Is This The Best Gaming Hardware Deal Right Now?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2022
- I have a look at a gaming laptop that has been heavily discounted, to see if buying a new laptop right before the next gen release is a good idea.
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Microcenter: "We're Not Newegg!"
Best marketing slogan.
Yes indeed
what did newegg do again?
It's cool because in Canada it's pretty much the only online retailer with stocks.. Amazon etc sucks and you need to live a big city to have access to a Canada Computer or Memex (local pickup of most stuff)
@@_archer7101 - Scam customers
everybody liked that
It occurs to me that, one day, Nvidia will have a model in their range called the RTX 5050. I live for the day I get to hear you say that model name out loud.
An RTX thiddy thiddy is what I'd like to hear him say😫
I'm waiting for the 3030 to release 🤣
That assumes they'll be consistent with their naming scheme, considering the 1650 exists I don't think you can count on it!
the rtx fiddy fiddy
Then I'm gonna wait for RTX 6090 ...
Dell is amazing, it has made me alot of money repairing them over the years.😌✅
Bruh you work at dell as repairs man
Lmao
Dell just had it's best quarter ever they are charging ppl more cuz they can
@@edbeagle7929 do you want an extended warrenaty for your extended warranty? Just in case
Funnily enough, the most reliable laptop I had so far was a Dell Lattitude. The thing is basically bulletproof.
Dell released a bios update for this laptop which improved the fan curve and temps and added mux switch option in the bios ... i highly recommend that you update the bios if you purchase it
You can add a mux switch from the bios? Thought it was a hardware feature
@@asianflex it is but it wasn’t enabled typical lazy laptop manufacturers
The laptop forced the update right after I started using it. The fan noise tests I did in the video was after the bios update. 👍
Good to know. Gotta get into BIOS later to check it out.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff And it didn't brick the PC? How non-Dell like :O
The budget for the intro was about a GT 710s worth of graphics card.
nah it's OK if you just dry it soon after. Electronics die only if they are soaked in water while powered on OR if they are left wet for a while and can corrode
@Ur Display These damn boys have been going ham on my channel the last couple days. I keep reporting them and deleting the comments but they just keep pop in up.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Try using ThioJoe's YT Bot Annihilator.
@@yubinator7455 Is that a client-side tool, or creator-side?
@@ThePhoenix198 I don't remember but it nukes all the spam comments on a single video and anyone can do it so there is no need for the creator to do it so I think it is client-side?
I work in a mill and we switched over from HP to Dell hardware probably five or six years ago.
I've never seen so many batteries bulge. I have an entire collection of Dell laptop batteries that have turned into spicy pillows. It's unbelievable.
Mmmmm spicy pillows.
that's more or less the time everyone switched to using soft pillows (lithium polymer) instead of oversized AA (lithium ion, using cylindrical 18650 cells). HP and Lenovo aren't a whole lot better
Same here. HP's enterprise stuff feels cheaper, but it's amazing how many batteries bulge with the newer Dell systems. I bet they have somewhat concerning data internally on just how common it is that will never be released. Luckily companies usually purchase an extended warranty anyway, so this hasn't been a big issue to corporate in my experience.
Used to be on the IT support for the largest mortgage company in the US. We also used Dell pcs and we also had issues with battery bulge and overheating issues.
That’s cuz you didn’t bought their extended warranty for the extended warranty, yep, completely your fault, not dell’s fault in any way possible (this is sarcasm)
"That is a very usable gaming experience."
By the standards of contemporary Dell stuff, that's actually high praise.
Dell laptops are fine; they don't dominate the corporate space for nothing.
Yup, an RTX laptop can be bought for around the same price as the equivalently-named RTX desktop GPU if you shop carefully. Sure, it'll be a less powerful GPU, but it comes with an ENTIRE PORTABLE COMPUTER.
The laptop and desktop 3060 are actually quite comparable because for some weird reason the laptop version has more cuda cores
I know right! Seems like such a good deal in these times.
