A lot of hardware for an old laptop.

I'm slowly bettering my setup

My Dad gave me an old laptop almost two years ago when the pandemic was starting, because the motherboard in my old tower PC had fried. The laptop I got was good and I was okay with it, but I noticed so many things I couldn't do, though I was frustrated I decided to be okay with it since it was better than nothing at all.

The laptop I was given was a Positivo BGH E900, which I had until about 5 months ago. I switched it for a different laptop that was also used and old that I'm still using to this day. This laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad z710 which has 16gb of ram with an Intel I7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M, and it may not be the best laptop out there but with it I can run some pretty killer games!

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But my favorite part about it, even though it may seem a little silly or perhaps underwhelming, is the light up keyboard. :)

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There is usually problems in every computer though, like bugs and glitches we don't understand so therefore we cannot fix (if anyone can help me, it would be very appreciated), one problem is the GPU software and I'll be completely honest, I don't fully understand what's going on with it, but checking in the device manager I see two GPU's that the computer is reading, the actual NVIDIA GPU and an Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600

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I don't actually know why, but, the computer overheats and crashes if I have the NVIDIA GPU enabled and it runs fine if I only enable the Intel GPU, which has its problems since a few months ago I was playing around with TeknoParrot trying to play Initial D Arcade Stage 8 and it didn't work because it was incompatible with Intel GPU's, other than that the computer has a few small bugs but it's nothing to worry about.

Recently I got a EVGA Z20 keyboard for the computer and it's my first mechanical keyboard which is very nice and it's RGB so I'm having a lot of fun programming different presets for the colors and patterns haha.

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I am considering getting a Logitech steering wheel since I really enjoy sim racing games and I have Assetto Corsa, but it'll be a cheap one since I don't really have the money for something good like a G29 or anything similar.

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I got the picture from the site that I'm going to get the wheel from

Hopefully I can make enough Hive to pay me back for it since I'm planning on making content more with it other than having fun.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed the post, and I hope to see you next post. :)

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