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Consider the Acer Swift 3 SF314-52G (i7-8550U, MX150). The display is a bit dimm (~220cd at max) but it has over 7 hours of runtime. srgb ~55%

If you can live with the display it packs quite some power.

I am afraid not.

Soldering problems? (Just guessing here)

1 minute ago, lewdicrous said:

Some say GTX, others say RTX.. Who do we believe?

Nobody till they are actually revealed?

I remember the Acer not having the best thermals.

Have to look at the vivobook before I can say something more dedicated.

EDIT:

The acer does not have bad thermals. It looks like a great allrounder.

The fridge would have to be running all the time (which most dont because that is loud).

Otherwise it would be cooling stronger, but not more efficiently.

If one would go that far it would probably better to build a custom system for cooling with a fluid like in the fridge (I wont go into details here).

EDIT:

not more efficient because you have another part to power, the cooling itself would be amplified

Just now, emosun said:

Again this would be any gpu,

Meaning a 1080 will always be faster than a 1030 on any matching bandwidth slot. the only reason you would buy a 1030 is if you wanted the performance to be worse , or just wanted the gpu to be cheap and basic

Ok thanks. Then it seems I misunderstood the actual influence of bandwith.

3 minutes ago, emosun said:

that would be any gpu which fits in the slot and isn't a 1x card

I meant without bottlenecking the GPU too much. (I now hate the word bottlenecking)

It would be unreasonable to use a GTX1080 on a PCIe 2.0  with a x4 bandwith. Thus I am wondering how much bandwith the lower end (GT1030) GPUs actually need not to be limited in an unnecessary manner.

Hey there!

I wondered if anyone knows a GPU which is using the bandwith most effectively.

(Use in case you wonder is a dual gpu setup where one runs Linux and the other a Windows emulation, got the idea from the video about gaming on Linux with Wendell from Level1Techs).

I would recommend waiting a week till the new nvidia gpus are announced and look if its worth waiting for stock of them to arrive.

It is hard to plan with a wildcard like that in the next few days

I think you would need to upgrade both not to make a great bottleneck.

The gold processor is not bad or anything and I think for a 1050ti it should be sufficient.

What loads do you get during games?

Phantooks Evolv mini-itx (kind of cheating because it sadly is quite big for mini-itx)

not too much because they are holding back the new series anyways

Start off with new thermal paste, you could also try clean your fans and look if they are still running smoothly.

Was it always this loud or has it become louder over time?

I would recommend waiting for the announcement of the new nvidia gpus.

They might push the prices a bit or be worth buying themselves.

Just now, nekooo said:

Thanks for the suggestion! How exactly does reapplying thermal paste and reinstalling windows help btw? (not doubting you, just want to understand it properly)

Thermal paste dries out and thus loses thermal conductivity. Reinstalling windows can help because then parts of code slowing your computer down are deleted.

Does not look extensively warm to me.

I think the CPU is soldered so you wont be able to do a CPU upgrade.

There are only very few laptops which actually have swappable CPUs (mostly desktop cpus)

EDIT:

Is the lenovo Yoga Book an option?

19 hours ago, AmethystCash said:

So to be clear the cooler is loud but will work under heavy load?

The boxed (included) cooler is made so it fits the thermals of the processor (not overclocked, as you are not buying a k that is not of concern). However they just give you a cooler so your cpu can work out of the box and there will be more silent ones on the market. I dont know how *loud* the boxed one here is but it generally is not silent.

I havent bought thermal paste myself, but I think Linus has a video for it. You could also consider one of the liquid metal pads (Coolaboroty I think has good reviews, here is a video on liquid metal pads: Linus video)

The CPU is not unlocked so you wont "need" another cooler, however if you want it more silent then you probably want one. (dont know how loud the boxed is)

Thermal past should be seperate.

30fps?