Honestly 3 years ago I would have said a gaming laptop as your primary device is a waste of money, you're over paying for sub standard performance. Now a days... you're paying less of a performance tax for a high end gaming laptop than you are for a 5090... so go for it.
This is my first top tier (not top OC tier) pc ever. I've always in the past bought 1 - 2 tiers from the top to balance performance to budget. I built everything but my GPU replacement right before everything went into the crap for PC parts. In reality I got very lucky. This year I got the...
Thankfully I game so little lately that it doesn't matter. part of me wants to game more... part of me wants more sleep at night... being over 50... damnit...
That's awesome it came with my video card... I uhhh... I am not sure if I've even installed it yet... let me check. Ok yea I've installed it...
But I really need to play through cyberpunk 2077 first...
The trading card thing made the tech news a while back. It's just some chachki bs to give away at conventions. I haven't been to one that Nvidia has been at since 2018... I'll get some if I go. The item they were giving away in 2018 to everyone that knew to ask was the Nvidia engineer...
Honestly if I could get Non RGB link fans.. (like from Corsair) and it was a price difference that wasn't worse than the availability chase... then I would have bought them. But when I was building it was pre AI destruction of all prices for everything... and availability for the corsair...
And lets not forget as the VC (Venture Capitalist) money dries up the Nvidia circular money train will stop as well, then all of these various AI farm's out there will need to start billing enough for their tokens so their shareholders see profit. (Private or public.) In the end they will fold...
My MSI card thus far feels solid, but I am using an Lan Li edge 1300 watt platinum power supple with special PSU ports and cables for the 5090 and like cards I am running and so far knock on wood it's been a beast. And I loved working with the edge power supply as well. bonus the new editions...