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JSUSoutherner

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  1. I spend more time in hotels than I do in my own home since I travel for work so I got the Zephyrus G15 with a 3070, 16GB RAM, and the 1TB SSD to take on the road with me last week. First impressions is it's a powerhouse. Yes, the wattage being down means it's not going to hit like a Desktop but I was still outpacing most machines that have ran Time Spy and was in the 84% percentile. On a Laptop. My brother has a desktop build with very similar specs and his Time Spy is somewhere around 13000 I believe. So yes there's a performance drop from the wattage but my machine is 4lbs, 19mm thick, keeps Rainbow 6 pegged at 165hz in 1440p even in silent mode, and most importantly, fits in my backpack. His is a 40lbs hunk of beef that requires a small team of mules to move around. So as long as you take it for what it is, you'll be very pleased. These 30 cards pack quite a punch so even watered down they are still incredible cards. It's everything I wanted for a travel companion. Personally, I also like that the G15 styling isn't as shouty so I don't look like a complete knob pulling it out at the airport.
  2. Also after some more testing, I've found connecting my Galaxy Buds to BT has the same effect so it seems like a BT audio problem on the laptop side as mentioned. I just have no idea what to even look for to potentially find a solution.
  3. Yeah I have it setup like this and when I do this the audio is fine for me. The only problem I'm having with this right now is for whatever reason I get low frames and my games stutter. Which isn't exactly ideal in FPS games. Rainbow 6 is pretty much unplayable for me due to the stutter the BT causes on flicks and such.
  4. So if my headset has a built in DAC, is it possible to disable to laptop side and have the headset do it over bluetooth?
  5. It literally sounds like 20 year old earbuds with both speakers blown. I'm not looking for audiophile quality, I just want something decent to use on the road. I'll check on the mic and the 3.5mm, that would make sense. Also truth be told I have no idea what how DACs work.
  6. So I got a new laptop for gaming last week and I travel for work with a set of Sonys for planes and whatnot. Basically the headphones sound like trash and the mic doesn't work when plugged in via the 3.5mm (yes the headset is on). On bluetooth, my frame rate absolutely tanks for whatever reason. Not sure if this is the fault of my Sonys or some really bad drivers but I'm not sure where to go next with this issue. I won't be home for another 6 days at which point I can use my Corsair Void USB headset and see if that works. Either way I don't want to travel with two headsets and would very much like for my Sony's to just work correctly.
  7. Anyone else got this rig or a similar AMD chip can tell me what temp their CPU normally sits at when it's getting pushed? Mine will usually sit around 80-85C at the top end. This is my first laptop after having a water-cooled desktop that rarely ever saw 70C. Is this much heat on the CPU fine?
  8. Neither. Zephyrus G15 with the Ryzen 9 5900HS and the RTX3070. I picked mine up from Best Buy last week and it's absolutely incredible.
  9. Weird Question, but is it possible for an audio device to mess with PC performance? I've been using my Sony WH1000XM4s as a headset (I travel so having my headphones and a separate gaming headset is kind of annoying) but as soon as I turned them off my stutter went away. Am I tripping?
  10. So I got a new Zephyrus G15 with a 3070 and Ryzen 5900HS. This is my first gaming laptop, coming from a desktop with an i7-7700k and a 1080. When I played R6 on my old rig it was butter smooth even at max settings and now even with the settings a medium my laptop has some crazy stuttering going on whenever I flick the cursor. I play mostly R6 so this is a big deal for me. I feel like I have to be missing a setting somewhere because there's no reason this game shouldn't be running smooth as glass on this machine. Anyone got any ideas?
  11. And in true fashion, immediately after asking for help I solved my problem. Only took an hour and a half of fiddling before hand to set me up for success. Thanks Everyone.
  12. So I got a shiny new Zephyrus G15 today to take with me on the road and a new Xbox controller and everything is great except in games my right analog stick click doesn't register in games. I've read the steam configs do some weird crap so I've played with the settings there and while I have the Xbox controller config, my controller works except for the right stick click, but with anything else my controller doesn't work at all. Anybody have any clue why this thing hates me? Fixes? Something?
  13. What was the solution? I just got a new G15 and a new Xbox controller and I can't get the controller to work over Bluetooth or by cable.
  14. Im aware of the differences between the mobile and desktop versions of the components. I'm looking for a laptop though because I spend a majority of my time traveling for work. I just really don't want to spend money on the 2000 GPUs with the 3000s on the way.
  15. I'm eagerly awaiting CES because I'd like to pick up a gaming laptop with one of the new Ryzen 5800Hs and a 3070 or 3080. Likely a Asus Strix or Zephyrus. Basically I'm wondering how long after announcements before the new laptops usually go on sale? I don't generally buy tech on day 1 so I have no idea how much time there usually is between announcement and availability. Days? Weeks? Months? Im not looking for specifics. Just a general idea based on past launches. Thanks!
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