About xaser04

Just seen this thread and thought I would add some extra info from my own experiences:   SSD wise I am running a WD SN550 1TB in the secondary NVME slot without issues. Literally as simple as opening up the laptop (undo screws on the bottom and carefully remove) and adding the drive to the spare slot - note, you may need a spare M2 screw to hold the drive in as mine didn't come with one installed. Luckily I had a few on hand from desktop motherboards. From memory the drive needed to be initialised and formatted in windows and was then available for use.    RAM wise I upgraded the standard 2x8GB 3200 CL22 1Rx16 SO-Dimms to Kingston Fury Impact 2x16GB 3200 CL20 2Rx8 (https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF432S20IBK2_32.pdf).  Mainly done as for video editing I wanted more than 16GB of RAM but I have seen a small but noticeable performance bump in the games I play as well.    Performance wise I cannot fault the laptop at all. I currently have it setup on my desk alongside my R8 5900X / RTX 2070 Super system, and in the games I have tested so far it is actually a little faster (@3440x1440 no less) - Horizon:ZD Benchmark was 85 vs 82FPS.    Only tweaks applied so far are ensuring I have maxed the Dynamic boost enabled in the control panel (seeing a sustained 142w @ ~1550-1700 core in MSI Afterburner when playing Destiny 2), and an undervolt applied via the Afterburner curve - prior to this my GPU core clocks were lower by up to 100mhz.  (Note - I am using a cooling pad for all testing which has allowed for a little more thermal headroom).    Overclocking is next as it feels like the GPU has plenty left to give.    One thing I really want to test is seeing how close I can get to a R9 5900X / RX 6800 in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT on and DLSS enabled. Will be quite interesting to see if the raw RT performance advantage Nvidia has, combined with DLSS, is enough to overcome the significant delta the GPU's would otherwise have.  ... View more