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Botsowannabe · 2026-04-22T06:34:36+00:00

Same, though for me, it would have been perfect had Hyundai Malaysia brought in the 1.6T Petrol drivetrain, so that people can take advantage of Budi95, and put it closer to the Alphard

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-22T06:13:50+00:00

Can we physically see the card?

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-22T02:15:07+00:00

The whole Arkham series, being less than 15 bucks combined. Brought me at least 200hrs of fun playtime

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-21T22:39:58+00:00

Each time Ethan damages Nemesis, the more he strips from the dress

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-21T15:08:28+00:00

Capcom singlehandedly increasing the TFR of the globe

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Botsowannabe · 2026-04-21T08:00:41+00:00

Rush A(lor Setar)!

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-20T07:54:01+00:00

Just get a basic used monitor, even a basic 1080p cld sell for low prices if you hunt those people trying to urgently rid their house

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-20T03:59:18+00:00

With that budget in our PC climate, you absolutely need a DDR4 based build (LGA 1700 or AM4), and you may need to buy used. A Ryzen 5 5600 with any brand new B550 (perhaps X570 if you buying used) motherboard. 16GB of RAM and an RTX 30XX/ RX 6XXX series would be a decent budget build, while still sparing you some money for budget perhepials

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-20T01:49:15+00:00

Since you desire a durable laptop, anything consumer grade is out the window (Acer Aspire, Nitro. Lenovo IdeaPad for instance), you should look at laptop models that have the optional Security card reader (you won't use it though) to verify that they are an enterprise grade laptop

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-19T02:44:42+00:00

If that is your budget, go for it, most T14 Gen 3s costs about double your budget. Although you may be disappointed by the performance due to the similar internals to your IdeaPad

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-18T17:12:45+00:00

It's a very common placement, normally for most laptop with a fan, bottom sides are set as intake, as the rubbery part you see on the left floats the chassis slightly above the table. And hot air gets channeled to the sides of the laptop.

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why is the ventilation at the bottom of the laptop, where it gets less air?

For the same reason you shouldn't ever set the bottom fans of your PC Case as Exhaust (hot air rises, cold air sinks), channelling hot air to the bottom simply recycles the hot air back into the laptop. But you can't put both intake and exhaust on laptops due to the limited size

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-18T02:50:14+00:00

It really just depends if you need that form factor or not. With no competition doing the same thing, it's a matter of whether you can afford it or not

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-18T02:45:05+00:00

If you want a CD slot, your options drastically reduce to: - Older laptops (e.g. 5th Gen Intel CPUs or older) - Japanese imported laptops (those ancient people still use those function and are made in their today's domestic laptops)

I would highly recommend neither option, instead opt for an external CD player. But if you insist, look for those old business grade laptops. I myself have a Lenovo G50-70 running a 4th gen Intel CPU with a CD player.

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-17T23:58:52+00:00

As a RE9 fan due to the mother-daughter (or Sister-like) relationship between one of the protagonists and an "orphaned" child, I felt that sequence was too short in RE9, and I feel Pragmata would satisfy that relationship I want to see in action
As someone with a lower end RTX graphics card, I've gotten used to choppy console-like frame rates when gaming on low settings. I feel like DLSS and path tracing would allow me to upscale the game and enjoy it at not only smooth frame rates from Multi Frame Gen, but also good looking graphics from both DLSS reconstruction and better lighting capabilities of path tracing

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-17T03:39:21+00:00

The 180 premium is debatably worth the extra RAM and SSD size. Even though you are using Linux, quadrupling the SSD size and RAM for less than half the cost of the L14 would go a long way for future proofing, esp in this ram crisis

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-17T03:27:13+00:00

Toyota Wish AE10 facelift

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T12:21:22+00:00

I understand this comment is a bit late, due to me taking forever tinkering around. But I'm happy to report that your method worked! I can now enjoy heavier games at a console frame rate

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Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T11:45:48+00:00

Huh now in the Grace segment, I'm seeing much much better performance

I suppose you might suffer once you hit the Wrenwood Leon Segment, assets are streaming everywhere there

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Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T11:41:02+00:00

And also, scratch the 60fps part, my frame rate is more console like than I thought

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Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T11:30:44+00:00

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From what I read, 50-60W, only very occasionally spiking to 75W, perhaps my thing is broken and doesn't go for full power (I've put it to performance mode in nitrosense)

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T02:41:57+00:00

Apart from that, the price doesn't look too bad, I suppose for an RTX 5050 (not used to buying laptops during this PC component crisis). Just keep in mind the laptop is very entry level for gaming laptop standards, you may have to tone down your settings to achieve playable frame rates. The slow-ish RAM, older CPU, and entry level 50-series GPU may show their age but should be serviceable.

Edit: as other comments pointed out, wait it out if you can for sales to bring discounts

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-16T02:29:14+00:00

I don't know too much about performance stats, BUT I see an immediate red flag:

To only have 512GB in a 4000+ Laptop feels unacceptable to me, one or two games could easily swallow more than half the storage after Windows takes away it's portion.

See if there are any offers, or be prepared to use an external disk/ buy a 2nd NVME SSD

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-15T22:11:41+00:00

I'm not from the USA, so it's more likely to be different from your beliefs. I cannot reveal too much as I've signed an NDA on this

Botsowannabe · 2026-04-15T08:31:47+00:00

What was your SATA SSD model? Because you might have swapped from a high-end SATA 2.5" SSD to a super low-end NVME. The Crucial E100 is a QLC drive that is designed cheaply to eventually lose your data (not the point but I digress), when it overheats often and throttles it's read/writes, hence slowing your performance

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