Worth upgrading?

[TheNaitsyrk]

I currently have:

 

MSI Titan GT77HX 13980HX 4090 128GB RAM 6TB NVMe 
MSI Titan 18HX 14900HX 4090 192GB RAM 12TB NVMe

 

I use one at home so it stays pristine (18HX) and another to have in a backpack and not care at all.

 

Is a 5090 laptop upgrade worth it at all?

 

I saw news saying they are sort of a flop at the moment, with exception of extra VRAM.

Worth selling and upgrading or should I keep them going until 6000 series?

 

My 18HX is brand new untouched in a box and I still paid £3000 exactly.

 

My GT77HX has had full replacement of everything, new cooler, new back shell, new palm rest with keyboard, new shell under, new bezel and now awaiting a new screen. Full rebuild. Cost total along with the laptop is around £3000 as well.

So they're both technically mint and pristine once screen arrives.

 

I'm the kind of guy who always has latest and greatest but this gen I have a suspicion it's pointless

[jaslion]

26 minutes ago, TheNaitsyrk said:

m the kind of guy who always has latest and greatest but this gen I have a suspicion it's poi

I mean thats usually pointless and I know you love yo go silly extreme so it says a lot when even you are doubting :p.

 

Anyway usuall advice got a actual usecase for it cept for fun? If not hard pass on yhe 5090 laptops or well regular 5090

[TheNaitsyrk]

15 minutes ago, jaslion said:

I mean thats usually pointless and I know you love yo go silly extreme so it says a lot when even you are doubting :p.

 

Anyway usuall advice got a actual usecase for it cept for fun? If not hard pass on yhe 5090 laptops or well regular 5090

Yeah the only thing that's nice is the extra VRAM

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, TheNaitsyrk said:

Yeah the only thing that's nice is the extra VRAM

Well do you ACTUALLY need it?

 

The 4090 mobile is around a 7900gre and well 16gb is a perfectly fine amount there because well unless you got 64k minecraft texture pack with realistic shaders or play a modern tripple a game with the ultra hd (aka super terrible performance guaranteed for free) pack 16gb gb of vram is heaps for that class of card for gaming.

 

Mobile proper workstation tasks? Maybe not but well get the rtx pro quadro a whatever the fuck nvidia wants to call em this time

[Ha-Satan]

 

[Commodus]

2 hours ago, TheNaitsyrk said:

I currently have:

 

MSI Titan GT77HX 13980HX 4090 128GB RAM 6TB NVMe 
MSI Titan 18HX 14900HX 4090 192GB RAM 12TB NVMe

 

I use one at home so it stays pristine (18HX) and another to have in a backpack and not care at all.

 

Is a 5090 laptop upgrade worth it at all?

 

I saw news saying they are sort of a flop at the moment, with exception of extra VRAM.

Worth selling and upgrading or should I keep them going until 6000 series?

 

My 18HX is brand new untouched in a box and I still paid £3000 exactly.

 

My GT77HX has had full replacement of everything, new cooler, new back shell, new palm rest with keyboard, new shell under, new bezel and now awaiting a new screen. Full rebuild. Cost total along with the laptop is around £3000 as well.

So they're both technically mint and pristine once screen arrives.

 

I'm the kind of guy who always has latest and greatest but this gen I have a suspicion it's pointless

It's not even slightly worthwhile, if I'm frank.

 

The real-world gains are modest, even if you include the CPU upgrade to a Core Ultra Series 2 chip.

 

My rule with all tech, including PCs, is simple: don't upgrade until you see a difference you'll appreciate every day. A 10 percent increase in frame rates outside of DLSS 4 (which mainly helps when frame rates are already high)? You're not going to notice it. And I suspect this year's MSI Titan laptops aren't fundamentally better in other respects.

 

I'd even be wary about RTX 60 series GPUs.

 

Put that money into other purchases... or better yet, experiences. Take a vacation. Do something you've always wanted to do. You won't remember most of your laptop upgrades; you will remember a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.