Thanks to everyone that has taken their time to watch the video, I'm always glad to try to provide useful information and I hope that this helped you somehow. I'm still using the notebook (I still haven't returned Grazi's memory though). I'll be visiting the US again in March 2023 and maybe I'll go out shopping for something else, maybe something with a dedicated graphics chip. I do hope to get better frame rates when I'm travelling with the laptop, because I end up wanting to play games with it when it's late at night and I'm alone in my hotel room. Anyway, if you enjoyed this and feel like you might want to watch more videos from me, go ahead and sub, that will help the channel grow. Here are a few other videos for you to watch while I'm making a new one. A review of Current Indy Games, but in a retro style, using the Acer Nitro th-cam.com/video/cNcxSQu9lfc/w-d-xo.html 17" Acer Nitro Review, i5 9th gen, GF 1650 th-cam.com/video/vPLVMUF43Zs/w-d-xo.html Sony All-in-one PC from the early 2000s th-cam.com/video/XFQRMfJmnsg/w-d-xo.html Last but not least a review of a 128 bit Radeon 9250 (it's pretty good) th-cam.com/video/jtfbk41jmaw/w-d-xo.html Thanks again, and I'll see you on the next one.
That's a big one! 😆 I'm working on doscember, after that I'll try a proper video for the AGP voodoo 4 I recently picked up. Using all of them will take some time. There are builds I want to do for certain cards still. But I'll keep that in mind, to have a big voodoo special. 👍
Great video as always. Awesome cinematography and story telling! Not to mention nice deep dive on the laptop, that can prove to be really useful for anyone researching it.
I love laptops like this since I don't really use them for gaming but rather for work and such if I wanna game I use my main gaming PC, Retro PC, Nintendo DS Lite, PS Vita or PS2.
That's mostly what I do. Sometimes I miss a laptop that's powerful when I'm travelling and I didn't take any other portables. But it's so rare, it's hardly worth it to spend more for a proper gaming laptop. Also, they're big and heavy.
Love the MTV shirt lol. I agree with your preffered specs, although it a lot of laptops seem to be going to soldered ram which is a pain in the ass. Not glad about it
Hey buddy, it's been too long! Yeah I've canceled an HP spectre buy because I found out ram was soldered. Good thing I did it before they even shipped it.
What a coincidence. I just bought used (in mint condition) HP Elitebook G5 745 with Ryzen 2700U with intention to use it as as "portable gaming laptop on cheap". From my own experience I can tell you that what kills performance in these laptops in first place is stupidly low power limits set by HP, single stick of ram that HP love to put in their products (to save money), very small heatsink and of course as result of that temperatures. Laptop offered me around 25-30 FPS in games which I play, which was of course not enough. Tbh I was actually very disappointed with it's performance. What I did with it? 1. Fresh thermal paste 2. 2mm thermal pad directly on to CPU heatpipe and directly above CPU, so it transfers some of the heat to aluminium bottom cover 3. Second stick of ram for total of 32GB in dual channel 4. Dremel out nice looking holes in bottom cover directly under CPU fan (big enough to suck a lot of fresh air / small enough so I don't stick my fingers in to CPU fan by accident) 5. Used program called Ryzen Controller and set CPU TDP limits to 22W as normal mode and 25W for short and long boost 6. Set also in Ryzen Controller GPU minimum clock to 750MHz and max 1GHz (It wont boost higher due to TDP limits anyway) Results? From 40 to 60 fps in games. Temps in to high 60's for CPU and for GPU in to high 50's. I strongly recommend to you also test 1600x900 resolution, which on such small screen will make no difference in quality but will boost your FPS by a quite considerable margin. It is possible to turn Ryzen laptop in to gaming laptop on cheap, but it requires some tinkering and ingenuity ;).
Oh, nice! Good tip with the power levels tinkering, I'll see if it's available for mine. If it is I'll see about temperature and the cooling mods. I'd love to see fallout 4 at 40-50 fps. Have a great weekend! 👍
I should also say the performance on pubg was pretty impressive. Who knows if bot games affected it, but that game is known to run like crap on 8 gig of ram so nicely done
Hey SUCRA very nice video! 🙂I did go straight back to 2010 when i bought my laptop! Never had a laptop before! It was for me a little apocalypse Sony VAIO Black - Intel® Core™ i5 i5-430M 2.26 GHz - 39.4 cm (15.5") 1366 x 768 pixels LED backlight 16:9 - 4 GB DDR3-SDRAM 1066 MHz 2 x 2 GB - 500 GB - AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Intel® HD Graphics - Bluetooth 2.1+EDR - Windows 7 Home Premium
Thanks to everyone that has taken their time to watch the video, I'm always glad to try to provide useful information and I hope that this helped you somehow. I'm still using the notebook (I still haven't returned Grazi's memory though). I'll be visiting the US again in March 2023 and maybe I'll go out shopping for something else, maybe something with a dedicated graphics chip. I do hope to get better frame rates when I'm travelling with the laptop, because I end up wanting to play games with it when it's late at night and I'm alone in my hotel room. Anyway, if you enjoyed this and feel like you might want to watch more videos from me, go ahead and sub, that will help the channel grow. Here are a few other videos for you to watch while I'm making a new one.
