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What about a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an i7-11800H, 16x10 display and 130W 3060? It's heavier and I don't particularly like the look, but seems to have a bigger battery, better power delivery, 16x10 display and no soldered ram

Unfortunately there aren't that many gaming laptop configurations available where i live, these are some of the best. I love the design of the G15, but the soldered 8 GB of RAM does bother me somwehat

Hi there! I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace my old XPS 15, with the market being what it is right now and me being in Italy I don't have many great options. I would use the laptop for University, Gaming and software development, my main concerns are an upgrade for the CPU compared to my current one, a decent GPU for gaming, decent battery life to bring the laptop to University without worrying too much about having an outlet available. I'd like you to share an opinion about these offers I stumbled upon. ROG ZEPHYRUS G15 GA503QM - ~1500€ - Link Ryzen 9 5900HS RTX 3060 Max-Q ( ~100W ) 1440p x 165Hz 16GB Ram (8GB + 8 internal ) 512 GB 70 Wh Battery 1.9 Kg OMEN 15-EN1037NL - 1799€ - Link Ryzen 9 5900HX RTX 3070 Max-Q ( ~100W ) 1440p x 165 Hz 16GB Ram 1 TB 70Wh Battery 2.4 Kg The Omen seems like a definite upgrade, but I really prefer the look and feel of the Zephyrus, on top of that, with the 3070 being locked at the same power of the 3060 I fear they would perform about the same while costing more. I couldn't find benchmarks to compare these exact configurations, but from what i've seen they should be within 5% of each other while gaming. I've had my XPS for 6+ years now, and I plan on doing the same with this one so I consider it an investment, I fear the 3060 might become obsolete pretty fast in the coming years, but the extra chonkyness of the Omen is not something that I'd like, especially after having an XPS. What do you think? Which one would you pick?

I'm also wondering what would be best for future upgradeability. Since I guess this is the last gen AM4 will support, would it make sense to sell a 3600/3700x to upgrade to a 5000 series CPU? Would the Motherboard handle it or should I get a better one? So is it better to go 3600 with a better MOBO to be able to upgrade later on without worries or go with the 3700X now and have limited upgrade paths in the future? Also, X570 Boards are ~40€ more, is it worth picking one up instead of B550m?

Hi there! I'm building a PC for a friend, he mainly uses it for 3D applications (Blender), Photoshop, Premiere and light gaming as an added bonus. I've opened other posts on the GPU/CPU forums about it, you can find them HERE FOR THE GPU and HERE FOR THE CPU . The specs for the system are: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600/3700X ~ 250-310€ RAM: 16GB 2x8 3200MHz HX432C16FB3K2/16 ~ 80€ MOBO: GIGABYTE DS3H B550m ~ 100€ PSU: 500W PSU ~ 50€ SSD: 500GB NVMe ~ 60€ GPU: Probably an RX 580 4GB ~ 130€ For the monitor I was thinking about the 1440p BenQ BL2420 for ~240€, but since he uses a graphics tablet with a monitor, I'm starting to question whether 1440p is even needed in this scenario. Should i go for either 1080p or 4K? Does it make sense at this price point? I'm not very knowledgeable about monitors, do you have any suggestions?

Hi there! I'm building a PC for a friend, he mainly uses it for 3D applications, Photoshop, Premiere and light gaming as an added bonus. I've opened another post on the GPU forum about it, you can find it HERE. I've opened another post on the MONITOR forum about it, you can find it HERE. My initial spec was this one: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 + 212 EVO ~ 250€ RAM: 16GB 2x8 3200MHz HX432C16FB3K2/16 ~ 80€ MOBO: GIGABYTE DS3H B550m ~ 100€ PSU: 500W PSU ~ 50€ SSD: 500GB NVMe ~ 60€ GPU: Probably an RX 580 4GB ~ 130€ MONITOR: 1440p BenQ BL2420 ~240€ But I'm starting to have doubts about the Monitor, CPU and consequently the MOBO I found out that I can get a 3700X with the Wraith Prism for 310€, which is a substantial improvement for 50€, but will the DS3H be able to handle it properly? Does it make sense to go for the 3700x instead of the 3600 for this kind of usage?

Gaming is not the primary objective of this system, he is going to use this mainly to work, gaming as an added bonus. I do have a 580 and at 1080p is capable keeping a steady 60fps on high to highest settings im most newer games, so dropping to medium on 1440p is not that big of a deal. My main concerns are the price difference, the extra 2GB of ram and application performance and if spending a little less now and upgrading to a better GPU 1-2 years from now makes sense.

