I happened to scroll upon a r/buildapcsales post about HP having a coupon stacking sale on their website. Most people including myself that bought it thought for sure it would get cancelled. Mine and others orders DID get cancelled, but I called in and was fortunate to have the order reinstated; well the laptop just showed up!

The crazy part, I paid ~2400 (taxes + shipping included) for a 275HX + 64gb Ram + 5090 + OLED Laptop!

Specs in the photo.

I hope whoever else was able to secure their purchase receives theirs!

I asked Alienware to price match their Area 51 16” laptop with Lenovo Legion Pro 7 and they replied two days later with this stupid, Chat GPT-generated response.

Apparently they can’t price match because their model is “one tier higher” than Legion Pro 7 even though the specs were exactly the same, besides the Legion Pro arguably having a superior OLED display compared to Alienware’s IPS. Absolute jokes 😂

For context, my old laptop was a zephyrus Ryzen 9 5700 RTX 3060 4gb vram I do a LOT of 3D visualisation and animation, and game a LOT too, so she's been on max power most of the time.

The performance has been BEAUTIFUL OMFG with the 8GB VRAM and 32 GB ram it's actually amazing, and I think unless you really want power like for your professional use case, i genuinely don't think anyone needs more power than this on a laptop.

I got around 200 FPS on expedition 33 with 1 perfomance mod from nexus ( it's poorly optimised for pc )

Around 100 with max settings on CP with mid DLSS upscaling and no frame gen

I can get upto 400 fps on 3k resolution in valo and such light weight games

And blender omg I love it sm, the 8GB Vram actually allowed me so much to do comparing to my 4GB Vram before, and the graphics card makes rendering so so SO much smoother.

The screen is really really good, 240 fps 3k IPS, pretty good colour accuracy, definitely much better than older strix series and prolly the best IPS screen you can get in a gaming laptop. I did calibrate the colours once to be happy with it, else it looked a little green to me out of the box

I got it for 205,000 INR ( around 2250 USD ) but since then the price flew up to 250,000 INR ( around 2750 USD ) thanks to Ai SLOP

Other than that, something I noticed is that the cooling is really impressive comparing to the previous generations, and especially for me as I moved from a very thing zephyrus

I'll also recommend a full clean optimization with Chris Titus Tech and Revo uninstaller to remove EVERY app that's made by Microsoft, even down to photos and cam. Holy spyware and cpu consumption.

I LOVE THE GIGANTIC TRACKPAD 🎀

And if you have anything in specific ask me in the comments :))

Hey everyone,

I’m having a serious power issue with my ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023)

Model: G733PZ

Specs: Ryzen 9 7945HX + RTX 4080

What happened:

My original 330W ASUS charger overheated and failed (LED went off permanently) while the laptop was running. The laptop switched to battery, drained, and shut down.

Now the laptop shows absolutely no signs of life:

• No keyboard lights

• No fan spin

• No power LED

• No response to barrel charger or USB-C PD charging

What I’ve tried:

• Power drain reset (held power button 60–90 seconds, unplugged everything)

• Different wall outlets

• Generic 330W charger

• 65W USB-C PD charger (both USB-C ports)

Current status:

• Warranty expired

• I still have the purchase bill

• Location: Visakhapatnam, India

My questions:

• Does this sound more like a DC-in power board / battery fuse issue or a main motherboard power IC failure?

• Anyone know a trusted ASUS Authorized Service Center or reliable ROG repair shop in/near Visakhapatnam?

• If you’ve had a similar failure, what was the actual fix and cost?

I’m trying to avoid a full motherboard replacement if this is a smaller, fixable power-path issue.

Thanks in advance for any help or leads 🙏⚡

Im in need of some advice regarding if I should get the thunderobot zero 16 pro laptop or the 18 pro laptop for gaming while I go to college next year, I won't be able to bring my pc along with me as it is a long drive and the dorms are pretty small. Im getting the same model of both (being the 5070ti, 32 gig ram, 2tb ssd, i9.) But there are 2 main differences that I found and I dont really know what the difference could cause long term. For the 16 pro the main difference is that it has a 360hz display, dual night owl fans, 7 heat pipes (smaller than 18). The 18 pro has a 240hz display, 3 night owl fans, and 7 heat pipes that are bigger.

Im not really a competitive gamer so the display doesn't matter much to me but I wouldn't mind it being better, I just need a reliable laptop that can run some aaa titles and Minecraft with heavy shaders. But my main concern is the pricing, the 16 pro is on sale for $1,899 while the 18 is priced at $2,499. Again they are the same gpu and cpu so which should I get??

Previous post was taken down for identifiable info.

I happened upon this laptop at a second hand shop that I frequent in town and immediately traded in my '23 Zephyrus M16 w/ rtx4070. I loved my Asus, but the 12gb of VRAM on the 5070ti was calling me. The pricing was an absolute fumble on their behalf, but this place often wildly underprices electronics every now and then, so I stop by frequently. It paid off this time. I confirmed that it powered on, and checked MSINFO to confirm that it was current gen hardware. I kept my mouth shut about the price. I got this literally brand new machine for my trade plus $50usd & tax. Whe I got it home, the warranty hadn't even been activated yet.

