gaming laptops

[Juryiel]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

• that fan gets super loud when you play a graphics-heavy game
• the laptop gets very hot, physically; the models I read about got so hot after only 1/2 hour of gaming that people couldn't even keep them on their laps
• when the one fan couldn't cool the computer fast enough (which happened often) it had to throttle the CPU/GPU .. which means you pay for 100% of the CPU/GPU, but only get some percentage of its power

The fan noise can be a general issue with thin/lightweight gaming laptops, though I haven't had any issues with the Gigabyte I've had for a few months other than it being noisy when hardcore gaming. The fan noise is a worthwhile tradeoff for actually having the laptop be a laptop. I had one of the larger SLI laptops before and i basically treated it like a desktop because it was annoyingly bulky, and that was much more annoying than some fan noise.