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SATA III SSD you mean a model such as Samsung 870 EVO? Great, I see 4 TB is too expensive, maybe I can try lower but I do not need much storage capacity, mainly get rid of that hard drive, is very slow and I can´t find any use for it other than opening Excel, doc and pdf files...

Hello This is the laptop I use for casual gaming and travelling: MSI GE75 Raider 2020 CPU: Intel Core i7 10750H RAM: 32 GB DDR4 Hard Drives (stock): 500 GB SSD NVMe + 1 TB 5400 rpm GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 Super It works perfectly fine, no problem at all. I recently cleaned it and added thermal...

I had a look at https://www.passmark.com/ and I am interested in this laptop CPUs CPU Single Core Benchmark i9-13980HX 4415 i9-13900HX 4264 i9-13950HX 4193 i7-13700HX 4061 Ryzen 9 7845HX 4040 i9-13900H 3989 i7-13650HX 3937 i9-12900HX 3928 i9-12950HX 3881 i9-12900H 3869...

Thank you for the feedback. How this liquid cooling system works? PCS Liquid Series Laptop Cooler + Liquid Metal Performance Cooling It seems it consists in the device you see attached to the laptop + Thermal Paste "Liquid Metal Performance Cooling". They mention that PCS Liquid Series...

My 2 future options: 1. 17,3" VALEON https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/valeon-ii-17/ Price: 2264€ Chassis & Display: 17´´ Matte QHD 240 Hz sRGB LED Widescreen 2560x1440 CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX RAM: 64 GB Corsair 4800 MHz SODIMM (2x32GB) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop 1st...

I would like to identify the bottleneck of my current laptop as I am saving money to purchase a more customizable laptop at Pc Specialist: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/custom-laptops/ I mostly play Total War games, but also other rts and turn-based strategy games. My current laptop and specs...

Is there a laptop CPU with same/similar single core performance as the I9-9900K? If not at least as powerful as i7 8700K?

List of RTS games: The Great War: Western Front. Max settings. Installer: Steam. 30-50 fps Total War: Attila. Mix of quality-max quality settings, units: large. Installer: Steam. 65 fps, big battles as low as 10 fps Total War: Empire. Max settings. Installer: Steam. Usually above 80 fps with...

Thank you for asking this. I am also interested in Recoil series, I think this one is fairly new. I read some reviews from past recoil models saying usually cooling is not good but I see this new one as liquid cooling available to purchase separately which is about 150 euro. I think it worths to...

Hi, Is a good idea to use a laptop to play rts games? I found some performance issues with some rts games, but also some people with desktop experience the same. I was never able to play decently Attila Total War and now The Great War: Western Front using laptops no matter the money I spent. My...

So I have a MSI GE75 Raider (2020) laptop and sometimes the temperature is high and very hot while playing. I realized I was not using the feature Cooler Boost 5 that is helping to keep the temperature in a safer range. However, when should it be used? While playing? after playing? Is it good...

Update... I checked AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i9 13900HX and the difference is huge, at least in single core performance: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-13900HX-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-6900HX/m2023039vsm1792755 The price gap does not compensate going for Valeon. It seems...

I am thinking to play also Napoleon Total War, it seems there is an issue with Intel 12th and 13th generation CPUs. There is another option that looks good in pc specialist: Valeon 17.3´´ https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/valeon-ii-17/overview/ With this setup the price is 2333 eur...

Thank you for the feedback. is it possible to play at resolution 1920x1080? Also what is the difference between 1x32GB and 2x16GB RAM? Also which hard drive is better in terms of speed/performance? Maybe it worths having a fast 1 TB instead of a less efficient 2 TB?

As new GPU Nvidia 4th RTX generation is coming to laptops I think is a good time for a new laptop. I´ve just seen a customizable laptop I am very interested in: PC Specialist 17" RECOIL® https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/recoil-VII-17/overview/ I am interested in this laptop because I...