Replace gaming desktop for Gaming laptop

Banzai_Joe

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Hi all,
So, if budget wasn’t really an issue and you were refurbing your home office, and trying to go minimalist…. AND you wanted a 49” USW that had a kvm built-in so you could use it for your work laptop as well…..
….would you consider swapping your monstrous full ATX gaming desktop for a damned good gaming laptop capable of connecting to the monitor at full resolution?

If so, what would you buy?

My desktop only uses m.2 drives, no HDDs and no optical drives., so a giant box purely for the GPU and AIO cooler really.

PS…I’m talking about replacing the setup in my sig
 
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The problem with gaming laptops is fan noise due to the severely limited internal space for cooling. If you can put up with that then go for it but I'd look at buying either an MATX or ITX motherboard and case and transferring all the other current components to it.
 
Plus laptop cpus just aren't as good as thier desktop cousins.
I'd really honestly only ever consider a laptop to be used as a laptop, aka on the move.
Far to many compromises for the smaller form factor.
 
Thanks guys. I went from all m-itx builds for my last half a dozen rigs, but they were quite noisy too, for similar reasons to laptops I guess.
So I went full atx this time. I don’t mind it and in all honesty I can hide it in the new room layout.
I guess I was looking for someone to put me off the laptop idea.
Glad I came here.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Thanks guys. I went from all m-itx builds for my last half a dozen rigs, but they were quite noisy too, for similar reasons to laptops I guess.
So I went full atx this time. I don’t mind it and in all honesty I can hide it in the new room layout.
I guess I was looking for someone to put me off the laptop idea.
Glad I came here.
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Take a look at this thread for inspiration... If you put your mind to it you can have a lovely looking minimalist 'full size' set up.

*** Desk and Room Gallery***

Getting there, but plenty more to do.. Hi m8, Where you get that worktop from? I assume it’s 630mm kitchen worktop? That looks like the exact shade I’m looking for
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Yer, no reviews really emphasize this enough since it's a well accepted trait, but fan noise especially in full performance mode, on even the best gaming laptop can be significant.

The usual 'gaming headphones' is the defacto answer.

A 4090 laptop is prob 4070-4080 desktop equivalent depending on power draw and throttling.
 
Don't get me wrong.. I do have a laptop... An 11th gen i5, iris graphics ultra book type thing.. But it's only used on Holliday or when I'm away from home. It lives in a drawer otherwise!
 
I wouldn’t swap a desktop for a laptop for gaming. Unless I was working away a lot.

Their performance isn’t really comparable a laptop GPU although named the same is usually a couple models back compared to the desktop equivalent.

Spend a bit of time designing a set up that allows for both. Whether that be a build in a small case or tucking the desktop under the desk and working on the cable management and installing a power button extension
 
Went 5900x + 6800xt to a 13900hx + 4090 laptop.
The laptop shows the desktop a clean pair of heels.

Now, sure, beyond that kind of level, desktop will win.

I need to be able to take it away from the desk (downstairs mostly) quite a bit, have been away from home with it a good bit too.
Helps that it's on a water loop when it's docked so it's not QUITE as noisy as the usual laptop faire.

Scrutinize said:
A 4090 laptop is prob 4070-4080 desktop equivalent depending on power draw and throttling.
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This.
It's ABOUT a 4070ti.
Apart from cooling noise and relative costs, the mindset of "desktop is better" doesn't really work as widely as it's generally believed to.

There seems to be a lot grabbing a "decent" laptop, comparing it to a "GOOD" desktop and deciding laptop gaming sucks.
 
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I did this a few years ago, with the idea it would stop me upgrading all the time.

The pros:
portable gaming, I did use it downstairs/take it out the house on occasion.
it did have decent performance


The cons:
Reliability, I called it the hard drive eater, presumably because of heat
I enjoy building machines too much, even when its cheap tat so boring
Battery life
Noise
It eventually succumbed to motherboard failure, the only motherboard I have ever had fail, which considering I buy components second hand off ebay etc, is impressive.

I feel it really has to used portably to get more out of it, the chap above seems to have a quiet set up though!
I suspect if you research / change your build you could get it quieter/smaller. there is always a balance of perofrmance/heat/noise which ever way you go.
 
I lost my home office when the 2nd child arrived.

I recently took the plunge and bought an 18" Gaming laptop.
Yes, it's noisy. Yes my hand gets warm when using the WASD keys. However, my wife can still sleep next to me in bed when I'm mid game.
 
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