Hi Josh and Team. If you guys are reading this, thanks a lot for creating this community and providing the ability to directly interact and post queries. It truly helps when in a sea of limitless but yet flawed information, you can get the direct opinion of research and experience based experts that are ACTUALLY IN TUNE with the current landscape.
I’ll keep this short, I’m from Pakistan. Our currency (PKR) has severely devalued against the dollar these past 8 years. So much so that I was still using a GTX 1070 build from 2017. I sold it recently and am currently typing this from a refurbished Dell Latitude 7490.
I saw THAT viral $1300 MSI Vector A16 deal from Walmart and I just knew I would never get a better opportunity than this. Moreover, my buddy who’s bringing it from the US in December also works part-time for Walmart so with his code I got it for $1265.
What has been anxiously brewing within me as I unwisely try to poke holes into this buying decision of mine by browsing every video under the Sun… are two things:
I don’t care about anything other than absolute performance. Battery life, noise, build quality and many other genuine decision factors are of no matter to me. My questions are:
How future proof is the 16GB DDR5-5200 DRAM configuration if chasing max performance in AAA story-driven games (no esports or latency reduction demanding use-case) at ultra 1440p presets while targeting totally native rendering techniques in your experience?
The same question as above but for the RTX 5070 Ti’s 12GB VRAM instead of the 16GB that should have rightly been in it.
Also, bonus question if you could bear me this far, I’m thinking about getting a well reviewed 4000 RPM cooling pad for this, because I live in a hot climate and I don’t wanna leave ANY performance on the table when it comes to gaming because of throttling:
Is there a PERFORMANCE advantage to pairing this laptop with a Flydigi BS2 PRO cooler or am I essentially throwing money away?
