Need the 500 nits screen option preconfigured...it's only a $30 option if you building your own laptop. Comon Lenovo...don't sway people into buying the Intel Legion Pro 5i version by not including a 500nits screen preconfigured on the AMD version...
Any reason to upgrade to this if coming from the previous gen with a 6800H and 3070ti? It looks like the base screen might act be a downgrade, I'm mostly curious if anyone has real world experience with the performance improvement, battery life, etc
Any reason to upgrade to this if coming from the previous gen with a 6800H and 3070ti? It looks like the base screen might act be a downgrade, I'm mostly curious if anyone has real world experience with the performance improvement, battery life, etc
i have the 6800 as well
not worth it even on paper
Need the 500 nits screen option preconfigured...it's only a $30 option if you building your own laptop. Comon Lenovo...don't sway people into buying the Intel Legion Pro 5i version by not including a 500nits screen preconfigured on the AMD version...
Agreed. I have this laptop and did the BYO version with the 500nits display. Definitely worth it. I got mine for $1590 before (SITE NOT TO BE NAMED) Cashback site that gave me $147 back.
i have the 6800 as well
not worth it even on paper
Thanks, yeah I thought the improvement was likely going to be marginal at best. I haven't really kept up on the gains in the 4000 series GPUS and 7000 series AMD chips since I had just bought the new laptop last yr
Any reason to upgrade to this if coming from the previous gen with a 6800H and 3070ti? It looks like the base screen might act be a downgrade, I'm mostly curious if anyone has real world experience with the performance improvement, battery life, etc
I have this laptop with 32 GB ram (model: 82WM0006US). Overall, it's okay. I do have some regret because the price vs performance (I paid $1600 with 15% cashback in May). It's too late for me to return it.
First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
I have this laptop with 32 GB ram (model: 82WM0006US). Overall, it's okay. I do have some regret because the price vs performance (I paid $1600 with 15% cashback in May). It's too late for me to return it.
First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
Do you have any laptop recommendation for the same price range?
Agreed. I have this laptop and did the BOY version with the 500nits display. Definitely worth it. I got mine for $1590 before (SITE NOT TO BE NAMED) Cashback site that gave me $147 back.
I have this laptop with 32 GB ram (model: 82WM0006US). Overall, it's okay. I do have some regret because the price vs performance (I paid $1600 with 15% cashback in May). It's too late for me to return it.
First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
Have you tried overclocking? In lenovo vantage, top right, flip GPU overclock to on. It's pretty painless and safe. I keep it on default at only 100gpu/200mem overclock and haven't had any problems. But it let's you push to 150/300 over stock. Overclocking only works if you're in turbo or performance mode, so make sure you put laptop in turbo mode (fn + q until light is red) when starting the game. Also, you probably know this but in case you don't, make sure optimus is off when playing a game as having integrated graphics on will cost you another 10% of performance or so.
Another thing to keep an eye on is Core Isolation, go to setting, search for it and make sure it's off. I noticed one of the windows updates enabled it for me. So I check up on it from time to time. It's a win 11 security feature that hurts game performance quite a bit.
Agreed. I have this laptop and did the BOY version with the 500nits display. Definitely worth it. I got mine for $1590 before (SITE NOT TO BE NAMED) Cashback site that gave me $147 back.
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not worth it even on paper
not worth it even on paper
Thanks, yeah I thought the improvement was likely going to be marginal at best. I haven't really kept up on the gains in the 4000 series GPUS and 7000 series AMD chips since I had just bought the new laptop last yr
First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
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First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
It's 3080 ti with 16 GB vRAM.
But as I said I probably choose desktop gaming PC instead because I don't use portable feature much.
How do I get the upgrade screen for just 30 more
It's only a little bit more when you're doing the build your own laptop that has this configuration.
First, the battery life: if I play games on battery, it only last 35 minutes from 100% to dead. I don't use the laptop for web-browsing or watching movies, so I don't know the battery life for those activities. Since I don't travel a lot, for the price I paid I think I should go for decent desktop gaming PC instead. Also, keep in mind, this laptop RTX 4070 is only 8GB vRAM. For desktop version, it's 12 GB vRAM.
Second, the performance: I played Hogwarts Legacy on this laptop. It runs on 1440P with all settings on high. It's fine most of the time with frame rate at 60. But at cutscenes or travelling to new area, maybe because video rendering behind the scene, it's stuttering a lot then stabilized. When connecting to 1080P monitor, the game will play on 1080P at 60 frame rate but still occasionally stuttering. It could be game software issue or just 8GB vRAM is not enough.
CPU temperature: when playing games, I have seen the CPU go up to 90~95 degrees. After installed most recent Nvidia driver, the temperature goes down a little and fan is still loud with or without laptop cooling pad. Most of time is around 70-80 degrees.
I bought this laptop to replace my Dell G3 3590 with RTX 1660 Ti MaxQ (6GB vRAM). I thought it should be a nice upgrade, but when playing the same game on Dell laptop with 1080P 60 FPS and low settings all, I could not tell mush difference between Lenovo 1440P all setting high vs Dell 1080P all setting low because my vision is not too sharp. So, for me, doesn't feel much of an upgrade.
Another thing to keep an eye on is Core Isolation, go to setting, search for it and make sure it's off. I noticed one of the windows updates enabled it for me. So I check up on it from time to time. It's a win 11 security feature that hurts game performance quite a bit.