I’ll report back but I think the gaming laptop I bought 3 years ago can do this. It’s a 15 inch ASUS with a 1080p 144hrz screen because Japan will absolutely make you spend an extra 1000 bucks for 4K.
In other words the laptop you linked before probably does everything you want it to.
The problems with this laptop is: had to put in a secondary harddrive immediately but I like all my stuff local. Windows 11 is a bastard. Sometimes the touchpad dissappears and I have to restart it 3 or 4 times before it comes back. It has the apple earbuds bug but what windows Laptop doesn’t.
The apple earbuds bug is plugging in to the headphone jack seems to permanently fuck volume settings which is great for the most popular headphones on earth. The volume has to hover around at like 9/100 or it is too god damn loud with ANY headphones plugged in. This has happened to me on 3 laptops so isn’t unique.
That’s just explaining all the problems because I editted podcasts in Audacity, watch movies on my big tv with kodi, and can play any god damn video game I can throw at it.
I’m not the first to make this observation and the bulk of the preceding conversation has slid like duckback water off my brain but it is very funny that no matter the hardware question the answer always seems to be “can you wait”
Computer has been dogshit for what feels like a decade now
I guess it’s been since 2018 or so? Even then the 10-series seemed absurdly expensive even if it was an extremely good value in hindsight
I would say about 95% of my hobbies, interests, values at this point are in the vicinity of “I can’t necessarily recommend any of this unless you’re in a really specific overlap with me – and god help the thousands of other people who persist in trying to keep it afloat under less obsessive circumstances – but what the hell, I’m feeling chatty”
I have some coil whine coming from somewhere in my PC, which I recently updated everything about except for my PSU that is, I am guessing, not totally sufficient for what I have in there at the moment. Does anyone think an underpowered PSU might cause something like that? I actually don’t know exactly what I have in there right now, but it’s pretty old, I used to run a 3060 and an 8700K Intel with whatever it is. These are my current specs…
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
Crucial Pro RAM 64GB Kit DDR5 5600MHz
AMD 6800XT RX 16GB
ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS Motherboard
Ahh… I guess the whine only happens when things are running at an uncapped framerate in the like 500+ range.
if you can isolate it to times of high power draw that’s lucky because it’s almost certainly the PSU or GPU.
also, you may already know this, but a 7700x performs stupidly better (like up to 10%) with specifically 6000 MT/s memory because of how AMD’s bus clocks work
I did not know this at all! Some new RAM may be something to possibly invest in, unfortunately lol
Any thought about how I could test if it’s one or the other, without like removing the GPU?
yeah, I would just buy another PSU from Amazon and test it within the return period as a first step, will be much easier than trying to swap out the GPU
roll up a paper cone and listen
My little mini PC (the one I have previously described as a security risk) just bluescreens the instant I try to do anything with it. Figured I might get in there and format the SSD, ya know? Well, no dice! Taking it as a sign from the Computer Gods to cut my losses.
Your boy is running out of computers. All I have left is my Surface Go 2. Might have to just roll with that for a while. That being said I’m finally in a circumstance where an actual desktop computer is workable for me although I still prefer something small.
to me swapping the GPU seems much easier than swapping the PSU (??) … the GPU goes in a PCIe Slot and has 1 or 2 (or 3?) power leads, but if you are swapping the PSU you have to remove all those power leads as well as all the other power leads to the motherboard and possibly drives etc.
even if the PSUs are modular, you still have to remove and replace all the stupid power leads to the actual PSU
or am i missing something?
EDIT: if it’s not obvious, i hate connecting and removing power leads, they never go in/out easily, i don’t understand why they have stayed the same for like 30 years, i always hurt my hands on them
a good PSU is $100 and a good GPU is $1000 so I was just thinking in terms of retail availability and ease of returns
for that reason, if your GPU has coil whine, I would expect that you’d decide to live with it, whereas if it can be isolated to the PSU – great
oh yeah i see
Would be a fine suggestion, but I recently sold off my old GPUs. Now that I’ve figured out how to reliably limit FPS using AMD’s adrenaline software, I’m not in a rush to replace the PSU. I was running an application that was reaching 700fps… and that was when the whine was kicking in. At my monitor’s refresh rate of 165, it’s fine. I can live like this. But I might put that money towards memory instead.
If your power supply is older than 5 years and you don’t know offhand how many amps it provides on the 12v rail you should absolutely replace it when you can.
Alright. I’ll take your word on it. I got some chintzy Best Buy replacement yeaaaars ago when I was a college student and my previous PSU suddenly gave out.
hey everyone already told you to buy a PSU so I’ll just say you should be totally open to overspending and overspeccing a little on the one thing standing in between the world and your computer parts working and/or not exploding
fair! i ordered a corsair RM850e RM1000X. Seems like a solid choice.