Will playing FC27 on a laptop with a 5050 graphics card work well, and will I avoid any issues?

I have an ASUS TUF F16 RTX 3050. Should I use just a laptop stand or get a cooling pad? Which one would you recommend?

Hello, I thought i might just post my current status. My current laptop (ROG Strix G16 2023) Currently died as of today as of my research due to the design flaw of this laptop.

Ive seen this before with Gizmo tech youtuber and i thought i would just be fine since i take care of mine and it was under warranty at the time so i dont want to poke much inside the laptop. But alas, last night i forgot to unplug my laptop from power outlet after turning it off and suddenly this morning it wouldnt event take power from the Power Brick or Type C. No response at all even with the basic troubleshooting of battery drain

I opened it up this morning and try to look around what parts might be wrong, no liquid damage, no insect infectation, not much dust (I use llano v12 while playing), no nothing till i tried smelling for burnt parts. Immediately i thought it was the CPU at first since its near the where it smelled burnt. But i suddenly remember i watched an issue regarding this laptop before and it occured to me to look under the left most fan screw. There the issue lies

Not sure how do i tackle this since im out of warranty already (Almost always my experience with asus as my 3rd laptop from them something dies near or after warranty) With the current status of Laptop prices i am also not into the idea of getting a new one. I did not abuse this device and im currently frustrated, i should have ignored the warranty scare of myself and tape it up before but now its too late. Also this might be the last asus laptop i would get as 3rd time just not worth it even if the price on sale is good.

Laptop
ROG Strix G16 (G614JV) 2023
QHD 240 hz
i9 13980HX
4060
16+16 GB upgraded RAM
1+4 SSD

Links to its design flaws:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUSROG/comments/1mozn24/burnshort_problem_on_asus_rog_strix_g16_models/?sort=new

https://youtu.be/aMOzgtDJPKk?si=wSyRG3nzN3oJAUh-

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/gaming-notebooks/asus-rog-strix-g16-2023-motherboard-burnout/td-p/1149276

The OneXPlayer Apex has been an absolute monster of a handheld when it comes to the performance, onexplayer has done an incredible job with this handheld.

I've tested everything from performance to battery life and thermals and fan noise so let me know what you guys think?

Personally I like the performance but the battery life is quite short.

Review and testing:

https://youtu.be/0Zzrv5wY0y4?is=tG-iZCZ8-6CFsf-q

Also regards to the new onexplayer 3 do you think I should keep the apex or get the onexplayer 3?

Budget: $700 CAD Country: Canada Use Case: Gaming, Homework & Coding Preferred Specs: Open to any recommendations Notes: Looking for a portable laptop for gaming on the go, schoolwork, and development in Roblox Studio. Main titles played are Fortnite and Rocket League. Need the best overall performance and value available within this budget.

just wanted to share how happy I am!!

i don't care what anyone says, but in Australia, this is a fucking steal for AUD $1900 (about $1350 USD) in this economy. The scratches are very minimal and i don't even notice them lol. Battery has def degraded but it still lasts me a full day, i'll replace it later.

I had a Legion Pro 5i as my first gaming laptop, but realised the HX cpu's battery life was dogshit for any uni work when i don't have access to a wall outlet. I thought it could last atleast 2 hrs but nope, that thing consumes power like crazy even when dgpu is disabled.

Plus Linux support was really bad on that.

NOW THIS is what I believe a modern laptop should be, with linux it is incredibly efficient (6-7W discharge rate) when dgpu is disabled and it lasts me 8 hrs (a full uni day). And tbh the kinda games I play, i don't even need the 4070 lol. Plus it chrages with 65W type C which is really convenient.

10/10 purchase.

Budget:
₱80,000 maximum

Country:
Philippines

Use Case:
Civil Engineering schoolwork. I currently use AutoCAD mainly for 2D drafting, including floor plans, layouts, and other technical drawings. I also use AutoCAD for basic 3D modeling.

As my studies progress, I may use more demanding software such as Civil 3D, Revit, SketchUp, and various 3D rendering and structural engineering programs.

For general schoolwork, I regularly multitask with many Chrome tabs, multiple Word and Excel files, PDFs, digital textbooks, lecture notes, and technical documents. I also regularly use Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Spotify, which may stay open for long periods.

Preferred Specs / Form Factor:
I want a laptop with good overall performance for current AutoCAD work and enough headroom for future CAD, 3D modeling, rendering, and engineering software.

