Thread 716414072

i'm 29 and i grew up gaming on consoles and regret it, i wish i grew up PC gaming so the knowledge of building a gaming PC would be second nature to me

anyway i want to game on a PC but i'm too stupid to build one, i've watched loads of videos on how to do it but it's too much for me

i was thinking of getting a gaming laptop instead, and i want to play Battlefield 5 on it, what do you guys think are some good gaming laptops out there to get that would be powerful enough to run Battlefield 5 at 1080p 120fps?

i would say that one
my 3060m is pretty good too
but you want to spend 800-1000$ usually

>>716414072 (OP)
Gaming and laptops is a bad idea
Unless you're going for the simplest of games you're getting thermal throttling in no time

>>716414072 (OP)
no you're just an idiot. If you grew up PC gaming you'd have just bought pre-made shit for years as a kid.

pay $800 for laptop
pay $700 for battery replacements and an industrial cooling plate

>>716414072 (OP)
Stop being lazy and just order the parts

>>716414072 (OP)
Since you’re a crybaby pussy with FOMO, just buy an expensive pre-built PC to satisfy your FOMO. I bet your poor ass couldn’t afford PC gaming anyways

>>716414072 (OP)
>gaming laptop but doesn’t take anywhere
>after months of use the regret kicks in because the monitor is too small
>overheats and battery drains in an hour or two

>>716414072 (OP)
>i'm 29
Zillennials aren't people

>>716414072 (OP)
They'll put the cheapest parts they can in these things, you're going to have to end up repasting it, adding more ram, and adding another ssd, and thats if the manufactures let you open it

Ironic i regret playing PC and went back to console, you'll eventually learn PC is soulless just look at the soulless user base

>>716414072 (OP)
Jesus christ anon, building a gayman PC is just building an expensive lego set.

Requirements: A phillips head screwdriver
A case (microATX, ATX, or Full ATX. 70% of them will be ATX, 15% of them will be Full ATX, and 5% will be microATX)
A motherboard (and the assigned socket number for said motherboard committed to memory)
A CPU (which will fit in the socket your motherboard will advertise itself with)
A GPU
RAM (bandwidth MUST be similar to what your motherboard will have, DDR4 is the standard, but your motherboard will tell you what kind it can take. 8GB MINIMUM for any sort of decent gaimen PC)
Power supply (anything at or above 750 watts is easily manageable)
Monitor
Storage (A HDD or SSD of any type will do provided your motherboard can accommodate)

These 8 components are literally everything required. None of them can be mistaken for anything else except the receptacles they are used for. If you can shove a triangle into a triangle hole, a square hole into a square hole, and a circle into a circular hole, then you have everything required to make one yourself.

You sound like you're getting inside your own head for some reason. But it literally is as simple as choosing a motherboard, and then making sure everything after it can be slotted into it. If you have the funds to buy all of the above, then you can easily make a "babbys first PC" build and then use that as a stepping stone to get further along down the line.

It only becomes complicated it you allow it to be, and if you allow retards to color your opinion and what YOU want YOUR PC to do.

Start with a motherboard, and work your way up from there. Gayman laptops are absurdly overpriced and depending on the stress you want to put it under, hamstrung from the get-go to not harm the user from overheating.

>>716415108
Zillennials are the only real people. They have the combined strengths of the millennial and the zoomer, but without either generation's weaknesses.

>>716414072 (OP)
https://www.logicalincrements.com/

>>716414072 (OP)
Unless will spend more than half of your free time in transit or traveling gaming laptops are the most retarded idea ever.

Here is an old ass video explaining why its always better to get a Desktop over a laptop for gaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRY1jrIDhvU

Laptops overheat and throttle performance all the time and you will have to replace the battery like every 3-4 years compared to a PC that will last you 6-8 years.

>>716414072 (OP)
>gaming laptop
get a prebuilt pc instead so you can upgrade and customize the parts at your whim. the price is comparable.

>>716414072 (OP)
Only buy a laptop if you actually need the mobility, the hardware is understandably gimped in them. Also watch out how many watts do they run the GPU on. I don't know where do you live but notable pc shops here build the system for you from components you choose and send it to your home. You only need to install Windows. As for the components I could quickly find local forums where experts help people with that.

>gaming
>laptop
choose one

>>716414072 (OP)
Building a PC is easy. The only hard part is doing all the research to figure out what parts to buy. Afterwards it's just watching a 2 hour video from LTT or something then spending an afternoon doing it yourself.

