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This computer is great. I bought it for its upgrade capabilities and its amazing build quality. I would recommend watching a video on how to do it if you are going to do it yourself but I upgraded the ssd from 2tb to 8tb. It takes 2 4tb drives. So i put 2 samsung 990 pros in with no heatsink and it works great. You can just copy over your old hard drive to the new one with the software that comes with the hard drives because there are 2 ports on the laptop. This laptop takes ddr5 ram so i upgraded to 2 32GB chips of corsair so dimm ddr 5 ram for a total of 64 GB. i'm not sure what the limit is but this fit my needs. The screen looks really good and even though its not oled it doesnt look bad. I was really excited to get gsync on my laptop and it doesnt disappoint. No tearing for me or my screen. Overall i love this laptop. it handles call of duty with ease and world of warcraft no problem. It can play any major AAA game with ease. Also the thunderbolt and usb 3.2 port are blazing fast. i transferred a 300GB file in just seconds. Overall i think this version is the best bang for the buck when its on sale for $700 off. unfortunately right after my return window ended it went on sale to $800 off. but $700 is fine with me. im happy and i think you would be too if you wanted this laptop in the first place. the size is really perfect and fits in my laptop case nicely. I would recommend this laptop to anyone looking for a great gaming laptop at a fair price with top quality options.
Posted by Greg
Hands down the best laptop I have ever owned. Get this thing! Build quality is excellent and the trackpad rivals that of a newer MacBook Pro 16". It has a built in webcam shutter which makes it great for work and play. Fans are totally silent on light load but of course spin up louder under full load. I would say these are the quietest gaming laptop fans I've ever heard even at high speed. The display is extremely bright and color-accurate and has absolutely zero backlight bleed - that was my main concern with not upgrading to the mini-led display. They finally added a setting to automatically switch the refresh rate to 60hz on battery and then switch back to 240hz when plugged in. Nice little quality of life update. They don't formally advertise battery life, but with the 90+Whr battery, I'm getting a little over 6hrs in web browsing and streaming. I can achieve that with 30% screen brightness and allowing Advanced Optimus to handle disabling the discreet GPU. I consider this outstanding for the CPU, GPU and display in this thing. Battery life is next to nothing when playing AAA games, but that's not surprising with modern chip TDPs. You can look up benchmarks online for the CPU and GPU, but performance is killer. They definitely did the right thing by adding a little chassis thickness to cool the components better and feed them more power. If you're on the fence between 30-series and 40-series, go 40 series. The chips are far better with power efficiency and DLSS3 is no joke. Can totally overcome the terrible AAA game optimization out there these days.
Posted by SpicyLobotomy
Been using this laptop for 1 month now with no issues. Beautiful display and lots of CPU and GPU power.
Posted by MX1068
It is a very fast gaming computer I definitely recommend my husband love it
Posted by MayraV
Works well and runs all the games I want it to from the comfort of my dorm.
Posted by Anthony