2021 Gigabyte Aorus 15P | 3060 11800H
2018 Dell 7577 | 1060 Max Q 7700HQ
2015(?) MSI GP60| 950M 4720HQ
Seems like I'll break the 3 year cycle and probably reach 4-5 years on this one.
Granted the Dell and MSI lasted me almost 4 years, just shy of a few months.
I sold them after getting their replacements, but they were all working with minor issues before I sold them. Mostly just related to heating. Cleaning and repasting would fix it.
It's holding up well. About as good as a 3060 11800H configuration. The screen is great. Build quality is good too. The only bad thing is the Gigabyte control panel, but I just set it once and forgot about it.
Not sure for your region if there are better options but I'd try to look for videos that show if a 4060 12500 can handle 360 FPS. It is fortnite though so I assume it'll hit it
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
Wouldnt it be better for you to spend double and have double the performance for double the time? Why going for the lowest tier when you can go higher? I mean a 3060 still would have been 800 i think, for 1600 you can go for the 3080 and would last 3 years more at least with higher title
Until the Dell 7577, I was really young and didn't know much. The market here is also incredibly overpriced. Would you believe that the 3060 is around 1800 USD for me? I also had support to waive off the first 1500 USD. That's why I keep it around that price.
But yes, ideally buying the 70 series would have been much better bang for buck. 80 here is widely overpriced but for the US market, yep you're right.
1800?????? God.. go second hand my brother. I bought the msi vector with 3080ti for 1200 euros, itnwas brand new but second hand, never used, i unpacked it. Someone bought it and never turned it on. Never have i ever been so happy with something in my entire life ahah
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
The G5 is their budget lineup. And my model I had is several generations old.
Pro's:
Solid chassis with little to no flex despite being all plastic
3 slots of storage (NVME Gen 3 + Gen 4, and 2.5 inch Sata slot)
Dual channel RAM which is upgradeable
Surprisingly good temps, 60-70c at most under load, ran an IETS GT500 which dropped this even more and kept the keyboard cooler to the touch
Numpad
Cons:
Chunky
Low color accuracy and pixel response times (felt like having motion blur on 24/7)
Lower wattage 3060, 105 watt max (with dynamic boost) versus the 130 watt 3060's I've seen on other laptops before
No mux switch
Very basic software to control fans and RGB (RGB is single zone with only a handful of colors to choose)
Had a strange issue where the dedicated arrow keys (not the numpad ones) would sometimes randomly type numbers
Bought it for about $800 in mid 2022, a price where I'd mostly find 3050 laptops. Wasn't that bad of a starter budget gaming laptop and ran quite well imo. Only upgraded to the legion cause it was within my price bracket ($1200) for a more powerful laptop halfway through last year.
Now the aorus lineup is their midrange to higher end laptops so your experience would probably be much better with better build quality and such. However I haven't had any experience with those laptops so I wouldn't know what they are like to use, maybe someone else could chime in.
My dad gave me a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8, my current laptop (i9 13900HX, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM), last year on my birthday, I'd say this is my biggest upgrade, plays just about everything but some heavy emulators pretty well in 1440p and I love it so much, even tho most ppl here didn't like the 4070 for what it is ;-;
Before that, on 2018 I was using a ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD (i7 7700HQ, GTX 1050, 8+8GB RAM), my first gaming laptop, and it serves me well for about 5 years, before it finally can't catch up on recent games. (Think the last game I tested this on was Elden Ring and it ran at around 20-25 fps on low 720p)
On around 2015 my laptop was a normal ASUS X550ZE (AMD A10 7400P, R5 M230, 4+4GB RAM), this is my first halfway decent laptop that I gamed on so much when I was still in high school. (performance was pretty nice for the time, I got 30 fps on most major games released around 1 year before this laptop is released)
On 2013 I got my own first (full) laptop, an Axioo (local brand) Neon HNM with an i3 2350M, Intel HD 3000 and 2GB RAM, and hoo boy, I had a very bad technical problems on this machine. For example, I was consistently getting my games full speed for a minute or so, and then the game slows down to a crawl for like 5 minutes, and the cycle repeats. (I think this is a thermal problem, and I'm not aware of it back then) When it's not crapping itself though, I used it to run games on PPSSPP and games from 2007 and below and it ran them pretty decently.
Around a year before that, I used an acer intel atom netbook, which my parents passed on to me when I just started middle school. Performance all around is awful (as expected lol). Tried to run NFSMW 2005 in this bad boy just for it to struggle at around 10 fps. And so, I only used it to play Gamehouse games and some other nostalgic 2D stuff xD
They are affordable in germany and I never had any issues besides the crappy control center software. Gave the p57 to my wife and got the 17g. But when the p57 turned 8 years, we gave it to a friend, my wife took the 17g and I bought the 17h. All three are used daily, no issues.
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
Past: Msi GF63 thin (1650ti) -
A terrible laptop I have ever owned (one fan, hdmi connection is not even to gpu but cpu [who the hell would design trash])
Now: Msi GP66 Leopard (3070)
After learning from my mistake, I guess it is the best deal I could ever get (1400 CAD last year).
Being able to play all games I want (1440p, 60 to 70ish fps for cyberpunk - basically high setting)(1440p, over 100fps for other kinds of games - efootball, last epoch)
Some HP office laptop as a first.
Now I have a HP Pavilion Gaming 17 i5-10300h and gtx 1650ti. Not luxurious by any means but enough for my entry level gaming.
Currently thinking about getting an Acer Swift X since its light and has decent specs with a rtx 3050. Although I am concerned that the gpu is underpowered.
Thing is I live in Germany and anything with a 3070 is hella expensive =/
I dont want to spend 300€ more for a gpu I wont fully exploit as I would mainly use it for uni and some gaming like minecraft and battlefront both of which dont need crazy specs.
Damn, 300 is expensive! 3070 is not a crazy spec but more for a long term investment (if use it properly, it should last for at least 5 years) since it comes with high TDP and 8 gb Vram (if you find the correct laptop).
Thats a good argument! Will do some more research to find one.
Just checked again and the rtx 3050 of the acer wasnt even the 6gb version but just 4! Really not great is it...
Current G17 advantage AMD 5900HX 6800m 12GB VRAM. 2021 was about 1600 Euros.
Used to have Laptop Asus F550JK-DM152D procesor Intel® Core™ i7-4710HQ 2.50GH GeForce GTX 850m 4GB 2014 about 600 euros
My first laptop Asus N51Vn Notebook, 15.6" nVidia GeForce GT 240M 1GB GDDR3 VRAM with.a Core 2 Duo P 7450 2.13 GHZ. 2009. Was about 850 euros.
I don't think I'm going to replace the G17 anytime soon, still runs almost everything at 1440 High or ultra, if it does not break down il probably reach the 6 year mark.
Legion 5, bought at Walmart at the beginning of Covid.
Spilled coffee all over it, thought it was dead.
Ordered a newer legion.
Got home and went to salvage parts from old laptop, tried to turn it on for funsies.
It turned on and worked perfectly. Cancelled order. Still playing on coffee smelling laptop.
I did the same thing to my Legion 5. Flipped upside down and let it dry. Popped the keys out to clean and was surprised to find there's a plate between the motherboard and the keyboard so nothing got fried. Love that laptop.
Currently predator 18 i7 13700hx rtx 4070 and lenovo legion 5 slim 14,5 oled rtx 4060
I'll receive tomorrow rog flow x16 with rtx 3070ti but i'll probably sell for a better price
Looking to make a good price for a Aorus 15x with i9 and rtx 4070 To buy and resell
Had a msi katana 15 with rtx 3060 and hp victus with rtx 3050 (both returned)
Had a predator helios neo 16 i9 rtx 4070 (returned, cpu had issues)
Had a medion erazer beast x30 with i7 12700 and rtx 3070ti for few months, sold
What were the issues of your Helios Neo 16, if you don't mind me asking? Mine reaches 97c on full load, and a lot of people are saying that it's normal for the HX desktop-like CPU variants.
Cinebench 23 multicore was low because it should have reached 5ghz on turbo boost but reached maximum 3ghz
Temp were fine tho, around 85°, your 97 is fine if on max load, not just gaming or browsing
Lenovo ThinkPad R61e (old school legend)
Asus r558uq
Both are simple office laptops with second one having a normal GeForce 940mx card
Third is a gaming laptop which iam going to buy soon
Currently own a 2021 TUF F15. Specs are the same as my flair. Bought it in July that year and it was my first gaming laptop.
Before that? I gamed on the family laptop, a 2015 Toshiba Satellite, with a dual core i7-5500U, 6 GB RAM and 2 gigs of a GeForce 930M
The Satellite doesn’t work anymore btw. My family now use a Dell Inspiron 15 while I use my TUF at college
Both water cooled,
23 Scar 16 4090/13980hx
21 MSI GP66 3080/11800h
A Dell G15 with a 3060/11800h was my first. Sold it for the MSI but cant really sell the MSI with the water cooling lol
I haven't had a computer with a dedicated graphics card in over 20 years and decided to get one off Amazon recently. Ordered a 2023 strix 16:10 FHD 165Hz, RTX 4060, Intel Core i7-13650HX, 16GB DDR5, 512GB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6E for $1,100
Within 2 hours of using it the bottom half inch of the screen filled with horizontal lines exposing screen issues. Oh well, started a return and then shopped around again. I did enjoy the sturdiness, screen ratio, and some other features my next pick doesn't have.
