is this laptop enough to run all new games?

[b0shi]

hello again,

my current laptop is i5 10th gen, 16gb ram,2gb mx230 + intel UHD graphics... but i am looking to upgrade to run all new games ..laptop i am looking to buy has following spec, its few years old so i am asking you this question... specs below :
i7 9th gen cpu
32gb ram
rtx 2080 gpu

.. can this laptop run all new games smoothly? whats your advice.......

 

[Charagma]

I used to play games on laptops. Easy, convenient but let us think about it. Yes, nice specs on the new one, but for how long? You cannot upgrade so "what you have is ........ what you have" kind of thing and once outdated it becomes a very expensive paper weight or retires onto someone's office desk to run spreadsheets and browse the internet and if you are lucky it can still run the latest windows (Seeing MS cancel support daily now a days) and read a bit of email possibly on Gmail web view since outlook will be too advanced for it. Harsh reality.

Desktops on the other hand is upgradable. You can up on CPU, GPU, RAM and when that fails to keep up, you replace the mother board, and you are set again for a few years.

Can it run all games.... probably not. Laptops in general are prone to overheat while gaming. Currently I think Alienware has the best laptop temperatures during game play (I could be wrong here but recall something like that). So, if the game is working but you are running it at max settings, it will somewhere begin to throttle to protect the system.

From my side, give the laptop a miss and get a desktop if you are going full on gaming. Stil your choice but that is my advice.

Edit: BTW, why downgrade to Coffee lake? (Gen 9). Added if I remember correctly on Gen 9 CPU's the GPU was a renderer and shared your RAM same as your iGPU. Someone might be able to shed a bit more light on that, but looks more like a down grade as opposed to an upgrade. Only thing you are really gaining is 16Gb Ram, but the rest you are pretty much down grading. Gen 10 (Going on memory here) would have been an Intel UHD or 620, maybe even a 630 iGPU as opposed to Gen 9 was a UHD 610 or 615. Also, Gen 9 was split into two. You will need to check if it is gen9 first or second version. Both sockets are the same, but chips are not interchangeable. Think you might need to do a bit more research on this downgrade.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, I think it can still run all new games smoothly, but you'll certainly need to turn a few options off to cover for that 2080 card.

How long does NVIDIA keep making drivers? That card is from 2018, so it has been about 7 years now.

Also, does the laptop have Windows 11? Support for Windows 10 ends in about 5 weeks.

 

[Charagma]

Yeah, I think it can still run all new games smoothly, but you'll certainly need to turn a few options off to cover for that 2080 card.

How long does NVIDIA keep making drivers? That card is from 2018, so it has been about 7 years now.

Also, does the laptop have Windows 11? Support for Windows 10 ends in about 5 weeks.

As far as I know they support for 5 years where after it moves to the "Legacy" drivers bin for another few years without support. Somewhere it moves to GitHub, and they start "hacking" or "modding" the driver.

Should be able to run Win 11. I have a 4900 (Gen9) chip and has no problem with Windows 11. All depends on if it can handle TMP. Waiting for the 25h2 version to release and rumours has it that we will be seeing Windows 12 early next year.