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It's not practical in my use case, which I already noted. The size isn't important, but the fact it's not built in is.

So I'm looking for a laptop and the G14 looks like the one. But it has no webcam. This is kind of a big deal for me, but I cannot find anything else comparable with a webcam. For $1450 US, I can get a very light laptop with supposedly very good battery life for a "gaming" laptop, a 144hz and goodish looking screen, 3060, Ryzen 9 5900HS, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD. With what I have seen, nothing else can compare close to this price point. Obviously I can also just buy a webcam separately, but that is cumbersome. Is there anything that can compare? Thank you laptop gurus that can naviate the endless sea of these things.

The only thing I have found that might lead toward an answer is that disabling ray tracing will fix the dip. I should also mention that frame times were much less consistent along with the dip in FPS. Disabling fixes both. It cannot be reenabled without issue until the game is restarted

Just an update, maybe more important to anyone who also has this board: It seems like at least part of the issue is really bad manufacturing tolerances on MSI's parts. At least telling me their quality assurance is suboptimal. These screws have a C-clip in the channel, where the cylindrical section below it acts as a spacer to raise the heatsink above the SSD. The one in the back is nearly half as tall as the one in the front

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That's looking like what will have to happen unfortunately temps will be fine, they were before anyways

I'm actually not worried about the heat aspect. Functionally, these heatsinks are useless in almost any situation, it was pretty chilly without anything in my last mobo. Also, from me trying to remove it and what I've found googling, it's not meant to be removed and voids the warranty. It measures at 0.4mm thick, and the thermal pad above it is pretty beefy and very squishy.

Here's an image of the SSD profile

I didn't think so, especially with the one on the S7 being paper thin. It's not really even a heatsink, more of an aluminum foil logo

I upgraded to an MSI Tomahawk B550 motherboard, and have an ADATA XPG Gammix S7 M.2 SSD. One problem though, the SSD severely bends when installing the heatsink on it. (At least it seems like that to me) Is it possible that this is for some awful reason normal, or is there something I am doing wrong? Any help super appreciated One photo pre-tightened, the next tightened (the one with the arrow). It would likely help to open the pictures in a new tab to better see

"Quite literally" sounds a little hyperbolic :^) It's not really embarassing to not be flexing high-end hardware, whether or not you even need it. Sounds like it hasn't been giving you much trouble by the way you came to realize it's a bit dated of a CPU

I played it until the issue occurred again, max CPU temp was on CCD1 @ 78.3C max GPU temp was on hot spot sensor @ 84.1C, main sensor @ 72.7C

When running Cyberpunk, over the course of 30min - 2 hours, my framerate will suddenly drop from ~60FPS to 30 - 40FPS. Looking at EVGA's Precision X1 application, my card is usually consuming around 97-101% of the power target. When this dip happens, my reported consumption dips to a fluctuating 60-90% of the power target (Also using stock profile). Sometimes It will be fixed by changing a graphics setting to something else and back again. This also happened when I was using a previous BIOS version, previous VBIOS version, earlier Windows 10 release and fresh install, a Ryzen 5 1600, and a Corsair LPX 4x4GB kit of RAM, and a hard drive as well. Does this sound like it would be a Cyberpunk issue, or maybe a potential issue with my graphics card or motherboard? Those are the only two relevant hardware components that have not been changed. Using Windows 10 20H2 Ryzen 5 3600 4.1 GHz OC CPU Crucial 2x8 GB 3600 MHz CL18 Ballistix RAM EVGA 3070 FTW3 Ultra MSI B350 Tomahawk Mobo (On latest BIOS revision to support 3600) ADATA Gammix S7 1TB SSD Corsair RM650 650 Watt PSU

Not sure if this should be its own topic, but I encountered something strange with memtest. All of my fixed allocation tabs of it were stuck at 2081.1% coverage for at least 20 minutes. The moment I am writing this, they all one by one started moving again. I have zero errors reported, but could this still be some sort of instability? The tabs were not frozen, just not increasing in coverage. Additionally, Cyberpunk would not make it past the title screen at 3200 MHz, though memtest, cinebench, and the desktop seemed stable. At 3066 it crashed after ~15 minutes. Unfortunately CDPR threw a variable into the fray with a large update to the game a day before this all, and some people have been reporting more crashes. So it's kind of difficult to make a determination there.