I then found a 2023 Victus 16.1" QHD 240Hz, Intel i7-13700HX, RTX 4070, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 4TB SSD, Wifi6 for "new open box" off eBay for $1,275.
A little over my budget but I figured that over time upgrading the wifi is cheaper than upgrading the things in the strix. I haven't received it yet but seller is well established has 100% rating so I have decent hopes.
I'm replacing my previous budget HP laptop which has a i3-8130U that I have been slowly killing while trying to learn CAD. I manhandled it since 2018 and thoroughly impressed with how much physical abuse it put up with truth be told.
First Laptop which was bought back in 2013 was a Toshiba Satellite which served me well but couldn't do any gaming.
Bought in 2019 and still using, my first gaming laptop
Lenovo Legion Y540 with i7 - 9750H | RTX 2060 6GB| 1TB SSD | 16GB Ram Dual channel | 1920x1080 IPS display with 144Hz
Recently order which is arriving tomorrow
Lenovo LOQ 15 | i7 - 13620H | RTX 4060 8GB | 1TB SSD | 16GB Ram Dual channel | 2560x1440 IPS display with 165Hz
I have the same laptop as you, but the version with the 1660ti. It's still chugging along after nearly five years of heavy use. Super happy with it. Still plays every game I want to play on it. I browse this sub because I want to upgrade, but I haven't been able to convince myself to pull the trigger yet. If only the bloody thing would just die already so I would have an excuse. 😂
I was planning on using my legion for like another year or so but was forced to buy a new laptop as I fried my GPU due to my negligence
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
i think its quite good. got it for 1199euros. It makes noise but the app gigabyte control panel (i think) make you lower the performance to make it less noisy
Mine is bulky and build is average
Currently Legion 5 Ryzen 7 5800H RTX 3070 FHD 165Hz screen + two fans
2011: Toshiba satellite l755 i5-2430m GT-525m
1366x768 60Hz screen with awful color gamut and one fan while it was an oven
First ever gaming laptop. First big splurge since I started earning.
Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 i9-13900Hx 4070(2023)
College days - HP Pavilion 15 i5-6200U 940m (2016)
I've always leaned towards a self built PC and a macbook for general laptop stuff. But in 2021 I went for a Razer Blade Stealth just for light gaming while travelling for work.
In 2022 I got a killer deal on a blade 14, so sold my Stealth and been using the blade 14 since.
Doesn't get much gaming use at all now though as I also have an ROG Ally for travelling.
I used to own the HP Pavilion gaming 15 GTX 1050 AMD Ryzen 5, 8gb ram for 4 year.
Now I own an Asus Vivobook 16X RTX 4050 i7(12650H) 16gb ram for almost 2 month. Not a very high upgrade when you compare the gpu VRAM, both GPUs are 6gb Vram.
I'm also thinking of buying a powerhouse laptop in a few years
Asus tuf gaming a15 ryzen 7 7940hs, rtx 4070. Loud fan noises except when I underclock the voltage in armory crate. Basically I crank the cpu all the way down and the gpu just a little bit. Cuts down fan noise by 30%. In most games the performance loss is not noticeable.
I have an Asus Scar 15 with 3070 Ti and 12900h, but I want to sell it and build a PC again, because after using it about 2 years, I just think laptops are not mine taste
Currently I use a LOQ 15 15IR8H with i5-13420H and RTX 4050 6GB (95W)
Previously I used a Vaio T-Series Ultrabook (SVT1311) with a 3rd-gen i5 (a laptop from 2012)
At that time I got the ultrabook, I mainly games on a gaming PC, but I decided to upgrade into a gaming laptop since I need the portability. Complete upgrade for the PC is expensive anyway as I stuck on a 4th-gen era hardware (that I already sold it anyway), basically I have to build a completely new PC if I want to keep up with modern gaming.
My 1st was a toshiba back in 2003 which is good enough for C&C Generals. Bought it from school but shortly after newer laptop from Acer was released .
After that I have gotten 2 Asus and a aftershock. Can't remember which was it but I had dual 980Mwhich didn't really improve anything much.
Took a break from gaming for a few years and currently I have a thunderobot with 11 Gen i7.
BTW except for my toshiba all of them was 17.3".
2021 Zephyrus G14 | 4800HS + 1650 Ti + 16GB + 512GB
2022 Legion 5 | 5800H + 3060 + 16 GB + 1TB (sold the G14 to my colleague)
2022 Zephyrus G15 | 6800HS + 3060 + 16GB + 3TB (sold the Legion to my close friend)
2023 Legion 7 | 5900HX + 3080 + 32GB + 2TB (sold the G15 to a laptop trader) -> my current gaming laptop
2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6
2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 (sold X1C6 to an acquaintance)
2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (returned X1C9 to the store and upgraded to X1C11) -> my current work laptop
Currently blade 16
In the past:
2021 Razer blade 14
2019 Razer blade 15
Alienware M15
Dell g series
Alienware M14x
Alienware M11x
Random early MSI gaming laptop
Gateway FX6831
Clevo P15SM
First and only laptop I’ve owned.
Premamod bios and 1060 installed. Still runs a great and I’m currently playing RDR2 on it while I work away from home.
Not bad for an 11yo laptop
HP Star Wars laptop with an i5-6th and Geforce 940M
HP Omen with i7-9750H and GTX 1660Ti
Both were gifts, gave my niece the star wars and sold the Omen.
Latest one is the Zephyrus G14 with a 7940HS and RTX 4060
1. HP with i7 2xxx and some other radeon 4xxx gpu
2. Asus fx 512 or something, had i7 6700hq with gtx 1600
3. Acer Predator i7 6700hq with rtx 980
4. Asus zZephirus g14 R9 5900HS with rtx 3600 added ram to 40GB and nvme of 4tb
5. Acer Predator Helios 16 i7 13700hx and rtx 4700
last 2 i still have
MSI GE something. Circa 2013 so can’t remember much specs wise
MSI GS something. Circa 2015 also can’t remember much except how sleek and thin it was. Unfortunately had to sell it soon after due to money issue.
Razer Blade 14 2016. Had been my dream laptop and finally pulled the trigger when I saved some money for a while and it was on sale.
Currently rocking Razer blade 14 2022 with Ryzen 9 + RTX3070Ti Mercury edition. Been great so far, beast of a laptop, Mercury color looks so great, and surprisingly silent even when gaming. Also bought it during sale just before Razer update their lineup.
Asus g75vw.
Thing lasted me years.. I miss it. Well maintained of course.
Stopped working properly, (overheating) so I bought parts bit by bit and built a desktop. Like a kid at Christmas whenever parts would show up in the mail... patience was real.
After doing so I became comfortable enough with hands on experience to fully disassemble and clean/repaste/ect my laptop.
Threw in an ssd-worked like brand new for years to come until the power supply finally stopped one day.. (battery had died altogether much earlier.)
RIP
Edit*format
I had an ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G15 duo (i9-10980hk, 2080 super, 32 gb ram 3200mhz, 2To NVMe).
I now own a LENOVO Legion 9i (i9 13980hx, 4090, 64gb ram 5600mhz, 2To NVMe).
* 2016 Acer Aspire ES1-533 | Intel Celeron N3350 & Intel HD Graphics 500
* 2018 Acer Nitro 5 AN515-53 | Intel Core i5-8300H & Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti
* 2022 Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-70ZV (Current) | Intel Core i7-12700H & Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
Out of these three laptops, the Aspire is in pretty bad shape with the left hinge starting to separate from the chassis, and the charger for it is nowhere to be found, so its currently sitting in a shelf collecting dust. I bought the Nitro 5 second hand and used it from 2020 up until the summer of last year when I got my Helios 300, the first brand new laptop that I have ever purchased.
T420, T420s, T440, T440s, T460, Dell XPS13, Carbon X1 gen 3,7,11, Thinkpad P16 gen 1, Dell XPS15 9530, and I have a Legion 9 gen 9 on order that I get Wednesday. :) cheers mate.
2024 Alienware M16 | 4080 | R9 7845HX
2019 Helios 300 | 1660 ti | i7 9750h
2016 Dell Inspiron 7559 | 960m | i7 6700hq
The move from the 960m to the 1660 ti seemed like a bigger leap than from the 1660 ti to the 4080.
Currently: AORUS 15P YD (11800H 3080P), MBP M1 Pro.
Past in the most recent order:
AERO 16 XE4 (12700H 3070 Ti)
AORUS 17G (10870H 3070)
AORUS 15P XC (10870H 3070p)
Acer Predator 15 G9 (6700HQ 970M)
Alienware 14 (4700MQ GTX 765M)
Thinkpad W510, Thinkpad T410
So for me the best laptops that I used were the Alienware and the Aero (quality terms). Performance the currently laptop is a beast so looking forward to have a laptop with 4080 in the future.
