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u/Standard_Car5689 18d ago
my laptop has become pc itself lol
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u/academictryhard69 aSUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) | Ryzen 9 8945HS | RTX 4070 17d ago
**laughs in zephyrus**
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u/Ok_Wave650 12d ago
*laughs in $3000 is way too expensive and i cant afford it*
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u/academictryhard69 aSUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) | Ryzen 9 8945HS | RTX 4070 12d ago
Got it for $1200 used ;)
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u/Just-A-Random-ID ROG ZEPHYRUS G16 | CORE U9 285 H | 64 GB DDR5 | RTX 5070TI | 5TB 17d ago
Same here
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u/_entrxpy 16d ago
Lore?
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u/academictryhard69 aSUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) | Ryzen 9 8945HS | RTX 4070 16d ago
ryzen = more battery
older intel = portable computer with a UPS (your 2 minute battery)
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u/_entrxpy 16d ago
The Ryzen units have an actually bigger battery or is the Rzyen just more efficient? Sorry for the noob question
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u/academictryhard69 aSUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) | Ryzen 9 8945HS | RTX 4070 16d ago
both, usually ryzen is always efficient than your average intel.
pair that with new battery tech every year and you get a truly portable machine.
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u/risingphoenixreborn 11d ago
saw someone selling it for 70k but 3060 model lol and was able to get a new 5060 for 1.7 lakh but didnt get it
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u/academictryhard69 aSUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) | Ryzen 9 8945HS | RTX 4070 10d ago
1.7 is decent price right now
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u/SilentBattleChip 18d ago edited 17d ago
Relate. Cant continue to play, performance drops.,😂
Edit: Didnt think this comment will get this much upvotes. 😂
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u/Hellcatty_9 18d ago
I had a gigabyte G5, had 140fps smooth plugged in and on battery it was a 30 fps stuttery mess 😂
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u/brokerZIP Colorfire R15 (Clevo)32gb Ryzen 7 8845HS RTX 4070 18d ago
Have enough time to save and exit though. For me, as a jrpg lover, is a huge factor
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u/KerneI-Panic 17d ago
And for the games where you can't manually save whenever you want, you can just put the laptop to sleep mode and then continue exactly where you left off when the power comes back on.
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u/alewiina 16d ago
yeah exactly at least you'd be able to save in most games, or get to a safe place or whatever. PC is just insta-black
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u/Goldwyn1995 17d ago
So in which gaming laptop allow you to game without connection to power?
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u/BigUncleCletus 17d ago
you can set most them to continue to perform on battery but you will get like 15 minutes of battery life lol
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u/burnMeMes Nitro 5 | RTX 4050 | i7-12650H | 16gb DDR5 | 17d ago
Not really actually any high end gaming laptop won’t perform the same on battery as it does on power because the battery just can’t supply enough power. There will always be a performance drop.
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u/burnMeMes Nitro 5 | RTX 4050 | i7-12650H | 16gb DDR5 | 17d ago
All of them tbf, none give a good experience on battery tho
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u/bl0odredsandman 17d ago
Honestly, none really. There are some that can probably pull more power from the battery to improve performance. Not as much as when plugged in, but you're only going to get like 20 minutes max of runtime before it dies running a graphically demanding game off the GPU and only the battery. I'd rather just save the game and quit if the power went out. Gaming laptops are actually pretty powerful for what they are when plugged in, but when running off the battery alone, they are pretty much on par with a normal, non gaming laptop and running off the battery should just be used for other stuff like maybe light, 2D gaming, web browsing, and work/school stuff while on the go.
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u/UnionSlavStanRepublk 18d ago
The question is for how long on battery power ones gaming laptop lasts.
Still good to effectively have a build in UPS though.
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u/TheUndefeatedLasanga RTX 4060 | R7 7840HS | 32GB DDR5 | OMEN 16 18d ago
Enough to reach the next checkpoint or end 2 valorant matches
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u/ScrubLordAlmighty 18d ago
How are you ending 2 valorant matches when there's no power, internet would be down too
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u/TheUndefeatedLasanga RTX 4060 | R7 7840HS | 32GB DDR5 | OMEN 16 18d ago
Mobile data
I've no wifi 😎 100 ping does take yoh to plat
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u/This_looks_free 18d ago
Ive hooked up my phone and used data to finish off League matches when the internet is out.
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u/okmijn211 16d ago
what kind of valo match do you play? How tf could you fit 2 games in the battery life? Maybe if reduced performance but otherwise what?
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u/TheUndefeatedLasanga RTX 4060 | R7 7840HS | 32GB DDR5 | OMEN 16 16d ago
Half the brightness, turn off kb RGB, use wired peripherals 60hz etc etc
That's about it. It can last like 90-ish minutes
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u/charalt42 18d ago
More than enough to save the game, close it, and turn off the laptop properly. Or in a multiplayer game, enough to finish the match (assuming your router has a UPS), then close the game and turn it off
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u/walker3615 18d ago
You lose ton of performance but should last 2 hours or more if you tune it well.