Thanks both of you. I dug up a 4 year old screenshot of my previous settings, and it indeed turns out that my timings were different than they are now. @boggy77that guide is very helpful in making sure I am on the right track. Currently I have it running at 2933 MHz again, 15% coverage through memtest so far, fingers crossed. Before, it wouldn't even pass post with 2933MHz, so I'm optimistic! Only issue is that I cannot use the "Fast" preset for DRAM Calculator. A window pops up saying "Error: Coming soon!" Either way, I think my infinity fabric is happier, so I'll run some benchmarks soon

Oh this is interesting, I didn't know we had fancy new OC tools like this. I'll give it a try, thanks! Side note, if timings are the issue, what would have caused that in the first place? I did have to update my BIOS to use the Ryzen 3600, but I would imagine its using the same default timings as before.

Originally, I was using a Ryzen 5 1600 with 4 sticks of Corsair LPX 4GB modules on an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard. It was stable via memtest at 2933MHz and 1.26v. Only changing to a Ryzen 5 3600, it suddenly cannot go anything above 2733MHz even at 1.35v without hundreds of errors per minute + bluescreens. At 2733MHz though, memtest had 2000% coverage and gave zero errors. One thing that came up was overvolting the SoC for better memory stability with the Ryzen 3000 series. It defaulted around 1.01v, so I upped it in 0.05v increments to 1.25v, and it still cannot run stable at 2800MHz. It seemed to make a few less errors though. Is there a chance that I bought a faulty CPU, or missing a setting? Maybe this is expected behavior? Any input appreciated

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That sounds pretty reasonable. Only question is on compatibility. Do I have to be concerned with what add-in stick I use other than matching the DDR revision of SODIMM and the speed? Now that you mention it, I think I remember hearing about Intel doing that on the WAN show lol. The Zephyrus G14 and G15 are looking killer! Too bad there's no webcam, but there might be some sort of elegant solution to that. It's kind of weird that they offer so many skus and there isn't any way to make your own build. Maybe that's because of stock issues. If they made the Legion 5 with a better spec graphics card, it would be a great buy! Looks like I have some options now, and if nothing else it's a great starting point. Thank you!

Sorry for my ignorance, but the field of laptops is just so much more convoluted to me than desktops and I just don't get it, there are too many features, too many skus and the like. And maybe there's stuff happening in the laptop world like new releases coming up where it would be best to hold off on a purchase, or maybe prices are going up in our current situation. This is all uncharted territory for me! I'm looking for a laptop that would hold strong for modeling (which isn't very intensive I guess), rendering, and maybe even some simulations. I don't think I need to go into 2070 territory, but budget wouldn't work. Another annoying thing is that I see $1.2k laptops running high end Ryzen chips with 8GB of RAM when it's so cheap right now. I don't see much reason why they would have less than 16GB for the kind of applications they seem to be made for. Something like a Ryzen 5 4600H should do me fine in the CPU department. Maybe there's something I'm ignorant of there though. Also, I'm seeing a bunch of 4k displays, which is not something appealing to me. More power draw and reduced performance for no real benefit. Higher refresh rate is much more important than going above 1080p. Finding what kind of docking support all these laptops have proves to be a real challenge. It would be fairly important to be able to have a good docking solution. When I try to understand the thunderbolt standards, my head rattles. I thought there were laptops that could charge, output display and input keyboard and mouse from one USB C cable, but everyone is always so vague about it. Otherwise, ports aren't that important. As far as battery life goes, I have a hard time figuring out how long certain laptops will last because manufacturers seem to just make up the numbers. Something that can take about 3 hours of fairly intensive use away from the wall is plenty though. One more important aspect with these is the build quality. Things like a good keyboard, trackpad (not as important for me though), webcam and microphone are not ever really done justice with spec sheets. I feel like this is painfully specific, so if there is anyone out there who happens to know of a laptop that's mostly what I'm looking for, thank you for reading this!

I always like to look for them too, They're fucking hilarious, but the whole thing where it was literally sent from myself scared me.

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Is it the same format? I saw a fairly similar one.

oh sorry, I thought it was a joke

LOL I DIDNT SEE THAT