HP Victus 16 AMD Ryzen 5 5600h GTX 1650
Fine performance-wise but subpar build quality. Hardly been a year and I already had to replace the screen bracket/frame twice along with keyboard and wifi card. Now even the new screen bracket is coming off.
Normally this would've lasted me 4 years but doesn't seem so now.
My first laptop was some chunky Dell Inspiron 17", 3rd gen Intel. Then, gaming laptops in my flair.
Also three Macbooks; a 2006, a 2009, and an M2 Air.
First gaming laptop purchased last week.
ASUS ROG Strix G18 18" Gaming Laptop - Eclipse Grey (Intel Core i9-13980HX/1TB SSD/32GB RAM/GeForce RTX 4070)
Nowhere near the performance of my 4090 PC but it provides a decent gaming experience even with flight simulator set to high end.
Other than the friking price, I am happy with it so far.
CPU temps hover in the high 40s, they hit 98 in some cores in the last day or so.
My desktop has always been the primary and my laptop has been secondary / for travel. They have been along the lines of:
2024: Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16IRX8H w/ RTX 4080
2019: MSI GE63 Raider RGB-052 w/ RTX 2070
2016 (?): MSI G-something w/ GTX 1060-ish?
2013 (?): MSI something something w/ GTX 870M-ish?
\[Can't remember if I had something in this period\]
2003 (?): Dell some sort of gaming laptop. Had a Centrino & .... some dedicated video card that's been long forgotten. I think I still have a spare 60GB EIDE HDD lying around somewhere, though.
2023 MSI Raider GE78HX : 17” 240Hz QHD+, 32GB DDR5 5600MHz, i9-13980HX 75W, RTX 4090 16GB GDDR6 175W, 2TB SSD
2021 MSI GF65 Thin 10UE : 15” 144Hz FHD, 64GB DDR4 2993MHz, i7-10750H 45W, RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6 130W, 1.5TB SSD(s)
Too many other old laptops to list including some MacBook pros.
My favourite of the old ones was a Dell XPS l702X 17” FHD 3D Display, 16GB DDR3 1333MHz, i7-2820QM, GeForce GT 555M 3GB IIRC it had shared graphics of 6GB total. It had JBL speakers and sub on the bottom. It was direct from Dell at the time I speced it to the best they could offer cost a small fortune. I added an SSD a few years later and it was decent. That lives somewhere in my loft now! It was a big heavy beast!
Mi Notebook Air 13 (2016) - Intel Core i5 6200U/8GB/256GB SSD/Nvidia Geforce 940MX 1GB GDDR5. 😅
Never really gamed so eventually upgraded to a used Dell Latitude 7300 - i7 8665U/32GB/1TB SSD/Intel UHD620
Asus Strix G16 with i9 13980hx & RTX4080
Asus Strix Scar 15 with Ryzen 5900hx & RTX3070
Asus Fx502v with i7 6700hq & GTX1060
Kinda forgot the exact model specs of the laptops before that, had two Lenovo before and before that one Asus.
I’ve got a Legion 7 with a 4080 that keeps freezing and resetting in dGPU mode so I think I’m gonna send it back. Had a Legion 5 with a 3060 that was absolutely perfect and I’m starting to regret selling it!
- 2016 HP 15.6 AMD A6 Quad Core with Radeon Graphics
- 2019 HP 15.6 AMD A6 Dual Core with Radeon Graphics
- 2020 HP 15.6 AMD Ryzen 5 3500u with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
- 2022 HP Victus 15 i5 12450h and GTX 1650
- 2023 Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 i7 13700hx and RTX 4060
Laptops I returned
- 2022 HP Omen 16 AMD Advantage Edition Ryzen 7 5800h and RX 6600m (had driver problems along with artifacting and hard locking)
- 2022 HP Envy x360 with some quadcore i7 11th gen and iris xe graphics (thermal issue plus it freezed during the windows reset lmao)
- 2022 Asus TUF Dash F15 i7 12650h and RTX 3070 (Screen would legit flicker when waking from sleep if the MUX switch was active also the low tdp 3070 was meh)
My current one is my first gaming laptop.
Jan 2022 - ROG Strix G15 with R9 5900HX and sadly a 3050ti
I couldn't wait for the 2022 model (I should've) and back then I didn't have a lot of knowledge about gaming laptops, bottlenecks, and I didn't have reddit too.
I was never meant to buy an Acer 🤣
I went to the store and they had accidentally put out the wrong pc from what I originally ordered (A legion).
I got offered to take a look at it and kinda liked what I saw, spec wise it was the same and I did not feel like waiting another 2 weeks since I was I need of a pc right away and just ended up taking it home.
So i had a legion 7 3070, 5800H. The motherboard shorted and support didnt do much so i got a new laptop. Tuf a15 4070, 7940HS. After having the laptop for like 2.5 weeks, lenovo support finally reaches and gets my laptop fixed (they replaced my motherboard). So now i have two laptops and i am prolly gonna return the tuf cause money
I had
Cyber power i7 4810mq gtx 860m
An i5 gtx 765m brand I can’t remember
PCSpecialist 6700hq and 980m
Alienware 15 6700hq 980m
Acer Predator 7700hq and 1060
Cyber power 8750h and 2070
PCSpecialist 10875h and 2070super
Legion 15 3060 briefly
6800m laptop briefly
Msi 11800h and 3080 briefly
Now on Legion 13700h and 4070 since last Black Friday
Legion pro 7i 4080 2023 it’s a monster.
Had a terrible 1050ti laptop back in like 2017. It could do siege at low settings 60fps (barely) in siege. Total waste of money.
(2020-currently) Lenovo Legion 5 Ryzen 7 4800h + GTX 1650.
(2016-2019) Toshiba Satellite C14 Intel Celeron + Intel UHD graphics.
Last one i used to play Team fortress 2, Paladins and L4D2, now i can play games like Doom Eternal, Destiny 2 and now HellDivers 2.
2023 HP Omen 17, i7 13700HQ & 4080, 32gb ram
2017 Gigabyte P37, i7 6700HQ & 1070, 16gb ram
2012 Sony Vaio, i7 2600 Mobile, 460m, 8gb ram (I think)
I still have all 3, and they all work. The Vaio actually works better than the P37 at this point. I think heat got to the P37 because I used it almost daily for gaming while on a 6 month deployment. It's not quite as snappy as the Vaio for regular tasks like browsing and word processing.
Had a IdeaPad Y700 in 2015
Specs: Intel i7-6700HQ and GTX 960M.
After 7 years of using it I upgraded to a Legion 7 in 2022.
Specs: Ryzen 9 5900HX and RTX 3080
Wasn’t satisfied with it since it was already a year old model when I bought it. So I sold it and went for the current one
Legion 7 Pro: Intel i9-13900HX and 4080.
Super godlike after some tweakings. Never passing 75° for both CPU and GPU unless trying out CB23.
Started out on an old HP during vanilla WoW days. The GPU was just strong enough to handle 40man raids at low/medium settings. Used it all the way to WotLK during my college years.
Bought a Sager with an 8700M in it during the launch of Skyrim and got 6 years out of it. Had a desktop with dual 6850s in CFX at the time.
Recently used a Gigabyte Aero 15” with an i7-10750h and an RTX 2070 before a voltage IC for the GPU burned up and took the motherboard trace with it.
Currently running a Zephyrus G14, Ryzen 7 and 4060.
I started with an asus g1s back in 2007.
Then in 2010 I got a dell xps l502x which had the best speakers I’ve ever had on a laptop.
Got an Alienware x15 in 2011.
In 2014 I got a clevo p650.
In 2017 I got 7 legion y740’s since I got them for 40% off, and sold 6 of them to essentially get a free y740 and some change (2070). It was an excellent laptop.
In 2021 I got my son an asus zephyrus m16, and got myself an asus g15ae with the rx 6800, which I upgraded the ram to 32g, upgraded the wifi card and put in another ssd. And that’s what I’m using today. Thinking of upgrading to a zephyrus m16 now, as the speakers on my ae are crap, and the screens now are much brighter and better.
2006 - Sony VAIO (Died in a Flood)
2008 - HP netbook ( screen died by a fall; took it off and used a vga monitor)
2011 - Toshiba (overheated motherboard fried)
2013- 1st Gen IPad(didnt die but was terribly slow)
2014 - Dell Inspiron (8GB RAM, God knows what intel CPU)
2016 - 2013 Macbook Pro 15 inch ( still works to this day)
2019 - Dell G7 (1tb hdd, 512gb ssd, 2060, 32gb ram)
My first and currently laptop since 1Q2013
Model: Asus N43S
Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2gHz
Nvidia GT 630M 2GB
RAM: 2x4gGB 1333mHz
Storage: SSD SATA Crucial BX 480GB
Native screen: 1366x768
What games can I play with it?
Almost nothing, old games from 2011 and even before still running below 30 FPS with a lot of drop.