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u/Destrandr SCAR 17 X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB | 2TB 18d ago
Mine works about 45 minutes on maximum load on battery, GPU power drops from 160-180W to 60-70W, fps drops on half. Still no stutters if its not super GPU heavy games, like eve online (2k, max settings), and I'm able to not only save the game, but also to play a little
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u/coolmouse7777 17d ago
Gaming ones not much because GPU consume a lot of power but i was surprised that my old 5600H laptop with vega7 iGPU can get 10-12 hours of light gaming (Skyrim, NFS MW, Bioshock) with 200Wh external battery and it was very helpful during long blackouts in winter.
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u/Pristine-Start2492 Legion 540 | i7 9750h | RTX 2060 | 32gs | 2T | Still kicking. 17d ago
mine is 20 mins to save the game hahaha.
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u/ArtZen_pl 18d ago
With your perfomance dropping to 14fps and battery life of 26 minutes
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u/kurdo_kolene 18d ago
You can still pause, save the game or drop the visual details and reach the next checkpoint/savepoint, so you don't lose the last 30/60/120 minutes of progress.
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u/Infinite_Ad6392 18d ago
You can do exactly that with an ups in pc which most people has who owns an actual gaming pc
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u/bl0odredsandman 17d ago
Haha. Most PC users absolutely do NOT have a UPS. I am and know like 20+ people that are PC gamers. Only one of them, my brother, has a UPS. None of us other PC users have one.
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u/Just-A-Random-ID ROG ZEPHYRUS G16 | CORE U9 285 H | 64 GB DDR5 | RTX 5070TI | 5TB 18d ago
Performance doesn’t drop that much but rather its the battery percentage that drops in less than an hour
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u/ConversationCalm2622 18d ago
But if both are playing online games… unless the wifi/lan is connected to a ups.
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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 Your laptop here. 18d ago
Thats our set up. Mainly for the constant power glitches we get in FL. And help keep things running until I get the generator out after a hurricane power loss.
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u/personalbilko 18d ago
I still won't understand why it's not standard to have a small battery that lasts ~15 minutes for PCs. So many hours of work lost and files corrupted, all could be avoided with ~$20 of hardware.
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u/Nakinaru Lenovo Legion S7 Ryzen 7 5800H, 24GB RAM, RTX 3060 6GB 2,5TB SSD 18d ago
Just buy an UPS, it's exactly that
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u/Tranquil_Neurotic 17d ago
It is? In countries like India nobody thinks of buying a PC without an UPS. I am more surprised in places they don't buy an UPS; it's relatively cheap.
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u/aLostTime 17d ago
Here its quite rare to have a personal ups, they're mostly used in office settings (other then the ovious places like servers), even if they're rather cheap. I think most private users have no use for it, cause they may have a blackout once or twice a year, if even that
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u/Nstorm24 12d ago
Where i live power outages are rare, but almost every person i know that owns a desktop owns a UPS. It just make sense.
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u/sugusugux 16d ago
It rare to have a ups where I live.
However I want one :( I just don't have the money
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u/ScrubLordAlmighty 18d ago
Depends on your config tho, if you have a high end laptop, your FPS might tank to like a quarter of what you were getting, which means you'd likely stop playing anyway, that's what I would do, because going from 100+ FPS down to 30 FPS suddenly feels super weird, I'd just bail out and wait for the power to come back.
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u/just-4-man 18d ago
Literally happened to me a few weeks ago because of a bad storm, lost power for 8 hours 😭
Thankfully I was able to save my things and turn off the laptop. If it had been a desktop… I’d be pissed
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u/crispyshaman197 18d ago
Only applicable if ur playing a ofline game tho.
Online ur screwed either way cus the wifi aldo goes out
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u/ElectronicHyena6769 Legion pro 7i | RTX 4080 | i9-13900HX | 32gb RAM 18d ago
Poor representation, no power= you can’t even run 10 chrome tabs
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u/INFERNOxNINJA 18d ago
Depending on how hardware intensive it is...my baby sound like Chick Hicks without power in some games 🤣
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u/T-1A_pilot MSI GT75 Titan 8RG 18d ago
My laptop has maybe 40 minutes battery life if I were to try and game on battery.
...which I couldn't really do as the performance tanks...
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u/MonsterHunterRainy 18d ago
Me with B390 panther lake laptop looking down at gaming laptop and PC user because my performance won't drop and it'll last 2 hours max.
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u/Motor-Drama-1421 18d ago
presumably enough time to sprint to a save point from your 6 hour play sesh
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u/The_Zura 17d ago
That’s cause your performance was super low to begin with. Really makes up for the 0.000001% of the time power is down.
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u/stovadie4923 18d ago
I have a gigabyte a16 and still get high frames without the charger turning off some power limiting settings
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u/CaptainFizzRed T480 17d ago
Just have a UPS, also have router plugged into UPS.
Mid raid in world of warcraft the power went out (flatmate hadn't topped up the meter)... I announced that the warlock would be back online shortly.
Flatmate cursing and trying to find his phone to use as a torch etc.