@@jesusbarrera6916 probably to offset power limits and underclocking
@@jesusbarrera6916 just wish the laptop 3060 had more than 6 gigs of vram
@@videogamefreak221122 there's actually a laptop version which has 12GB of VRAM
3:03 The current sale price of $8,200 seems on the pricey side 😂
Thats cheap, just sell your first born to chutullu
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 jokes on chtulhu if youll never have kids anyway
Dell's laptops are indeed superior to their desktops.
@@mattBLACKpunk then chutullu will make a baby with you
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 mmmhhh tentacle pron
That intro was brilliant! I spat my Costa coffee out when the shower scene played 😂
I think most people would spit Costa coffee out
Hopefully you didn’t lose too much coffee. 😁
Clearly someone has an exceptionally low 'spit coffee out' humour threshold
@@ThePhoenix198 Just a good sense of humour
Very specific
Hi, I'm from Japan and I'd like to share my experiences(parents) with Dell laptops
-Inspiron(2004) HDD failure (Seagate 100GB)
-Inspiron(2010?) HDD failure (Probably a Seagate 500GB)
-XPS 14(2012) HDD failure (Seagate 500GB)
The moral of the story here is: DON'T buy Seagate HDDs! (They'll probably fail)
Depends on the model. The enterprise grade and nas grade 3.5 Inch drives seem to be reliable. I have some that are around 8 years, still running.
I guess the 3.5" HDDs (Iron Wolfs, etc) are magically built immortal, whereas the cheapo 2.5" models are built to die...I don't know what the deal is here, but every person that I know who has had Dell laptops w/ Seagate HDDs almost always experienced HDD failure within a couple of years.
@@Nerd9301 its just that Seagate sent Dell... crap drives -_- I have an HP and Western Digital Drive died in 2 years...
@@Nerd9301 Many companies have quality problems in some products but not others. Maybe they are just not good at building small drives.
Good that I only buy SSDs.
I got that Legion 5 17" on a promotional error from Lenovo back in Fall of last year that they were kind enough to honor anyways (they had the base model with the 5800H/3060 on sale for $1100, and then their website just... forgot to add to the price as you upgraded the hardware.)
So I got the upgrade to the full-power 3070 and extra storage in it for the same price. Screen's pretty sub-par (similarly weird color accuracy, no adaptive sync options) but it works great when plugged into an external monitor and the overall experience using it has been very positive.
dang youre one lucky bastard
Yea I bought the same one a few weeks back but with the 3060! Works pretty well. Found it used for $700 and had to grab
That’s great to hear. That is an amazing deal!
Damn
A big issue with this laptop is that RAM is X16 instead of X8, upgrading it to dual rank even if it's still 2x8gb 3200Mhz can make up to 20% difference depending on the game
Yeah that definitely had some cheap ram but it doesn't affect intel as much as amd
@@Defy_Convention Intel doesn't really care, as long as it has the speed and bandwidth of dual channel it'll be fine
I think you have mistaken "dual channel vs dual rank memory" . Dual channel means 2 sticks of RAM modules. Dual rank means 16 memory chips soldered to 1 module. Single rank memory modules have 4 or 8 memory chips soldered on 1 stick of RAM. If 1 stick of RAM has 4 memory chips, it is a x16 , 8 memory chips on 1 stick of RAM, it is an x8 .For notebook SODIMM RAM, even if you see both sides of the PCB has memory chips, it doesn't mean it is a dual rank memory. Usually RAM manufacturers solder 4 memory chips per side for SODIMM if it is a single rank x8 module. Desktop DIMM is different. If you see both sides of RAM have memory chips soldered, it is absolutely dual rank DIMM.
@@fleurdewin7958 I may have got the numbers wrong but I'm not that stupid, ik what dual channel means. Also Jarrod's Tech made a video about it, it makes a really big difference (with ryzen at least but I think it's still significant with Intel)
I have had the exact same one for a month. And i to have been having Alma visits in updating crashes and stutters when closing or opening games. My wife calls the laptop a drone because of the noise and it almost lifts up.
