper and had 16gb vram instead of 8.
The reviews were shit and it was more AMD lies, so I didn't get it and got a 3070, but knew going into it that vram would be a future problem.
I can't believe it's already starting to be a problem. Frick you Nvidia, you morons. I knew this shit woudl happen.
should've gotten the 6800. AMD cards start weak but finish strong. Their drivers are just fricking terrible for like 6-12 months, then they finally get their shit together and suddenly unlock 10-15% performance boosts.
>i hate things getting broke >better swap to a machine that will break faster
if really hate self repairs you can just find a local shop and make someone else repair your PC for cheaper and quicker than whatever your option for a laptop are
Yes, just leave it out of the computer while you install Windows to the new hard drive. Once that's done pop your old drive back into the computer and you can either wipe it clean or just delete the relevant folders and keep everything else.
...this guy has been "building PCs for 20 years"? He can't even update the BIOS? Or install a new SSD and use the old one as storage instead of "losing a shedload of documents"?
Also, this entire thing started because he wanted to upgrade his CPU. Which a laptop doesn't allow you to do in the first place.
>I failed to check if my CPU was compatible with my Motherboard >I then failed to write down that funny number that appeared at the bottom center of the screen during the stop error >I then failed to check event log for that number >I then suspected a piece of hardware wasn't seated properly and didn't bother trying to reseat it because it "looks correctly installed" >Oh I also forgot to back up all my important work documents for my job as a writer for a tech journalism website
You don't even need to be A+ certified to be a tech journalist, huh.
to be fair, it's not something anyone wants to do because it comes with risk that costs a lot of money. i've never once done it, and i hope i never have to unless its on a cheap dogshit piece of test hardware
how the frick do you >dislodged my main nvme drive
while ur >failing to install cpu
and why would you be >fiddling with my PC's innards
no, you want to change ur CPU, you take off whatever your cooling option is from the CPU, then the CPU, then you put in the new one and reattach your cooling option
you don't touch your drives, you don't touch the rest of your mobo, you don't even look at the nvme slots or touch anything else
oh your bios isn't working?
change the cpu?
NO MOTHERFRICKER, UPDATE YOUR BIOS, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED YOUR CPU WORKING TO DO THAT
how the frick is this moron fricking everything up
I mean, if he said "I'm new to PCs, I have no idea what the frick I'm doing, I'd rather buy a laptop than deal with this bullshit" I would understand. That's who pre-builts and consoles are for.
But his first sentence is "I've been building PCs for 20 years!!!" and he doesn't even know how to update the BIOS? What?
>blah blah can't boot >FASTEST GAYMEENG PROCESSOR BTW >windows fricking eleven >can't handle plebbit of all places >nvme problem? Well, time to reinstall windows tee hee >BEST PC GAMES CLICK ON IT homosexual >no backups
I refuse to believe this.
>i think my nvme drive might be dislodged >BUT I WONT SIMPLY SPEND 60 SECONDS TAKING IT OUT AND PUTTING IT BACK IN TO BE SURE >i could just buy a 120gb ssd for like 30 dollars or less and install windows on that to see if i can get it to boot without wiping my files >BUT I WONT >i bought a brand new piece of tech at stupid prices >but i did no research if it was actually compatible with my current hardware >i could try to flash my mb if there's an updated bios version that enables compatibility with this cpu - after i research and find out >but i wont i'll just try nothing and keep hitting the restart button whilst making no changes
what the frick is going on with people. just try random shit, it's better than trying nothing
>outdated BIOS
Flash it moron. >inaccessible boot device
Either OS install is fricked or drive is fried. Wear a static strap and don't rub your magnet screwdriver on the SSD next time. Either that or maybe don't use Windows 11 until it's stable. >passive-aggressive redditors
I hate redditors but I genuinely have never seen people being c**ts in tech support threads. Also there are a gorillion other sites that aren't reddit with W11 threads because, suprise, 11 is shit and will be shit for at least 3 more years. >may have been dislodged
Unplug, replug. Fricking dipshit. Wipe it with isopropyl if you're feeling fancy. >Didn't back up main drive
Unironically a skill issue. If you can afford a 4090 you can afford an extra SSD and you can fricking Google how to set up a RAID.
Whoever wrote this article is just some fricking dudebro clown with the minimum IQ required to plug things together correctly. 99% of the problems you have with your own rig is a skill issue.
>Been building desktop computers for 20 years >Doesn't understand what "inaccessible boot device means" >Has to google the problem >redditgays tell him that he fricked his SSD and needs to wipe it and start over >Dumbfrick ""journalist"" thinks they're fricking with him >Writes a whole fricking article about how he spent money buying a gaming laptop
Also >Journalist >Buys a 4090 to edit word docs on >oh and game a bit on too
Holy frick, I'm shocked this guy even knows what computer parts are. He literally just needs to install Windows again and his way too overpowered rig will work again.
Honestly, he deserves to lose his money.
't understand what "inaccessible boot device means"
To be fair, I think this is the error I get if I try to change my bios to whatever the new bios format is to enable whatever boot option win 11 needed, but my ssds boot just fine if I don't switch the bios type, so it might not be that any hardware is actually fricked
You ever get really pissed off at a game and have a kneejerk reaction where you angrily post about it here and later you realize the thing you were mad about isn't a big deal and overcome it so you never make a dumb post about it again? Tech and game journos hit the kneejerk part and stay there, and even worse they immortalize their stupid bullshit with articles and doubling down with more articles or Twitter shit when they get called out
all this could have been solved with filezilla on a USB stick. You can literally just clone over your entire SSD and expand the partition later.
Also, this person's motherboard has a 99% chance of being able to update its bios without an OS by initializing the network stack in bios and downloading it.
This entire article is about this so-called "writer" being stupid as frick and proud of their ignorance. Pay the stupid tax on your laptop you subhuman garbage.
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of modern technology. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and elegance of which his rig is capable.
boot drives can be confusing and i wouldn't blame a beginner for struggling with partitions and so on but isn't this guy supposed to be an expert? and he throws away his 4090 because he can't be bothered to flash his bios or reinstall windows? holy shit
>desktop breaks >chances are it's one part that can be RMA'd and replaced >laptop breaks >have to send the whole thing in because everything is soldered to the motherboard
I have a laptop since I travel a bunch for work, and like to be able to game a bit when I need to go around
instead of buying one of these janky big brand laptops that offer shit prices, I bought a custom build from a nearby company, prices are a little bit more, but they have a bunch of sales on different components at all times, so its actually around the same price, let alone if you find a good sale
but because of this, none of the shit is soldered together, you can pull the entire thing apart component by component, and buy replacement hardware from anywhere u like
the only thing thats basically attached and removable is the custom cooling solution that has a bunch of copper pipe things running throughout to help distribute heat around and to the fans
but u can still get at every component
I don't understand why you would want anything else
I'm not sure what you do for work. But you could just buy an OK laptop and a steam deck. You would be saving like 800 dollars and saving space on your computer
why the frick would I not want a computer at home to do my gaming on?
I am forced to use the laptop because I travel, why would I eve subject myself to having to use one if I have the option for a PC?
ur a homosexual just like the guy in the OP
It plays newer games fine. If I'm wanting to play games at work because I don't do anything on shift. I don't give a shit about optimal graphics. The only games I can't play is pretty much paradox games.
why the frick would I not want a computer at home to do my gaming on?
