I chose this gaming laptop after about a month of research, this laptop is in my opinion the best gaming laptop on the market currently for the price.  I added a 1tb ssd for storage which is this laptop's only problem imo. This laptop has EXCELLENT thermals, it NEVER thermal throttles due to the -.125 undervolt on the cpu and good cooling system so long as you dont block the vents and I live in a very hot area often the outside temp gets to 85+ degrees farenheit. I managed to undervolt to -.16 and i've seen others get as far as -.17. Doesn't have ray tracing but currently there aren't many games that support it and even those that do will lower your fps drastically and we're talking desktop gpu's here a laptop rtx gpu wont fair well FPS-wise. Doesn't have RGB which is a plus for me but to each their own.  Can easily get  ~144 fps on games that I play which are Dota 2, WoW, WoW Classic beta, DOOM, and i can get ~50 fps on TWW2 on ultra which isn't too bad.