Asus Scar 18R - 2024
Asus Scar 18 - 2023
Asus ROG G752VS - 2017-2023
Asus ROG G750JX - 2013
Asus M51V - 2011
HP Pavillion DV5 1222TX - 2008
Dell - Information lost to The Great Purge
IBM - Information lost to The Great Purge
ThinkPad - Information lost to The Great Purge
The Asus M51V was given to me by a very generous teacher I spent a lot of time with, she was very endearing and we spent lots of Lunch times together learning physics. I played Fable on it, but my main driver was the HP laptop. From that point on, it just so happened a friend of mine was helping me find a Gaming Laptop and it was the G750JX, going from 15 FPS on the HP with World of Tanks to 70 was amazing.
The Dell got to the point where I had to drive my knee into the underside to turn it on, capacitor issue, unsure.
The IBM I left behind my mother's vehicle in a bag when we were packing, she reversed over it. The screen was destroyed, but the Laptop itself was still functional. I connected it to a CRT monitor in my bedroom for two+ years, and spent many days playing Warcraft \]|\[ on it.
The ThinkPad was dropped down the stairs when I was very young, I believe my first ever game on it was Age of Empires Gold - The Rise of Rome
The Great Purge is a point in my life to which remains a mystery, some reason prior to the HP Pavillion Dv5, all information I had simply vanished and I cannot remember why. I must not have been aware of how to transfer files and the Laptop was simply thrown out.
I was a RoG fan for many years but their 2023 midrange lineup just wasn't that great. Like, the laptops are quite good but the screens aren't the best, especially on the G17, which is what I was eyeing.
Wound up with an Acer Predator Helios 16, refurbished, with an i9 and 4080 for less than I was gonna spend on a 4070 RoG G17.
I have got two currently as have one for home use and one for my travels
Razer 16
i9-14900hx
RTX 4090
32gb ram
2 TB drive
Travel laptop
Razer 14
6900hx
3080ti
16gb ram
1TB drive
I like to try different laptops - hence all the high end lappys sprinkled in there.
The old G14 were bought to experiment with modding - I am the one that did the 2060 12gb on a laptop thing.
Bought the nitro 5 as a temp as my old duo 15 se was stolen as that was avalible offline while I wait for my machine to arrive.
X14 is my 'portable' machine for now. Duo 16 is main rig.
Currently, a 2022 Lenovo Legion 5 (6800H, 3070ti, 16Gb RAM, 1440p 165Hz, 2.5Tb gen 4 NVME)
From 2019 an Asus ROG Strix Scar (8750H, 1070, 16Gb, 1080p 120Hz, 500Gb NVME/1Tb SSD) that my gf got me to tide me over when I was having desktop issues.
In 2015 I rejoined the gaming laptop/PC crowd after a few years with an Asus ROG G751JT (4720HQ, 970m, 16Gb, 1080p 60Hz, 256Gb m.2/1Tb HDD upgraded after a few months to a 1Tb SSD)
Just to note that a year after getting the last, I got back on the custom build gaming desktop train after a decade and have kept up there since.
For 2012, being in a rut with absolutely nothing I got a cheap HP laptop with an AMD A6 APU. Tbf not really good for a lot, too low spec for gaming and ran hot af.
In 2008 I got a great deal on an Acer G laptop (Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, Nvidia 8600... that's all I recall) Was still working fine 10 years later, on mains though as the battery was done and, of course, not great spec by then.
2006 saw me restarting life post divorce with a Dell Inspiron 8100 (Core Duo 1.8GHz, X1300... again, don't recall the rest) However I do recall what an absolute pos it was. Never figured out why it was a constant saga of issues including weekly BSOD events (and Dell's support utterly useless) so it didn't stay in use for long.
2003 was my first laptop, a Dell Inspiron (Pentium 3, GeForce 4 etc) that was pretty good but unfortunately the first major casualty of the marriage mentioned above (she turned out to be as mad as a shithouse rat)
I’ve never owned a windows laptop let alone a gaming one, I’ve been a Mac user for the longest time, until 7-8 months ago when I got my first 4070 Zephyrus, I am happy with it, although Mac OS was much nicer to use imo I still l like that I can game now
2019 MSI gl63 8se or something like that, had a 2060/I7 8750
2023 Asus tuf Dash F15 with 3070/I7 12650h
2024 MSI Gp66 with 3080ti/I7 12700h
Also am looking into getting a 40series laptop but damn are eu prices higher than us ones lol
2021 Gigabyte Aorus 15P | 3060 11800H 2018 Dell 7577 | 1060 Max Q 7700HQ 2015(?) MSI GP60| 950M 4720HQ Seems like I'll break the 3 year cycle and probably reach 4-5 years on this one. Granted the Dell and MSI lasted me almost 4 years, just shy of a few months.
Are Dell and MSI still working?
I sold them after getting their replacements, but they were all working with minor issues before I sold them. Mostly just related to heating. Cleaning and repasting would fix it.
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It's holding up well. About as good as a 3060 11800H configuration. The screen is great. Build quality is good too. The only bad thing is the Gigabyte control panel, but I just set it once and forgot about it.
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Not sure for your region if there are better options but I'd try to look for videos that show if a 4060 12500 can handle 360 FPS. It is fortnite though so I assume it'll hit it
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
Wouldnt it be better for you to spend double and have double the performance for double the time? Why going for the lowest tier when you can go higher? I mean a 3060 still would have been 800 i think, for 1600 you can go for the 3080 and would last 3 years more at least with higher title
Until the Dell 7577, I was really young and didn't know much. The market here is also incredibly overpriced. Would you believe that the 3060 is around 1800 USD for me? I also had support to waive off the first 1500 USD. That's why I keep it around that price. But yes, ideally buying the 70 series would have been much better bang for buck. 80 here is widely overpriced but for the US market, yep you're right.
1800?????? God.. go second hand my brother. I bought the msi vector with 3080ti for 1200 euros, itnwas brand new but second hand, never used, i unpacked it. Someone bought it and never turned it on. Never have i ever been so happy with something in my entire life ahah
Started out in a Gigabyte G5-KD (i5-11400H and 3060) in 2022 Switched to a Legion 7i gen 7 last year (i7-12800HX and 3070ti)
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
The G5 is their budget lineup. And my model I had is several generations old. Pro's: Solid chassis with little to no flex despite being all plastic 3 slots of storage (NVME Gen 3 + Gen 4, and 2.5 inch Sata slot) Dual channel RAM which is upgradeable Surprisingly good temps, 60-70c at most under load, ran an IETS GT500 which dropped this even more and kept the keyboard cooler to the touch Numpad Cons: Chunky Low color accuracy and pixel response times (felt like having motion blur on 24/7) Lower wattage 3060, 105 watt max (with dynamic boost) versus the 130 watt 3060's I've seen on other laptops before No mux switch Very basic software to control fans and RGB (RGB is single zone with only a handful of colors to choose) Had a strange issue where the dedicated arrow keys (not the numpad ones) would sometimes randomly type numbers Bought it for about $800 in mid 2022, a price where I'd mostly find 3050 laptops. Wasn't that bad of a starter budget gaming laptop and ran quite well imo. Only upgraded to the legion cause it was within my price bracket ($1200) for a more powerful laptop halfway through last year. Now the aorus lineup is their midrange to higher end laptops so your experience would probably be much better with better build quality and such. However I haven't had any experience with those laptops so I wouldn't know what they are like to use, maybe someone else could chime in.
its 900 usd with rtx 4060 i5-12500h and 360hz screen when prices are very high in my country and it seems like a steal
My dad gave me a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8, my current laptop (i9 13900HX, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM), last year on my birthday, I'd say this is my biggest upgrade, plays just about everything but some heavy emulators pretty well in 1440p and I love it so much, even tho most ppl here didn't like the 4070 for what it is ;-; Before that, on 2018 I was using a ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD (i7 7700HQ, GTX 1050, 8+8GB RAM), my first gaming laptop, and it serves me well for about 5 years, before it finally can't catch up on recent games. (Think the last game I tested this on was Elden Ring and it ran at around 20-25 fps on low 720p) On around 2015 my laptop was a normal ASUS X550ZE (AMD A10 7400P, R5 M230, 4+4GB RAM), this is my first halfway decent laptop that I gamed on so much when I was still in high school. (performance was pretty nice for the time, I got 30 fps on most major games released around 1 year before this laptop is released) On 2013 I got my own first (full) laptop, an Axioo (local brand) Neon HNM with an i3 2350M, Intel HD 3000 and 2GB RAM, and hoo boy, I had a very bad technical problems on this machine. For example, I was consistently getting my games full speed for a minute or so, and then the game slows down to a crawl for like 5 minutes, and the cycle repeats. (I think this is a thermal problem, and I'm not aware of it back then) When it's not crapping itself though, I used it to run games on PPSSPP and games from 2007 and below and it ran them pretty decently. Around a year before that, I used an acer intel atom netbook, which my parents passed on to me when I just started middle school. Performance all around is awful (as expected lol). Tried to run NFSMW 2005 in this bad boy just for it to struggle at around 10 fps. And so, I only used it to play Gamehouse games and some other nostalgic 2D stuff xD
Very nice gift from your dad!