I am forced to use the laptop because I travel, why would I eve subject myself to having to use one if I have the option for a PC?
ur a homosexual just like the guy in the OP
Steam deck :400 dollars
Laptop that can handle emails and basic work: 600 dollars
Decent PC rig: 1800
Total: 2800
what?
no I mean why the frick would u want to buy like an asus, HP, dell, or other garbage big brand laptops when u can get custom builds for the same price with the same features and be able to do whatever you like to them, including replacing parts
desktops are obviously superior
read the damn whole post, no one else had trouble with it
Your i9-13900ks + 4090 heats up a room really fast and it's unbearable in summer months. You instead stream the desktop to your laptop and use it from another room with air conditioning.
why would my study not have air conditioning?
why would I have air conditioning and not have it in one of the few places that houses a tool (a computer) that actually demands air conditioning for its proper use?
you want a low humidity, dust free, cool environment to run your computer
that means air conditioning, if your study or computer room doesn't have air conditioning, then its not properly outfitted
you never noticed that every computer lab u went to at school, every server room, and every business with computers is air conditioned?
its a requirement, not a suggestion
11 months ago
Anonymous
Northern sections of the United States frequently have no central air as electricity is significantly more expensive. Even more common to make it worse are casement windows as they easily seal air in the house, but are useless for window AC units. That leaves inefficient portable AC units with the worst windows possible.
In such situations, being in the same room with a high wattage PC is not optimal unless you wish to use an AC unit to compete with the computer.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I'm in New England and plenty of people I know have central air. But I don't because my house is nearly 100 years old.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah only houses that don't have central air in the US are old houses because it's a moronic expensive investment.
11 months ago
Anonymous
you understand there are more options in between central air and a portal AC unit right?
anon by "nearby" I didn't mean 10min away or something, I meant in the same state as me
they don't operate a store front as far as I know, you order online
you can find a dozen businesses that do this and buy from them, read up about them and find one that seems good, and buy a laptop
I downsized to a Steam Deck since I'll be out of the country for a while. I don't think I'll ever build a massive tower again, but I'll likely someday build a more portable desktop machine.
In my 20 years of owning PCs I had 2 hardware failures:
1 - plastic fitting on cpu cooler cracked
2 - gtx 560 died after 7 years of use
That's it. Fake fricking article.
I've had PSU, GFX, HDD malfunctions at different times. All due to wear and tear. The HDD malfunction a lot sooner than it should've and I will never buy Seagate again.
All issues were easily (and cheaply) fixed by replacing the component.
I've heard this multiple times over the years, but have never had a Seagate drive die. I have however had 6 Western Digital drives die. 2 of them being portable enclosures.
yeah WD has a lot of shills it seems
all I heard was how u have to go WD and how seagate is bad
all my WD drives have eventually died
none of my seagate drives have ever died
then in some thread a few years back on Ganker someone pointed out that the company that eventually became seagate actually fricking invented the format of harddrives we are talking about
yeah it made sense after that
That's nuts, I'm using the same WD Passport for almost 7 years now. I've just had luck with them I guess.
yeah WD has a lot of shills it seems
all I heard was how u have to go WD and how seagate is bad
all my WD drives have eventually died
none of my seagate drives have ever died
then in some thread a few years back on Ganker someone pointed out that the company that eventually became seagate actually fricking invented the format of harddrives we are talking about
yeah it made sense after that
That's an interesting little tidbit, the only reason I dog on Seagate is because when I fix computers for people the failed drives I find they are mostly Seagates, though that could be attributed to dumbass people not knowing how to use computers correctly and not the brand.
I've also seen this phenomenon with dead drives, but I suspect a lot of people are contributing to their early demise through hot cases from clogged vents, proliferation of Seagate in OEM builds, never letting the computer sleep, using the drive as a passage to portable drives. I've also seen cases where someone clearly dropped the cases or moved them around while it was running. I think before helium was added to some of these drives, moving the platters around probably didn't help.
11 months ago
Anonymous
The Seagate drive was the only one I have had that failed. It failed after 16 months of usage.
I have had at least 5+ HDDs of other brands with up to 2 decades of daily usage without failure.
had a backup seagate (powered ones that are basically old platter hdd) die on me as i was trying to back up my 8+year old wd black. lost all those years of porn amvs mods and .iso
malded so hard that week.
>I will never buy Seagate again.
There's your problem, buy Western Digital next time.
I've heard this multiple times over the years, but have never had a Seagate drive die. I have however had 6 Western Digital drives die. 2 of them being portable enclosures.
yeah WD has a lot of shills it seems
all I heard was how u have to go WD and how seagate is bad
all my WD drives have eventually died
none of my seagate drives have ever died
then in some thread a few years back on Ganker someone pointed out that the company that eventually became seagate actually fricking invented the format of harddrives we are talking about
yeah it made sense after that
Seagate meme mainly started from the infamous barracuda 7200.11 line. This was back in 2008. The drives had severe firmware issues, which caused massive failure rates. From that point on seagate was hardly trusted on Ganker.
There were also some backblaze statistics that put some seagate drives in a bad light iirc as well.
I bought a Seagate HDD back around 2011, after 2 years it failed completely. Was in warranty still, sent it in, got a refurbished one back, that one failed within 2 months. At that point I was done and bought another brand.
Why is there no thermal paste on that chip?
I hope he just cleaned it off and didn't install it without putting on thermal paste. He wouldn't have done that, right?
that doesn't address the lack of thermal paste.
there's none on the cooling block either.
I will just assume he wiped it off with some ipa before taking the picture. it's better that way.
as someone that travels a lot for work, being able to have a mobile setup to game or browse on is a godsend. Holy shit, even just watching my own shit on the plane makes it worth its money.
yeah, but no one is going to argue that having one while traveling or on a plane is a bad thing.
you're making irrelevant points.
this dipshit in the op artivcle is saying that you should just always forego desktops in favor of laptops.
Black person I am in an airport 2 out of 5 days a week, and sitting in some hotel room for at least one night a week.. you're moronic if you think that I'm not bringing a setup to kill time. Likewise, if my flight gets delayed I don't even care because I'm sitting in the terminal gaming out anyways.
this "article" is literally just an excuse to put links to their "best xxx in 2023" that have affiliate links. anyone reacting as if it was written seriously is moronic. this guy isn't a "journalist", it's literally just clickbait moronic shit to get clicks.
How much do I sacrifice if I buy a gaming laptop? I'm suffering from a chronic illness and it's hard for me to sit up and game these days, so I figured a laptop would be good so I can game in bed. Thoughts?
a deck is unironically more comfortable in bed than a laptop
you could even buy a normal desktop pc and then stream to your deck/phone/whatever
laptops are only really useful as a portable office if you travel a lot imho
I've been building computers for 20 years too, I've only had to upgrade, never once have I had to replace a part. I'm still using the same power supply from over 10 years ago, and I don't even turn my computer off, it runs 24/7. How can someone go their entire life using something and yet be so inept at using it properly?
I have also been assembling pcs for 20 years. Trust me, don't get a gaymen laptop unless you literally have no choice cause you travel constantly for whatever reason
To be honest I don't really play anything that needs the power of a modern desktop,.But a big problem with laptops is that the screen is 17 inches tops and additional screens are awkward to place right.
Why is his "Rig" cosntantly breaking? lol. Also laptops are what break, overheat and can't replace parts. Also stupidly overpriced for subpar components.
I've also been building PC's for 20 years and it's surprising how tough PC's are. Mine don't ever break, but eventually get replaced with a newer pc.
This guy is a fricking moron.
