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expiredtwinklestar007 posted Jun 12, 2025 7:49 AM

MSI Vector RTX5070ti for 1599 at other regions or cheaper 1279 at Santa clara

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LAPTOP: I noticed that there is this intel 255 + 5070ti available for 1279 at santa clara. I understand that this does not have vapour cooling but the price is too good for a 5070ti .

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...cosmo-gray


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LAPTOP: I noticed that there is this intel 255 + 5070ti available for 1279 at santa clara. I understand that this does not have vapour cooling but the price is too good for a 5070ti .

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...cosmo-gray


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Jun 12, 2025 11:21 AM
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It's decent but if I had to make a complaint that would be only 16gb Ram 32gb should be standard now days and a small 512gb Hard Drive. But all in all for 1279 you can invest a few bucks to compensate for that. So yeah for 1279 is a great deal I would say.
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Jun 12, 2025 11:47 AM
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twinklestar007
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Jun 12, 2025 11:47 AM
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i read that the fan is loud. I also see that there is no vapour chamber cooling. I dont know if the motherboard is inferior compared to the asus rog strix series.
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SlickCrayon1512Jun 12, 2025 1:47 PM
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Quote from CrazyHorse :
It's decent but if I had to make a complaint that would be only 16gb Ram 32gb should be standard now days and a small 512gb Hard Drive. But all in all for 1279 you can invest a few bucks to compensate for that. So yeah for 1279 is a great deal I would say.
It's upgradable. Easy open up and throw in a 96gb. The only difference between 16 vs 32 for these are just $50 less wasted when upgrading to max spec.
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SlickCrayon1512Jun 12, 2025 1:55 PM
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Quote from twinklestar007 :
i read that the fan is loud. I also see that there is no vapour chamber cooling. I dont know if the motherboard is inferior compared to the asus rog strix series.
You got caught by all the marketing stuff. Any gaming laptop fan is loud. It's the chip that is hot. The only difference is literally the fan speed vs temp you want to control it to. E.g. a laptop controlling the chip to 80c is usually quiter than a laptop controlling it to 65c. That's physics. Vapour chamber cooling...maybe yes, maybe no. Is that something everybody wants on their laptop? How many degrees can it reduce compared with the proven true air cooling? Also how come a motherboard is inferior compared to another? It's just a motherboard. Don't worry yourself too much on capacitors and those stuff. It's a motherboard in a laptop. 100% of people won't get any difference on anything including fault rate between a ok built and an excellent built motherboard. You are not overclocking on these...I have built PCs for more than 2 decades and always use the garbagest motherboard paired with the most advanced non-overclocking CPU except when I really need some functions of a good mb and yet to have any one die on me.
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Jun 12, 2025 2:46 PM
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twinklestar007
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Jun 12, 2025 2:46 PM
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Thanks a lot for the clear responses. I plan to just run keyshot and photoshop. I got myself a asus vivobook with 13900H and rtx4060 last year . This thing runs much slower than my old Dell G3 that had a 9th gen processor with 1660ti. I was just curious if this laptop is a good upgrade and was a bit over cautious. I have now set a order for store pickup

Appreciate the inputs again!
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Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
It's upgradable. Easy open up and throw in a 96gb. The only difference between 16 vs 32 for these are just $50 less wasted when upgrading to max spec.
That's what "you can invest a few bucks to compensate for that." meant.
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Please add "laptop" to your title, OP. Thanks!

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Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX (1.8GHz) Processor
16GB DDR5-5600 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Graphics Card
512GB PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD
16" Full HD+ IPS Display
2.5Gb LAN, 2x2 WiFi 6E (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3
5.95 lbs. (2.70 kg)
Windows 11 Home
Secure Digital 7.0 Memory Card Reader
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Jun 13, 2025 8:47 AM
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twinklestar007
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Jun 13, 2025 8:47 AM
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Can anyone confirm if its 1 sodimm of 16 gb or is it 2 sticks of 8 gb each. I had a friend who picked up the unit and i wont get the unit in hand till 25th of this month.
Jun 13, 2025 11:00 AM
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turtle34x1Jun 13, 2025 11:00 AM
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Quote from twinklestar007 :
Can anyone confirm if its 1 sodimm of 16 gb or is it 2 sticks of 8 gb each. I had a friend who picked up the unit and i wont get the unit in hand till 25th of this month.
Total Memory: 16GB
Memory Slots (Total): 2
Memory Slots (Available): 0
Maximum Memory Supported: 64GB
Memory Configuration: 2 x 8GB
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Jun 13, 2025 4:43 PM
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twinklestar007
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Jun 13, 2025 4:43 PM
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Thanks again. I read many reviews that has the resolution of the screen as 2560*1600 240hz 500 nits vs the one on listing. Why would any company under report the specs? Did you guys who got the latest units get the same spec as well. I am very happy with the screen no matter what it is but was just wondering!
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CalmWren733Jun 16, 2025 1:22 AM
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Quote from CrazyHorse :
It's decent but if I had to make a complaint that would be only 16gb Ram 32gb should be standard now days and a small 512gb Hard Drive. But all in all for 1279 you can invest a few bucks to compensate for that. So yeah for 1279 is a great deal I would say.
Yeah that's crazy that you think this has a HARD DRIVE. In 2025.

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