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I got this laptop from Walmart about a year ago. Punches way above its weight/price class. Have tried many of the Asus/MSI/ Dell alternatives and I like this one the most. From amazing screen, full power 3070, keyboard all great. Can't go wrong for a G.
I bought this brand new on sale from Lenovo maybe 12-18 months ago, i think for around 1300-1400. No complaints with this as a gaming laptop. I did swap the ram for 32GB, due to the well known concerns with the ram quality on this specific machine. Don't know if it really made a difference or not. I think this is still a great deal. if i was in the market for a gaming laptop right now I would def get.
I bought this brand new on sale from Lenovo maybe 12-18 months ago, i think for around 1300-1400. No complaints with this as a gaming laptop. I did swap the ram for 32GB, due to the well known concerns with the ram quality on this specific machine. Don't know if it really made a difference or not. I think this is still a great deal. if i was in the market for a gaming laptop right now I would def get.
did the exact same thing, very solid all around laptop!
Anyone have experience with refurbs? My wife's laptop just randomly turns off and if I get a solid one she can have my decent one, haha.
I ordered this laptop and got it 2 days ago. The laptop feels brand new but it didn't come in a box. It has an amazing display. The RTX 3070 is very powerful but for some reason my cpu utilization is 3% which is bottlenecking and I am getting 30-40fps at 4k ultra. Btw my laptop didn't come with Lenovo vantage software. Don't know why. Overall it was a great laptop except the keyboard which is good but I use a MacBook. So, it feels little mushy.
I ordered this laptop and got it 2 days ago. The laptop feels brand new but it didn't come in a box. It has an amazing display. The RTX 3070 is very powerful but for some reason my cpu utilization is 3% which is bottlenecking and I am getting 30-40fps at 4k ultra. Btw my laptop didn't come with Lenovo vantage software. Don't know why. Overall it was a great laptop except the keyboard which is good but I use a MacBook. So, it feels little mushy.
What game? That is normal fps for many games. A 3070 mobile is slower then a 3060 desktop card and it's not meant for high fps 4k.
You kind of have it backwards my friend, a 3% CPU utilization shows that the CPU is not the bottleneck. Change the resolution to something like 720p or even lower and watch the CPU utilization skyrocket and become the bottleneck. The CPU doesn't really do very much when the fps is that low. In ideal circumstances an i9 13th Gen Intel CPU might possibly take you from 30-40 to 32-42 and it's utilization would still be like 3%. And that's ideal, you probably wouldn't see any difference at all until you got over at least 50 fps.
The 5800h is not the strongest CPU but it is a great pairing with a 3070 mobile and shouldn't bottleneck the GPU in any meaningful way.
A 5600x is recommended as the ideal budget CPU to pair with a 3080 desktop card without bottlenecking it.
It's possible that you could have some of the really slow ram that came with many of these laptops, that might be worth upgrading. But It won't make that much of a difference at 4k.
I bought this brand new on sale from Lenovo maybe 12-18 months ago, i think for around 1300-1400. No complaints with this as a gaming laptop. I did swap the ram for 32GB, due to the well known concerns with the ram quality on this specific machine. Don't know if it really made a difference or not. I think this is still a great deal. if i was in the market for a gaming laptop right now I would def get.
Bought mine 6 months ago and very happy with it. I did the same RAM upgrade, and benchmarked the gaming performance before/after. It was a significant improvement, although I don't recall exact numbers.
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You kind of have it backwards my friend, a 3% CPU utilization shows that the CPU is not the bottleneck. Change the resolution to something like 720p or even lower and watch the CPU utilization skyrocket and become the bottleneck. The CPU doesn't really do very much when the fps is that low. In ideal circumstances an i9 13th Gen Intel CPU might possibly take you from 30-40 to 32-42 and it's utilization would still be like 3%. And that's ideal, you probably wouldn't see any difference at all until you got over at least 50 fps.
The 5800h is not the strongest CPU but it is a great pairing with a 3070 mobile and shouldn't bottleneck the GPU in any meaningful way.
A 5600x is recommended as the ideal budget CPU to pair with a 3080 desktop card without bottlenecking it.
It's possible that you could have some of the really slow ram that came with many of these laptops, that might be worth upgrading. But It won't make that much of a difference at 4k.
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