Recommendations Please

[AdamScott85]

Hey guys

So after using a Rog Strix laptop for the past 12 months and putting up with the awful fan and heat issues for this time, I am now looking for a new gaming laptop. I can't quite find what I need without going over £2000. I was hoping to get an AMD laptop this time, with a decent graphics card, maybe a 3070 or 3080. But I really wanted a 1440p screen, most laptops seem to be either 1080p or 4k I believe. I can goto £2500 maybe a bit more but I really didn't want to, but I need a laptop with actual good cooling, so I need to avoid the Asus Strix line completely. Hoping you guys have some recommendations please.
Considering buying a laptop on buy now pay 12 months on here, or maybe somewhere else, but if I am recommended a laptop from Ocuk I will buy from here.

Thanks Guys.

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

All the laptops in my sig are great, especially Lenovo.

I don't care about the screen though, as I use a monitor (I basically treat a laptop like a desktop, but it has the advantage of power efficiency and portability so I can use it in any room).

 

[AdamScott85]

Hi Jimbo mate, will check the Ryzen one out thanks mate, is the cooling ok on that?

 

[Snapshot]

I think the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro would do the job as it has a good 2560 x 1600 screen. The problem is they're never available for long so you have to spot when they arrive and be ready to grab one.

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

Hi Jimbo mate, will check the Ryzen one out thanks mate, is the cooling ok on that?

Yup - I've found the cooling on both my Legions very good, and I've been using gaming laptops for years (ever since GTX-960m I think).

I've dismantled and repasted every laptop so far, except the Ryzen Legion because I don't think it would get me much. I did both the MSI and the i5 / 2060 Legion, but they were already pretty good and in any case, it's almost impossible on a laptop to avoid thermal throttle on the CPU. The GPUs I've found have not been thermally limited since perhaps the 1070 era - they are simply power-limited, so any performance increases come from vBIOS flashes with higher power limits.

I also prefer the Ryzen on the Legion to the i7 in the MSI because it runs cooler, plus it looks cool in Task Manager with all those cores!

 

[LiE]

Legion 7 3080 can be had for £1889.

 

[Loxa]

Legion 7 3080 can be had for £1889.

Still?

 

[LiE]

Still?

Not anymore, no.