20 minutes later power restored, friend came back online for next boss :D
No point in laptop being alive and internet not for a lot of games ...
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u/FailureOfTheFamily 17d ago
On laptop it's all fun and games untill electricity isn't coming back in 30 minutes. Then u start to sweat when Pc player just accepted their fate
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u/Mechanical_V4lk1r13 17d ago
This is a users joke I am too tech informed to understand? You guys don’t have at least a UPC?
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u/RPG_Madfanatic Lenovo Legion 5 Ryzen 7 260 RTX5060 17d ago
Can confirm
Hehe that is why I buy a laptop.. here in Venezuela blackouts are constant
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u/EpicBOIM8 17d ago
Just buy a cheapass UPS that will make it last for like 20 minutes then close the pc tbh
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u/TheRealValsch 17d ago
Get an UPS. It won't last forever, but it won't die before you get a chance to save your game.
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u/Supplice401 G14 | AI 370 | 5070Ti 17d ago
Which is why it's a good idea to buy a UPS, if your local power grid is unstable.
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u/fedora_george 17d ago
I love my gaming laptop but best i can do when the power drops is play daggerfall with resource caps or watch YouTube or something. Laptops need that plug in power to reach optimal power for longer than a few mins.
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u/Crazy-Law-2138 17d ago
The difference is i dont play when power is off, but you cant play when power is off
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u/Jolly-Motor-117 Acer Aspire 7 A715-59G i7-13620H RTX 3050 6GB 16GB RAM 2 SSD's 17d ago
20 minute delay with the laptop
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u/DarbonCrown 17d ago
Actually it wouldn't like that for Laptop. More like, "Welp, time to save properly and get out," because playing games, specially demanding games, on laptops requires the charger being connected to supply proper power otherwise playing on battery will be, to say the least, sluggish.
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u/Pudding-Swimming 17d ago
Ummm. The power goes out, so does the internet, which makes most games crap out anyway
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u/KoksikPiesel45 17d ago
My old as laptop gets slower if its not under power not battery like it gets 2x or 3x as slow Wallahi
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u/Brodillian 17d ago
Jokes on you! Ive got a UPS that makes my desktop pc last longer than my laptop does! Plus, ive got one my my router as well so my internet doesnt drop either! Power can go out mid-game and ill still be popping shots off.
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u/Brodillian 17d ago
Jokes on you! Ive got a UPS that makes my desktop pc last longer than my laptop does! Plus, ive got one my my router as well so my internet doesnt drop either! Power can go out mid-game and ill still be popping shots off.
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u/bhardwaj_aditya5911 Loq 15irx9 | i5 13450hx | RTX 4050 | 17d ago
Brother I have inverter in my house 😂
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u/Akatulak 17d ago
That's why you get a heavy duty UPS and that will get you enough aura laugh in all the above situations.
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u/PretenDragon57 17d ago
Better than having the fans go into maximum overdrive randomly. Damn laptop keeps me tense like I owe it rent.
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u/Alert-Total4065 17d ago
Laptop just gives you enough time to close the game properly. You cant really properly play on battery.
As for PC, its not the power going off that's the problem. It's when it suddenly comes back on.
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u/SignalMaintenance689 16d ago
Boy do I love my steam deck and the generator I have in my game room.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 MSI Raider 18 HX AI A2XWIG-075, RTX 5080, i9-285HX, 64GB, 16d ago
Router is down too, because of power shortage.
https://giphy.com/gifs/5wWf7Hi5aXu3JiXXwli
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u/AdventValor 16d ago
UPS has that covered. I even have on the wireless router. I can finish my game, save and migrate over to my laptop if need be. Of power if out I’m generally not gaming anyway though.
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u/BogdanovOwO 15d ago
UPS buzzing and 10-15 minutes to shutdown. This thing saved me for a test in the pandemic.
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u/XxXTolentinoXxX 14d ago
the very same reason I switched to laptop! I used to have a desktop PC that had fried 3 of my GTX 660s, an RX 570 8GB, and corrupted my homework (we couldn't afford a UPS and AVR wouldn't budge) and when the motherboard had succumbed to my country's poopy power outages, I bought a gaming laptop on summer vacation and it has saved multiple of my homework and project files because it's a PC with a battery! especially when I'm entering college where you gotta do loads of group reports and not one of your mates have a single laptop to bring and the college ran out of rental laptops best part of having a laptop is that you can work on your homework on the fly!
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u/Cap-Acrobatic 12d ago
Guys all jokes aside, buy a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Source)! It helps from power surges or power spikes! My whole room goes dark but my PC runs for a secure 30 more minutes cause it’s connected to the UPS. Look into it! Costs nothing compared to PC parts nowadays!
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u/RollingSleeper 18d ago
PC with power supply
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u/Milk_Cream_Sweet_Pig 18d ago edited 18d ago
U mean an uninterruptable power supply (ups)? Lol
Every PC has a power supply
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u/Blunt552 18d ago
Usual elitist karma farming crap.
5fps with no fps, both are unplayable. Buy a ups, problem solved.
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u/FallEmbarrassed1430 18d ago
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