I need help with choosing a gaming laptop
(If this is not where i should post this, please feel free to move it and i'm sorry for the trouble. I'm new to this so i'm still confused) So i decided to buy a gaming laptop to play the sims but i...
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@EmpressShadow7 It's normal for the keyboard and surrounding areas to get quite hot to the touch. After all, the CPU and GPU are right underneath. This review is for the previous generation's Omen, but it should give you an idea of what normal temperatures look like:
In the Temperature section, you'll see photos from a thermal camera and some absolute readings for each location. Even though this isn't your exact model, the two are likely very similar in this area. High-end laptops are often too hot to comfortably touch in certain areas, the reasoning being (probably) that people running demanding games are probably using a mouse anyway, perhaps with the fingers of their other hand resting on the WASD keys.
The iternal temps you've described do not suggest that the laptop is defective. I couldn't tell you for sure without some stress testing, but if the laptop had a major issue, as opposed to some minor tuning irregularity, you'd have seen evidence by now.
More questions are fine, but I hope that at some point, you let yourself relax and play. This laptop is under warranty for a while, hopefully at least a year, so in the unlikely event that something does happen, you should be covered. So there's not much point in worrying about it.
@puzzlezaddict the warranty is six months so everything is good for now. Something that happend this morning though is the constant buzzing noise only when playing games. When i quit the game the noise is gone. I googled it and it's something called coil whine. I don't really know how to fix it and i can still hear it with my headphones on. Any suggestions?
I already limited the fps to 144 using nvidia cp
@EmpressShadow7 Coil whine is due to coils within the graphics card vibrating rapidly enough that we can actually hear the results. It typically only happens at high framerates, not 144 but in the 200-300 fps range or higher. So you shouldn't be hearing it unless the Control Panel setting isn't taking.
It's also not a great sign for your laptop. I mean it's not immediately dangerous, but if the coils are frequently under enough stress to whine, they could eventually break. (This might take a couple years, but it's impossible to predict.) And because their job is essentially to help steady the power being input to the GPU before it reaches the chip itself, they need to be in working order to protect the card.
@puzzlezaddict well nothing i can do to fix this i guess. I'll contact the store tomorrow and see what they can do. I can't play anything on it the noise is driving me crazy.