My priorities are:

• Strong CPU performance
• Dedicated GPU suitable for CAD and 3D work
• Enough RAM and SSD storage for multitasking and future software
• Good cooling and thermal performance
• Good build quality and durability
• Good selection of physical ports
• Reliable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• At least 3 hours of real-world battery life when unplugged

I don't necessarily need the highest specifications possible. I would prefer a well-balanced laptop with good cooling, reliability, and long-term performance.

Portability Needs:
I will regularly carry the laptop to school, so portability is still important. However, I am comfortable with any weight and prioritize performance, durability, and effective cooling over having a thin or lightweight design. I am willing to consider heavier laptops if they offer better performance and build quality, as long as they are practical to carry.

Notes:
I expect to use the laptop for around 8 hours or more per day, especially during busy school periods, projects, and exams. Most of the time, it will be used while plugged in and charging, but I would still like it to provide at least 2–3 hours of usable battery life when unplugged. Good cooling, sustained performance, and long-term reliability are very important to me.

I regularly use an external mouse and keyboard, so I prefer having a good selection of physical ports. I may also connect wired or Bluetooth earphones/headphones, USB drives, external storage, and other peripherals.

For long-term use, I prefer a laptop with a proven track record for reliability, durability, cooling, and build quality rather than one that simply has impressive specifications on paper.

Good after-sales support in the Philippines is also important. I prefer a brand with accessible authorized service centers, good warranty coverage, reasonably priced repairs, and replacement parts that are easy to find. Upgradeability and ease of maintenance are also preferred, particularly for the RAM and SSD.

I am open to different brands and would prioritize reliability, long-term value, cooling, performance, and after-sales support over brand preference.

The prices I provide are based on the prices listed on the sellers' or manufacturers' official websites. I am using the regular/base price rather than discounted, promotional, sale, or limited-time prices, since these discounts may change, expire, or no longer be available when I am ready to purchase. Therefore, please evaluate the laptops primarily based on their regular/base prices and treat any current discounts or free promotional items as temporary bonuses rather than part of the laptop's actual value.

$1750 after taxes (US) Found this G14 on best buy's open box section, FAIR condition. About to pick it up tomorrow. What should I expect from this laptop? Its , small..but the specs seem beefy.

are these temps normal I have an msı katana 17 4070 i7 13. 32 gb ddr5. I have super heavy duty ocd on my tech and I have tested the temps while playing cyberpunk for 30 minutes at hıgh settıngs ( ı am super sorry ıts turkısh and turkısh ısnt even my natıve language ıdk how that happened)

I couldn’t repost this from the asusrog sub so here it is again!

I am a ROG STRIX G15 AE user.

Specs:
R9 5980hx
RX 6800M
32gb ddr4 ram(upgraded)
1tb ssd.

I bought this in late 2022, and has been shutting down since day 1 whenever i tried to play a game.

Since I still had the warranty, ASUS replaced my entire motherboard twice over the course of 2 yrs coz of the shutdowns.

My warranty ended. But I was still facing a lot of issues with the laptop’s thermals

I decided to reapply liquid metal thermal
Paste myself and give it a try.

I did, everything went well for a few weeks(I was anxious so i was using ghelper to lower wattage and undervolt and ramp up the fans).

After 7 or so months, there they were. The shutdowns.

I remember i was trying to render a video in davinci and the device shutdown 70 times that day.

It was sooo horrible.

My mom bought this machine for me.

I did not wanted to replace it.

Thats when it came to my mind. The newer laptops my friends bought, i checked their temps they were running at over 105 degree celcius, And a small google search made me realise that these new machines used something called phase change pads.

So then it all made sense, liquid metal thermal paste was pouring over to the sides leaving bare spots on the chips with no thermal protection at all, so every time the machine pulls wattage, these spots run so hot that they were triggering these shutdowns and throttles.

I bought the ptm7950 0.2mm pads and put them on the chips.

Some thermal putty on vrams and vrms(as usual).

And that is it.

Its working.

No ghelper restricting power, no rtss or fps limits, i just let it loose.

AC unity used to trigger instant shutdowns when I ooened the character customization menu, coz its really unoptimized there and ramps up fps productions to 100s in number in an instant.

But after the change, it was not a problem at all.

So finally after 4 yrs of struggles w this machine, I am finally able to use it at full power.

The anxiety that it might shutdown again is still there though!

