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Any thoughts on this laptop? I was between this as the Acer Nitro 17 that was $1150 on Amazon, now $1316, and the Intel variant of the Acer at Microcenter for $1200.
I can see it has a better CPU and better spec screen at 240hz QHD. My question is reliability and build quality. I know anyone can get a lemon at any time, but maybe someone here has insight?
anyone have benchmarks for this maschine ! i heard the 4060 does not profit from 140w at all compare to the regular 110w or even 90w versions
Yeah, it caps out around 110W, so there's no point in running it higher and introducing heat for no reason. I went ahead and bought it. Picking it up today after work. If all goes well, will keep it, else, return and going to wait for a cheaper 17" laptop with similar specs or better.
If the chip quality is good, and the cooling is good, then might be able to overclock the GPU and get more performance out of it while maintaining the same TDP of 110w or so.
Last edited by bucdan August 10, 2023 at 11:11 AM.
If the chip quality is good, and the cooling is good, then might be able to overclock the GPU and get more performance out of it while maintaining the same TDP of 110w or so.
True. I checked on this recently. The 4050,4060,and 4070 laptop GPUs are all voltage limited. Ordinarily laptops are power limited, so to optimize their performance you need to undervolt and overclock at the same time. But on these you just overclock, and can get a good boost and still be well under the power limit.
4070s are 15-20% faster than 4060s though, so if gaming is your priority, keep that in mind.
Another thing about the power limit... usually they are 115W+25W boost to give 140W total. If you want max OC performance it's best to stick with that so the GPU can use 115W even with significant CPU loads.
True. I checked on this recently. The 4050,4060,and 4070 laptop GPUs are all voltage limited. Ordinarily laptops are power limited, so to optimize their performance you need to undervolt and overclock at the same time. But on these you just overclock, and can get a good boost and still be well under the power limit.
4070s are 15-20% faster than 4060s though, so if gaming is your priority, keep that in mind.
Another thing about the power limit... usually they are 115W+25W boost to give 140W total. If you want max OC performance it's best to stick with that so the GPU can use 115W even with significant CPU loads.
Thank you for the information!
Apparently someone was able to overclock a 4060 in a thin gaming laptop with +300 core and +1300 memory with MSI Afterburner. It puts it right up there with the 4070, because like you said, they're voltage limited.
The 4060 and 4070 are in a weird spot since the 4080 gaps them both quite significantly. Spending extra for a 4070 only to get less than 10 more FPS isn't really a good performance/dollar, especially for my criteria of 17" screen and 10-key numpad required.
I missed the Acer deal on Amazon, that would've been the best buy for the money at the time, but seeing that this laptop has a much faster CPU with 12 cores, 240hz qhd, but same GPU for $100 more than the current price, It felt like a no brainer. I just hope the build quality is good since it's the flagship line.
I'm not sure any new machine does anymore. Either way, this one doesn't. Seems like only 1 m.2 drive as well, kind of a bummer on a larger machine.
And what makes you think that it has only one M.2 slot? Have you checked the specification or any review? Literally every review sites or YouTube channels who reviewed it, clearly mentioned this to have two 2280 PCIe Gen 4 Slots.
Apparently someone was able to overclock a 4060 in a thin gaming laptop with +300 core and +1300 memory with MSI Afterburner. It puts it right up there with the 4070, because like you said, they're voltage limited.
The 4060 and 4070 are in a weird spot since the 4080 gaps them both quite significantly. Spending extra for a 4070 only to get less than 10 more FPS isn't really a good performance/dollar, especially for my criteria of 17" screen and 10-key numpad required.
I missed the Acer deal on Amazon, that would've been the best buy for the money at the time, but seeing that this laptop has a much faster CPU with 12 cores, 240hz qhd, but same GPU for $100 more than the current price, It felt like a no brainer. I just hope the build quality is good since it's the flagship line.
Yeah, the 4070 Ti is really what the 4070 should be.
And what makes you think that it has only one M.2 slot? Have you checked the specification or any review? Literally every review sites or YouTube channels who reviewed it, clearly mentioned this to have two 2280 PCIe Gen 4 Slots.
I watched a video that showed the inside and I only saw one spot. My bad.
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EDIT: I was wrong, it has 2 m.2 slots.
I can see it has a better CPU and better spec screen at 240hz QHD. My question is reliability and build quality. I know anyone can get a lemon at any time, but maybe someone here has insight?
If the chip quality is good, and the cooling is good, then might be able to overclock the GPU and get more performance out of it while maintaining the same TDP of 110w or so.
4070s are 15-20% faster than 4060s though, so if gaming is your priority, keep that in mind.
Another thing about the power limit... usually they are 115W+25W boost to give 140W total. If you want max OC performance it's best to stick with that so the GPU can use 115W even with significant CPU loads.
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4070s are 15-20% faster than 4060s though, so if gaming is your priority, keep that in mind.
Another thing about the power limit... usually they are 115W+25W boost to give 140W total. If you want max OC performance it's best to stick with that so the GPU can use 115W even with significant CPU loads.
Apparently someone was able to overclock a 4060 in a thin gaming laptop with +300 core and +1300 memory with MSI Afterburner. It puts it right up there with the 4070, because like you said, they're voltage limited.
The 4060 and 4070 are in a weird spot since the 4080 gaps them both quite significantly. Spending extra for a 4070 only to get less than 10 more FPS isn't really a good performance/dollar, especially for my criteria of 17" screen and 10-key numpad required.
I missed the Acer deal on Amazon, that would've been the best buy for the money at the time, but seeing that this laptop has a much faster CPU with 12 cores, 240hz qhd, but same GPU for $100 more than the current price, It felt like a no brainer. I just hope the build quality is good since it's the flagship line.
Apparently someone was able to overclock a 4060 in a thin gaming laptop with +300 core and +1300 memory with MSI Afterburner. It puts it right up there with the 4070, because like you said, they're voltage limited.
The 4060 and 4070 are in a weird spot since the 4080 gaps them both quite significantly. Spending extra for a 4070 only to get less than 10 more FPS isn't really a good performance/dollar, especially for my criteria of 17" screen and 10-key numpad required.
I missed the Acer deal on Amazon, that would've been the best buy for the money at the time, but seeing that this laptop has a much faster CPU with 12 cores, 240hz qhd, but same GPU for $100 more than the current price, It felt like a no brainer. I just hope the build quality is good since it's the flagship line.
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