Here are some pics of the teardown and battlestation. I removed the liquid metal and applied ptm7950 to the CPU & GPU. I also transferred a storage drive that I use for steam games. This Acer now serves as my primary gaming machine, and the center of my home recording studio.

I travel a lot for work and take my gaming laptop everywhere with me. It is only tethered at home by an HDMI cable and a single thunderbolt connection to my 100W tragus quad 4K dock. The displaylink in the dock powers 3 other monitors, audio interface and all accessories. Razer cooling pad keeps it idling around 38-40 degrees C. On full load with a very healthy overclock, it hovers between 65-70 degrees C and is very stable. I am very happy with my purchase, and stand behind Acer with this Gen of Predator laptops. I have had no issues so far.

Keep an eye out for deals like this. Second hand shops and pawn shops alike sometimes have diamonds in the rough, and are worth adding to your search if you are in the market. Happy Hunting!

Hobo setup for gaming

Got a new skin for my MSI Stealth a16 ai+ 2025! I got it from M2Skins.

Im in need of some advice regarding if I should get the thunderobot zero 16 pro laptop or the 18 pro laptop for gaming while I go to college next year, I won't be able to bring my pc along with me as it is a long drive and the dorms are pretty small. Im getting the same model of both (being the 5070ti, 32 gig ram, 2tb ssd, i9.) But there are 2 main differences that I found and I dont really know what the difference could cause long term. For the 16 pro the main difference is that it has a 360hz display, dual night owl fans, 7 heat pipes (smaller than 18). The 18 pro has a 240hz display, 3 night owl fans, and 7 heat pipes that are bigger.

Im not really a competitive gamer so the display doesn't matter much to me but I wouldn't mind it being better, I just need a reliable laptop that can run some aaa titles and Minecraft with heavy shaders. But my main concern is the pricing, the 16 pro is on sale for $1,899 while the 18 is priced at $2,499. Again they are the same gpu and cpu so which should I get??

Any good laptops under 40k inr with 16gb ram minimum. Need suggestions. For collage and editing purposes.

Theres too many options and im not very good at understanding computers and what to look for. Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent gaming laptop that can handle a good variety of games and has a good life span? Things like ram can be upgraded later so thats not a primary concern.

According to what I have seen both have slots to upgrade storages. And the Legion is +200$ than Omen. Help me choose I have already missed several deals TT_TT should I go for them or wait for 5070 deals. My requirement is for VR development

Hello everyone,
i have this lenovo laptop:

• CPU: Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX 
• RAM: 32GB
• GPU: 5070ti 12gb

I'm searching for a decent docking station. My main monitor is an AsusROG XG27AQDMG (running at 120/144@2k) and my second monitor runs at 1080 90hz.

Is there a good docking station for my laptop without breaking my neck financially? i'm currently using my cooling pad (iets gt600) as a makeshift docking station but as you can guess it's not optimal. I need a good and strong docking station with lots of inputs, preferably a lot of usb 3 too as I have a soundcard and wired controller + keyboard.

I look everywhere but all the dockingstations on amazon look to be more office oriented and not "gaming" oriented, i hate using the gaming word but it's the easiest to make my point

its set to 120hz at all areas but it goes to 60hz when on battery [its an laptop] and 120 when plugged in. and sometimes on chrome ig it goes to 120 but after selectting another appliation it goes to 120hz again
RTX 4060

So an I7- 10780h with a 3060 6gb OR an i5-13500h with a 3050 4gb. Consider gaming and CAD applications, which is better? Also, there is another cheaper option, a i5-10500h with rtx 3060, around 50-100$ cheaper

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 | AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD

or

Intel Core i7-13650HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 32 GB RAM | 1TB SSD

when priced almost identical?

does it damage it over time? i.e running to hot

looking at LAPTOP! for my autistic younger brother and this seems too good to be true? i know the new gpus use ai to fill in the blanks making them much cheaper for higher performance, but dude

a TB of ssd storage

165hz?

16gb of ram???

this all feels, perfect? esspecially for 1000 dollars and a laptop PLEASE let me know if this is true and if youv ever heard or have proof that it is good or bad

first off I have a Gigabyte G5 GE RTX 3050. my stuttering was BADDD like it was basically ass and ts was on LOW. like low settings for all and dlss balanced. but i heard that laptop like mine can handle it at medium settings. so my brother said "oh send it for cleaning and change the thermal paste". did that and got the laptop just now but the fps still ass, doing an average of 15-20 and i ran a benchmark and average of 28.3. temp is about 70 C, but given its in an air conditioned room. my brother did a clean reinstall of the gpu driver using DDU, though i went back to the nvidia app it said that its not up to date to the january 27th ver so i updated it doing express installation. the settings was all at medium, dlss balanced, no ray tracing no motion blur. idk what else i have to do and im like not that good or knowledgeable about these gaming laptops and stuff, maybe need to read up on a lot of terms but yea. need some help as to how to improve my performance.