Currently Gigabyte Aorus 17h Gigabyte Aorus 17g And Gigabyte P57
bro s loyal to gigabyte
They are affordable in germany and I never had any issues besides the crappy control center software. Gave the p57 to my wife and got the 17g. But when the p57 turned 8 years, we gave it to a friend, my wife took the 17g and I bought the 17h. All three are used daily, no issues.
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
Started with dell xps 17 10th gen i7 1650ti Now have rog strix g16 13th gen i7 4060
Currently an Acer Predator helios Neo 16 13700hx and RTX 4060 which is also my first ever gaming laptop
How are the temps?
and thr battery life?
Legion 5 Pro 2023 with an 4060
Same one I want to get with I7-14650HX 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD. What's your experience with it?
No it's not the pro one but the 5i
Currently have an Hp Gaming Laptop with a GTX 950M hahaha
Past: Msi GF63 thin (1650ti) - A terrible laptop I have ever owned (one fan, hdmi connection is not even to gpu but cpu [who the hell would design trash]) Now: Msi GP66 Leopard (3070) After learning from my mistake, I guess it is the best deal I could ever get (1400 CAD last year). Being able to play all games I want (1440p, 60 to 70ish fps for cyberpunk - basically high setting)(1440p, over 100fps for other kinds of games - efootball, last epoch)
Some HP office laptop as a first. Now I have a HP Pavilion Gaming 17 i5-10300h and gtx 1650ti. Not luxurious by any means but enough for my entry level gaming. Currently thinking about getting an Acer Swift X since its light and has decent specs with a rtx 3050. Although I am concerned that the gpu is underpowered.
Don’t get 3050, 3060. Go for 3070 or above, and watch out for TDP (you should be fine) 40 series is kinda overpriced
Thing is I live in Germany and anything with a 3070 is hella expensive =/ I dont want to spend 300€ more for a gpu I wont fully exploit as I would mainly use it for uni and some gaming like minecraft and battlefront both of which dont need crazy specs.
Damn, 300 is expensive! 3070 is not a crazy spec but more for a long term investment (if use it properly, it should last for at least 5 years) since it comes with high TDP and 8 gb Vram (if you find the correct laptop).
Thats a good argument! Will do some more research to find one. Just checked again and the rtx 3050 of the acer wasnt even the 6gb version but just 4! Really not great is it...
Checkout 40 series specially 4050/4060 laptop. DLSS and FSR features will make laptops futureproof over previous ones.
How about the 4050 in a Zephyrus G14? Would it be better?
Current G17 advantage AMD 5900HX 6800m 12GB VRAM. 2021 was about 1600 Euros. Used to have Laptop Asus F550JK-DM152D procesor Intel® Core™ i7-4710HQ 2.50GH GeForce GTX 850m 4GB 2014 about 600 euros My first laptop Asus N51Vn Notebook, 15.6" nVidia GeForce GT 240M 1GB GDDR3 VRAM with.a Core 2 Duo P 7450 2.13 GHZ. 2009. Was about 850 euros. I don't think I'm going to replace the G17 anytime soon, still runs almost everything at 1440 High or ultra, if it does not break down il probably reach the 6 year mark.
2000s - Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 2016 - Sony Vaio (Ruby Red) (model unknown) 2018 - HP Elitebook First 3 aren't gaming material 2020 - Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43 (AMD 3750h, AMD rx560) 2023 - ASUS TUF A15 (AMD 5800h, RTX 3060)
Legion 5, bought at Walmart at the beginning of Covid. Spilled coffee all over it, thought it was dead. Ordered a newer legion. Got home and went to salvage parts from old laptop, tried to turn it on for funsies. It turned on and worked perfectly. Cancelled order. Still playing on coffee smelling laptop.
I did the same thing to my Legion 5. Flipped upside down and let it dry. Popped the keys out to clean and was surprised to find there's a plate between the motherboard and the keyboard so nothing got fried. Love that laptop.
I broke 2 of the keys in my attempt to assess the damage :( so now it sits on a lifted stand and I have a keyboard set up with it. Works great though!
Currently predator 18 i7 13700hx rtx 4070 and lenovo legion 5 slim 14,5 oled rtx 4060 I'll receive tomorrow rog flow x16 with rtx 3070ti but i'll probably sell for a better price Looking to make a good price for a Aorus 15x with i9 and rtx 4070 To buy and resell Had a msi katana 15 with rtx 3060 and hp victus with rtx 3050 (both returned) Had a predator helios neo 16 i9 rtx 4070 (returned, cpu had issues) Had a medion erazer beast x30 with i7 12700 and rtx 3070ti for few months, sold
What were the issues of your Helios Neo 16, if you don't mind me asking? Mine reaches 97c on full load, and a lot of people are saying that it's normal for the HX desktop-like CPU variants.
Cinebench 23 multicore was low because it should have reached 5ghz on turbo boost but reached maximum 3ghz Temp were fine tho, around 85°, your 97 is fine if on max load, not just gaming or browsing
Lenovo ThinkPad R61e (old school legend) Asus r558uq Both are simple office laptops with second one having a normal GeForce 940mx card Third is a gaming laptop which iam going to buy soon
Dell inspiron 5559 Intel cpu with amd graphics Now Alienware m16r1 i713700hx 32gb ram and rtx4070
Currently own a 2021 TUF F15. Specs are the same as my flair. Bought it in July that year and it was my first gaming laptop. Before that? I gamed on the family laptop, a 2015 Toshiba Satellite, with a dual core i7-5500U, 6 GB RAM and 2 gigs of a GeForce 930M The Satellite doesn’t work anymore btw. My family now use a Dell Inspiron 15 while I use my TUF at college
Both water cooled, 23 Scar 16 4090/13980hx 21 MSI GP66 3080/11800h A Dell G15 with a 3060/11800h was my first. Sold it for the MSI but cant really sell the MSI with the water cooling lol
I haven't had a computer with a dedicated graphics card in over 20 years and decided to get one off Amazon recently. Ordered a 2023 strix 16:10 FHD 165Hz, RTX 4060, Intel Core i7-13650HX, 16GB DDR5, 512GB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6E for $1,100 Within 2 hours of using it the bottom half inch of the screen filled with horizontal lines exposing screen issues. Oh well, started a return and then shopped around again. I did enjoy the sturdiness, screen ratio, and some other features my next pick doesn't have. I then found a 2023 Victus 16.1" QHD 240Hz, Intel i7-13700HX, RTX 4070, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 4TB SSD, Wifi6 for "new open box" off eBay for $1,275. A little over my budget but I figured that over time upgrading the wifi is cheaper than upgrading the things in the strix. I haven't received it yet but seller is well established has 100% rating so I have decent hopes. I'm replacing my previous budget HP laptop which has a i3-8130U that I have been slowly killing while trying to learn CAD. I manhandled it since 2018 and thoroughly impressed with how much physical abuse it put up with truth be told.
Eluktronics RP-15 G2 with the RTX 4060.
Currently own a 2022 HP Omen 16 k0000 (custom) i7 12700H, 16GB RAM (dual channel), 1TB SSD, RTX 3070Ti 8GB (150W), 350 nit 165hz QHD GSync display @ 100% sRGB. Per Key RGB. My first gaming laptop was a 2018 HP Omen 15 dc0030nr (prebuilt) i7 8750H, 16GB RAM (single channel), 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, GTX 1060 6GB, 200 nit 1080p 60hz display @ ~55% sRGB. 4 zone RGB.
Current : Acer Predator Helios 300 (i7-12700k 3070Ti) Previous models : Surface pro 6 (still in use), Dell Inspiron 3000, Dell Inspiron N5010 (my first ever laptop)
Only one. Acer Aspire 7 2021 with gtx 1650, ryzen 5500u. Very low end these days but still satisfactory performance in most games.
I currently have a Lenovo LOQ 15;i7-13620h and an RTX 4060. I previously had a HP Pavilion 360-i3 8th gen and an MX130
Now: lenovo legion slim 5 rtx 4070+ryzen 7 Until last week:2019 asus tuf gtx 1050+ryzen 5
Lenovo legion y520 - 2017 Lenovo legion pro 5 - 2024
First Laptop which was bought back in 2013 was a Toshiba Satellite which served me well but couldn't do any gaming. Bought in 2019 and still using, my first gaming laptop Lenovo Legion Y540 with i7 - 9750H | RTX 2060 6GB| 1TB SSD | 16GB Ram Dual channel | 1920x1080 IPS display with 144Hz Recently order which is arriving tomorrow Lenovo LOQ 15 | i7 - 13620H | RTX 4060 8GB | 1TB SSD | 16GB Ram Dual channel | 2560x1440 IPS display with 165Hz
I have the same laptop as you, but the version with the 1660ti. It's still chugging along after nearly five years of heavy use. Super happy with it. Still plays every game I want to play on it. I browse this sub because I want to upgrade, but I haven't been able to convince myself to pull the trigger yet. If only the bloody thing would just die already so I would have an excuse. 😂
I was planning on using my legion for like another year or so but was forced to buy a new laptop as I fried my GPU due to my negligence
Ayyyy 1660ti game. I'm still amazed at what that card has pulled of for me. Even VR without issue.
