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But the results will vary from game to game. There isn't a universal standard or a single answer to give you.
Again, definite maybe. In this case I think Cathulhu is speaking in pretty broad terms. You might need to upgrade for some games. Just depends on if your goals are to exceed recommended requirements or always be able to run current games today, tomorrow, next year etc. Then yeah you might need a new laptop.
If your goal is to run specific games, then that requires some more specific focus and has more specific answers.
It's one of those sounds good on paper, but buying a $600 GPU and $200 enclosure, you're starting to get into new laptop that will run better anyway money. There's trade offs to the solution.
If it were me I'd stick with your 3050 ti and see if you can just run the games you want or not. And if not, do some research to see what you think of external GPU's from a cost/performance metric. It might sound like an idea, but it might not be so attractive once you know some of the pros and cons.
But there's a reason why you probably don't see a lot of people doing it, and why people aren't always gushing about the option.
actually iam planing to buy it thats why
Cyberpunk 2077 is a tricky one because original system requirements were lower. But they've overhauled the game a lot and the new requirements are a bit steeper with the Phantom Liberty updates.
System requirements can be tricky too, they don't always represent the lowest minimums, just what the developer wants to support. So yeah you look at them first, but if you're close but beneath them the trick is to do the research to find out how close to the floor of the game not running the stated minimum requirements are.
You cant hardly update them and any update parts cost an arm or leg and not worth it.
Most laptops use special sized ram that can never be found ever again
SO-DIMMs aren't special and are easy to find and are commonly used in laptops.
For example https://www.amazon.com/ddr4-sodimm/s?k=ddr4+sodimm
As for the rest of it, that might work for you. However, if you want a portable gaming PC a gaming laptop is a lot more portable than the most portable desktop. Yes, there's trade offs, but there's always been trade offs between laptops and desktops. It hasn't negated the market for laptops though. You just might not be the target demographic for them though.
People have opinions. And people love to imagine their opinions and preferences are synonymous with objective fact. And people love to provide solutions to questions no one actually asked.
I prefer desktops myself. But that doesn't mean there's no market for laptops or gaming laptops. And it doesn't mean the response to, "Can I play X game on Y laptop?", is: don't buy (gaming) laptops, desktops are better.
Sometimes all you can do is ignore people who seem to be more interested in grinding an ax versus sticking to the specifics of the question.
I mean probably the negative comments fall into two camps. Negative opinions about a 4GB GPU or specific negative opinions about the 3050 ti. Or negative opinions about the cost of laptops compared to desktops. And very often they won't bother getting a handle on your budget, needs or use case because they only really care about their own perspective. They may not be strictly wrong, but one size fits all advice may not always be reasonable.
Laptops do tend to be a bit more expensive for the power you get. Laptop hardware tends to be a little bit slower than desktop counter-parts. And the 3050 ti isn't going to age as gracefully as high end GPU's so people tend to be pretty negative about that.
All you can do is work around some of those attitudes, people will always express them regardless of how helpful those attitudes are.