Gaming Laptop sub £1750

[Alexrose1uk]

Well bizarrely running OC Scanner on the GPU seems to reboot the system, guessing some sort of power limit or overcurrent protection is tripped at the top end [or the GPU just pushes too high and crashes].
However when the GPU memory is overclocked as well, it seems to prevent the crash (probably as it increases the power usage there so prevents the GPU trying to hit quite so high), so here's some scores with the OC Scanner having run its course with the memory set to +125 and then the memory bumped to +500 (which equates to 15Gbps versus stock 14).
Based on the OCScanner's reported average, this is around +160/+500.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/42034217
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/42034431

Pretty happy.

I've never had a DESKTOP score anywhere near as high as this, let alone a laptop, and a slightly smaller one than my last at that!

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Ok got the UV on the CPU to -.14v (higher was unstable). Virtually necessary to tame these 8 cores without having a monster 5cm thick laptop, and the Omen is rather small for a 17.3" gaming machine that isn't an ultra-thin or the like.

Either way, now got the following scores which I am very happy with.

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/21266376 - Firestrike 20837 GFX Score 24500
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/9744521 - Timespy 10105 GFX Score 10192

All without any hardware mods/repaste/physical alterations.

Obviously just got to monitor the system over the next few weeks as a settling in period, if any issues, work out if they're settings or machine issue, any machine issues, 3 year warranty. And with the performance of this machine I genuinely think I will be happy with this machine for another few years, if issues don't creep in!

Small side note, I've noticed they've used a Toshiba/Kioxia XG5 NVME drive which isn't as good as the Samsung's some review samples used, but it's an NVME drive, its still very fast, just not AS fast as some of the best.
At the price I got this machine, assuming no hardware issues appear, I can't really complain if they've saved $50-100 on NVME drives Especially not with the knowledge this machine is meant to be expandable to fit a second NVME drive.