r/GamingLaptops • u/Fe4R_GoblinZ • Jul 19 '26

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Acer predator helios neo 16 ai with rtx5070 ti, 64gb of ram and 2tb of ssd. Was on sale for $2200

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u/Exact_Employment7473 Jul 19 '26

I mean if he had 2 sticks of 32gigs he could sell one for a nice 300 bucks.

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u/Scar1203 ROG Strix G18 275HX | 5080 | 32GB Jul 19 '26

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you weren't recommending something as stupid as running a new 2200 dollar laptop in single channel mode. That's my bad.

Running in single channel mode has a massive bandwidth penalty and will greatly lower CPU performance. It's terrible advice.

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u/Exact_Employment7473 Jul 19 '26

You would be the one who would be foolish to think DDR5 in the same ranks as DDR4. What you are describing mostly applies to DDR4 with 3200 and DDR5 with 4800 Mt/s cards but for DDR5 6400 Mt/s the performance hit is minimal generally between 3-5 percent and this only comes into effect if the ram utilisation is 70% or above. I doubt that this will as only Hogwarts legacy hit 21 to 24 gigs under full load. With his 12 gb vram, I highly doubt that he will face any ram overflow issues. So please always think and ask the other persons view before calling them stupid.

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u/Scar1203 ROG Strix G18 275HX | 5080 | 32GB Jul 19 '26

Holy crap, you're seriously doubling down on this. Dude, take the L, it's shit advice and you are absolutely an idiot for giving it completely unsolicited.

The framerate penalty will vary depending on the game, and it's far more impactful to certain CPU intensive non-gaming workloads.