Thermal Performance of Gaming Laptops

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SteveTrov

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How good is the thermal performance of PCS gaming laptops, by that I mean how do they compare to ASUS & Lenovo in terms of dissipating heat efficiently without sounding like a jumbo jet taking off. Are some models better than others? I am looking for a laptop that is reasonably quiet under a medium load whilst not getting too hot. I do realise that this is a trade off but in my experience laptops vary a lot in this regard.

I am looking at intel processors because unfortunately the AMD mobile processors don't seem to have the memory performance I am looking for.

Thanks in advance.
 
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It all depends on the chassis and specs you go for as with any manufacturer.

The laptops range from netbooks without a gpu all the way up to DTRs, so without knowing specifically what you’re looking for it’s a bit hard to comment?

If you can be clear on your needs and budget then we may be able to advise better?
 
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My budget is around £1300, I am looking for a gaming laptop with good memory performance (low latency) so am looking primarily at intel.
 
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SteveTrov said:
My budget is around £1300, I am looking for a gaming laptop with good memory performance (low latency) so am looking primarily at intel.
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1300 won't get you much, you'd be very entry level so would have to reduce settings quite significantly to get acceptable frame rates at 1080p.

Laptop hardware is much less powerful than equivalent level desktop hardware, so a laptop 4060 would be equivalent of around a desktop 4050 (if one existed)

But it would be a low power system so noise shouldn't be so much of an issue. You just have a choice between a Clevo or TongFang chassis.

I'm not sure what you mean by low latency RAM performance, what reason do you have for that? PCS don't stock low timings, they're fairly midrange. So if you wanted lower timings you'd have to order your own separately. Any chassis will auto overclock to the max speeds for that board which is normally 5600MHz I believe.
 
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What are clevo and TongFang I am seeing models like 16" DEFIANCE and 15" IONICO.

£1300 will be a very entry level system??? as the PCS gaming laptops start at £710 then that makes no sense. Are you thinking in a different currency?

As for low latency memory I play a lot of games that are heavy on simulation like Factorio and memory latency has a big impact on performance for these games. But some of them also have 3d graphics so I want a gaming laptop with a dedicated graphics card.

I know even less about desktops than laptops because I haven't had one for about 16 years.
 
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SteveTrov said:
What are clevo and TongFang I am seeing models like 16" DEFIANCE and 15" IONICO.
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Those are the branded model names that PCS use. The chassic manufacturers are either Clevo or TongFang

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£1300 will be a very entry level system??? as the PCS gaming laptops start at £710 then that makes no sense. Are you thinking in a different currency?
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No, in £. That starting figure is irrelevant that's without any configuration, so once you've specced it up, obviously the price is substantially more. But at that budget you wouldn't be able to afford a GPU powerful enough to run a 1440p screen, so you'd have to settle for a 1080p screen and an entry level GPU. Unless you wanted a very poor gaming experience.

SteveTrov said:
As for low latency memory I play a lot of games that are heavy on simulation like Factorio and memory latency has a big impact on performance for these games. But some of them also have 3d graphics so I want a gaming laptop with a dedicated graphics card.
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I'm not sure what you mean though by memory latency? I think you mean RAM timings (which is the only relation to any kind of latency in RAM), but PCS don't stock low timing RAM as already stated. But that's on Intel or AMD, either are able to take the same timings, doesn't matter if it's Intel or AMD. AMD as a platform is a lot more stable though as it does appear intel 13th and 14 gen mobile CPUs are degrading just as much as desktop ones from new reports.
 
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£710 is for a very poor, entry-level, probably not even current-gen 1080p level system...
  • 8GB of PCS RAM: you'd want 16GB min of preferably Corsair RAM - so an extra £60-£100 more (16/32GB)
  • Tiny 256GB, relatively slow, not particularly reliable SSD: if you stick to a single drive (which we wouldn't recommend) you'd want something like a 1TB Solidigm Pro for Windows and Games or a 512GB Solidigm Pro and a 1TB Solidigm P41 for games - so an extra £70-£120 (single vs double)
  • Very poor GPU options: laptop GPUs are 1 or 2 levels lower than the same-name desktop variants, so a 4GB 2050 is like a desktop 1060, a laptop 4070 is about equivalent to a current desktop 4060, and about the lowest for decent 1080p performance - about £250 extra (min 8GB VRAM nowadays)
  • Confusing big/little CPU cores: 8-core 13420H is actually 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores (the performance ones are the ones that will be used in gaming); you'd want at least the 10-core (6p/4e) 13620H or a 14650HX - about £20 / £100 extra
...and all that would be on the assumption that the lowest level starting option offers those upgraded configs, as some require additional upgrades (like a 2560x1600 screen) to enable the GPU swap to a suitable 1080p/1440p version.

Once all those changes are done (and you can't do them all on the lowest level configurators), then you end up in excess of £1300.
 
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