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19 hours ago, win32asmguy said:

 

I have a bunch of alts with each profession + engineering (for wormhole toys / etc).

 

I did not really want another 16 incher either, despite Eluktronics offering the Hydroc G2 with 9955HX3D + 5090. This Raider was a higher price as it is being sold for $3299 only at Best Buy (not Newegg, MSI direct or other usual resellers).

 

So far it has been behaving better than the older model. The balanced profile has very good fan noise. It only does sustained 55W CPU + 115W GPU. For higher performance I have a custom profile with all points set to 55% because otherwise the fans just constantly ramp up and down.

 

The RGB controller at some point reverted to the rainbow puke effect on boot, so I ended up having to install Steelseries GG. For a while it was just static red on all zones without any control software which was really nice.

 

This time around I am running W11 Enterprise LTSC IoT which has been great. Sadly the OEM Hynix A-die memory is PMIC locked so no VDD/VDDQ beyond 1.1v.

 

The 5080M has been plenty for WoW at QHD. I would just need to sell the other 5090 laptops as the Raider A18 can replace the function of the Hydroc G2 and Legion 9i G10 both. It is only a loss of battery life which is not a major concern for me.

 

I like the QHD option. I saw a FullHD option too on the 18" model but it was only for the 285hx as far as I could see. 9955HX3D would absolutely rip at 1080p but that resolution might be a bit too low.

 

I'll have to put the Raider back on my list as it seems to check all the boxes. The one big hangup I had with it was potentially only having the 4k display option as I prefer QHD or FHD. Nice that MSI is selling directly through BB marketplace so you can get that 5% in rewards too.

 

19 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Thanks for the nice write up bro Elektro🙂

 

Edit... plant based way of eating and limiting meat to 1-2 a week ###  No way I can handle this. 55 years of eating meat in most  meals and you see where I go. I try to eat healthier meat. With little or almost zero fat. I never eat/use special sauces, or unhealthy dressings. Mostly pure food of good meat. Sample for on the bread. + here.  And of course lots of chicken. + lots of healthy bread. Me eat plants... Hell freeze first.

 

 

If you play long enough with the fire...... 

 

 

I figured you weren't going to go cold turkey across the board @Papusan! 🤣

 

I think that might be my first 5090FE burning up with the original tentacle. He seems to have been doing his due diligence too from leaving it plugged in even during GPU swaps to always giving it a check to make sure it was seated.

 

Hmmm.....

 

No one is safe from this catastrophe of a connector.

 

If only he had invested in a Wireview Pro 2..... 🤣 

 

17 hours ago, Clamibot said:

 

Radeon cards are better for frame gen. Lossless Scaling likes them more due to Radeon's higher floating point compute power vs their GeForce equivalents at all performance tiers, which is very important for frame gen performance. This also explains why Radeon cards perform significantly better with Minecraft shaders vs their GeForce equivalents. Both tasks are dependent on floating point performance.

 

So the best setup for dual GPU in games is Radeon + Radeon if your games favor AMD GPUs, or Nvidia + Radeon if your games favor Nvidia GPUs. In either case, the optimal frame gen GPU is going to be a Radeon GPU.

 

Nice insight, thanks! (Looks over at shelf with extra Red Devil 9070xt sitting there bored)....

 

I just need to find games I would play that really benefit from FG