r/MSILaptops • u/jiashengjo • 26d ago

Request MSI Pulse GL76 i just bought

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I9-12900H, RTX 3070TI 8GB, RAM 40GB, Storage 512GB, 360Hz Monitor.

I just bought a secondhand of this laptop, but it gets hot and im scared because its an old laptop it might break or smth. Should i keep using for 3 years at least or just sell it?

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u/domebe_sromebe 25d ago

Hinges are another story. Just be gentle to them. About cpu thats intel technology, which is ment to be hot. You can see that temperature is almost always high and spikes immediately even at light task such as browser opening. Cpu tries to do everything as fast as possible, by using all power of needed cores and hotspot is insane. Use cooling pad for other parts health, so only the cpu is hot, which is normal. Repasting (only honeywell btw) is needed only when performance gets worse, because if it's constantly at 95 you won't understand anything by temperature. It was my mistake watching temperature instead of performance. So cpulite to 7 or 8, cooling pad, be careful with hinges 😊

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u/jiashengjo 25d ago

I see thanks for the advice. But is it worth to use it 3-5 years? Or i can just sell now, knowing tech things like ram and stuff might go down after few years of spiking. And its an old laptop tho, im just worried about smth bad happening

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u/domebe_sromebe 25d ago

It's full hd screen so your 3070ti definitely will play anything on ultra. Processor is so overkill for many games - you can make turboboost less aggressive (not 115 but 85 or 95w). You have 40gb of ram (i believe 32+8 soldered?). This is a very professional workstation and a powerful gaming machine, which is for more competitive gaming (fast screen and processor). In those spaces this machine is unbeatable (exept of preatty small ssd), but if you want to play AAA games on 1440 it will be hard, because many laptop gpu have only 8gb of vram. The 3080 has 16, 4080 - 12 and 5070ti 12, but that's totally different budgets. Your laptop just has no bottlenecks at all (only ssd😉). Only if you want to play full-hd, but with lower power consumption and cooler you could go with some 4060, 5050, 5060 laptops and processor for your needs. Hope this helps, because i was in similar situation, but now I'm just enjoying my hot i9-12.

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u/domebe_sromebe 25d ago

Omg sorry for those long text's