Hi, I'm looking at budget gaming laptops, aiming for the 4060 as the GPU. I'm tied between the Gigabyte G5 for $1600 (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/255988940541), and the MSI Katana 17 for $2100 (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/295599790796?hash=item44d31edacc…).
I was originally going to go for the G5, but I heard about a lot of problems with heat, the screen, poor power supply etc. So I considered the more expensive MSI Katana 17, which has a better cpu. However I've also read bad things about this too. Is the Katana a good enough upgrade to justify the $500 difference?
Am I missing some other model that might be better value? Would I be better off going to an rtx 3070? I've been thinking that the frame generation and dlss might be good reasons to go for the 4060.
Gigabyte G5 Vs MSI Katana?
nuttapillar on 26/05/2023 - 11:53
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Last edited 26/05/2023 - 11:56 by 1 other user
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Apparently I can buy another 8gb module for $27, and 16gb total should be fine. And I'd probably look for and wait for a really good ssd deal, and aim to spend a bit less on a storage upgrade. I have plenty of external disk storage, so I can backup games just fine. That Lenovo Laptop looks good, but I prefer an intel CPU.
Your laptop is on special for a day or so, $50 cheaper at PLE
https://www.ple.com.au/Products/658241/gigabyte-g5-kf-e3au33…
Extra $50 towards ram or ssd expansion.
It's ~$1600 on ebay though
The G5 looks like it says it only has 8GB of ram, which isn't ideal, even for busy chrome tabs without games, if you can even add ram of the same type, might be an additional $100, that and 512GB of main storage is a bit low, so you're going to have to cart around an external drive or expand it for about another $100 or more probably. Not sure what games you want to play but most big modern games will use around 100Gbs each, and if you have bad internet and go back and forth between games a lot it gets annoying having to uninstall and install.
MSI would be the better option on that.
Lenovo have this deal on at the moment, although its slightly pricier.
Not sure of all the bad things you've been reading in their entirety. But remember that statistically you're always going to get some bad apples in a batch and people are more likely to leave a review upon a bad experience, so you'll often see more bad than good in search results, unless the product is outstanding or trendy, but if its mediocre and just meets expectations people aren't going to go out of their way to make a good review.