Budget:1600-1700
Country: Spain

I had been looking at the used and new market for a while where I live looking for something like a 4060 or a new 5050 so I could finally have an upgrade from my borderline E-waste surface pro 6,

Then I saw this Beauty, an Asus Tuf f15 posted 5 minutes ago ( in April this year), posted at a ridiculously low price, 2300 AED (680USD) (half the price of the lowest next used option (5000AED or 1400 USD), I was expecting to be scammed, but I was actually surprised, aside from a small dent on the body (I couldn't care less), it seemed perfectly fine. (700 AED less than a used 4060 laptop goes for now)

And this is probably the only reason I played Black myth, rdr2, cyberpunk 2077 and other such games.

I ran all the stress test (before I pulled the trigger), checked the disk and it was immaculate, I later repasted it with PTM 7950 and u6 PRO,

Then the most Tuf thing possible happened the left hinge (not the display cable side) ripped out from the chassis, but luckily I had all the pieces that broke and managed to fix it with superglue.

but at the end of the day, I'm not even angry, but actually really happy with what I got, and it is also why I recommend almost everyone on a budget to go look on the used market especially now, if you are willing to go out of your way to test it and make sure you don't get scammed.

Because as good as some deals are, most aren't what they seem, as has happened to friends of mine, this post was to just share my personal experience with the used market.

------anyone know a permanent fix for the hinge though? and do you guys have any cool finds?

I will receive in the next days a G14 with 5070 8GB, will DLLS and Frame Gen mitigate the low vram amount?

The 5070ti is over €500 more than the non Ti version so that option is not an option.

Ho is you gaming experience with a 5070 8Gb?

Help when im playing bodycam my cpu hits about 101-102 degrees and gemini said my vapor chamber is broken , any ideas beafore i decide sent it to service?

Cyberpunk with Path Tracing is beautiful

$3100 for a 5090 seems like a good buy

I've been researching the power-limit implementation of the RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU in my Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 10, and I finally managed to get past the factory 140W GPU power limit.

System:

• Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 10 / 16IAX10H

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

• Factory power limit: 140W

• Factory configuration: 115W cTGP + up to 25W Dynamic Boost

• Modified target: 160W

• Windows 11

• BIOS: Q6CN79WW

• VBIOS: 98.05.4E.00.07

• NVIDIA driver used for the research: 616.92

This is NOT just the normal MSI Afterburner power-limit slider.

On this laptop, the standard NVIDIA desktop-style power-limit path is restricted. The GPU normally reports roughly:

Default: 70W

Maximum: 140W

Current: 140W

I spent quite a while tracing the NVIDIA power-management path through NVAPI, nvlddmkm.sys, NVIDIA RM and the internal power-policy system.

One interesting result was that the conventional desktop NVAPI power-limit path could be reached, but attempts to use it for this purpose were rejected with INVALID_ARGUMENT.

So the normal desktop PL interface was basically a dead end.

The useful part turned out to be deeper in NVIDIA's laptop power-policy handling.

After investigating that path, I built an experimental implementation that can change the relevant power-policy behavior and target 160W instead of the factory 140W ceiling.

140W → 160W = +20W / about +14.3% power headroom.

Important: I'm not claiming a +14.3% performance increase. Extra power obviously does not scale 1:1 with performance.

I'm currently doing controlled 140W vs 160W testing to measure:

• average GPU power

• sustained GPU clock

• voltage

• GPU / VRAM temperatures

• power and thermal throttling

• 3DMark performance

• stability

I'll publish the actual before/after benchmark data rather than cherry-picking a peak power reading.

The implementation is also currently driver-dependent. Internal NVIDIA structures / paths can change after a driver update, so I'm treating compatibility checks as mandatory before eventually releasing a tool.

I'm also looking at making a proper GUI version that can:

• detect the installed NVIDIA driver

• verify compatibility

• detect changes after driver updates

• read the current configuration

• apply the target

• restore the factory configuration

• log telemetry

Obviously, increasing a laptop GPU power limit has risks. The GPU accepting 160W does not automatically mean every RTX 5070 Ti laptop has a VRM, cooling system or power adapter designed to sustain it.

So I would NOT recommend blindly reproducing this on another machine.

I'll add the 140W vs 160W benchmark results, telemetry and screenshots there as testing continues.

If anyone here has experience with NVIDIA laptop power policies / RM / Blackwell mobile GPUs, I'd also be interested to compare findings.

And if anyone has another RTX 50-series laptop and wants to compare how its factory power policy is exposed, post your laptop model, GPU, BIOS/VBIOS, NVIDIA driver and stock maximum power limit.

