r/GamingLaptop

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to buy the HP Omen 16 with the following specs:

• AMD Ryzen AI 7 350
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB
• 24GB RAM
• 1TB SSD
• 16" 2K 165Hz IPS (400 nits)

Price: ₹1.55 lakh

I'll be using it for the next 5–6 years
- Gaming
- Video editing
- Daily college work

I have a few questions:

1. What are the biggest pros and cons of this laptop?

2. How are the thermals during long gaming or coding sessions?

3. Is the battery good for classes, coding, Chrome, and note-taking?

4. Are there any common issues (heating, motherboard, BIOS, display, Wi-Fi, hinge, keyboard, etc.)?

5. How loud are the fans under load?

7. Any regrets after buying it?

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from owners, especially long-term users. Thanks!

I ordered this laptop on June 25th with an expected delivery date of June 29th. I paid a couple hundred dollars more to buy this particular model through Walmart (sold by Newegg) instead of Amazon because I wanted it before a computer-administered exam. I had to register my laptop for the exam by July 1st, and Amazon’s estimated delivery was June 30th. My current laptop is about five years old, and I was worried it might die halfway through the test.
The day after I ordered it, the Walmart app updated the estimated delivery to July 2nd. I called customer service to see if I could cancel the order. I felt a little unreasonable doing that since I had just spent time with Walmart and my bank getting the purchase approved in the first place, so I explained the situation with my July 1st deadline.

The representative put me on hold while he contacted the seller. When he came back, he told me the order had already entered the shipping process and couldn’t be canceled, but that I could simply return it after it arrived if I decided to buy elsewhere. I considered ordering the Amazon one too, but I wasn’t comfortable floating nearly $5,000 while waiting for one refund. It was slightly annoying, but I knew the original June 29th date had only been an estimate and I was the one who ordered it 5 days before my registration deadline.

Fast forward to July 1st. I called customer service again—not expecting much—to ask whether Walmart might be willing to offer $100 or $200 in store credit as a courtesy since I’d paid extra specifically for faster delivery and ended up missing the deadline anyway.

The representative said he’d have to check with Newegg. After about a minute on hold, he came back sounding excited and said, “Good news! You’re getting a refund.”

I immediately clarified that I didn’t want to return the laptop. He told me it was my decision whether to return it or not, and that the refund had already been initiated. I was flabbergasted. I thanked him several times, fully expecting the shipment to be intercepted or something, but the laptop showed up the next day anyway with the full refund posted in my bank account.

Walmart app says the refund has been issued, that there’s no need to return the item. The refund has already been posted into my bank account.

I feel like there has to be a catch.

- How often does this kind of thing actually happen for orders this expensive? And why?
- Is it possible the seller or Walmart will reverse this later?
- Does this just encourage people to complain until they get lucky?
- Could the customer service representative or the 3rd party seller employee get in trouble for handling it this way?
- Am I kind of a Karen? 😂 I was hoping for maybe like $100 store credit and did not know this was possible. Now I’m thinking I should’ve called for any minor retail inconvenience I’ve ever had.

I'm getting this acer nitro v16 5050 around 95k and lenovo loq i7 4050 on Flipkart around 92k. Which one should I go. My friend says go for lenovo because of better processor and build quality but acer 5050 is too tempting

I am selling my 2-3 year old laptop its working fine no battery issue no hinge issue just 3 keyboard keys missing

Configurations - i3 ram 8 gb

Perfectly working no marks on screen

Price - 8k we can discuss this

Address - gurgao sector 26

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Hi everyone!

Sorry for my English first of all, it's not my native language :D

I want to share my experience with changing liquid metal (lm) with PTM 7950.

My CPU is Intel Core Ultra 9 275hx.

GPU RTX 5070Ti

The reason I made it, is because after 5 months of purchasing my laptop, temperatures went really crazy. Even while there was nothing happening the temps were 90-98 degrees. While playing Battlefield 6 temps were 96 degrees, and in Arma Regorger it was 98-102.

But when I bought it, temps were just perfect.

So, I found the info that lm is well known for pumping out of CPU crystal.

That's why I removed it by myself (it took few hours, but it's only because I tried to be very carefull). I was following this instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqprn5iGW2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxa-7gkbU9M&t=91s

Both of them are very informative but use them together, because some of details if you do this first time, are better showed in one video, some of them in another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20si41Xaya8

In this video you will see how to work carefully with the material and some lifehacks.

Sooo, the most important thing after my "surgery" operation, is - it works perfect now!

First 10 minutes I was really afraid because temps were crazy again, I thought that I've done something wrong, but after 10 minutes, temps went stable.

Now I have:

68-72 degrees on CPU in Battlefield 6 (high settings, dlls + framegen) 225-240 fps.

78-82 degrees on GPU in the same game.

Arma Reforger 72-76 degrees CPU 80 degrees GPU.

I know that PTM is getting even better after heating/cooling cycles. So I will update the results.

Intel XTU before replace score was 10987 points, now it's 13950 points.

Stress test for 10 minutes shows almost stable temperature not higher than 95 degrees.

It's a great result, cause stress test literally tries to STRESS your cpu :D

I hope my info was usefull. If you have any questions, I will try to answer them.

Negotiable.

4 years old.
Reason for selling: it’s just been lying around. I bought it for PC gaming, but I’m bloody 35 and regrettably I don’t get time to game.
I work on my Mac. It’s in excellent condition the screen still has the original film on.

Not in warranty.

Never repaired, only serviced and thermal paste changes by Authorised ASUS service center.

Based in Gurgaon
Bill box available.

Which laptop should i consider

Joo 4 saal electrical engineering mee sahi se chale

it's my first gaming laptop. i've only used hp and acer before. please tell me how to maintain this thing. when to reapply thermal paste. and does armoury crate really downgrades performance?

and also tell me what stand to b u y

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 5 210H (2.20 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU (6 GB)

Intel(R) Graphics (128 MB)

Storage 1tb