Would setting a resolution lower save battery?

[Dionyz]

Basically I was going to buy a raser blade stealth the 1,000 dollar version, but I see a ad on craiglist for an 4k model for the same price. Now I am thinking if I were to set the resolution to 2560 x 1440 instead of 4k would I get the same battery life as the normal 2560 x 1440  version?

[courtiousdoge]

2 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

Basically I was going to buy a raser blade stealth the 1,000 dollar version, but I see a ad on craiglist for an 4k model for the same price. Now I am thinking if I were to set the resolution to 2560 x 1440 instead of 4k would I get the same battery life as the normal 2560 x 1440  version?

yes if the batteries are the same and the monitor is the same except the resolution

[ZetZet]

No. It will just look shit. 

[Matias_Chambers]

1 minute ago, ZetZet said:

No. It will just look shit. 

I agree that it will look bad, but it will save battery.

[Dackzy]

Dude don't get a razer blade laptop, they all thermal throttle and run at 90c+ if you just use the cpu a little.

[ShadowCaptain]

3 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

No. It will just look shit. 

This

 

Just because you set a lower resolution, the screen still has to send power to each pixel, its just downscaling to a lower resolution

it might save a small bit of battery when gaming cos the GPU doenst have to work as hard, but otherwise no effect

[y_unit265]

If you are asking using the 4k display to display 1440p, No it should not make a noticeable difference. You don't change am mount of power your screen will draw as it will remain a 4k screen. I don't know if a gpu pulls less power when it is under less load, which would make the difference.

[ZetZet]

4 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

I agree that it will look bad, but it will save battery.

it will not, not on desktop at least.

[y_unit265]

1 minute ago, ZetZet said:

it will not, not on desktop at least.

That must be a large battery you have then

[Dionyz]

3 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Dude don't get a razer blade laptop, they all thermal throttle and run at 90c+ if you just use the cpu a little.

 

[ZetZet]

2 minutes ago, y_unit265 said:

That must be a large battery you have then

I mean on 2d desktop.

 

 

the only way it could save battery is from gpu doing less work rendering, but on desktop environment it would make no difference.

 

 

you could only save battery if you game at lower resolution with capped fps. 

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Dionyz said:

 

yeah, they have heat problems and they thermal throttle. Let us keep it real here razer and quality control is an non existing thing

[Dionyz]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

yeah, they have heat problems and they thermal throttle. Let us keep it real here razer and quality control is an non existing thing

did you click the play button? Unless you are stress testing you are not going to hit the 90's

[KuJoe]

This was an interesting question so I hooked up one of my netbooks to a Kill-a-watt meter and pulled out the battery to see if changing the resolution from the max (1366x768) to the lowest (800x600) would impact the power consumption at the wall (and thus impact the drain on the battery) and the power draw is nearly the same (fluctuating between 13.3 and 13.8 on idle at both resolutions).

 

EDIT: And I know it is not a Razer Blade Stealth but the principal is the same.

[Dackzy]

8 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

did you click the play button? Unless you are stress testing you are not going to hit the 90's

It will hit the around the 90c with around 50% use dave lee also did a video about it, it is your money so if you want to waste it on a shitty laptop with heat and build problems, I can't stop you. I will just say that all the people I know that owns one really regrets it because the quality control is shit and the heat problem is not okay at all. (they bought them in the US.) It is not a good laptop unless you edit word and thats it. The fact that they can't even cool a 15w CPU properly, must tell you something about how shit it really is.

 

[don_svetlio]

20 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

Basically I was going to buy a raser blade stealth the 1,000 dollar version, but I see a ad on craiglist for an 4k model for the same price. Now I am thinking if I were to set the resolution to 2560 x 1440 instead of 4k would I get the same battery life as the normal 2560 x 1440  version?

Avoid Razer laptops - poor cooling and noisy fans

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

It will hit the around the 90c with around 50% use dave lee also did a video about it, it is your money so if you want to waste it on a shitty laptop with heat and build problems, I can't stop you. I will just say that all the people I know that owns one really regrets it because the quality control is shit and the heat problem is not okay at all. (they bought them in the US.) It is not a good laptop unless you edit word and thats it. The fact that they can't even cool a 15w CPU properly, most tell you something about how shit it really is.

 

see edit

 

[Dionyz]

5 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Avoid Razer laptops - poor cooling and noisy fans

Same as macbook air >.< ... Basically I want to run a game to AFK, but there is no settings in which I can down clock my CPU to not run as hot. I was hoping this would be a better alternative.

 

@Dackzy The video is razer blade. Not the stealth.

 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Dionyz said:

Same as macbook air >.< ... Basically I want to run a game to AFK, but there is no settings in which I can down clock my CPU to not run as hot. I was hoping this would be a better alternative.

 

If you want a gaming laptop

A - Razer BS can't run games as it has no GPU
B - Razer core costs more than my wife
C - There are much better alternatives for 1000$
   -Lenovo Y700
   -Asus G552VW
   -MSI GS60/GE62
   -Dell Inspiron 7559

[Dackzy]

2 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

Same as macbook air >.< ... Basically I want to run a game to AFK, but there is no settings in which I can down clock my CPU to not run as hot. I was hoping this would be a better alternative.

 

@Dackzy The video is razer blade. Not the stealth.

 

It is the same with the stealth, they are shit and belong in the god damn trash just like acer laptops.

[Dionyz]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

If you want a gaming laptop

A - Razer BS can't run games as it has no GPU
B - Razer core costs more than my wife
C - There are much better alternatives for 1000$
   -Lenovo Y700
   -Asus G552VW
   -MSI GS60/GE62
   -Dell Inspiron 7559

Looking for something thin. Basically a ultrabook, but does not run at 90 c underload.... The game I want to run is one that I will AFK and leach off of.

[don_svetlio]

4 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

Same as macbook air >.< ... Basically I want to run a game to AFK, but there is no settings in which I can down clock my CPU to not run as hot. I was hoping this would be a better alternative.

 

@Dackzy The video is razer blade. Not the stealth.

 

Stealth is worse - the fans are SO THIN and the heatsink is SO SMALL that it just is useless to even have them in the first place

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Dionyz said:

Looking for something thin. Basically a ultrabook, but does not run at 90 c underload....

That does not exist

[Dackzy]

3 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

Looking for something thin. Basically a ultrabook, but does not run at 90 c underload....

What kinda of load?