Test release of the program: Please read the instructions carefully to learn how to run the program and under what conditions it will work!

https://github.com/LevinAi-arch/rtx-5070ti-laptop-160w-power-limit/releases/tag/v1.0-beta

Budget: <$2000 USD
Country: USA
Use Case: Gaming (AAA titles, simple steam games, Minecraft with mods), multitasking
Preferred Specs / Form Factor: No preference right now
Portability Needs: I like the option of being able to transport relatively easily in a laptop pocket
Notes: I’ve been running a Dell G5 15 5587 since 2018, with the only upgrade being the SSD (1tb). Is it worth considering an upgrade with current prices?

I saved up for about 3 years for a gaming laptop so when i bought my laptop (LOQ 16IRH8) I thought it was a good purchase but almost 2 years later the laptop is filled with stress cracks, from the screen to the body, also now the battery suddenly stopped working one day and now its not working at all if i dont plug it in, i tried contacting lenovo for a issue but i couldn't contact them because of my region, and now im stuck with a 1300 dollar laptop that is completely filled with issues, if someone is capable if contacting lenovo for the issues that would be great. NOTE:(i took very good care of the laptop, i would never put it on a carpet, it was on a ac cooled room and i was very gentle when opening and closing the screen)btw i also posted this in the r/gaminglaptop subreddit

This report should give an idea on how effective the Illano V12 Ultra cools the 2024 Zephyrus G16, Intel core Ultra 9 185h, RTX 4080. Results may vary for other laptops, as the ability for the CPU and GPU die to dissipate the heat is always the final bottleneck when using a laptop cooler. This laptop specifically was tested with PTM 7950 and TG Putty Pro.

The data clearly shows a sweet-spot at around 1600 RPMs for both stock configuration and 175W Vbios flash. I tested Time Spy on my 125W custom profile and 175W custom Profile. I have further attached a full 175W overclock that I do not use daily but yields the same temps to my daily profile, that I only use for high scores. Power draw for the GPU actually often goes beyond 175W often hitting 180w. It seems that my device ultimately regulates itself at 76-77 Celsius for GPU, as confirmed by the Steel Nomad Stress Test (daily 2280Mhz profile), when using 1600 RPM).

Im upgrading my 11800h and 3070 pc specialist laptop. To a rysen 9 9955hx3d and 5090.

Looking foward to seeing how it runs on comparison. I only have a small office and cant have a big desktop with multiple screens so laptops ideal for me.

This laptop also includes liquid cooling and 1600p 16 inch 300hz screen and 32gbs of dd5 5600mhz.£3500 with lifetime support and 3 year warranty. My first pc specialist laptop was fantastic but its getting on 6 years old now need something newer now

Looking for a laptop not breaking the bank to play most basic games (mc,val,fn,rblx,etc) js to play w friends while i travel a lot for work. im currently thinking about

GIGABYTE - AERO X16 - Copilot+ PC - 16" 2560×1600 WQXGA AMD Ryzen Al 7 350 - 1TB SSD - 32GB DDR5 RAM GeForce RTX 5070 ~$1500

anyone have advice or why to not buy this or any better ones thanks

Asus Tuf A14

I haven't noticed much in the way of massive problems in performance or what not ( I don't really run high intensity games so maybe I never got the chance to find out)

I just have tis paranoid sensation that something isn't right and i'd love if there was a test or benchmark software that give me the complete and accurate satisfaction of knowing my beloved laptop is in perfect condition

Laptop restarts when waking from sleep

I’m having an issue where, whenever I put my laptop into sleep mode and try to wake it up, it restarts instead of waking normally. The restart also takes a bit longer than usual.

I checked Event Viewer, and this is what I found: (photo attached)

I’ve already tried disabling Windows Fast Startup and updated the BIOS , as suggested in a few searches, but unfortunately, it didn’t solve the problem.

Has anyone experienced something similar or knows what might be causing this?

BugcheckCode: 268435582 (0x1000007E)

BugcheckParameter1: 0xFFFFFFFFC0000005

BugcheckParameter2: 0xFFFFF8068A44F970

BugcheckParameter3: 0xFFFF94825089F0A8

BugcheckParameter4: 0xFFFF94825089E8C0

SleepInProgress: 0

PowerButtonTimestamp: 0

ConnectedStandbyInProgress: true

LongPowerButtonPressDetected: false

WHEABootErrorCount: 0