u/A_92

Decided after a while that the workstation gaming life isn't quite for me. Main issue is just lack of top end performance and abject lack of cooling or ability to tweak the device to be less hot/loud when it doesn't have to be. It's a bit grating when light gaming is loud, AAA gaming is loud, anything involving the GPU is loud. My current situation values portability enough that a desktop isn't ideal, but I won't have to lug it around every day.

Decided after test driving at the store that the legion pro 7 (intel) feels pretty nice. Perusing new and used markets, but looks like I can feasibly get a 5070ti version for around 1800, and a 5080 version for around 2200 (US market). Price difference isn't huge but also not negligible, so I'm figuring out if the expected lifespan of this sort of laptop warrants the investment.

As use case goes, I think 1440p is a pretty good target, native for the nice screen. Fair number of titles I'm going through can approach 8gb vram already. If I can reasonably expect the laptop to be dead/obsolete before 12gb vram is an issue, the 5080 is a bit redundant. I guess a small caveat is that 1440p native would be nice since dlss is trending in some weird directions.

Other thing is in theory, if both GPUs can run the same game without maxing out, the 5080 should need less power, yes? Less wear and tear on the innards. Not sure if it translates to anything meaningful or whether I'm just overthinking the correlation between thermals and gaming laptop horror stories.

Side note: On silent mode while doing light tasks or watching a movie, do the fans constantly run? The oled screen is a lot nicer than my monitor for media consumption, so I'm curious as to how aggressive the fan curve is and how much heat the HX CPU puts out for mundane things.

I know this is all probably very nitpicky stuff, but if I'm going to be spending near 2 grand either way, figured I may as well do my due diligence on my remaining questions after watching plenty of reviews. Thanks for reading