A review of Current Indy Games, but in a retro style, using the Acer Nitro
th-cam.com/video/cNcxSQu9lfc/w-d-xo.html
17" Acer Nitro Review, i5 9th gen, GF 1650
th-cam.com/video/vPLVMUF43Zs/w-d-xo.html
Sony All-in-one PC from the early 2000s
th-cam.com/video/XFQRMfJmnsg/w-d-xo.html
Last but not least a review of a 128 bit Radeon 9250 (it's pretty good)
th-cam.com/video/jtfbk41jmaw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks again, and I'll see you on the next one.
The laptop flip at 4:37 is underrated.
Nice presentation as usual
Hah thanks 👍😆 have great weekend!
Nice one Sucra, looks like a nice little machine!
Thanks Ted! Nothing fancy, but it does light tasks well enough.
Would be nice if you create some more videos with the Voodoo cards :)
Haha thanks for the feedback. What would like to see with a voodoo?
@@SUCRA Gameplay and benchmarks with all the Voodoo cards you have, if possible :)
That's a big one! 😆 I'm working on doscember, after that I'll try a proper video for the AGP voodoo 4 I recently picked up. Using all of them will take some time. There are builds I want to do for certain cards still. But I'll keep that in mind, to have a big voodoo special. 👍
@@SUCRA great :)
Great video as always. Awesome cinematography and story telling! Not to mention nice deep dive on the laptop, that can prove to be really useful for anyone researching it.
Thanks man! Nice to hear from you as always. I hope vacation was fun for you, have a great week. 👍
I love laptops like this
since I don't really use them for gaming but rather for work and such
if I wanna game I use my main gaming PC, Retro PC, Nintendo DS Lite, PS Vita or PS2.
That's mostly what I do. Sometimes I miss a laptop that's powerful when I'm travelling and I didn't take any other portables. But it's so rare, it's hardly worth it to spend more for a proper gaming laptop. Also, they're big and heavy.
Checking the video again.
Como aumento vram ?
Ele não tem VRAM, como usa uma APU ele requisita a quantidade de memória que precisa, da principal mesmo.
Love the MTV shirt lol. I agree with your preffered specs, although it a lot of laptops seem to be going to soldered ram which is a pain in the ass. Not glad about it
Hey buddy, it's been too long! Yeah I've canceled an HP spectre buy because I found out ram was soldered. Good thing I did it before they even shipped it.
This is my first time seeing Roblox.
I'm old.
That makes two of us buddy. The only reason I know about this is because of my friend's children. I'm glad I got to show it to you first though. 😆
@@SUCRA I assume it runs in Glide?
@@PixelPipes Roblox seems more primitive than what glide can provide 😂
What a coincidence. I just bought used (in mint condition) HP Elitebook G5 745 with Ryzen 2700U with intention to use it as as "portable gaming laptop on cheap". From my own experience I can tell you that what kills performance in these laptops in first place is stupidly low power limits set by HP, single stick of ram that HP love to put in their products (to save money), very small heatsink and of course as result of that temperatures.
Laptop offered me around 25-30 FPS in games which I play, which was of course not enough. Tbh I was actually very disappointed with it's performance.
What I did with it?
1. Fresh thermal paste
2. 2mm thermal pad directly on to CPU heatpipe and directly above CPU, so it transfers some of the heat to aluminium bottom cover
3. Second stick of ram for total of 32GB in dual channel
4. Dremel out nice looking holes in bottom cover directly under CPU fan (big enough to suck a lot of fresh air / small enough so I don't stick my fingers in to CPU fan by accident)
5. Used program called Ryzen Controller and set CPU TDP limits to 22W as normal mode and 25W for short and long boost
6. Set also in Ryzen Controller GPU minimum clock to 750MHz and max 1GHz (It wont boost higher due to TDP limits anyway)
Results?
From 40 to 60 fps in games. Temps in to high 60's for CPU and for GPU in to high 50's. I strongly recommend to you also test 1600x900 resolution, which on such small screen will make no difference in quality but will boost your FPS by a quite considerable margin. It is possible to turn Ryzen laptop in to gaming laptop on cheap, but it requires some tinkering and ingenuity ;).
Oh, nice! Good tip with the power levels tinkering, I'll see if it's available for mine. If it is I'll see about temperature and the cooling mods. I'd love to see fallout 4 at 40-50 fps. Have a great weekend! 👍
I should also say the performance on pubg was pretty impressive. Who knows if bot games affected it, but that game is known to run like crap on 8 gig of ram so nicely done
Hah, yeah, I did upgrade the RAM to 16Mbs though, stole it from Grazi:s Acer Nitro. She just watched the video and yelled at me 😂
Still not a bad little system
Yea I used to sneak ram n fans out of my brothers computer all the time "why is my computer so slow n hot" 🤣
Haha not the fans!
Hey SUCRA very nice video! 🙂I did go straight back to 2010 when i bought my laptop! Never had a laptop before! It was for me a little apocalypse
Sony VAIO Black
- Intel® Core™ i5 i5-430M 2.26 GHz
- 39.4 cm (15.5") 1366 x 768 pixels LED backlight 16:9
- 4 GB DDR3-SDRAM 1066 MHz 2 x 2 GB
- 500 GB
- AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Intel® HD Graphics
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
- Windows 7 Home Premium
Thank you. That's a great laptop with the mobile Radeon 5650! Should be well capable of running games from it's time period.
@@SUCRA yep i remember at least game like "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" was running perfect 🙂