In all seriousness though, if I'm not looking to run anything more recent than say, 5 years old or so, would a gaming laptop actually be a viable option?
yes, depending on exactly how much you are planning on spending. Just check the specs on what you are buying
I've been playing street fighter 6 and ryza 3 on mine
it's not that they don't work it's that they're incredibly overpriced for how they work
yes if you blew a ton of money on a super new one it'll work, until the warrenty runs out and then it's a a lottery, could completely shit itself in a month or could run for a couple more years, or anything in-between
It really depends on if you need the portability or not, a gaming laptop doesn't offer anything over a desktop except being able to move it around at the cost of slightly gimped hardware.
You're paying premium for the same performance and you're going to have a lot of heating issues
See above, it's worth it if you move a lot for work like I used to e.g. drive to the countryside to do environmental assessments but just keep in mind that you're paying extra for portability and if you're pretty stationary there's no real point
depending on the technology being used in that wireless it can be faster than usb. see how dualsense wireless is faster than any usb controller because usb polling is slower than 8000hz tick.
>super intense game >every kill matters >40 min into the game >fight starts >mouse dies >lose game
In competitive, if you frick up once it can he the end.
This very scenario is not even rare. The way wireless tech works that they don't tell you about is that batteries can only be charged a certain number of times. So if you are an avid gamer and use it every single day the life of the battery will get shorter and shorter.
Can you mitigate this by using 2 wireless mice or a super expensive one? Sure, but they still die over time and give disconnects randomly. If you have never experienced any of this, you are 17 years old and don't actually 'game'
>mouse dies
so make sure it doesn't happen before hand? if you use batteries then you should already know in your head how long they generally last and when to change them. if if its rechargeable then why didnt you plug it in when the led say its battery is loW?
[...]
Underage morons that game in 3 hr increments.
>batteries on the package says "generally last x amount of days of y hours of use" >ignore the warning >shocked the mouse dies
11 months ago
Anonymous
You don't game, and you have no idea what you are talking about. You are using packaging in your argument, not actual real use cases. It shows your age and lack of experience. Listen to your elders.
When they make a good wireless mouse, we will talk about it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
you are the moron. you can't do simple math and can't read. batteries have a scientific rated capacity. your mouse has a wattage usage. do the logic to find out how long it takes to drain your shit but you don't because you can't read AND you can't do math you ESL frick.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>batteries have a scientific rated capacity
israelite tricks
my psp battery is still getting bigger to this day
11 months ago
Anonymous
>psp
I thought the psp was an april fools joke by sony. Is that the first time sony decided to make no games for a game system? Then proudly carry the tradition forward for every system since?
Unrelieable.
You will lose signal for literally no reason unless you have a very expensive one and it will still be prone to lose the signal, just less often.
Wireless keyboards are the same btw.
wireless mouse i get cuz you move it around
but why wireless monitor? it's stationary
just put the wire where it doesn't bother you once hten you dont have to deal with it ever again
No specific reason, just because I could and it would be fun to only have wireless keyboard/mouse/speakers and monitor on the desk while PC is working somewhere else
I'm aware of
It would be unusable for games. Too much data to send wirelessly at any reasonable speed. You'd basically have your own little stadia at home with the amount of lag you'd be getting.
It would be unusable for games. Too much data to send wirelessly at any reasonable speed. You'd basically have your own little stadia at home with the amount of lag you'd be getting.
this homosexual is clearly a clown with infinite money, becasue he'll have to replace the laptop far faster than most components, can't do maintenance on it, can't control the temperatures even remotely, and then he has to spend extra money on a real keyboard and monitor because the ones with laptops are uselessly small.
it's always c**ts with money to just throw away that advocate for buying overpriced shit that dies sooner because it's marginally easier or less effort than doing a little work but saving fricking 50%+ of the price this moron pays upfront without even factoring in the costs down the line to replace it when it dies or cant run shit without melting in <3 years
Just threw down some money for a 5600x since that's the best my B450 can really hold. Coming from a 1600. Extra money might just go towards a new GPU since while I loved my 1060 6GB, I don't think it'll be up to the task anymore as we get farther into this gen. Might be bottle necking my shitty rig, but I'm not too sure.
I'll miss you, 1060. You did your best.
I'm so fricking confused with this dumb c**t's statement. Anyone in the know knows that laptop cooling is shit and thermal throttles like a motherfricker, thunderbolt eGPUs get like 40% = 60% the performance of a desktop, if you're lucky, non-upgradeable parts means that you throw the whole thing away once it's dead, desktop parts work out cheaper and finally, dust is easy to clean out of a desktop, but super difficult to remove from laptops and will be the death of a gaming laptop.
Also the subheader says "After my rig broke yet again" Motherfricker what do you mean? What broke in it? The whole thing didn't break you frickwit.
i once saw a youtube video where the guy talks about why he takes even the most dogshit adreads and he said that he had a video where he talks about some cooking utensil or another and he says in the video that you can get the same exact thing just off-brand for far cheaper at any store and doesn't shill it or anything like that, but last minute when editing the video he thoght "hey, might as well put an amazon affiliate link for the thing in the description" and he made several thousands of dollars this way, even though in the video he pretty much says not to buy the thing
there are millions of absolutely clueless morons who live paycheck to paycheck but spend all their money impulsively, OR overpayed professionals like the entire IT field who consider their time to be worth more than it takes to look through a store catalogue and just buy the most expensive thing each time
it really do be like that
Goddamn. I hate influencer culture. People now choose to follow walking advertisements and watch literal ads all day. It's so fricking soulless.
With each passing year, the programmer dream of buying a farm and living with as limited tech as possible sounds better and better.
is there something that people do to their PCs to break them? I'm 32 and ive never had a GPU, Memory stick, or CPU fail on me. I just replace the hardware when it becomes obsolete. My worst hardware failure was a single hard drive back in 2004.
I'm similar to you.
I've still got a gtx770 and an i5 from yesterdecade that works fine on a secondary machine. The only stuff i've actually have fail was a few laptop hard drives that got eaten when I didn't know that moving hard drives while they're on is bad and an SSD at work, which was some cheap shitty 128gb ADATA ssd when ssds were the fresh new thing.
Idk what these people do, but my comp parts last well too.
In regards to wireless mice:
I have had wireless mice that would intermittently lose connection for a split second every hour or two and it drove me nuts.
The one I have now has never lost connection, is just as responsive as a wired mouse and I only need to charge it once per week with 14 hours daily usage.
Laptops are fine, specifically if you are on the go and whatnot but also it doesnt matter how good tech has become you will still be carrying around a frickhuge laptop unless you opt in for the slimmer ones and an external GPU. most people go to Amazon and look up a prebuilt PC then get scammed after paying 1500 for old i5 with a 1660 in a garbage case and get mad when they cant run any new game at 4K.
also > "after my rig broke yet again"
what the frick are you doing? are you overclocking it to death? what part of your "rig" broke? was it a shitty SSD? did your graphics card die? a fricking laptop wont fix that and its going to cost you way more to get one that can actually do the shit a PC could do
Well, my brother is running an ROG Strix G with a 1650 and it still runs and functions great.
No broken hinges, no corrupt software etc. I think he's had it for close to 4 years now.
>rig broke yet again
My 6 years old rig is running without breaking once.
My 9 years server rig was updated once 2 years ago when I needed hardware upgrade, never broke once, old parts resold.
Maybe he should stop with leaky pipes watercooling memes and other garbage to prevent that.
