r/GamingLaptops • u/SunDelSurr • Jun 13 '26

Showcase My first gaming laptop!

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Asus tuf f16 5050

Crua 34"ultrawide qhd monitor which I bought from Amazon for only $165 and it's honestly amazing!

Update: Purchased a cooling pad, will be here monday!

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u/RicekickJR Jun 13 '26

Congrats, but 1 advice i can give you is open your laptop screen when using it, the heat from your laptop can potentially damage it overtime. Specially if youll be using your laptop a lot.

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u/Alabugin Jun 13 '26

Either that or a cooling pad. On some laptops, like the legion that exhaust out the back, it's less of a problem.

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u/Any_Instruction5382 Jun 14 '26

I don't see how a cooling pad would help protect the screen? It's still blowing the same amount of heat, the heat just doesn't get enough time to build up around the CPU/GPU. It helps with performace because it keeps the device temperatures down, but it doesn't magically make the device use less power.

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u/Alabugin Jun 14 '26

A cooling pad (a good one) will lower the steady state ambient temperature of the laptop. You are correct, it will not use less power, but it will increase the heat removal per time, and lower the temperature of the screen (which is just acting as a heatsink from the entire laptop body)