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stay away sir, look for something else that has a dedicated GPU if you want to game at all. something with a 1060 or 1650, 1660.

If anyone else has these issues here is the fix, GET RID OF AI professional & Gaming app. It quite possibly the most useless gimmicky crap I have seen in awhile. Uninstall it, than you can use those buttons in the above post pic to put the laptop in a certain CPU power and GPU power mode. You can than select whatever fan profile you want. While Gaming I run fans at FULL blast to keep temps down. Even after a modest OC on the gpu of 110 core and 600mem, temps dont climb above 76 when fans are full blast. CPU hovers around 79-87 while gaming even with fans at full blast. FPS are better than with the AI enabled, average 99-103 again which I can live with. RTX 2070 Super Max-Q def does not pack the power of a desktop version of RTX 2070 super thats for sure, with the OC on it i get 1500-1600mhz constant which is not too shabby for a little laptop GPU. I am certain with a desktop version of RTX 2070 super you would see well above 120+ fps average in COD Raytracing on @ 1080p. IF anyone has a desktop version of rtx 2070 super please keep me honest what you get FPS wise in COD.

I have no idea how this control center is suppose to work with Ai gaming & performance on. I have a Aorus 15G, although its great, and it has treated me well, I am confused on how this all works. I am used to leaving my computer on max performance and thats it. No matter what tasks I am doing or gaming the computer provides the power needed for the task at hand. With this Ai gaming and professional crap I feel like its killing performance. I dont see anywhere to adjust performance profiles anywhere on this laptop as this gaming Ai controls all of that. I have uninstalled the Ai utility and tried to see if I can adjust power modes manually but still cant find anywhere that I can do so. Hitting the buttons for cpu and GPU dont do anything at all (pic below). This thing is just all too confusing, I wish they would have just left well enough alone and let me choose in windows what power profile I always want running, end of story. Bottom line performance is suffering while gaming. I was able to average 103 FPS in COD with ray tracing on most of the time but now I am lucky to crack 100FPS at all. No idea what is up. I have updated drivers to the newest that were released today and no luck. The processor has never boosted since I have owned this laptop to 5.1 as advertised for any amount of time. Highest I have hit is 4.8ghz, which makes think this thing is not utilizing its full potential. If anyone has any experience with this poorly constructed control center or the Ai performance and gaming utility please chime in. Pic

I will throw the new Aorus 15G's hat in the ring. Check it out, awesome performance.

We hire Level 1 techs that don’t have any certs or experience all the time. We train them and on average within 12 months they have bee promoted to escalation tech. We are looking for some right now actually. I never once said we don’t hire people without experience. Just don’t expect to get paid $50k+ with no experience.

Do you have a spare CPU you can toss in the socket and test? Spare mobo to do the same? Same goes with PSU. I have seen really odd things happen when a PSU starts going bad. Another silly item which people tend to forget about, is your CPU cooling working? Fan spinning? If water block, is the water flowing?

Couldn't agree more with what @WereCatf said. Another way to gain knowledge, if you are in school is intern with a IT MSP or an internal IT department with a medium to enterprise size business. You won't get paid, BUT, the experience and knowledge you will gain in a few years will be more than what you will learn in school. It is very easy to get your hands on networking equipment for cheap or free from these internal IT companies as they upgrade their existing infrastructure. Learning to configure a firewall for instance (you learn one, you learn all, they ALL do the same thing just worded different) will be valuable. How to configure nat policies, routing policies, VLAN's etc. Those are all SUPER useful in the real world. I always give my techs the same advice when they start out in Level 1 position, if this something you truly are passionate about and want to advance, learn as much as you can and not just at work, on your own time. You can only learn so much at work as most issues are the same or reoccurring with different clients. How much can you possible learn installing printer drivers and resting AD and email passwords? Not a hell of a lot. Research and learning on your own time is key.

I am an IT manager, and I have only 1 cert, the most basic of basic A+. Experience outweighs any certs IMHO, and I have 20 years of it. I guess every company is different and some require certs and some don't. Are they necessary? No, are they great sure, do they build knowledge? sure, but breaking shit and fixing it yourself, creating a lab at home is the best way to learn and be creative. I am not a book person, and never did great on tests. I do have a computer science degree, but I can pretty much wipe my ass with it because its useless. I learned the most when someone gave me a used server (windows server 2000). I setup a lab at home, and went to town creating my own environment. With all the youtube training these days, you can learn to build and troubleshoot a server environment rather easily. Learning virtualization, AWS, Microsoft Azure & 365 is what will rocket you to the top. That is the way of the future when it comes to medium business and enterprise.

I must say, I deal with Dell a lot for work ( IT manager) and their support is probably one of the best in the industry. When we purchase servers we always get 3 years same day service (servers sometimes need to be brought back online ASAP) and sure enough a tech shows up same day to replace anything. Awesome tech support.

if you can afford it you cant go wrong with M surface pro. Love mine, super quick, super light and probably one of the best 2 in 1's in my opinion. Detachable keyboard is awesome and is great for taking notes. I have a surface pro 7, and use it for onsite work and business travel all the time. One hint with surface, always buy the best you can afford because you cannot upgrade them. Good luck in your search

HP literally loads massive amounts of bloatware on their devices, what is with them? Every client that brings in a laptop for us to setup thats HP I immediately reimage it with win 10.

the fact that MSI assembled these laptops upside down on purpose so you couldn't add your own RAM etc, completely turned me off of MSI. They are so god dam annoying, I bought a Trident 3 9th gen a few months back and that thing was a piece of shit hands down. Sold it to some sucker for what I bought it for so at least I got my money back. MSI also puts stickers on the screws on the trident as well so they know when you have opened and they void your warranty. Screw MSI, sick of their bs when it comes adding my own drives and ram and them voiding the warranty if you do. I will never buy and MSI anything again. Gigabyte and Asus usually get my money.

Ya its pretty bad ass. I am running one in my Aorus 15G, and let me tell ya, spring for the 2070 MAX Q, you wont regret it.

So I bit the bullet and bought a Aorus 15g from newegg, I7 8 core 10875h, RTX 2070 super max Q, 16gb (8x2) 3200 RAM and 512GB, NVME SSD (added an extra 1TB samsung EVO NVME).. However, it came with a stuck pixel right out of the box so that immediately went back to newegg for RMA and got my refund from newegg (I love newegg). Everyone was sold out of this laptop during this covid time so I hopped onto amazon and ordered one. It took two friggin weeks to finally show up, but man oh man am I in love with this laptop. This keyboard is a dream, full mechanical very clicky, nice feed back, probably one of the best keyboards I have ever used for a laptop (if you like mechanical). I have never owned a gaming laptop before always built my own gaming rigs but since I had no more room for a gaming rig I decided to switch to a gaming laptop. This thing runs everything on high that I can throw at it including all my VR games with the rift s. The 244hz screen is absolutely breath taking, such crisp images. Did a little modest over clocking to the 2070 super, 85 on the core and 500 on the ram. Getting really nice frames with COD with Ray tracing on and everything maxed out, avg around 103 FPS, maxing our at 140 FPS.. If anyone is looking for a gaming laptop I highly recommend this thing, it is completely bad ass, well done Aorus.