2880 x 1620 questions

[Buckwildz12]

I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I'm buying a laptop. The gigabyte p35x v4. It comes with a 2880 x 1620 or a 1080p option I like the idea of a 3k display but also know that it will cut Fram rates while gaming at that resolution. My question is could I still purchase the 3k display and just play games that are more demanding at 1080p to not sacrifice performance? Any info or suggestion would be great.

 

[Buckwildz12]

Bump

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

You can purchase the laptop with the higher resolution option, and then game at any resolution lower than it's native resolution that you want. What you have to accept is that, most likely, if the lower resolution fills the screen, it will likely have some blurring, and if it doesn't fill the screen, it will have some black bordering.

 

[MarkW]

Go for the 1080p. It will produce far less heat in that mode, and heat is the one thing on a laptop that you cannot do a whole lot about. The monitor on those is small enough that the PPI (pixel per inch) count is going to be real high even at 1080p.

The other point to be made is that almost every laptop uses a mobile version of the GPU. And this one is no different. It comes with a 980M. Mobile GPU's are a good level or two below the desktop GPU's performance-wise. So a laptop with 980M is going to be like having a weak 970 or possibly a 960 on the desktop.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

All good points, although I would question a laptop that has heat issues from the factory, and would say, if you do any sort of development work on the go, screen real estate may trump anything game related.

 

[MarkW]

You would be amazed at what we see here. I know Gigabyte is a good company. But sometimes, even laptops that are advertised as gaming laptops suffer either from being slow, or having heat issues when gaming. Or both.

I have not heard anything about this laptop you are looking at, nor have I used one. But I would look for reviews on it, and pay attention to what the reviewers say about performance and heat in particular. And I never take a single reviewers opinion as gospel.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

When you mention heat issues, Apple and HP come to mind. I have seen both that were essentially new and suffering from form over function and were shutting down or freezing from heat. But anything new would be under warranty, so if the owner was subject to listening to reason... but I digress!