KingofGnG: My new,
gaming-laptop based battlestation. I love old games, not old and slow systems (except the ones in my retrohardware collection) :-P
Nice! I have the 1050Ti version (
GL553VE), but the rest of the specs are surprisingly similar. I'm also using an external monitor, a regular mouse and keyboard, and have the laptop sitting on a 4 silent-fan high-performance cooling pad behind the monitor :).
Btw, not sure if yours gets any hotter than mine, but I've checked laptop-keyboard level temperatures while gaming and it's barely lukewarm in most cases, so you don't HAVE to keep the lid raised, especially since you're using a cooling pad as well - I know a lot of people who are paranoid about that, but I've repeatedly tested this particular laptop in various high-stress situations and haven't noticed any difference. Of course this varies from laptop to laptop, but since ours are fairly similar I'd expect the same will apply to yours.