u/trenchlord2023

Aside from meme factor and bonking, what is the point of equipping club type melee weapons?

Knives kill in 3 hits, swing very fast, and have a big takedown zone

Long blades/sharp tools kill in 2 hits, swing slow, and have a small takedown zone

Clubs/blunts kill in 3 hits, swing semi slow, and have a medium takedown zone

All melee weapons have the same range too.

I don't see the point of using clubs at all.

Hey guys,

I wanted to ask any 2024 G14 owners who use a 100w USB-C charger for gaming. I am considering getting an Rtx 4060 version.

Yes I've read that it's not entirely good on the battery life to do this, and I've read my fair share of people saying the usb-c performance is horrendous compared to being unplugged for some reason, with gpu wattage being heavily limited to 35w and/or the gpu being super downclocked. But I've also read threads where people who use G helper to bypass this and create custom profiles with like 25w to cpu and 55w to gpu without much battery drain even if the battery limit was set to 80%. But so far I haven't seen a video of this being done and actual gameplay with more AAA or modern titles. People talk about occasionally dipping into battery with this profile or the fact they can get quite close to turbo profile performance but I want to know what games these are being done at, what the 1% lows are like, etc. This is important to me because I will be lugging around a 100w GaN adapter and a 100w power bank rather than the charging brick all the time.

Yes I've seen the Ultrabookreview article about this but they never mention using G helper to try and bypass the (heavily hindered) default USB-C power limits. So if someone has used g helper to tweak a custom usb-c performance profile, I would like to know what (heavier AAA) titles they played, the average and 1% low fps compared to being on the AC charger, what the settings were on their g helper profile for wattage, clock speeds, etc.

Thanks!

Hey guys, I came across the HP Omen Transcend 14 (2025) (Ultra 7 255h, rtx 5060, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd) in my shopping and had a few questions regarding third party chargers.

Both usb-c ports (back and left side) support the full 140w charging right?

I have a Choetech 140w GaN charger and a INIU BI-B64 140w usb-c pd power bank, as well as 240w rated usb-c cables. Will these two items charge the laptop at its full 140w or will HP's software only allow third party chargers to go up to 100w, or do some weird stuff like throttle the charging or components inside? If anyone has any experience of third party chargers and power banks that can power this laptop, either at 100w or 140w, please let me know.

I was looking at NVIDIA's overview of laptop GPU's and notice there's usually a range of wattages given to a certain laptop gpu. I know that avid laptop buyers have to watch out for how much wattage the gpu gets and that we all hunt for the laptops that allow their gpu's to run as much wattage as possible, but why is there a minimum wattage stated on the site?

For example, with dynamic boost included, the rtx 5080 laptop gpu has a range of 80-175w. The same with the 4090. The 5090 has a range of 95-175w. The 4080 has a range of 60-175w. The 4070 has a range of 35-140w.

My question is what happens when you go below that minimum wattage while gaming? Does the chip not get enough juice and the game starts stuttering or dropping frames like crazy? If that is the case, wouldn't lower tier gpu's be better in slimmer chassis laptops and perform more consistently when on usb-c power delivery and battery compared to a power hungry higher tier gpu?

I know for office tasks and youtube playback it basically doesn't matter.

Context edit: I don't often have outlets during the day so I bring along an INIU 100wh power bank model BI-B64 with up to 140w (28v 5a) usb-c charging although most of the time most laptops like using just 100w (20v 5a). I've been trying to find a laptop, preferably 14 inch, that retains most of its gaming performance on usb-c compared to the charger brick and has good battery life to last an 8 hour work day if needed. Peak performance on the brick does not matter to me, as long as it's got 8gb vram.

So yes, Maelle suggests Gustave throw a rock one more time. We all know the twist.

I was watching my girlfriend play E33 and she was extremely affected by this. Luckily she had managed to dodge spoilers, and I had managed to not spoil anything for her either. But she was also very mad at Maelle and is still mad at her. She's not done the game yet, but every time she looks at Maelle, she keeps going like "if only you didn't suggest throwing one more rock huh", thinking that ending was entirely Maelle's fault. She really can't forgive Maelle, but acknowledges there's something special or weird going on with her. She can't quite piece together everything yet, as she's nearing the end of Act 2, heading to the monolith next.

I wanted to know if anyone else got mad at Maelle and stayed mad at her for this long about the act 1 ending.

Ps: for more context, she isn't exactly a gamer, she's more of a (romfiction) bookworm herself, but has never been exposed to many plot devices or twists before. Also she's not on reddit so don't worry, she won't see this.

Edit: guys please she doesn't victim blame in real life calm down, I think she's still feeling the grief/is upset that who she thought was the main character died. Like she's never experienced a plot twist like this before where the supposed main character dies in the first 1/3 of the story. So of course, this being her first experience of such a plot device hit her EXTREMELY hard and she tends to feel the aftereffects of it for a long time. It's important to separate that this is still a fictional story and her reactions to it do not reflect how she would act in real life. She's absolutely sweet and lovely in reality.