One of my biggest problems with building my own PCs is that, frankly, I really have no idea how to know if shit will actually work together, nor what elements are better than others. Also at this point if I want to upgrade almost any other single part of my rig, I'll need to upgrade almost every part of it, so it means I have to do the song and dance of figuring out if everything will work together, again. I really frickin' hate this part of the whole damn thing.
Pcpartpicker for compatibility if you're lazy.
But you can find out both compatibility and performance from reading the specifications of the individual parts, which for a full pc is like 6 internal components.
You don't have to get creative. Just browse the recommended builds on pcpartpicker.
The only time I upgrade single components is if one of them breaks.
As for compatibilities check your motherboard manual and make sure your PSU has enough wattage. You only need to worry about extremely exotic compatibility problems if you go price hunting for the cheapest stuff there is. Which I would recommend against anyway.
I think this is the ideal future, honestly the industry should've come up with a standard port for eGPUs years ago. Most games don't tax the CPU all that much anyway, you can get away with a laptop skew. Move the GPU out of the laptop altogether. Now you get a much lighter, cooler laptop, perfect for carrying around a backpack, and you can use whatever the frick you want for a GPU when you plop the thing down at home.
Unfortunately it seems like 'gaming laptops' have mainstream appeal which means high-end laptops will be forever saddled and overcomplicated with GPUs.
i got a alienware m15r2 for 300 bux a week ago heres my review so far >hot burns my lap and anything under it >loud >throttles unless you enable performance fan mode in bios
otherwise its pretty good the 2060 is a baby version of my 2080ti in my custom build pc but not much slower >excellent 240hz screen >good keyboard >Horrid speakers no subwoofer like my older dells and terrible midrange sounds worse than my stereo phones speakers used to >shit track pad
gaming laptops are a absolute meme i got this to replace my ancient dell with a 1050ti and i wish i didnt bother it had better speakers too
I bought an alienware laptop in like 2010 when I made the switch to pc and I returned it in like 2 days and never touched gaming laptops or alienware again. This guy is moronic, but we all know that already.
This is wrong, laptop sucks at gaming.
>be me, travel abroad every 3/4 months
>need laptop for work but I'm also a gamer
>buy MSi GE76 in early 2021 during the desktop gpu shortage with RTX 3080 mobile
>performs like a 3070 desktop despite the name
>good enough given the fact it's portable.jpg
>has 16Gb of VRAM, which everyone says is overkill
>new games come out, people with desktop RTX 3070, 3070 Ti and even 3080 cannot max Resident Evil 4 remake with RT and everything because not enough VRAM
>I can max the shit out of the game and push it to more than 14 Gb VRAM usage.
>more games coming up need way more than 8Gb and even 10Gb is not enough
I frickin won
>overheats in ur direction
Heh, nothin personelle gamer
not really, it gets hot but never overheats, it's packing a decent cooling system and I only play with a headset
I work remotely and often move between Spain, Italy and some asian countries. Trust me, I travel comfy.
gotta say, while I would still get Nvidia because DLSS is overall always better, the fact that the 3070 and 3070Ti came with the same VRAM of a GTX 1070 was honestly a red flag and while enough at launch time, I feared it wouldn't be future proof.
Turns out even the 10Gb on a 3080 desktop aren't all that good.
>travel abroad every 3/4 months
I pity you anon, it's so fricking comfy in my home
depends where he's going really. Could be max comfy if it's a cool destination
I was gonna fricking buy an amd card when they were claiming the 6800 could perform like a 3070, but for cheaper and had 16gb vram instead of 8.
The reviews were shit and it was more AMD lies, so I didn't get it and got a 3070, but knew going into it that vram would be a future problem.
I can't believe it's already starting to be a problem. Frick you Nvidia, you morons. I knew this shit woudl happen.
should've gotten the 6800. AMD cards start weak but finish strong. Their drivers are just fricking terrible for like 6-12 months, then they finally get their shit together and suddenly unlock 10-15% performance boosts.
Ah, good to know. I'll keep it in mind.
>wow a part in my PC broke again, better buy a PC that doesn't let me switch parts out when they break
>2023
>people are more tech illiterate than ever before
Thanks Steve.
>tech journalist is incompetent
hm
>tech journalist
That's a columnist writing moronic opinion pieces, not a journalist.
Stop confusing the 2 you fricktards.
Modern journalists are literally no different than bloggers
Stop calling them journalists.
You're right, I should have said 'journalists'
Well, if people call them what they actually are, morons, we won't know which kind we are talking about.
Clickbait
>i hate things getting broke
>better swap to a machine that will break faster
if really hate self repairs you can just find a local shop and make someone else repair your PC for cheaper and quicker than whatever your option for a laptop are
This guy is functionally moronic.
This can't be real.
Is this some weird new propaganda?
>take SSD out
>insert new SSD
>install new copy of windows on that
>put old SSD in another slot and remove windows from it
wow. that was hard.
Can you actually remove windows from an old boot drive? I'm about to swap mine out and I've been putting everything on an external to copy back in.
Yeah just delete the windows partition from it.
Yes, you press the delete button and it's gone.
yeah, easily
and if you don't want to directly remove windows from it, u can just grab what u care about off it then format it and boom its gone
Yes, just leave it out of the computer while you install Windows to the new hard drive. Once that's done pop your old drive back into the computer and you can either wipe it clean or just delete the relevant folders and keep everything else.
...this guy has been "building PCs for 20 years"? He can't even update the BIOS? Or install a new SSD and use the old one as storage instead of "losing a shedload of documents"?
Also, this entire thing started because he wanted to upgrade his CPU. Which a laptop doesn't allow you to do in the first place.
>I think I may have accidentally dislodged my main NVMe
Ok? So why don't you try taking it out and putting it back in again?
Nah, too much work. I'll just buy a $3000 laptop instead.
Clearly reddit told him that's what's fricking happened, but he's too moronic to just unplug replug his ssd.
>I failed to check if my CPU was compatible with my Motherboard
>I then failed to write down that funny number that appeared at the bottom center of the screen during the stop error
>I then failed to check event log for that number
>I then suspected a piece of hardware wasn't seated properly and didn't bother trying to reseat it because it "looks correctly installed"
>Oh I also forgot to back up all my important work documents for my job as a writer for a tech journalism website
You don't even need to be A+ certified to be a tech journalist, huh.
Doubt they even need to be D- certified.
imagine not being able to flash the bios
fricking normies
to be fair, it's not something anyone wants to do because it comes with risk that costs a lot of money. i've never once done it, and i hope i never have to unless its on a cheap dogshit piece of test hardware
He replaced a 4090-13900k PC with a MX450 laptop.
Holy shit, what is he playing? And who conned him into buying a fricking 4090? I'd like to shake that salesman's hand for taking this moron's money.
how the frick do you
>dislodged my main nvme drive
while ur
>failing to install cpu
and why would you be
>fiddling with my PC's innards
no, you want to change ur CPU, you take off whatever your cooling option is from the CPU, then the CPU, then you put in the new one and reattach your cooling option
you don't touch your drives, you don't touch the rest of your mobo, you don't even look at the nvme slots or touch anything else
oh your bios isn't working?
change the cpu?
NO MOTHERFRICKER, UPDATE YOUR BIOS, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED YOUR CPU WORKING TO DO THAT
how the frick is this moron fricking everything up
I mean, if he said "I'm new to PCs, I have no idea what the frick I'm doing, I'd rather buy a laptop than deal with this bullshit" I would understand. That's who pre-builts and consoles are for.
