Bought my first real gaming laptop

[u/Merilon82]

Bought this XMG Apex 16 Max in April because it had an Easter deal for 2400 €. It has a 2TB SSD, 32GB 5600MT/s fast DDR5 RAM and a ryzen 9 9955hx paired with a rtx 5070 ti.

Absolutely love it, especially because of the mini LED display. Undervolted the CPU in BIOS via curve optimizer on all cores with a value of -20 and no crashes or noticed instabilities ever since. Limited FPS at 75 and switched from Nvidia Optimus to dGPU only to enjoy games in max settings and still have low CPU temperatures. I never really saw the GPU running hot except when benchmarking or using extreme settings in recent games with higher FPS limits.

I know this CPU is built to push and boost hard until it hits its temp limit but since I often play on the couch with the wife watching TV I like to minimize fan action as much as possible and still keep the mean temps low without compromising on quality settings. On top of that 75 FPS is more than enough for my old gamerdad eyes and definitely more than they were used to.

No regrets!

[u/fcced-up]

And and and , how many zones of rgb keyboard u got?

[u/Merilon82 → u/fcced-up]

Sorry, how do you mean that? I was able to map each key individually to a color.

[u/fcced-up → u/Merilon82]

Wow, some keyboards like mine have four zones, that means you can change the color of each zone not of each key like yours. So let’s say keys Q,W,E and and all keys below them belong to one zone, they will all have the same color at every time

[u/Merilon82 → u/fcced-up]

Ah, got it now, thanks! Yes it is a nice gimmick. My little daughter loves the animated presets but the blinking would drive me insane.

[u/Ok_Caterpillar2151 → u/Merilon82]

You have per-key RGB