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Caporegime
That's a really solid deal tbh. The Legion can come with a pretty average screen depending on the spec.
Has anyone got any real world performance differences between a 115w 2060 and the 100w 6600M?
I prefer the size of my 2060 equipped laptop but have a feeling the 6600M would last better into the future.
The 2060 has the 8core 4800H but the 6600M has the 5600H, I would imagine the drop of 2 cores wouldn't be an issue for some time for gaming alone?
Last one... Anyone know how the thermals are of the 5600H/6600M laptop.
My 4800H/2060 barely breaks 68 Deg on a decent push playing warzone.
I prefer the size of my 2060 equipped laptop but have a feeling the 6600M would last better into the future.
The 2060 has the 8core 4800H but the 6600M has the 5600H, I would imagine the drop of 2 cores wouldn't be an issue for some time for gaming alone?
Last one... Anyone know how the thermals are of the 5600H/6600M laptop.
My 4800H/2060 barely breaks 68 Deg on a decent push playing warzone.
No idea about the 2060 but I have the 5600H/6600M as well as a 5800H/3060 which I gave to my son. I also had the 14 core Intel Pro machine but found it far too loud and thermal throttled constantly.
5600h for me has never gone above 85c even under heavy load in performance mode. The 6600M just about reaches 65c if being pushed at 100w. It runs fairly quite compared to the 3060 machine too fan noise is noticeably less on my machine. I play mainly strategy games but have tried a few others which all run fine at 1080p. Tbh I don’t notice any real difference between the 6600m and 3060 machine other than noise. I have not noticed any difference at all dropping 2 cores the 5600h stays above 4ghz on all cores longer than the 5800h so might even be an advantage in some games.
Do you not find your 4800/2060 machine adequate ? Tbh I would skip this generation and upgrade maybe on the next if you can…
5600h for me has never gone above 85c even under heavy load in performance mode. The 6600M just about reaches 65c if being pushed at 100w. It runs fairly quite compared to the 3060 machine too fan noise is noticeably less on my machine. I play mainly strategy games but have tried a few others which all run fine at 1080p. Tbh I don’t notice any real difference between the 6600m and 3060 machine other than noise. I have not noticed any difference at all dropping 2 cores the 5600h stays above 4ghz on all cores longer than the 5800h so might even be an advantage in some games.
Do you not find your 4800/2060 machine adequate ? Tbh I would skip this generation and upgrade maybe on the next if you can…
Thanks for the detailed response.
I was the person that won the 5600/6600m machine but was a bit undecided on which one to keep. The 4800h/2060 does everything I need it to albeit lowering some settings for some games.
Ive just been told I'll be moving to an office based job now instead working away from home for half the year so I'm now considering selling both in all honesty as neither will get used much at all if I'll be home every day on the main PC.
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The Legion 5 pro gen 7 is out. Just ordered.
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They're not on the 5 Pro.
Ah silly me, Going back through it, It had redirected me to the Legion slim. Should probably proof read!!
Nice! I would consider upgrading my 4800h 2060 for that. May went until the next GPUs are out for a bit now though.
I am so on the fence about a gaming laptop. I currently have a Razer Book and the quality of the machine is absolutely beautiful. screen is 500nits, 16:10. Don't know how well I would get on with a much dimmer screen and going back to 16:9
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AMD 8600H and a 3070ti
I thought a lot of the pro models were 16:10 with high nit panels also?
I love my laptop. Just have to turn down a good few settings to keep the frames up more currently. That is on crappy unoptimised games though.
Oh yes, the Pro's are, but I can't justify the cash for the Pro line
Yeah that's fair enough, it is a substantial step up in cost to go down the pro route.
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Looking at one of these after a lot of researching what brand to go down. Seems like 12th gen Intel and a 3070 is the sweet spot at the moment? I'll go for qhd minimum, HD doesn't cut it for me.
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i've had the i5 pro version since about april this year (12th gen processor, 3070Ti, 16:10 2k screen etc) i love it with one exception, the track pad is very sensitive to picking up false clicks... i could solve that by turning off the 'tap anywhere except the bottom right corner to right click' thing, but TBH i use a wireless trackball with this laptop 99% of the time.
Obviously it's a gaming laptop so the fans can be loud... especially with crappily optimised games (one game.. a train driving one i no longer bother with as they are just cash grabbing now by releasing a new version thats the same old ***** every 2 years.... but the menu screens on that game would peg the gpu at a supposed ~125 watts (showed on a remote system monitor on an old tablet)
So obviously the fans would max out... but start the actual game and it'd drop down to a more reasonable ~85 watts with about half speed fans... still loud if it's your first ever gaming laptop, my last laptop was a yoga 2 pro, and that thing was pretty much silent... but no where near as powerful)
My last laptop had a 4k screen, no way i could go right down to a 1080/HD screen now... and i find the 2k (2560 x 1600) just about right,
on the last laptop with the 4k screen i had to run it with the 'scale text and other things' set to about 175% to be comfortably readable.... i have this one set at 125%.
My eyesight is only just beginning to decline, and the distance for my reading glasses is shorter than the distance i sit from the laptop screen, so don't need to use my glasses on the laptop... only for reading paper books or when i'm TIG welding (as for that i need to be able to focus about 12 inches from my face to watch the molten metal pool... that's how i discovered my eyes are beginning to go now, after having 20/10 vision all my life)
Obviously it's a gaming laptop so the fans can be loud... especially with crappily optimised games (one game.. a train driving one i no longer bother with as they are just cash grabbing now by releasing a new version thats the same old ***** every 2 years.... but the menu screens on that game would peg the gpu at a supposed ~125 watts (showed on a remote system monitor on an old tablet)
So obviously the fans would max out... but start the actual game and it'd drop down to a more reasonable ~85 watts with about half speed fans... still loud if it's your first ever gaming laptop, my last laptop was a yoga 2 pro, and that thing was pretty much silent... but no where near as powerful)
My last laptop had a 4k screen, no way i could go right down to a 1080/HD screen now... and i find the 2k (2560 x 1600) just about right,
on the last laptop with the 4k screen i had to run it with the 'scale text and other things' set to about 175% to be comfortably readable.... i have this one set at 125%.
My eyesight is only just beginning to decline, and the distance for my reading glasses is shorter than the distance i sit from the laptop screen, so don't need to use my glasses on the laptop... only for reading paper books or when i'm TIG welding (as for that i need to be able to focus about 12 inches from my face to watch the molten metal pool... that's how i discovered my eyes are beginning to go now, after having 20/10 vision all my life)
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