But his first sentence is "I've been building PCs for 20 years!!!" and he doesn't even know how to update the BIOS? What?
yeah, exactly
something is up
Can't believe this Black person is getting paid to write this mindless drivel.
>i've been driving for 20 years, but i kept putting gas instead of diesel in my diesel engine car so i bought an electric vehicle
it's like he's writing an essay on his own stupidity and expecting people to think he's smart for it
He's got that verge PC build energy
anyone who calls his pc a "rig" is a moron
I agree, but he said he does use it for work, that makes it more riggy in my eyes
it's an nvidia thing
I've been calling it that since 2004. Has the word been normified someway?
>Has the word been normified someway?
Yeah, since The Walking Dead.
No, he's a shill
This guy probably gets paid upward $70k a year to be a tech journalist, Jesus Christ.
if the dude can’t get it right why not just take it to a repair shop instead of embarassing himself like this?
This person should be blacklisted from industry events outside of apple since hes clearly the kind of consumer that apple wants.
Totally incapable.
>blah blah can't boot
>FASTEST GAYMEENG PROCESSOR BTW
>windows fricking eleven
>can't handle plebbit of all places
>nvme problem? Well, time to reinstall windows tee hee
>BEST PC GAMES CLICK ON IT homosexual
>no backups
I refuse to believe this.
is he actually moronic or just a shill for laptop companies?
He can be two things.
I think a console is more suited for his IQ.
He has a job and you don't
Merit is a lie, it's all nepotism
I have a job
"master race" lost
>i think my nvme drive might be dislodged
>BUT I WONT SIMPLY SPEND 60 SECONDS TAKING IT OUT AND PUTTING IT BACK IN TO BE SURE
>i could just buy a 120gb ssd for like 30 dollars or less and install windows on that to see if i can get it to boot without wiping my files
>BUT I WONT
>i bought a brand new piece of tech at stupid prices
>but i did no research if it was actually compatible with my current hardware
>i could try to flash my mb if there's an updated bios version that enables compatibility with this cpu - after i research and find out
>but i wont i'll just try nothing and keep hitting the restart button whilst making no changes
what the frick is going on with people. just try random shit, it's better than trying nothing
>outdated BIOS
Flash it moron.
>inaccessible boot device
Either OS install is fricked or drive is fried. Wear a static strap and don't rub your magnet screwdriver on the SSD next time. Either that or maybe don't use Windows 11 until it's stable.
>passive-aggressive redditors
I hate redditors but I genuinely have never seen people being c**ts in tech support threads. Also there are a gorillion other sites that aren't reddit with W11 threads because, suprise, 11 is shit and will be shit for at least 3 more years.
>may have been dislodged
Unplug, replug. Fricking dipshit. Wipe it with isopropyl if you're feeling fancy.
>Didn't back up main drive
Unironically a skill issue. If you can afford a 4090 you can afford an extra SSD and you can fricking Google how to set up a RAID.
Whoever wrote this article is just some fricking dudebro clown with the minimum IQ required to plug things together correctly. 99% of the problems you have with your own rig is a skill issue.
pulling file off memory stick difficult?
It is for the new breed of technologically illiterates and apparently this moronic boomer.
>Been building desktop computers for 20 years
>Doesn't understand what "inaccessible boot device means"
>Has to google the problem
>redditgays tell him that he fricked his SSD and needs to wipe it and start over
>Dumbfrick ""journalist"" thinks they're fricking with him
>Writes a whole fricking article about how he spent money buying a gaming laptop
Also
>Journalist
>Buys a 4090 to edit word docs on
>oh and game a bit on too
Holy frick, I'm shocked this guy even knows what computer parts are. He literally just needs to install Windows again and his way too overpowered rig will work again.
Honestly, he deserves to lose his money.
't understand what "inaccessible boot device means"
To be fair, I think this is the error I get if I try to change my bios to whatever the new bios format is to enable whatever boot option win 11 needed, but my ssds boot just fine if I don't switch the bios type, so it might not be that any hardware is actually fricked
it's like I'm reading anti PC bait shitpost from Ganker
Anyone who buys an i9 for gaming and writing shitty articles is a moron, especially when the 7800X3D exists.
Imagine how many rootkits this dude has on his PC...
You ever get really pissed off at a game and have a kneejerk reaction where you angrily post about it here and later you realize the thing you were mad about isn't a big deal and overcome it so you never make a dumb post about it again? Tech and game journos hit the kneejerk part and stay there, and even worse they immortalize their stupid bullshit with articles and doubling down with more articles or Twitter shit when they get called out
all this could have been solved with filezilla on a USB stick. You can literally just clone over your entire SSD and expand the partition later.
Also, this person's motherboard has a 99% chance of being able to update its bios without an OS by initializing the network stack in bios and downloading it.
This entire article is about this so-called "writer" being stupid as frick and proud of their ignorance. Pay the stupid tax on your laptop you subhuman garbage.
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of modern technology. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and elegance of which his rig is capable.
This is obviously a shill article meant to sell gaymer laptops to an unsuspecting audience.
boot drives can be confusing and i wouldn't blame a beginner for struggling with partitions and so on but isn't this guy supposed to be an expert? and he throws away his 4090 because he can't be bothered to flash his bios or reinstall windows? holy shit
>he throws away his 4090
I'm pretty sure he got everything for free from his work to write the piece in the 1st place.
holy frick what a moron
no wonder this dumbass has to resort to using a laptop LMFAO
is this written by that same verge Black person that fricked up the screws and drilling in that youtube vid a few years ago?
nah but the worlds full of idiots out there
> ""Tech Journalist "" is an incompetent homosexual
What else is new?
>desktop breaks
>chances are it's one part that can be RMA'd and replaced
>laptop breaks
>have to send the whole thing in because everything is soldered to the motherboard
I have a laptop since I travel a bunch for work, and like to be able to game a bit when I need to go around
instead of buying one of these janky big brand laptops that offer shit prices, I bought a custom build from a nearby company, prices are a little bit more, but they have a bunch of sales on different components at all times, so its actually around the same price, let alone if you find a good sale
but because of this, none of the shit is soldered together, you can pull the entire thing apart component by component, and buy replacement hardware from anywhere u like
the only thing thats basically attached and removable is the custom cooling solution that has a bunch of copper pipe things running throughout to help distribute heat around and to the fans
but u can still get at every component
I don't understand why you would want anything else
I'm not sure what you do for work. But you could just buy an OK laptop and a steam deck. You would be saving like 800 dollars and saving space on your computer
why the frick would I not want a computer at home to do my gaming on?
I am forced to use the laptop because I travel, why would I eve subject myself to having to use one if I have the option for a PC?
ur a homosexual just like the guy in the OP
Steam Deck is nice for indie gayman and older titles but that's about it. It's powerful for a handheld but it's shit as a desktop.
It plays newer games fine. If I'm wanting to play games at work because I don't do anything on shift. I don't give a shit about optimal graphics. The only games I can't play is pretty much paradox games.
Steam deck :400 dollars
Laptop that can handle emails and basic work: 600 dollars
Decent PC rig: 1800
Total: 2800
Decent "gaming" laptop: 2200-3 grand
>20fps at 480p is fine
no
>Decent PC rig: 1800
That's overkill. You can build a decent rig for 1000.
