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Lenovo Legion 5 or a Nice PC and small Laptop?

L0lig1
By L0lig1
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Budget (including currency): 1100€ or 800+300€

Country: Austria

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video editing, games, coding

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Upgrading from a Toshiba Satellite L775-s7355 laptop

 

I will start my uni studies for the computer science bachelor and I need an upgrade. I need a laptop for Uni, but something that is good enough for other things like video editing and gaming (like the Lenovo Legion 5 with R7-4800H and GTX 1660ti). But I also have the idea of building a PC and getting a "does the basics" laptop. Thing is I'm still totally inexperienced when it comes to coding, algorithms and stuff so I don't even know if a "does the basics" laptop would handle that kind of workload.

 

So the question: Do I just buy a Lenovo Legion 5 with the specs mentioned or build a decent PC for 800€ and get a laptop for 300€ for uni purposes?

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If you still need a monitor and the rest of the peripherals, just get the laptop. Otherwise, you will get a crappy pc with a crappy laptop.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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