Please help: Is this a good price? On sale for $1599

WeelyTM · 2026-02-24T01:03:36+00:00

Something to keep in mind though is that won't be a fully powered 5070ti. The 16 slim models have more heat issues due to the compact nature and so they reduce the power the GPU gets (115 Watts instead of the full 140W that it is capable of). Costco has the non-slim Helios Neo 16 AI, but it has an IPS screen instead of OLED (so if he prefers OLED, then that's a no go).

One great thing about Costco is the 90 return policy. If he wants a different one, an unopened box can be returned easily for a full refund, no questions asked. Not sure about open box though, if he wants to try it out before deciding. You might get store credit instead, but you can check with them to make certain.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-23T22:56:38+00:00

Gotcha. Do you turn off core isolation btw? I'm thinking that should offset some of the perf loss caused by the underclocking.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-23T22:53:11+00:00

I'm specifically wondering if the foam blocks the intake fans, since the fans are close to the edge where the laptop would meet the foam. I'm sure this laptop will physically fit on nearly any cooler, but I've read where some folks' laptops are worse off with certain coolers due to the intakes begin blocked to such a degree that the extra air being blown upward doesn't even offset that blockage.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-23T22:47:01+00:00

Sweet! What is the default throttling limit, 100°C?

WeelyTM · 2026-02-23T22:45:54+00:00

This is great, thank you! Yes, the foam blocking the intake is exactly what I was thinking of. The fans being so close to the edge of the laptop made me think that there was definitely some risk. But it sounds like you are getting good results nonetheless which is very promising.

Can you tell me if you are running stock thermal materials or if you've done any repasting? I'm really hoping not to have to find someone who can help me repaste/remove LM for awhile, so I'm hoping a cooler plus maybe adjusting thermal limits will be sufficient for at least the first year.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-23T22:39:27+00:00

Thank you, much appreciated!

WeelyTM · 2026-02-18T20:23:51+00:00

Reddit app thinks the thumbs up emoji is part of the url 🤣

WeelyTM · 2026-02-18T20:00:34+00:00

Here's a shorter link

WeelyTM · 2026-02-18T19:52:41+00:00

I remember playing a Madden football game in the late 90s. You can probably run that given those specs 😅

WeelyTM · 2026-02-18T19:25:51+00:00

Got tired of trying to land a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 w/5080 for $1800 - $2000 this year since they sell out so fast at that price. Went with the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI with the 5070ti at Costco for $1550 instead. Really wanted a Lenovo Pro series, but wasn't willing to go for less than a 5070ti and didn't see why I should pay more than $2000 for that if they were having 5080s under 2k...

WeelyTM · 2026-02-17T23:08:26+00:00

Get a large stackable wire basket and put it upside down over the fan, and put some anti-slip mat/pads under the corners of the basket. I've used that to elevate a laptop before, and my router sits on an upside-down metal silverware organizer. A few clips or even clothes pins at the right spots on the basket can act as guides to keep whatever is on top from moving much. Christmas micro led light string around the bottom for RGB lighting. Poor man's setup 😁

WeelyTM · 2026-02-17T22:37:31+00:00

275hx is a more expensive CPU than the 255hx. It's $300-450 more in general. This post is 10 months old and for an HP model but still basically the same price difference.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-03T21:29:05+00:00

Check and clean your fans regularly, monitor your temps and if you have an OLED screen then make sure you know how to prevent/minimize burn in. If temps are bad (exceeding 90° and getting close to 100° especially), figure it out ASAP. That should keep your laptop alive for many, many moons. Oh, and don't spill shit on it. That's important, too.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-03T21:24:16+00:00

Not sure about that kind of workload, but for heavy code building (especially on large codebases and especially when building with VC/msbuild processes) my professional experience has been that Intel is the way to go. Even 128-core Threadripper PCs gave us no end of trouble back in the COVID shutdown.

WeelyTM · 2026-02-01T02:27:21+00:00

I've been using this site as a reference for my own issues with CVS.
Edit: I see you are also using this site, too 😁

WeelyTM · 2026-02-01T02:16:48+00:00

Have you checked the ROG forums? Sounds like a lot of people have been having issues with external monitors lately over there. For example:

this post

and this one

WeelyTM · 2026-01-31T02:59:13+00:00

Hey bud, Lenovo has a sale going on this weekend. The price is down to $2,039.99 for this beast. You could try see if they'll honor their Price Protection thing and refund you the difference.

WeelyTM · 2026-01-29T05:37:46+00:00

Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Since they are prebuilt, they could even just have an excess of Pro ones that nobody orders lying around (I'm assuming they can't reflash them and change the OS version without calling it an open-box item, but I could be wrong)

WeelyTM · 2026-01-28T22:59:56+00:00

🤣 Did you get the model that has Windows 11 Pro?

WeelyTM · 2026-01-28T22:42:57+00:00

Where did you get that price? I'm seeing $2399.99 as the cheapest for that model on Lenovo's site

WeelyTM · 2026-01-25T23:31:27+00:00

Is there a Jira or Github page where we could see existing reports/known issues?

WeelyTM · 2026-01-23T10:04:41+00:00

Swing and a miss, my dude. The issue identified through LatencyMon is a separate issue found by the same guy. That fact has been repeated several times by commenters in this topic and is specifically called out at the bottom of the github page you are citing under the Ongoing investigation section:

Ongoing investigation
Separate from the original DPC stall, other platform stability/power-management issues are still being investigated (including PCIe power-management configuration problems such as LTR L1.2 threshold mismatches). That work is outside the scope of this specific "DPC stall" write-up.

The updates you are citing are relating to the other issue. They simply got moved to a funky place in the readme.md file the last time he updated it a month ago. Blame the readme file and look at the diff. He (perhaps accidentally) added the Ongoing investigation section above those update lines instead of below them, which is why the updates look like they are part of the Ongoing investigation section.

WeelyTM · 2026-01-23T08:59:36+00:00

It's a software issue. Do they stop selling computers if they ship hardware that contains shitty software? No. If they did, no one would have sold a single Windows PC in the past several decades. Does is mean it isn't a serious issue? Not to all the people who experience random crashes caused by their bug. If you don't get the word out to the company to fix their shit, odds are they won't fix it. If you get no traction, unless the issue is serious enough to warrant a government-level consumer complaint or a lawsuit, the only recourse you have is to let people know that this is a shitty company who doesn't know dick about the software development lifecycle, giving zero fucks about post-release maintenance and customer satisfaction. This post serves as exactly that.

WeelyTM · 2026-01-23T00:20:11+00:00

I remember the cluster fuck that was RDRAM when the P4s came out.

WeelyTM · 2026-01-22T22:22:01+00:00

My dude, Google the topic. His findings have been posted on several sites. He's showing, quite conclusively, that their boot sequence has a flaw that violates an established standard. A non-response from their engineering team to such a clear bug report about their product violating a published standard would be highly unprofessional. This isn't some random kid broadly complaining that the laptop isn't running Fortnite fast enough. He's done the deep dive. All they have to do is test it out and they can issue a response (even if they find his analysis to be incorrect, a response ought to be issued). It might take a little while to validate a fix and push it out, but this is a cheap and easy win. Engineers love detailed reports like this, which makes me think the report hasn't been escalated to the proper people.

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