>my specific situation makes a laptop the superior choice for me
>I can not understand why anyone would want anything else
what?
no I mean why the frick would u want to buy like an asus, HP, dell, or other garbage big brand laptops when u can get custom builds for the same price with the same features and be able to do whatever you like to them, including replacing parts
desktops are obviously superior
read the damn whole post, no one else had trouble with it
Here's one use case example of a laptop:
Your i9-13900ks + 4090 heats up a room really fast and it's unbearable in summer months. You instead stream the desktop to your laptop and use it from another room with air conditioning.
why would my study not have air conditioning?
why would I have air conditioning and not have it in one of the few places that houses a tool (a computer) that actually demands air conditioning for its proper use?
you want a low humidity, dust free, cool environment to run your computer
that means air conditioning, if your study or computer room doesn't have air conditioning, then its not properly outfitted
you never noticed that every computer lab u went to at school, every server room, and every business with computers is air conditioned?
its a requirement, not a suggestion
Northern sections of the United States frequently have no central air as electricity is significantly more expensive. Even more common to make it worse are casement windows as they easily seal air in the house, but are useless for window AC units. That leaves inefficient portable AC units with the worst windows possible.
In such situations, being in the same room with a high wattage PC is not optimal unless you wish to use an AC unit to compete with the computer.
I'm in New England and plenty of people I know have central air. But I don't because my house is nearly 100 years old.
Yeah only houses that don't have central air in the US are old houses because it's a moronic expensive investment.
you understand there are more options in between central air and a portal AC unit right?
It's a good thing you had a company that does custom built laptops nearby then, imagine if you didn't.
anon by "nearby" I didn't mean 10min away or something, I meant in the same state as me
they don't operate a store front as far as I know, you order online
you can find a dozen businesses that do this and buy from them, read up about them and find one that seems good, and buy a laptop
>get 1 piece back
>gets all components back and for FREE
Smart move imo
>after my rig broke yet again
Let me guess, he bought used parts from ebay or something?
nipples don't look like that
anon...
you can't frick nipples no matter how much shitty hentai you look at
my mom do when i suck on them for hours they get really reddish pink and pop right out
I downsized to a Steam Deck since I'll be out of the country for a while. I don't think I'll ever build a massive tower again, but I'll likely someday build a more portable desktop machine.
laptops break just as much as desktops, the only difference is that they are harder to fix
In my 20 years of owning PCs I had 2 hardware failures:
1 - plastic fitting on cpu cooler cracked
2 - gtx 560 died after 7 years of use
That's it. Fake fricking article.
I've had PSU, GFX, HDD malfunctions at different times. All due to wear and tear. The HDD malfunction a lot sooner than it should've and I will never buy Seagate again.
All issues were easily (and cheaply) fixed by replacing the component.
The only reliable drive Seagate ever made was their Spinpoint line.
>I will never buy Seagate again.
There's your problem, buy Western Digital next time.
I've heard this multiple times over the years, but have never had a Seagate drive die. I have however had 6 Western Digital drives die. 2 of them being portable enclosures.
yeah WD has a lot of shills it seems
all I heard was how u have to go WD and how seagate is bad
all my WD drives have eventually died
none of my seagate drives have ever died
then in some thread a few years back on Ganker someone pointed out that the company that eventually became seagate actually fricking invented the format of harddrives we are talking about
yeah it made sense after that
That's nuts, I'm using the same WD Passport for almost 7 years now. I've just had luck with them I guess.
That's an interesting little tidbit, the only reason I dog on Seagate is because when I fix computers for people the failed drives I find they are mostly Seagates, though that could be attributed to dumbass people not knowing how to use computers correctly and not the brand.
I've also seen this phenomenon with dead drives, but I suspect a lot of people are contributing to their early demise through hot cases from clogged vents, proliferation of Seagate in OEM builds, never letting the computer sleep, using the drive as a passage to portable drives. I've also seen cases where someone clearly dropped the cases or moved them around while it was running. I think before helium was added to some of these drives, moving the platters around probably didn't help.
The Seagate drive was the only one I have had that failed. It failed after 16 months of usage.
I have had at least 5+ HDDs of other brands with up to 2 decades of daily usage without failure.
I bought a 3tb WD Black drive that was fresh made and dead on arrival I even tried even true zero wiping the drive.
Frick, I gave some crackhead like 20 bucks for my 2 4TB passports and they work perfectly.
had a backup seagate (powered ones that are basically old platter hdd) die on me as i was trying to back up my 8+year old wd black. lost all those years of porn amvs mods and .iso
malded so hard that week.
For me it's Hitachi.
my homie, i have had this harddrive for near enough 12 years, its so good i got the exact same model as a secondary which also has no reallocation
Seagate meme mainly started from the infamous barracuda 7200.11 line. This was back in 2008. The drives had severe firmware issues, which caused massive failure rates. From that point on seagate was hardly trusted on Ganker.
There were also some backblaze statistics that put some seagate drives in a bad light iirc as well.
I bought a Seagate HDD back around 2011, after 2 years it failed completely. Was in warranty still, sent it in, got a refurbished one back, that one failed within 2 months. At that point I was done and bought another brand.
>the infamous barracuda 7200.11 line
Yes that is the one I had that failed after 16 months.
Why is there no thermal paste on that chip?
I hope he just cleaned it off and didn't install it without putting on thermal paste. He wouldn't have done that, right?
He was taking a 12600k out to replace with a 13900k and was too moronic to realize he needs to update his BIOS.
that doesn't address the lack of thermal paste.
there's none on the cooling block either.
I will just assume he wiped it off with some ipa before taking the picture. it's better that way.
yeah if you zoom in you can see the traces of thermal paste on the cpu and heatsink. he just wiped it off for the photo.
At least he put thermal paste on the cpu, reading that article made it seem like he would forgo even that.
>controller
as someone that travels a lot for work, being able to have a mobile setup to game or browse on is a godsend. Holy shit, even just watching my own shit on the plane makes it worth its money.
>traveling
>planes
none of that shit is even hinted at in the article.
irrelevant point.
and no, I didn't read it.
just saying I recently got a GAMING laptop for that purpose and it's great. I still have a desktop at home though
yeah, but no one is going to argue that having one while traveling or on a plane is a bad thing.
you're making irrelevant points.
this dipshit in the op artivcle is saying that you should just always forego desktops in favor of laptops.
>trust me
that's the first sign you shouldn't trust someone
Can you bring your gaming PC with you on a trip? Sorry losers, but laptop is the grown adult's choice
I stream mine on a shitty chromebook
>streaming games
name a more reddit statement
>I literally can not be without my toys for even a day.
Who's the child again?
Black person I am in an airport 2 out of 5 days a week, and sitting in some hotel room for at least one night a week.. you're moronic if you think that I'm not bringing a setup to kill time. Likewise, if my flight gets delayed I don't even care because I'm sitting in the terminal gaming out anyways.
>I am in an airport 2 out of 5 days a week
Well now I just pity you.
yeah it sucks, that's why I need a laptop bro.
The last thing a worm sees
This is the "journo" for yall.
holy kek he actually looks like he has down's
Someone please draw a basedjak of him
have a nice day
>water cooling
so he's a moron, got it
no one who has been building a pc for 20 years would ever fricking say this, lmao
>building PCs for 20 years
>can't change a CPU in current year
I don't know, anon. Seems kinda true to me.
The shittier compact keyboard along makes sure I would never choose a laptop over a PC
Its fricking crippling
this "article" is literally just an excuse to put links to their "best xxx in 2023" that have affiliate links. anyone reacting as if it was written seriously is moronic. this guy isn't a "journalist", it's literally just clickbait moronic shit to get clicks.
