New PCS Laptop after 7 Years.

[PurpleGary]

Finally got around to getting another beautiful laptop as the previous one is having trouble with the latest games that I want to play.

So here are the specs:

Recoil Series: 17" Matte QHD 240Hz sRGB 100% LED Widescreen (2560x1600)​

Intel® Core™ i9 24 Core Processor 13900HX (5.4GHz Turbo)​

64GB Corsair 4800MHz SODIMM DDR5 (2 x 32GB)​

NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 4090 - 16.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1​

4TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6900MB/W)​

4TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6900MB/W)​

GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 (2.4 Gbps) + BT 5.3​

1 x THUNDERBOLT 4 PORT + 3 x USB 3.2 PORTS​

Windows 11 Professional 64 Bit​

Is there anything I missed?


Have noticed that PCS technical support people don't have knowledge of this laptop.

The power supply doesn't tell you it's working, and the Laptop when switched off doesn't tell you if power is getting to it.

There appears to be a Turbo button right next to the power button with a white light, but I can't find any reference to it.

Still learning though.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Any reason for 64Gb RAM and windows professional?

 

[PurpleGary]

Any reason for 64Gb RAM and windows professional?

Just went for the maximum ram to future-proof it as I'm not sure if I'll ever get another one after this.

As for Windows Professional mainly because it's got built-in encryption.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Just went for the maximum ram to future-proof it as I'm not sure if I'll ever get another one after this.

As for Windows Professional mainly because it's got built-in encryption.

RAM doesn't improve performance at all by having more. It only maintains performance if the program running can utilise that much.

There's no game on the planet that currently uses even close to 32gb and certainly won't be one in the lifetime of that laptop. It's only a few games recently that have gone slightly over 16gb.

 

[sck451]

RAM doesn't improve performance at all by having more. It only maintains performance if the program running can utilise that much.

There's no game on the planet that currently uses even close to 32gb and certainly won't be one in the lifetime of that laptop. It's only a few games recently that have gone slightly over 16gb.

And it's worth saying that the games themselves haven't exceeded 16GB. The total system demand, with that game running, has gone over that amount. So games would need to more than double their memory use to exceed 32GB; that's not happening in a very long time, certainly in the time this laptop will be relevant!

 

[PurpleGary]

I see what you both mean, but maybe if I get back into video editing, which has been a while, maybe the extra ram will then become useful. Still, the extra 32GB cost it was only a small cost compared to everything else I had put into it. Is there a detriment to having too much?

 

[sck451]

I see what you both mean, but maybe if I get back into video editing, which has been a while, maybe the extra ram will then become useful. Still, the extra 32GB cost it was only a small cost compared to everything else I had put into it. Is there a detriment to having too much?

None at all, except cost. For video editing, depending on what kind of stuff you're doing, 64GB can indeed make sense.

 

[PurpleGary]

Yes £86 extra seemed trivial to nearly £4,000.

 

[Tron1982]

Hello,
Just be sure to take the golden warranty and the 1 year dead pixel guarantee ^^
And, maybe, if you'll keep your laptop at the same place, the water cooling solution ^^

 

[PurpleGary]

Very good point Tron, I have got the 3-year gold warranty and 1-year dead pixel guarantee, already but appreciate the suggestion.
Haven't got the water cooler yet as the games I will bep laying won't be pushing it to its extremes for a while.