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He's using it because it fits his purpose. If you replaced my laptop GPU with a 580 a lot of my games would stop working.
which ones? id definitely be turning the graphics way down and that would suck, but i'm struggling to think of something i straight up wouldn't be able to play.
My laptop due to MSIs poor decisions and my not knowing better is 4k so uh... Most games, but definitely cyberpunk, probably Baldur's gate 3, CS2 probably has issues on some maps because other people bitch about nuke and train.
I played cyberpunk originally at 1080p medium on a 1070 and it wasn't the greatest experience, but I've had worse. I can probably provide a more updated list when I get home, just requires scrolling because I have too many games installed.
yeah, 4k gaming is probably not good on a 580. you can always do integer scaling for 1080p.
I tried 1080p and it looks like shit on the 4k, I don't really understand why.
Lesson learned though, next laptop is 1440p. I always learn 1 major lesson from a new computer, last time it was 'hyperthreading matters' and this time it's '4k laptop is dumb'
maybe you are using panel scaling, which sucks. its been a while, so i dont remember how to fix this on windows, but iirc its fixable.
I just left the screen at 4k and told the game 1080p. I figure I'll ignore the potential issue until I run into performance problems in a couple years
Ugh, laptops without hyper threading should be illegal. At least core 200 series has E cores, but still you’d need 2 more P cores to make up for the lack of HT.
My first gaming laptop had an i5 7600k, good and all, but yeah no hyper threading. On the plus side, that laptop was the first time I learned some laptops can replace CPUs so I put an i7 in it after a couple years.
Wait. A gaming laptop had a desktop i5? If you’re going to put a desktop CPU into a laptop it better be the best one. A laptop i7 would probably crush that thing unless it was overclocked. Especially at 7th Gen. right as zen was rolling out the gates. Games started to properly take advantage of more than 4 threads for a while at that point.
4th or 5th Gen. was the last time you got replaceable laptop CPUs. But to this day they still make laptops with desktop CPUs.
It was an old one, clevo, makes fat laptops. I had the i5 overclocked to 4.7 or 4.8? It didn't appreciate it but it also didn't crash or thermal throttle so the only real issue was the thrust produced by the fans. The i7 7700 went slightly higher but not hotter, and that's what I put in it after I learned hyper threading really mattered, not just having 4 cores.
I miss that laptop, 5 screws to take off the back and it just slides off? Fucking god tier accessibility. Have an MSI titan now and it's like 17 screws and a bunch of clips. It also has the fastest processor available when I got it because I learned a lesson haha.