Hi there! I'm building a PC for a friend, he mainly uses it for 3D applications, Photoshop, Premiere and light gaming. For the GPU I mainly have two options, both used: RX 580 4GB ~ 130€ GTX 1060 6GB ~ 210€ They seem to go head-to-head in most situations, the 1060 could have a slight edge on Adobe and Blender, plus the extra 2GB can benefit the longevity of the system. The 80€ price difference, however, is making me think twice about this. For the rest with the system I'm going with: Ryzen 5 3600 + 212 EVO 16GB 2x8 3200MHz GIGABYTE DS3H B550m 500W PSU 1440p Monitor 500GB NVMe Which one would you choose? Could spending less now and getting an upgrade later on be an option?

It now keeps crashing while being on the desktop and there are dumps! In the Minidumps folder i found a bunch of them. here they are 033120-8906-01-aida64 stress.dmp 033120-8921-01-while_analyzing.dmp 033120-41078-01-while_on_desktop.dmp

Hi there! Lately i've been unable to play pretty much any game, it started with Battlefield 1 / 5 as closing it from the in-game menu would crash the computer, other ways of terminating it didn't cause problems. Then it started crashing after ~20 minutes of gameplay. During this time The Sims 4 never had any problems until week ago. A red VGA_LED lit up on the mobo, stress testing the GPU with AIDA64 would crash after seconds to minutes, same story with Furmark. Despite the overclock CPU and RAM are stable, no problems while stress testing there. It started getting pretty bad, the computer would crash withoud BSOD or saving any useful logs or memory dumps, often with the monitor displaying a single color. At this point i was pretty sure this was a GPU problem an old R9 290X with an aftermarket cooler, so i ordered another GPU, a used RX 580 nitro+. I made sure to get a video from the seller proving it worked withoud problems. The card arrived today, i cleared the bios, removed the overclock, removed and reinstalled windows drivers, tested it a bit using AIDA64 and everything seemed ok but as soon as i started Furmark the computer crashed. Tried swapping PCI slot, i couldn't do it before as the card was too long and windows wouldn't boot, as soon as the spinny thing appeared it would freeze. After re-swapping the PCI slot windows wouldn't detect the GPU for a few reboots but now is working. Now windows boots just fine, the GPU is detected, i can open Radeon Settings but after just a minute of playing Battlefield 5 it crashes again. The only thing appearing on the Event viewer is a Bugcheck reboot [ 0x00000116 (0xffffcf0988d32010, 0xfffff800fbe10818, 0xffffffffc0000001, 0x0000000000000003) ] with no memory dump. The VGA_LED is still lit up. At this point i don't know what to do. It looks like the GPU was not the problem after all, could it be the motherboard? Is there any way i could test it? Do you suggest anything? Thanks. Specs: CPU: i7 3770K @ 4.6 GHz MOBO: Z77 OC Forumula RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP PSU: PRO850W XFX GPU: R9 290X / RX 580

They are both a bit clunky, i think, isn't there a more business oriented solution?

I forgot to mention, another big thing that's keeping me from buying the 7559 is the quality. For 800-900€ and those specs you get what you pay for, and many many long term reviews mention the crappy quality touchpad and keyboard, low color reproduction and backlight bleed on the screen, etc.. I don't want the absolute best, but as a laptop that i'll be using everyday i need a bit more quality.

Hi there everybody! I'm looking for a laptop here, i initially started looking for the Inspiron 15 7559: i7 6700HQ 960m 4GB 1TB HDD 800 - 900 € But then i analyzed what i needed better. I'm going to use this laptop almost every day for a few years and do at least a half hour trip every day to get to my university, so portability became a key, the Inspiron weights in at a whopping 2.57Kg / 5.67 pounds, here i have another 15" laptop that weights 2.6Kg and i definitely don't think i'm willing to carry that thing ever day. So i started looking for some more portable laptops, and i found an offer for an XPS 15. Used for just four months: i7 6700HQ 960m 2GB 512 GB NVMe 1300€ It's actually a great offer, here in italy that same configuration goes for 1750€ on the official website, and the laptop looks to be in perfect conditions. It's a quite big bump in the price though. I would be willing to spend this money, as it's a quality laptop that has good battery life, tops specs, very portable ( almost one full Kg less and smaller than a regular 15" ) and that has to last a few years, but there's one problem. I'm going to do Computer Engineering in one of the best universities in my country, to do that i have to move quite far away from home and my girlfriend is coming with me. The fact that, economically speaking, she's struggling a bit to follow me makes me think more than twice about getting a 1300€ laptop. What do you think? Is it overkill? should i get something else? What would you have done?

This is actually fantastic, i never knew about this company, however, the portability problem remains, as i think about it it becomes more and more important.

I'm actually also looking for the xps 13 right now, I'ts snappy, beautiful and extremely portable, yet, i'd like a bit more power, as i'll be moving constantly, it's a tough decision.