>I've been building PC's for 20 years
>After my rig broke yet again
So you've not been very good or gotten better at building PC's for those 20 years.
posting in low effort bait thread
How much do I sacrifice if I buy a gaming laptop? I'm suffering from a chronic illness and it's hard for me to sit up and game these days, so I figured a laptop would be good so I can game in bed. Thoughts?
a deck is unironically more comfortable in bed than a laptop
you could even buy a normal desktop pc and then stream to your deck/phone/whatever
laptops are only really useful as a portable office if you travel a lot imho
You're supposed to sleep in your bed, not play videogames, it's basic sleep hygiene man.
i was just replying to what that anon asked, bro
Get a Steam Deck having a hot laptop onto of you isn't comfortable
Might as well just get an 'eck at that point
Get a desktop replacement laptop and a little table and you're set. I love my GT80 Titan
i'll kill myself before i switch back to buying whatever the big moronic companies want me to buy
That isn't how you hold a CPU, ever.
This guy doesn't know shit about hardware.
I've been building computers for 20 years too, I've only had to upgrade, never once have I had to replace a part. I'm still using the same power supply from over 10 years ago, and I don't even turn my computer off, it runs 24/7. How can someone go their entire life using something and yet be so inept at using it properly?
I would honestly change the psu.
I will as soon as it goes out, but it still works perfectly and I like it. Though I do want one that is fully modular instead of half like mine.
>building pcs for 20 years
>Inno3d
I don't think you have.
Never trust anyone who says "trust me". Never.
>Never trust anyone who says "trust me". Never.
Don't "trust me".
>Ganker discovers paid articles
Every high-end laptop has that cringe-ass "pewdiepie chair" aesthetic. Miss me with that gay shit
I have also been assembling pcs for 20 years. Trust me, don't get a gaymen laptop unless you literally have no choice cause you travel constantly for whatever reason
To be honest I don't really play anything that needs the power of a modern desktop,.But a big problem with laptops is that the screen is 17 inches tops and additional screens are awkward to place right.
So this is the power of OP............... not bad
>20 years of building PC's wrong
>Surprised when it breaks
>Buys prebuild expiration date machine instead
Is he a massive moron or just copeing.
>trust me
>he didn't put any on the RAM slots
NGMI
>cgi shit
cowards
do gayman laptops still have overheating issues?
Just keep it dust free and it should be fine I guess
>t. has never own a gaymen laptop
My GT80 Titan doesn't overheat but its fans are so fricking loud it sounds like a fighter jet getting ready to take off
This homosexual has been building mountains of lies for over 20 years
Why is his "Rig" cosntantly breaking? lol. Also laptops are what break, overheat and can't replace parts. Also stupidly overpriced for subpar components.
I've also been building PC's for 20 years and it's surprising how tough PC's are. Mine don't ever break, but eventually get replaced with a newer pc.
This guy is a fricking moron.
The only PC I've ever had die on me was a laptop.
He seems like the kind of person who would block the air flow on a laptop anyway.
nice
one of my favorite things to fap to
My boss just called me from the office. Thanks buddy.
Just invent a PC
Cool computer, Joshua, want to bring it to the white house?
hey I have a gaming laptop
It's kinda old now but it has played everything I threw at it
would buy another
>gayming laptop
In all seriousness though, if I'm not looking to run anything more recent than say, 5 years old or so, would a gaming laptop actually be a viable option?
yes, depending on exactly how much you are planning on spending. Just check the specs on what you are buying
I've been playing street fighter 6 and ryza 3 on mine
it's not that they don't work it's that they're incredibly overpriced for how they work
yes if you blew a ton of money on a super new one it'll work, until the warrenty runs out and then it's a a lottery, could completely shit itself in a month or could run for a couple more years, or anything in-between
It really depends on if you need the portability or not, a gaming laptop doesn't offer anything over a desktop except being able to move it around at the cost of slightly gimped hardware.
You're paying premium for the same performance and you're going to have a lot of heating issues
See above, it's worth it if you move a lot for work like I used to e.g. drive to the countryside to do environmental assessments but just keep in mind that you're paying extra for portability and if you're pretty stationary there's no real point
Don't need no fancy gpu in my decade old thinkpad to play the best PC game ever made
Let me guess...
Wireless mouse and pvp on wifi are acceptable?
whats wrong with wireless mice
>wireless anything
zoom zoom
depending on the technology being used in that wireless it can be faster than usb. see how dualsense wireless is faster than any usb controller because usb polling is slower than 8000hz tick.
>wireless telephone
woah what a zoomer doomer coomer aoomer boomer eoomer amirite fellas?!?
>super intense game
>every kill matters
>40 min into the game
>fight starts
>mouse dies
>lose game
In competitive, if you frick up once it can he the end.
This very scenario is not even rare. The way wireless tech works that they don't tell you about is that batteries can only be charged a certain number of times. So if you are an avid gamer and use it every single day the life of the battery will get shorter and shorter.
Can you mitigate this by using 2 wireless mice or a super expensive one? Sure, but they still die over time and give disconnects randomly. If you have never experienced any of this, you are 17 years old and don't actually 'game'
>mouse dies
so make sure it doesn't happen before hand? if you use batteries then you should already know in your head how long they generally last and when to change them. if if its rechargeable then why didnt you plug it in when the led say its battery is loW?
>games less than 6 hours
Stop exposing yourself.
>batteries on the package says "generally last x amount of days of y hours of use"
>ignore the warning
>shocked the mouse dies
You don't game, and you have no idea what you are talking about. You are using packaging in your argument, not actual real use cases. It shows your age and lack of experience. Listen to your elders.
When they make a good wireless mouse, we will talk about it.
you are the moron. you can't do simple math and can't read. batteries have a scientific rated capacity. your mouse has a wattage usage. do the logic to find out how long it takes to drain your shit but you don't because you can't read AND you can't do math you ESL frick.
>batteries have a scientific rated capacity
israelite tricks
my psp battery is still getting bigger to this day
>psp
I thought the psp was an april fools joke by sony. Is that the first time sony decided to make no games for a game system? Then proudly carry the tradition forward for every system since?
How old are you? 16?
Underage morons that game in 3 hr increments.
>mouse dies
this doesn't happen because you can check how much battery you have left
Unrelieable.
You will lose signal for literally no reason unless you have a very expensive one and it will still be prone to lose the signal, just less often.
Wireless keyboards are the same btw.
bump
is logitech G305 expensive?
Absolutely nothing. I've been using one for over a year, it has randomly stopped working zero times.
Good affordable wireless monitors when?
wireless mouse i get cuz you move it around
but why wireless monitor? it's stationary
just put the wire where it doesn't bother you once hten you dont have to deal with it ever again
I could store the pc itself somewhere in the closet or whatever
i mean yeah you could
but why would you
also you can still do this with a wired one, just run the cable over
No specific reason, just because I could and it would be fun to only have wireless keyboard/mouse/speakers and monitor on the desk while PC is working somewhere else
I'm aware of
however
It would be unusable for games. Too much data to send wirelessly at any reasonable speed. You'd basically have your own little stadia at home with the amount of lag you'd be getting.