But for the vr gaming and 3d modeling it has been amazing.
I only bought it because it was for sale. But happy with it.
I've been looking for reviews on this laptop. I'm so glad I found this video. Thank you so much!
I have been watching you for a while now and I can tell that your video editing skills have improved. Your content is getting higher quality. Keep up the great videos!
Good job with the videos man! I love all that you post!
Thanks!
I can't thank you enough for including how the hardware handles Tarkov. Also I really think you Have to promt up the back of the laptop even in "normal" mode, otherwise the intake vents are just suffocated under it. Love your content, keep it up!
I love this guy and his content. It’s really refreshing to see someone so passionate and funny make interesting entertaining yet relevant and informative content on tech. I always enjoy it when Dawid posts, there’s not many like him out there.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy the videos.
for laptops you gotta use OBS replay buffer with crossfire/SLI compatibility turned on, cos regular windows uses the integrated graphics but games use the discrete GPU
I love your videos Dawid. I can honestly say, in all my years of PC (whatever from 1995 on), I have always stayed away from Dell. I understand that they have to make a profit somehow. But they really cut corners in some of the oddest areas.
Personally for consumer laptops (non gaming) Dell are my go to recommendation simply because you often get amazing fetch repair return warranties for up to four years on them. I just don't want family and friends calling me to do repairs and stuff. But they're usually only priced about 5% more than I expect for the spec, I consider that a worthy trade off for the warranty. This advice has served me well and people have been happy with their laptops for 15+ years. HP meanwhile always have weird hinges that break.
Dell are pretty good for laptop, for pc I would recommend to stay away from it but for laptops dell are pretty good .
I can't express how deeply grateful i am for my Dell laptop, still working up to this day, almost flawless... It's a D430 from way back in the day, maybe 2007 ?
That’s amazing to hear. I’m really glad it’s held out that long for you. 👍
That line of laptops were built like tanks though. Great machines.
I've had this laptop as a side rig for when I trave for about 6 months now and I can't emphasize this enough, I had low hopes for this thing but it's blown me away. It's great and glad I made the decision to go with it. Yes fans get loud but I have headphones so it's whatever .
The "It's Adelle" thing was genius
The last time I had a problem screen capturing with GeForce was on a 2014 imac running windows 😂
Your content is awesome:). Keep it up
Yes
Thx 4 the new upload!
Alright man you got another sub! Been watching your stuff for a good month or so. Love the energy, you could talk about rocks and make it funny somehow👌
I've been building PCs for quite some time and I'm actually typing this from my gaming laptop that is useful for....something. I haven't traveled with it. My desktop is on the other side of my desk.
Back in 2006ish, I had a top of the line Dell Inspiron 19" laptop that was one of the OG 1080p displays and could run Crysis high at 60 fps 1080. I replaced the GPU with the upgraded version as well. I used that for quite a few years in between desktop setups. That was my only Dell laptop experience but also from about 15 years ago.
Oh no....I'm not in my 20s anymore...
there was no computer in 2006 that could run crysis at 1080p 60fps.
Even the 8800 from Nvidia struggled to get at 30fps.
you might remembering things trough some pink glasses I think... ;-)
I snagged this for around 980 before sales tax in this exact configuration from Dell's website a few days ago. (After a simple phone call had them "refund" McAfee and credit my card an additional 50 dollars on top of 5 percent off with financing I'm going to immediately pay off anyways). For that price I just couldn't see how I could go wrong, even with all the lukewarm reviews. They even shipped it next day for free. Only issue I've ran into is not being able to use any Chrome browser without screen flickering; thankfully Firefox exists though so its a minor gripe thus far.
I got the g15 ryzen edition model of this laptop (5600H/3050) for like 850$ and i'm really happy with that. Planning on upgrading the ram though. It only has 8 gb on single-channel. It's really nice to see you reviewing this laptop. Great content!
