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I was wondering if I should get a new laptop. The one that I have is the Acer Predator helios 500 (1070 + i7 8750h). The one that I was thinking of getting is:https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU506084/ASUS-TUF-TUF506IV-HN254T-RTX-2060-Gaming-Laptop-15
 
Main concerns are thermals and gaming performance. The 2060 laptop is a great deal for NZ prices but I want a second opinion.

Acer Predator Helios 500

 

8th Gen Intel Core i7 8750H

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 8GB (Mobile)

16GB DDR4 SDRAM

1TB Hard Drive

256 GB Solid State Drive

Processor Speed 2.20 GHz

Wireless LAN Standard IEEE 802.11ac

Screen Resolution 1920 × 1080

Operating System: Windows 10 Home

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Heads up, the screen on that is garbage for colors

desktop

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r5 3600,3450@0.9v (0.875v get) 4.2ghz@1.25v (1.212 get) | custom loop cpu&gpu 1260mm nexxos xt45 | MSI b450i gaming ac | crucial ballistix 2x8 3000c15->3733c15@1.39v(1.376v get) |Zotac 2060 amp | 256GB Samsung 950 pro nvme | 1TB Adata su800 | 4TB HGST drive | Silverstone SX500-LG

HTPC

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HTPC i3 7300 | Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H | 16GB G Skill | Adata XPG SX8000 128GB M.2 | Many HDDs | Rosewill FBM-01 | Corsair CXM 450W

 

 

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My personal move if I was in the market for a gaming laptop would be to wait for mobile versions of the new GPUs to come out.  It does put kind of a long wait on things.  Might be why it’s so cheap.  

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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6 hours ago, gravdestroyer said:
I was wondering if I should get a new laptop. The one that I have is the Acer Predator helios 500 (1070 + i7 8750h). The one that I was thinking of getting is:https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU506084/ASUS-TUF-TUF506IV-HN254T-RTX-2060-Gaming-Laptop-15
 
Main concerns are thermals and gaming performance. The 2060 laptop is a great deal for NZ prices but I want a second opinion.

If your current one is working fine and playing your games to your satisfaction, I'd say save your money. You might get a few frames from a 2060 versus a 1070 but not worth spending money on. And the TUF series has garbage panels, there's a dude called Jarrod on Youtube that reviewed them and showed how terrible their colors and response times were, despite being 144Hz panels.

 

Q2 of 2021 the 3000 series mobile GPUs should out, and that'd be a decent upgrade from your current setup if you were so inclined.

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7 hours ago, gravdestroyer said:

avoid TUF

 

your budget?

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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