Budget laptops will not have the best cooling solution but I found most of the reviews stating thermal throttling to be overblown. It didn't really throttle out of the box but since then I have modded it by adding additional copper heatsinks over the CPU, GPU; repasted it with Noctua NT-H1 and use a basic cooling pad which more than anything else raises the back and offers a bit better airflow with a single 140mm fan. Presently I have 3% higher CPU performance (stopped using Ryzen Controller to lower TDP) and 18% higher GPU performance compared to stock (switched to using the 115W vBIOS compared to the 90W stock with a custom curve) without any thermal throttling with CPU temperatures in the low 80s and GPU in the high 70s.
Long story short, it is easy to address most of the thermal throttling issues mentioned in reviews with a good setup.
Yup, agreed but it is still nice to have a better out of the box experience.
Is there a major difference between RTX 3050ti 75W & RTX 3060 95w ?
Though the benchmarks will show a 25-35% difference in benchmarks, the real difference will be shown in gaming where the 4GB VRAM of the 3050Ti will become a pretty strong weakness - it is already losing to games of today to 1660Ti as soon as VRAM usage goes above 4GB, and that is starting to become increasingly common. I would recommend not skimping on the GPU if you intend to use the laptop for gaming for more than a couple of years (unless all you play are competitive shooters that is).
I don't mind the screen as I use it with a monitor 99% of the time, but any laptop would offer a better screen than what Asus offers in the TUF range, not that it matters much if gaming is the primary use case because I don't find it jarring switching between my 99%% sRGB monitor and the Asus one for games.
Agreed, but it's still nice to have the best one can buy in a given budget range. That paisa vasool feeling XD
Plus I'm sure you will notice the difference if you watch movies and shows regularly enough.
So GPU wattage can be increased through bios to get more performance and not locked by the manufacturer
Can it be done with victus hp as well?
It will almost certainly be possible, but the thing about vbios flashes is that you will probably lose some ports - for eg, none of the vbioses I tried (including MSI, Asus, Dell, Clevo, Gigabyte, Sager, Other Acers, HP etc) supported mini-DP output, while only some (MSI, Gigabyte, Clevo) supported HDMI output. Basically I lost either one or both my display out ports depending on vbios (other than the one for my specific model ofc). Many a times vbioses will also give you incoreect temp or power readings, which will prevent your GPU from boosting at all - and this happened with every vbios for me apart from MSI ones (but I lost mini-DP out with them as well).
In the end, after fiddling and playing for 2 weeks with basically every 3060 laptop vbios I got my hands on, I settled on using the stock 105W vbios, as there was barely a 10% difference in games and benchmarks compared to 130W vbios, at the expense of significantly hotter temps (74C vs 82C). This is the case only for 3060 tho, other GPUs may scale better with more power. I noticed that there were next to zero gains to be had in performance going beyond 1850Mhz core clock, which I suspect is due to the limited 192 bit memory bus - and increasing memory clocks to +500 did scale performance till 1930Mhz, suggesting this is probably the case. In any case, I wouldn't recommend wasting time on vbios flashing if you are happy with the performance, at least with the 30 series GPUs. Only go for it if you need the extra performance (even at the expense of extra heat) or if you have an underpowered GPU.
