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Originally Posted by shogged
https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00115399
Or they also have this one now
https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00115529
Both with a 3070 and a 17 inch screen and both would destroy anything you wanna do for years to come. I’ve owned a couple of asus gaming laptops over the years and this gen was the biggest jump in performance by far, I love it.
As a side note, Asus also has the best warranty. you get 1 year of free damage replacement and I’m talking smashed screen level of damage.
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What jump specifically do you mean? The video card performance?
So I went with the 3060 in lieu of the 3070. The 3070 needs a price point of usually $2,000, pre-tax, whereas I paid $1418 all in for the 3060 (I could of had the 3060 in a laptop for closer to $1,250 but I wanted the Ryzen superior chip and the model which had it had a slightly superior screen if 165Hz x 300 nits is better than 120Hz x 250nits- I don't know)
Comparison here, the 3060 rating is 12,218 whereas the 3070 is 14,339.
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/c...GPU/4342vs4331
The $2,200 ($2318 with GST and AB recycling fees) Asus laptop link you posted actually has the same Ryzen chip in the laptop I purchased for $1418 (all taxes and fees in). Same Hz on the screen but its 17.3 vs my smaller 15.6 to be fair. So for $900 (64% cost increase) you get:
- 3070 vs 3060 chip
- 17" vs 15" screen, but same Hz on the screen
- Better manufacture? Asus vs Dell?
- 1TB storage vs 512 SSD
- same processor
Do you think in the lifetime of the laptop that will be noticeable and worth the $900 increase cost (63% increase in laptop cost)? A better question may be, are their games out right now that the 3070 would make a meaningful difference over the 3060? Because future proofing laptops for $900 is a slippery slope when its 63% the cost of a new laptop.
Thoughts?
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell...155515_sb_s25e
(if you sign up for the Dell email newsletter with any email they send you a 10% off coupon, I just made a fake email for this purpose, but they ended getting my real email anyway when I purchased it for shipping updates and other things)
That said... stupid Dell.. late Sept delivery.... however I have free return... so I can spend the next month looking for a better deal or change my mind on the 3070.