>my rig broke yet again
havent had a pc break on me in 30 years
this homosexual is clearly a clown with infinite money, becasue he'll have to replace the laptop far faster than most components, can't do maintenance on it, can't control the temperatures even remotely, and then he has to spend extra money on a real keyboard and monitor because the ones with laptops are uselessly small.
it's always c**ts with money to just throw away that advocate for buying overpriced shit that dies sooner because it's marginally easier or less effort than doing a little work but saving fricking 50%+ of the price this moron pays upfront without even factoring in the costs down the line to replace it when it dies or cant run shit without melting in <3 years
Just threw down some money for a 5600x since that's the best my B450 can really hold. Coming from a 1600. Extra money might just go towards a new GPU since while I loved my 1060 6GB, I don't think it'll be up to the task anymore as we get farther into this gen. Might be bottle necking my shitty rig, but I'm not too sure.
I'll miss you, 1060. You did your best.
Lol why do PChomosexuals call their PC their "rig"? So gay.
Why a laptop? I don't want to play PC games in spots other than my study desk. If I'm leaving the house I'm not playing vidya.
I'm so fricking confused with this dumb c**t's statement. Anyone in the know knows that laptop cooling is shit and thermal throttles like a motherfricker, thunderbolt eGPUs get like 40% = 60% the performance of a desktop, if you're lucky, non-upgradeable parts means that you throw the whole thing away once it's dead, desktop parts work out cheaper and finally, dust is easy to clean out of a desktop, but super difficult to remove from laptops and will be the death of a gaming laptop.
Also the subheader says "After my rig broke yet again" Motherfricker what do you mean? What broke in it? The whole thing didn't break you frickwit.
you just don't get it do you
the entire article is an excuse to have ads for "the best gaming laptops of 2023" with their affiliate links
You're probably right, but which morons are reading this shit and then believing it to buy laptops?
i once saw a youtube video where the guy talks about why he takes even the most dogshit adreads and he said that he had a video where he talks about some cooking utensil or another and he says in the video that you can get the same exact thing just off-brand for far cheaper at any store and doesn't shill it or anything like that, but last minute when editing the video he thoght "hey, might as well put an amazon affiliate link for the thing in the description" and he made several thousands of dollars this way, even though in the video he pretty much says not to buy the thing
there are millions of absolutely clueless morons who live paycheck to paycheck but spend all their money impulsively, OR overpayed professionals like the entire IT field who consider their time to be worth more than it takes to look through a store catalogue and just buy the most expensive thing each time
it really do be like that
Goddamn. I hate influencer culture. People now choose to follow walking advertisements and watch literal ads all day. It's so fricking soulless.
With each passing year, the programmer dream of buying a farm and living with as limited tech as possible sounds better and better.
i've run into a lot of people who are just too moronic to build or even own a pc
This dude is PAID to write about PC parts.
LOL. LMAO, even.
https://www.tomsguide.com/author/dave-meikleham
To be fair, other than this embarrassing article, he just writes about screens and console shit.
So who the frick decided he was qualified enough to write an opinion piece on desktop gaming PC's?
is there something that people do to their PCs to break them? I'm 32 and ive never had a GPU, Memory stick, or CPU fail on me. I just replace the hardware when it becomes obsolete. My worst hardware failure was a single hard drive back in 2004.
I'm similar to you.
I've still got a gtx770 and an i5 from yesterdecade that works fine on a secondary machine. The only stuff i've actually have fail was a few laptop hard drives that got eaten when I didn't know that moving hard drives while they're on is bad and an SSD at work, which was some cheap shitty 128gb ADATA ssd when ssds were the fresh new thing.
Idk what these people do, but my comp parts last well too.
>buy overpriced, inferior hardware with heat management issues because it needed to be made mobile
nah
In regards to wireless mice:
I have had wireless mice that would intermittently lose connection for a split second every hour or two and it drove me nuts.
The one I have now has never lost connection, is just as responsive as a wired mouse and I only need to charge it once per week with 14 hours daily usage.
Laptops are fine, specifically if you are on the go and whatnot but also it doesnt matter how good tech has become you will still be carrying around a frickhuge laptop unless you opt in for the slimmer ones and an external GPU. most people go to Amazon and look up a prebuilt PC then get scammed after paying 1500 for old i5 with a 1660 in a garbage case and get mad when they cant run any new game at 4K.
also
> "after my rig broke yet again"
what the frick are you doing? are you overclocking it to death? what part of your "rig" broke? was it a shitty SSD? did your graphics card die? a fricking laptop wont fix that and its going to cost you way more to get one that can actually do the shit a PC could do
lol seriously. never had a build break randomly and I have been building PCs for 25 years
So what's the best gaming laptop, Ganker?
Well, my brother is running an ROG Strix G with a 1650 and it still runs and functions great.
No broken hinges, no corrupt software etc. I think he's had it for close to 4 years now.
>rig broke yet again
My 6 years old rig is running without breaking once.
My 9 years server rig was updated once 2 years ago when I needed hardware upgrade, never broke once, old parts resold.
Maybe he should stop with leaky pipes watercooling memes and other garbage to prevent that.
One of my biggest problems with building my own PCs is that, frankly, I really have no idea how to know if shit will actually work together, nor what elements are better than others. Also at this point if I want to upgrade almost any other single part of my rig, I'll need to upgrade almost every part of it, so it means I have to do the song and dance of figuring out if everything will work together, again. I really frickin' hate this part of the whole damn thing.
Pcpartpicker for compatibility if you're lazy.
But you can find out both compatibility and performance from reading the specifications of the individual parts, which for a full pc is like 6 internal components.
You don't have to get creative. Just browse the recommended builds on pcpartpicker.
The only time I upgrade single components is if one of them breaks.
As for compatibilities check your motherboard manual and make sure your PSU has enough wattage. You only need to worry about extremely exotic compatibility problems if you go price hunting for the cheapest stuff there is. Which I would recommend against anyway.
Why not spend time learning? Remember, any time you set out to build something, you have to consider what you are designing it to do first.
>tech "journalist" writes long-winded and fictional story to veil the fact he's advertising a gaming laptop
If laptops had an standard input for external GPUs they would be kino. Otherwise I'll stick with PC.
I think this is the ideal future, honestly the industry should've come up with a standard port for eGPUs years ago. Most games don't tax the CPU all that much anyway, you can get away with a laptop skew. Move the GPU out of the laptop altogether. Now you get a much lighter, cooler laptop, perfect for carrying around a backpack, and you can use whatever the frick you want for a GPU when you plop the thing down at home.
Unfortunately it seems like 'gaming laptops' have mainstream appeal which means high-end laptops will be forever saddled and overcomplicated with GPUs.
i got a alienware m15r2 for 300 bux a week ago heres my review so far
>hot burns my lap and anything under it
>loud
>throttles unless you enable performance fan mode in bios
otherwise its pretty good the 2060 is a baby version of my 2080ti in my custom build pc but not much slower
>excellent 240hz screen
>good keyboard
>Horrid speakers no subwoofer like my older dells and terrible midrange sounds worse than my stereo phones speakers used to
>shit track pad
gaming laptops are a absolute meme i got this to replace my ancient dell with a 1050ti and i wish i didnt bother it had better speakers too
this fricking guy supposedly enjoys rebuilding his PC "for no reason at all!". He's cool, guys, I swear.
I bought an alienware laptop in like 2010 when I made the switch to pc and I returned it in like 2 days and never touched gaming laptops or alienware again. This guy is moronic, but we all know that already.
Get MSI next time
>Bought prebuilt 10 years ago
>Only changed the GPU
>Still runs fine
It's gonna fail one day I know it and I'll be forced to install windows 11
VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR cpu reaching 80c on any demanding game
yeah laptops are better, not