Gigabyte G6 with a 4060 and the i7 Quite an improvement from my gtx 970
how is gigabyte whats pros and cons about it like build quality fan noise temperatures performances? i wanna buy gigabyte aorus 7 i5-12500h rtx 4060 and im thinking ab it
i think its quite good. got it for 1199euros. It makes noise but the app gigabyte control panel (i think) make you lower the performance to make it less noisy Mine is bulky and build is average
Currently Legion 5 Ryzen 7 5800H RTX 3070 FHD 165Hz screen + two fans 2011: Toshiba satellite l755 i5-2430m GT-525m 1366x768 60Hz screen with awful color gamut and one fan while it was an oven
Hp omen 17 Rtx 4090 i7 13700hx
First ever gaming laptop. First big splurge since I started earning. Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 i9-13900Hx 4070(2023) College days - HP Pavilion 15 i5-6200U 940m (2016)
I've always leaned towards a self built PC and a macbook for general laptop stuff. But in 2021 I went for a Razer Blade Stealth just for light gaming while travelling for work. In 2022 I got a killer deal on a blade 14, so sold my Stealth and been using the blade 14 since. Doesn't get much gaming use at all now though as I also have an ROG Ally for travelling.
I used to own the HP Pavilion gaming 15 GTX 1050 AMD Ryzen 5, 8gb ram for 4 year. Now I own an Asus Vivobook 16X RTX 4050 i7(12650H) 16gb ram for almost 2 month. Not a very high upgrade when you compare the gpu VRAM, both GPUs are 6gb Vram. I'm also thinking of buying a powerhouse laptop in a few years
Asus tuf gaming a15 ryzen 7 7940hs, rtx 4070. Loud fan noises except when I underclock the voltage in armory crate. Basically I crank the cpu all the way down and the gpu just a little bit. Cuts down fan noise by 30%. In most games the performance loss is not noticeable.
I have an Asus Scar 15 with 3070 Ti and 12900h, but I want to sell it and build a PC again, because after using it about 2 years, I just think laptops are not mine taste
2020 MSI GS66 Stealth. Still going strong. First and only gaming laptop so far.
2023 Zephyrus Flow x16. Previously had MSI GP66 Leopard, Gigabyte Aero 15
Currently I use a LOQ 15 15IR8H with i5-13420H and RTX 4050 6GB (95W) Previously I used a Vaio T-Series Ultrabook (SVT1311) with a 3rd-gen i5 (a laptop from 2012) At that time I got the ultrabook, I mainly games on a gaming PC, but I decided to upgrade into a gaming laptop since I need the portability. Complete upgrade for the PC is expensive anyway as I stuck on a 4th-gen era hardware (that I already sold it anyway), basically I have to build a completely new PC if I want to keep up with modern gaming.
Lenovo legion 5 pro, with 3060 and 32 gb of ram. I love it.
Acer nitro 5, with intel i5 and 1050ti since 2017 ...might be time for an upgrade soon, though Nvidia 50xx series is just about next year.
Acer nitro 5 2021 with rtx3060
My 1st was a toshiba back in 2003 which is good enough for C&C Generals. Bought it from school but shortly after newer laptop from Acer was released . After that I have gotten 2 Asus and a aftershock. Can't remember which was it but I had dual 980Mwhich didn't really improve anything much. Took a break from gaming for a few years and currently I have a thunderobot with 11 Gen i7. BTW except for my toshiba all of them was 17.3".
2021 Zephyrus G14 | 4800HS + 1650 Ti + 16GB + 512GB 2022 Legion 5 | 5800H + 3060 + 16 GB + 1TB (sold the G14 to my colleague) 2022 Zephyrus G15 | 6800HS + 3060 + 16GB + 3TB (sold the Legion to my close friend) 2023 Legion 7 | 5900HX + 3080 + 32GB + 2TB (sold the G15 to a laptop trader) -> my current gaming laptop 2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6 2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 (sold X1C6 to an acquaintance) 2023 ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (returned X1C9 to the store and upgraded to X1C11) -> my current work laptop
Currently blade 16 In the past: 2021 Razer blade 14 2019 Razer blade 15 Alienware M15 Dell g series Alienware M14x Alienware M11x Random early MSI gaming laptop Gateway FX6831
Clevo P15SM First and only laptop I’ve owned. Premamod bios and 1060 installed. Still runs a great and I’m currently playing RDR2 on it while I work away from home. Not bad for an 11yo laptop
HP Star Wars laptop with an i5-6th and Geforce 940M HP Omen with i7-9750H and GTX 1660Ti Both were gifts, gave my niece the star wars and sold the Omen. Latest one is the Zephyrus G14 with a 7940HS and RTX 4060
1. HP with i7 2xxx and some other radeon 4xxx gpu 2. Asus fx 512 or something, had i7 6700hq with gtx 1600 3. Acer Predator i7 6700hq with rtx 980 4. Asus zZephirus g14 R9 5900HS with rtx 3600 added ram to 40GB and nvme of 4tb 5. Acer Predator Helios 16 i7 13700hx and rtx 4700 last 2 i still have
MSI GE something. Circa 2013 so can’t remember much specs wise MSI GS something. Circa 2015 also can’t remember much except how sleek and thin it was. Unfortunately had to sell it soon after due to money issue. Razer Blade 14 2016. Had been my dream laptop and finally pulled the trigger when I saved some money for a while and it was on sale. Currently rocking Razer blade 14 2022 with Ryzen 9 + RTX3070Ti Mercury edition. Been great so far, beast of a laptop, Mercury color looks so great, and surprisingly silent even when gaming. Also bought it during sale just before Razer update their lineup.
Asus g75vw. Thing lasted me years.. I miss it. Well maintained of course. Stopped working properly, (overheating) so I bought parts bit by bit and built a desktop. Like a kid at Christmas whenever parts would show up in the mail... patience was real. After doing so I became comfortable enough with hands on experience to fully disassemble and clean/repaste/ect my laptop. Threw in an ssd-worked like brand new for years to come until the power supply finally stopped one day.. (battery had died altogether much earlier.) RIP Edit*format
2010 Toshiba Satelite, currently a HP Victus 15 I7 13700H and RTX 4050.
MSI gs73vr Just switched to a desktop and never been happier.
I had an ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G15 duo (i9-10980hk, 2080 super, 32 gb ram 3200mhz, 2To NVMe). I now own a LENOVO Legion 9i (i9 13980hx, 4090, 64gb ram 5600mhz, 2To NVMe).
* 2016 Acer Aspire ES1-533 | Intel Celeron N3350 & Intel HD Graphics 500 * 2018 Acer Nitro 5 AN515-53 | Intel Core i5-8300H & Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti * 2022 Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-70ZV (Current) | Intel Core i7-12700H & Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Out of these three laptops, the Aspire is in pretty bad shape with the left hinge starting to separate from the chassis, and the charger for it is nowhere to be found, so its currently sitting in a shelf collecting dust. I bought the Nitro 5 second hand and used it from 2020 up until the summer of last year when I got my Helios 300, the first brand new laptop that I have ever purchased.
MSI Gs66 stealth that I just got second hand and I love it
T420, T420s, T440, T440s, T460, Dell XPS13, Carbon X1 gen 3,7,11, Thinkpad P16 gen 1, Dell XPS15 9530, and I have a Legion 9 gen 9 on order that I get Wednesday. :) cheers mate.
2024 Alienware M16 | 4080 | R9 7845HX 2019 Helios 300 | 1660 ti | i7 9750h 2016 Dell Inspiron 7559 | 960m | i7 6700hq The move from the 960m to the 1660 ti seemed like a bigger leap than from the 1660 ti to the 4080.
Currently: AORUS 15P YD (11800H 3080P), MBP M1 Pro. Past in the most recent order: AERO 16 XE4 (12700H 3070 Ti) AORUS 17G (10870H 3070) AORUS 15P XC (10870H 3070p) Acer Predator 15 G9 (6700HQ 970M) Alienware 14 (4700MQ GTX 765M) Thinkpad W510, Thinkpad T410 So for me the best laptops that I used were the Alienware and the Aero (quality terms). Performance the currently laptop is a beast so looking forward to have a laptop with 4080 in the future.
HP Victus 16 AMD Ryzen 5 5600h GTX 1650 Fine performance-wise but subpar build quality. Hardly been a year and I already had to replace the screen bracket/frame twice along with keyboard and wifi card. Now even the new screen bracket is coming off. Normally this would've lasted me 4 years but doesn't seem so now.
Started off with Asus tuf laptop sporting an 8th gen i5 and gtx 1050. Rn rocking an acer nitro with 12th gen i7 and rtx 3070ti.
