Ideal Battery for gaming rig

Eurocom is looking for your help! We are looking to see what you want in an ideal gaming rig! How long would you like the battery to last? Without sacrificing processor and graphics capability? Let's be realistic here. We all know there is no way you are going to get 8 hrs battery life on a quad core, with a GTX 1080... but what is reasonable to you?


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2 hours movie watching..

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Honestly, a 90wh 1060 laptop would be fantastic. So far the only ones offering that is alienware... and they are so ugly....

 

Two hours minimum, but three hours would be good! This is of course on a powerful system (6700K/SLI 1080).

 

Honestly anything that can at least last 3 hours on battery and able to be cool enough that wouldn't burn everything!

 

nuclear reactor

 

2.5 to 3 h on battery, not gaming but really just surfing around, data and word processing and light image processing. For gaming IMO up to 1.5 h is good, and be able to last a 2 to 2.5 h movie would be right.

If, and that's a very big IF, we're considering the other alternative of cutting battery life instead (i.e. smaller battery for some portability or extra space to do stuff) then... At least 1.5 to 2 h on battery not gaming... which is the status quo no? But suppose I consider the battery as a... kind of UPS instead, then it must at least give me 30 min of data processing. Question then would be how much I'm getting for losing that much battery life. Weight reduction of 500 g? Chassis a little smaller? Moar heat pipes???

Bit off topic, but I'd pay more for quieter but absolutely monster fans on the P775DM3

Hadriel

 

I think the general vote here is for three hours.

However, when I personally say three hours, I mean three hours with no dumb power saving crap enabled. We're talking wi-fi on, brightness at 80% minimum or more, no display turning off every 5 minutes, etc.

My Macbook Air can get around 6-7 hours with those settings, my P870DM can get 1 hour, sometimes 1 1/2 hours.

Being able to get our laptops to three hours with that is good imo.

 

3 hours for a movie and background surfing would be fine.

Otherwise, I don't mind if it lasts only 1 hour if you can use the space wisely instead.

 

I have personally wanted the 6700K systems to have a hardware optimus switch so they can get around 5 hours if needed.

 

Yes I don't see why this wasn't done. A MUX switch still allows VR to run properly does it not?

We are wasting iGPUs that could have been used for maximum battery life. A simple reboot and you're at maximum performance.


I think the Alienware M18x did a perfect job with this. It is the laptop I got the most battery life out of (not counting the MBA).

 

Actually I do agree with the guys above, that a MUX switch would solve a lot of problems. It still doesn't address the question about gaming on battery alone, but then again nobody has yet to answer how much of a performance hit they're willing to take to game on battery. (I'm just saying it so that we can discuss it.)

IMO I'm ok with skipping out on AAs, so just one notch below max settings.

Hadriel

 

Well Nvidia let you choose the performance on battery, 30fps or 60 fps cap.

As to how long it should run while gaming 2 hours would be nice on a medium style load.

 

No battery would be ideal for me. I nerver use the battery, it just takes up space. Better cooling instead of a battery would be perfect.

 

I don't care how long the battery lasts on my desktop replacement notebooks as long as it can perform, overclock and keep the system cool properly. So far with the new clevos we aren't seeing any of that.