I'm looking at purchasing a new laptop to replace my Octane, I'm going to be using it to work from home daily, but outside of work it will be used for gaming.
I've built the below specs:
Chassis & Display
Recoil Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-10600K (4.1 GHz) 12 MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
This spec comes to £2,503, I did look at the RTX 2070 Super and the Intel I7 10700k processor, but those bumpted the price up to £2845, and I'm not sure the preformance gain would be worth it.
If anyone has any light to shed on that, it would be greatly appreciated. I have the money, but I don't want to throw it away needlessly on what is already an expensive purchase. Would the 2070 Super be worth taking but leaving the i5 in for example?
Another spec I have come up with on a different model is this:
Chassis & Display
Vyper Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor 10875H (2.3GHz, 5.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
This comes to £2,400 or £2,268 with a normal RTX2070 fitted.
The third option is this:
Chassis & Display
Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor 10875H (2.3GHz, 5.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
My biggest concern with the Defiance is it's a metal chassis that can get very hot under high load. With the above spec is it likely to reach the 45 degrees that PC Specialists warn it can reach? They do say perfromance and stability are unaffected by the chassis temperature, and I assume it's more likely to be the rear and bottom of the chassis that get the hottest. I do have a cooling pad, but I'm still concerned about if I would want a laptop where the chasses reachs those temps. It is however the cheaperst of the three at £2,118.
One of the main reasons I am looking for an upgrade is noise and heat, when I purchased the Octane I pumped it full of the most powerful everything I could, and I have found that it gets insanely hot (not to the point it shuts itself down, it did start but a repaste fixed that) and very, very loud. I understand a gaming laptop will always generally be louder than most other laptops and get hotter than most other laptops, but I would prefer one that didn't throttle itself as often as the Octane did which often meant I wasn't getting the use of all of it's power anyway. I ended up undervolting to alleviate some of the problems it had with the throttling.
So the fairly open question, would any of the above be suitable for my needs?
The Vyper is cheaper but I think it is a thinner chassis like the Defiance, however not metal and doesn't come with chassis stemperature warnings. It would be great to have a less bulky laptop than the Octane, but I'm not sure that would improve the noise and heat. Though I can fit more Samsung SSD memory and the 2070 Super into that for less than the Recoil. PErhaps going with the regular 2070 will trade a bit of performance for less noise and heat though.
I've built the below specs:
Chassis & Display
Recoil Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-10600K (4.1 GHz) 12 MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
This spec comes to £2,503, I did look at the RTX 2070 Super and the Intel I7 10700k processor, but those bumpted the price up to £2845, and I'm not sure the preformance gain would be worth it.
If anyone has any light to shed on that, it would be greatly appreciated. I have the money, but I don't want to throw it away needlessly on what is already an expensive purchase. Would the 2070 Super be worth taking but leaving the i5 in for example?
Another spec I have come up with on a different model is this:
Chassis & Display
Vyper Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor 10875H (2.3GHz, 5.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
This comes to £2,400 or £2,268 with a normal RTX2070 fitted.
The third option is this:
Chassis & Display
Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor 10875H (2.3GHz, 5.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
My biggest concern with the Defiance is it's a metal chassis that can get very hot under high load. With the above spec is it likely to reach the 45 degrees that PC Specialists warn it can reach? They do say perfromance and stability are unaffected by the chassis temperature, and I assume it's more likely to be the rear and bottom of the chassis that get the hottest. I do have a cooling pad, but I'm still concerned about if I would want a laptop where the chasses reachs those temps. It is however the cheaperst of the three at £2,118.
One of the main reasons I am looking for an upgrade is noise and heat, when I purchased the Octane I pumped it full of the most powerful everything I could, and I have found that it gets insanely hot (not to the point it shuts itself down, it did start but a repaste fixed that) and very, very loud. I understand a gaming laptop will always generally be louder than most other laptops and get hotter than most other laptops, but I would prefer one that didn't throttle itself as often as the Octane did which often meant I wasn't getting the use of all of it's power anyway. I ended up undervolting to alleviate some of the problems it had with the throttling.
So the fairly open question, would any of the above be suitable for my needs?
The Vyper is cheaper but I think it is a thinner chassis like the Defiance, however not metal and doesn't come with chassis stemperature warnings. It would be great to have a less bulky laptop than the Octane, but I'm not sure that would improve the noise and heat. Though I can fit more Samsung SSD memory and the 2070 Super into that for less than the Recoil. PErhaps going with the regular 2070 will trade a bit of performance for less noise and heat though.
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