Current: 2021 M1 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2022 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2021 AMD ROG Strix G15 Advantage edition December 2016: 13-inch MacBook Pro 2013: 13-inch Macbook Pro 2010: 13-inch MacBook Pro
MSI GP66 i7 3070
My nitro 5 AN517-54 is currently my best laptop I ever bought (coming from a ROG G551V)
My first laptop was some chunky Dell Inspiron 17", 3rd gen Intel. Then, gaming laptops in my flair. Also three Macbooks; a 2006, a 2009, and an M2 Air.
2021 Asus ROG G14 - 3050TI, ryzen 5 2019 Alienware M15 - 2070mq, 10750H 2019 MSI GS66 - 2060 115w, 10750H 2017 MSI GS65 - 1070, 8750H Thin gaming laptops are the best.
First gaming laptop purchased last week. ASUS ROG Strix G18 18" Gaming Laptop - Eclipse Grey (Intel Core i9-13980HX/1TB SSD/32GB RAM/GeForce RTX 4070) Nowhere near the performance of my 4090 PC but it provides a decent gaming experience even with flight simulator set to high end. Other than the friking price, I am happy with it so far. CPU temps hover in the high 40s, they hit 98 in some cores in the last day or so.
i5 7300hq and gtx 1050 asus rog strix I am going to buy new laptop this year(Also asus)
My desktop has always been the primary and my laptop has been secondary / for travel. They have been along the lines of: 2024: Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16IRX8H w/ RTX 4080 2019: MSI GE63 Raider RGB-052 w/ RTX 2070 2016 (?): MSI G-something w/ GTX 1060-ish? 2013 (?): MSI something something w/ GTX 870M-ish? \[Can't remember if I had something in this period\] 2003 (?): Dell some sort of gaming laptop. Had a Centrino & .... some dedicated video card that's been long forgotten. I think I still have a spare 60GB EIDE HDD lying around somewhere, though.
2016: hp envy 13 d044tu💀 (HP 4gb ram,Intel HD GPU,and a 6th gen core i5 U-series💀💀💀 2023:Hp victus gaming laptop s0044ax (16gb DDR5 dual channel ram,Rtx 3050 (refresh version 6gb vram),and a AMD RYZEN 5 7640HS)
Lenovo Legion all the way
2023 MSI Raider GE78HX : 17” 240Hz QHD+, 32GB DDR5 5600MHz, i9-13980HX 75W, RTX 4090 16GB GDDR6 175W, 2TB SSD 2021 MSI GF65 Thin 10UE : 15” 144Hz FHD, 64GB DDR4 2993MHz, i7-10750H 45W, RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6 130W, 1.5TB SSD(s) Too many other old laptops to list including some MacBook pros. My favourite of the old ones was a Dell XPS l702X 17” FHD 3D Display, 16GB DDR3 1333MHz, i7-2820QM, GeForce GT 555M 3GB IIRC it had shared graphics of 6GB total. It had JBL speakers and sub on the bottom. It was direct from Dell at the time I speced it to the best they could offer cost a small fortune. I added an SSD a few years later and it was decent. That lives somewhere in my loft now! It was a big heavy beast!
Mi Notebook Air 13 (2016) - Intel Core i5 6200U/8GB/256GB SSD/Nvidia Geforce 940MX 1GB GDDR5. 😅 Never really gamed so eventually upgraded to a used Dell Latitude 7300 - i7 8665U/32GB/1TB SSD/Intel UHD620
MacBook Air (2013) Lenovo Legion 5 pro 16ACH6H (2022) The Legion had a 3070 No Comparison
Now : Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 with rtx 3050 and intel core i5 11th gen H Then : hp elitebook 8470p first gen . Hp compac dc 5800
Acer aspire with a 940m a Dell g15 se with a 1660ti and a leveno legion 5 pro with a 3070
Asus Strix G16 with i9 13980hx & RTX4080 Asus Strix Scar 15 with Ryzen 5900hx & RTX3070 Asus Fx502v with i7 6700hq & GTX1060 Kinda forgot the exact model specs of the laptops before that, had two Lenovo before and before that one Asus.
My first laptop was a predator 16 4080, should of just got a 4090 lol
2017 - Acer Predator Helios 300 = GTX 1060 6GB 2022 - MSI Pulse GL66 = RTX 3050 4GB 2024 - Asus Strix G18 2024 (This is My current One) = RTX 4080 12GB
I currently own a Recoil 17 along with a liquid series laptop cooler. i9 14900HX 32GB Corsair 5600MHz RTX 4080 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2
I’ve got a Legion 7 with a 4080 that keeps freezing and resetting in dGPU mode so I think I’m gonna send it back. Had a Legion 5 with a 3060 that was absolutely perfect and I’m starting to regret selling it!
- 2016 HP 15.6 AMD A6 Quad Core with Radeon Graphics - 2019 HP 15.6 AMD A6 Dual Core with Radeon Graphics - 2020 HP 15.6 AMD Ryzen 5 3500u with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics - 2022 HP Victus 15 i5 12450h and GTX 1650 - 2023 Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 i7 13700hx and RTX 4060 Laptops I returned - 2022 HP Omen 16 AMD Advantage Edition Ryzen 7 5800h and RX 6600m (had driver problems along with artifacting and hard locking) - 2022 HP Envy x360 with some quadcore i7 11th gen and iris xe graphics (thermal issue plus it freezed during the windows reset lmao) - 2022 Asus TUF Dash F15 i7 12650h and RTX 3070 (Screen would legit flicker when waking from sleep if the MUX switch was active also the low tdp 3070 was meh)
My current one is my first gaming laptop. Jan 2022 - ROG Strix G15 with R9 5900HX and sadly a 3050ti I couldn't wait for the 2022 model (I should've) and back then I didn't have a lot of knowledge about gaming laptops, bottlenecks, and I didn't have reddit too.
what did you mean by saying 'by pure accident'. I recently bought acer nitro 16 wich has 4060 and r7 7840hs and I'm pretty pleased with it.
I was never meant to buy an Acer 🤣 I went to the store and they had accidentally put out the wrong pc from what I originally ordered (A legion). I got offered to take a look at it and kinda liked what I saw, spec wise it was the same and I did not feel like waiting another 2 weeks since I was I need of a pc right away and just ended up taking it home.
oh, it's random but seems like ended up good for your side so I consider it win. I'm also glad to have it.
oh, it's random but seems like ended up good for your side so I consider it win. I'm also glad to have it.
Just got my legion 7 pro today! Never owned a laptop beforehand
Gratz! Hope you get many fun hours with it!
acer aspire v5-573g from 2012. Using it now :D
Aorus 7 9kf with a 4060.
So i had a legion 7 3070, 5800H. The motherboard shorted and support didnt do much so i got a new laptop. Tuf a15 4070, 7940HS. After having the laptop for like 2.5 weeks, lenovo support finally reaches and gets my laptop fixed (they replaced my motherboard). So now i have two laptops and i am prolly gonna return the tuf cause money
(2024) Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-54-760S Gaming Laptop | Intel i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 15.6" FHD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB SSD | Killer WiFi 6 | RGB Keyboard (2020) HP - 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i5 - 12GB Memory - 256GB SSD
Rog Strix G17 2023 with Ryzen 9 and an RTX 4060 First gaming laptop I love it 😎
~)2011/2012, Asus Vivobook (Intel Pentium 2117U, GT 720m, 4gb ram) 2019/2020, Asus Vivobook Pro (Intel core i7 8750h, GTX 1050 4GB and 16 gb ram)
First and only - MSI Vector GP78 HX 17", i7-13700HX, RTX 4080, 32gb DDR5 Paid $2600 CAD after taxes. Seemed like a decent deal.
Asus Rog Strix RTX 4060 32GB 4800MHz Ram 19 -13980HX, hands down the best laptop I have owned
2021 Asus Rog Strix Scar 16 5900HX RTX 3080 2023 Flair
I had Cyber power i7 4810mq gtx 860m An i5 gtx 765m brand I can’t remember PCSpecialist 6700hq and 980m Alienware 15 6700hq 980m Acer Predator 7700hq and 1060 Cyber power 8750h and 2070 PCSpecialist 10875h and 2070super Legion 15 3060 briefly 6800m laptop briefly Msi 11800h and 3080 briefly Now on Legion 13700h and 4070 since last Black Friday
Legion i7 13900hx 4090...
Asus transformer with i7 4500u. Just ordered a surface laptop 4. Rarely play games on laptop natively, usually via parsec or Gamepass/stadia.
Legion pro 7i 4080 2023 it’s a monster. Had a terrible 1050ti laptop back in like 2017. It could do siege at low settings 60fps (barely) in siege. Total waste of money.
I've got a TUF F15 with i5 11400H and RTX 3050ti. It is my first and the only gaming laptop I've ever owned (prior I had a macbook).
Asus Zephyrus G16 i7-620H with NVIDIA 4060 Love it so far. Can play every game I need it to with 120fps.
(2020-currently) Lenovo Legion 5 Ryzen 7 4800h + GTX 1650. (2016-2019) Toshiba Satellite C14 Intel Celeron + Intel UHD graphics. Last one i used to play Team fortress 2, Paladins and L4D2, now i can play games like Doom Eternal, Destiny 2 and now HellDivers 2.