>>716414072 (OP)
>https://www.logicalincrements.com/
Get a desktop and use some of that money you save from not buying a equivalent laptop to pay someone to build it for you.

Laptops on average cost 30% more than the same exact desktop PC and perform an average 20% worse than the same desktop PC due to overheating and throttling.

>>716414072 (OP)
ok zoomer

>>716415546
Not everyone is comfortable betting money on the outcome of some activity you never did before. Let OP be.

>>716414072 (OP)
This one specific laptop was one of the best laptops of 2024.
Nowadays mobile GPUs in the xx50/xx60 range have similar performance as the desktop counterpart.
CPU is more of a problem than GPUs, but you can limit CPU power to something like 45watts and keep temps down while keeping performance high.

>>716415546
>Start with a motherboard
i disagree
start with the graphics card you want for the games youre going to play, then choose everything else around that
you cant tell if something can run on an asus prime b450plus

>blogpost
>redditspaced
>laptop
>too dumb to build
>bf5
kek gr8b8m8

>>716416634
>start with the graphics card you want for the games youre going to play, then choose everything else around that
That makes sense.
When I built my first workstation I started with the cpu I needed for the things I wanted to do, then built everything else around that.
My second workstation was, ironically, a motherboard-centric build. Who knew cheap 7 full width pcie lane boards were so rare.

>>716418448
i recently built a PC around a motherboard, something ive never done in the last 25 years or so of building them
i needed something that could hold a lot of sata drives and enough bandwidth etc, and its crazy how limited the options are today, as an average consumer

>>716414072 (OP)
Assembling a PC looks a lot scarier than it actually is. As long as you have some tutorials open and take it slow you'll be fine. I assembled my first PC December last year and it's run like a dream ever since.

Still beats consoles but laptops have their own issues like poor cooling and at the very least the fans tend to crap out eventually and need replacement. Even if you go with a laptop you're better off treating it like a desktop and connect a real keyboard/mouse and monitor to it.

>>716414072 (OP)
This laptop is ok but it won't be the most comfortable experience. I would suggest buying a prebuilt PC with equivalent or similar specs and get a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to go with it.

Laptops aren't as "stable". They're nice to have as a backup but I don't think they should be your primary gaming device. Also, if you get a prebuilt, you can learn to do some basic upgrades like RAM or storage later on when you work up the nerve. These two are easy to do. Anyone can do it, even you. When you want to do it, watch a YouTube video on how to do it. Watch a few of them in fact so you get comfortable. A GPU upgrade is also simple but I don't think you'd want to do that in the near future considering how slow GPUs have been progressing unless you blow money on a higher end model.

>>716414072 (OP)
You can always buy all the parts yourself and let a shop put it together for you

>>716415751
Am I still a zillenial if I am 32 and grew up in the place where culture was just a little behind?

>>716414072 (OP)
spend 2 hours reading up on compatability. buy your shit and then put it together. it's not that difficult you just keep making it out to be harder than it is.

Get a steam deck or a $1500+
Don't get a fucking gaming laptop

>>716422567
Did you experience plasma TVs in your childhood?

>>716414072 (OP)
There's gotta be a billion fucking guides on how to put together a PC build at this point. Definitely a bunch of budget/mid/high/bleeding edge build guides on places like Reddit. Just look at games you want to play on PC, look at their specs, consider your own budget, and start picking parts.
Like nigga just read guides and use online resources for picking and comparing PC components.

>>716424510
I did but I'm only 26

>>716415751
>combined strengths of the millennial and the zoomer
>the asspull generation

>>716414072 (OP)
Litteray go to logicalincrements.com pick your country and tier order everything (dont worry all shit in given tier is compatible but just in case read the notes) call your local gaming shop and let them build your PC there is no shame in that like i fucked up in installing CPU and i bended the needles like retard but they fixed that shit so yes DO IT DONT GET THE FUCKING LAPTOP.
Also ignore all retards (if there are any) that redccomend part picker UI of that site is pure shit and ""builds"" they offer are just visual garbage.

>>716417264
based kek, op's entire post read like a medium article written by someone who just discovered GPUs exist. imagine bragging about buying a throttling space heater to play a 7-year-old game at 45 fps while telling yourself it’s the “best laptop of 2024.” lmao just say you’re scared of plugging in cables and move on.