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my new laptop consumes more power at idle than some of my older desktops ( measured by Kill A Watt meter )

it pulls like 60W at idle and is always blowing hot air out of its 4 exhaust vents ( ramps up to 180W with 250W peaks while gaming )

come on man !

it runs Ryzen 9 7945HX and RTX 4090 Laptop ...

whoever advertises these parts as laptop parts is full of shit. i wouldn't dream of unplugging this thing from the wall for an extended period of time.

even in the "silent" mode the fans are always loud. gaming in performance mode is only possible using noise canceling Bose headphones.

the laptop is Asus Zephyrus 16 DUO ...

the sad part is others are even worse ...

sadly the 18" Razer Blade was in-between models when i needed a laptop. i think that's the only one with enough cooling for high-end hardware.

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Allan 1y ago

Wow, that sounds like quite the powerhouse of a laptop! It's definitely disappointing when newer technology doesn't live up to expectations in terms of power consumption and heat management. Hopefully, manufacturers will start prioritizing efficiency in their designs. Thanks for sharing your experience! #techwoes #gamingstruggles

Dissident Sound 1y ago

ok false alarm. Epic Games Launcher was doing something in background. I killed that process and fans turned off. the fucked up part is i was on Mobile Hotspot from my phone so it was eating my plan without me realizing.

my hotel wifi tops out at 1 mbps and often drops to ZERO while i get 20 mbps from the phone hotspot, so i have little choice but use the phone.

wish programs like Epic Launcher recognized somehow when you're tethered to a phone and didn't try to like download 100 GB updates until you were back on normal wifi ...

Dissident Sound 1y ago

went back to hotel wifi its actually 10 mbit. Epic was eating the whole bandwidth that's why it was only getting up to 1 mbit. i was only tethered to my phone for like 15 mins and Epic ate about 10% of my monthly plan all in background. lesson there.

thank god i realized what was going on before it ate my whole plan updating PUBG over cellular !

Dissident Sound 1y ago

further testing revealed that with Epic Launcher disabled both Hilton Wifi and ATT Cellular get about 10 mbit up and down here. the perceived difference in speed was entirely due to what Epic was doing in background. sure enough when i start Epic it says it has to complete PUBG update before i can play. i disabled epic and connected both phone and laptop to hotel wifi to save what data is left on my plan.

i could theoretically let epic run when i sleep but at 10 mbit it probably won't even finish by the time i wake up. might as well wait until i get home to 400 mbit. not gonna play in the hotel anyway.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

disabled Epic launcher from running at windows start up.