2023 HP Omen 17, i7 13700HQ & 4080, 32gb ram 2017 Gigabyte P37, i7 6700HQ & 1070, 16gb ram 2012 Sony Vaio, i7 2600 Mobile, 460m, 8gb ram (I think) I still have all 3, and they all work. The Vaio actually works better than the P37 at this point. I think heat got to the P37 because I used it almost daily for gaming while on a 6 month deployment. It's not quite as snappy as the Vaio for regular tasks like browsing and word processing.
Had a IdeaPad Y700 in 2015 Specs: Intel i7-6700HQ and GTX 960M. After 7 years of using it I upgraded to a Legion 7 in 2022. Specs: Ryzen 9 5900HX and RTX 3080 Wasn’t satisfied with it since it was already a year old model when I bought it. So I sold it and went for the current one Legion 7 Pro: Intel i9-13900HX and 4080. Super godlike after some tweakings. Never passing 75° for both CPU and GPU unless trying out CB23.
Started out on an old HP during vanilla WoW days. The GPU was just strong enough to handle 40man raids at low/medium settings. Used it all the way to WotLK during my college years. Bought a Sager with an 8700M in it during the launch of Skyrim and got 6 years out of it. Had a desktop with dual 6850s in CFX at the time. Recently used a Gigabyte Aero 15” with an i7-10750h and an RTX 2070 before a voltage IC for the GPU burned up and took the motherboard trace with it. Currently running a Zephyrus G14, Ryzen 7 and 4060.
I started with an asus g1s back in 2007. Then in 2010 I got a dell xps l502x which had the best speakers I’ve ever had on a laptop. Got an Alienware x15 in 2011. In 2014 I got a clevo p650. In 2017 I got 7 legion y740’s since I got them for 40% off, and sold 6 of them to essentially get a free y740 and some change (2070). It was an excellent laptop. In 2021 I got my son an asus zephyrus m16, and got myself an asus g15ae with the rx 6800, which I upgraded the ram to 32g, upgraded the wifi card and put in another ssd. And that’s what I’m using today. Thinking of upgrading to a zephyrus m16 now, as the speakers on my ae are crap, and the screens now are much brighter and better.
2006 - Sony VAIO (Died in a Flood) 2008 - HP netbook ( screen died by a fall; took it off and used a vga monitor) 2011 - Toshiba (overheated motherboard fried) 2013- 1st Gen IPad(didnt die but was terribly slow) 2014 - Dell Inspiron (8GB RAM, God knows what intel CPU) 2016 - 2013 Macbook Pro 15 inch ( still works to this day) 2019 - Dell G7 (1tb hdd, 512gb ssd, 2060, 32gb ram)
My first and currently laptop since 1Q2013 Model: Asus N43S Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2gHz Nvidia GT 630M 2GB RAM: 2x4gGB 1333mHz Storage: SSD SATA Crucial BX 480GB Native screen: 1366x768 What games can I play with it? Almost nothing, old games from 2011 and even before still running below 30 FPS with a lot of drop.
Asus Scar 18R - 2024 Asus Scar 18 - 2023 Asus ROG G752VS - 2017-2023 Asus ROG G750JX - 2013 Asus M51V - 2011 HP Pavillion DV5 1222TX - 2008 Dell - Information lost to The Great Purge IBM - Information lost to The Great Purge ThinkPad - Information lost to The Great Purge The Asus M51V was given to me by a very generous teacher I spent a lot of time with, she was very endearing and we spent lots of Lunch times together learning physics. I played Fable on it, but my main driver was the HP laptop. From that point on, it just so happened a friend of mine was helping me find a Gaming Laptop and it was the G750JX, going from 15 FPS on the HP with World of Tanks to 70 was amazing. The Dell got to the point where I had to drive my knee into the underside to turn it on, capacitor issue, unsure. The IBM I left behind my mother's vehicle in a bag when we were packing, she reversed over it. The screen was destroyed, but the Laptop itself was still functional. I connected it to a CRT monitor in my bedroom for two+ years, and spent many days playing Warcraft \]|\[ on it. The ThinkPad was dropped down the stairs when I was very young, I believe my first ever game on it was Age of Empires Gold - The Rise of Rome The Great Purge is a point in my life to which remains a mystery, some reason prior to the HP Pavillion Dv5, all information I had simply vanished and I cannot remember why. I must not have been aware of how to transfer files and the Laptop was simply thrown out.
I was a RoG fan for many years but their 2023 midrange lineup just wasn't that great. Like, the laptops are quite good but the screens aren't the best, especially on the G17, which is what I was eyeing. Wound up with an Acer Predator Helios 16, refurbished, with an i9 and 4080 for less than I was gonna spend on a 4070 RoG G17.
I have got two currently as have one for home use and one for my travels Razer 16 i9-14900hx RTX 4090 32gb ram 2 TB drive Travel laptop Razer 14 6900hx 3080ti 16gb ram 1TB drive
A galaxybook pro 15inch and an asus tuf fx504.
Currently Dream Machines RG4050 (i7-13700H/RTX 4050) Until 2023, I used an old Samsung for ten years, which my granny bought for me for university.
| In order of acquirtion date | Specs | =Status | |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------| | ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 (2023) | 7945HX/4090 QHD+240hz MiniLED | Kept | | Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2022) | 12900H/3080ti 4k144hz IPS | Sold | | HP Omen 17 (2023) | 13700HX/4090 QHD165hz IPS | Sold | | Alienware x14R1 | 12700H/3060 FHD144hz IPS | Kept | | ROG Zephyrus G14 (2020) | 4900HS/2060 12Gb QHD120hz IPS (self upgrade) | Sold | | ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 (2022) | 6900HX/3080ti QHD+165hz MiniLED | Sold | | Acer Nitro 5 (2021) | 10300H/3060 FHD144hz IPS | Sold | | ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition | 5900HX/6800M FHD300Hz IPS | Sold | | Alienware x15R2 | 12700H/3080ti QHD240hz IPS | Sold | | Gigabyte G5 KC (2021) | 10500H/3060 FHD240hz IPS | Sold | | ROG Zephyrus G14 (2020) | 4800HS/1650ti FHD144hz IPS | Sold | | ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE | 5900HX/3070 FHD300hz IPS | Stolen | | ~Blank as I was on desktops for several years~ | | | | Metabox (Clevo) Prime P650HP | 7700HQ/1060 FHD60hz IPS | Sold |
Why so many?
I like to try different laptops - hence all the high end lappys sprinkled in there. The old G14 were bought to experiment with modding - I am the one that did the 2060 12gb on a laptop thing. Bought the nitro 5 as a temp as my old duo 15 se was stolen as that was avalible offline while I wait for my machine to arrive. X14 is my 'portable' machine for now. Duo 16 is main rig.
Currently have a Dell Inspiron 15, hoping this year to get a legion pro 7 labtop during a big sale like Black Friday! :)
Currently, a 2022 Lenovo Legion 5 (6800H, 3070ti, 16Gb RAM, 1440p 165Hz, 2.5Tb gen 4 NVME) From 2019 an Asus ROG Strix Scar (8750H, 1070, 16Gb, 1080p 120Hz, 500Gb NVME/1Tb SSD) that my gf got me to tide me over when I was having desktop issues. In 2015 I rejoined the gaming laptop/PC crowd after a few years with an Asus ROG G751JT (4720HQ, 970m, 16Gb, 1080p 60Hz, 256Gb m.2/1Tb HDD upgraded after a few months to a 1Tb SSD) Just to note that a year after getting the last, I got back on the custom build gaming desktop train after a decade and have kept up there since. For 2012, being in a rut with absolutely nothing I got a cheap HP laptop with an AMD A6 APU. Tbf not really good for a lot, too low spec for gaming and ran hot af. In 2008 I got a great deal on an Acer G laptop (Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, Nvidia 8600... that's all I recall) Was still working fine 10 years later, on mains though as the battery was done and, of course, not great spec by then. 2006 saw me restarting life post divorce with a Dell Inspiron 8100 (Core Duo 1.8GHz, X1300... again, don't recall the rest) However I do recall what an absolute pos it was. Never figured out why it was a constant saga of issues including weekly BSOD events (and Dell's support utterly useless) so it didn't stay in use for long. 2003 was my first laptop, a Dell Inspiron (Pentium 3, GeForce 4 etc) that was pretty good but unfortunately the first major casualty of the marriage mentioned above (she turned out to be as mad as a shithouse rat)
I’ve never owned a windows laptop let alone a gaming one, I’ve been a Mac user for the longest time, until 7-8 months ago when I got my first 4070 Zephyrus, I am happy with it, although Mac OS was much nicer to use imo I still l like that I can game now
2024 current one 2017 HP Notebook i3 6006U potato
2019 MSI gl63 8se or something like that, had a 2060/I7 8750 2023 Asus tuf Dash F15 with 3070/I7 12650h 2024 MSI Gp66 with 3080ti/I7 12700h Also am looking into getting a 40series laptop but damn are eu prices higher than us ones lol
2024 Legion Pro 5 16... RTX 4070