The best part about finding your channel late in the game, is that I have been able to binge watch all your uploads!
I don't own a Dell laptop and, yes, I love the performance of not owning a Dell laptop!
he's crying in the shower with a potato🤣🤣🤣
Honestly looking at a MSI GL66 for $1,259. 3070, i7-11800h, 16GB 3200mhz, and 144hz display sounds really nice.
Wow. All that for 1200? Thats actually a pretty good deal
That 3070 only goes to 85w I believe
May i ask where?
The Lenovo with the 3060 is a better deal since it’s a max p 3060 while the msi has a 85w 3070
@@finished502 true. If they can get one with a full powered 3060 for a similar price that would be an even better deal
I have an msi gp66 laptop I got last year and it’s held up super well. I7 10750 / 3070 max p / 32gb 3200 cl16 / 2tb nvme / 144hz
Fans get loud stock but with some cooling mods I was able to get the temps down and fans down as well
I really love your sense of humor lmao, you're definitely definitely the most entertaining tech youtuber imo
I still can’t figure out why Dell has a line of “Gaming PCs” when they have the Alienware line. It’s just needlessly confusing for most consumers, IMHO.
Consumer targeted Dell laptops do seem to be pretty crap. Their business laptops are usually very solid though and tend to be my preferred option at work. May be worth putting a Latitude through its paces in a future video?
Are there any Latitudes with good GPUs available? I thought they only come with iGPUs or low-end stuff.
Though, I can say I've been pretty happy with my work Latitude as well.
@@Cosmin1213 That's a great point actually, I hadn't really thought about it. All I can find after a vague look on Dell UK is a Latitude 5521 with a shitty Nvidia MX450 option. Otherwise they all seem to be iGPU only.
Every consumer dell I've had has failed shortly after warranty ended, but my 2014 that was made for the "pro-sumer"/buissnes market is still fine
Had two Dell Laptops. Bought one new in 2009 when Win 7 came out. Great little Intel/Nvidia 13" laptop with a double capacity battery. Would do 9+ hours which was amazing back then. About 7 years ago I bought a ex corporate Lattitude E6410 for someone for £50! They didn't need it in the end so I upgraded all the bits I could and I'm still using it for router configs etc. Am currently waiting for a framework laptop to be delivered.
I have two XPS 15’s with the uhd panels, love them, never had any problems, but I did do a clean install on both when I got them, perhaps that’s why? Idk
Dawid: I just want a graphics card :'(
Also Dawid: Props up the laptop with a graphics card
😅
I got a 2060 laptop at an ok price during the literal worst time of the GPU shortage last year. And it's been great so far ngl
Yeah gaming laptops nowadays are very great.
I've had a Dell G7 since 2018 with a 1060Max Q. It has been awesome! I am getting a new Dell G15 SE 5521 with a 3070Ti and 240hz 1440p this week and am looking forward to it! Thanks for the review!
I love dawid. Your vids always make me chuckle, and make my day
nice twin brother
Dell laptops, in my experience, have been pretty good. They are durable, usually have decent thermals, and run well when you install a clean Windows setup.
XPS laptops are generally very good
I love your intros, bru, so good!
I got a G5 back in the beginning of 2020. Temperatures were insane (as expected). When I opened it up I found that there was a piece of thin adhesive foam that was supposed to cover the gap between the fans and the heat sink. One of these strips of foam was folded over and blocking almost half of the air flow. Their quality control was unimpressive. After fixing that, using some Conduconaut, and running ThrottleStop, I get reasonable performance for not too much noise.
Pro tip: Get a laptop cooling base that blows up, and also get some black air filter foam (Walmart has it for about $3 in the hardware section). Cut a strip of foam to go under the laptop cooler pad, and another to go between the cooler and the laptop itself. It might impact thermals a little bit, but a lot less than a heat sink clogged with dust and pet hair.
i managed to trade my 4 to 5 year old apu desktop for a gaming laptop with a 1050
also i need help on deleting mcafee it just says refresh page every time i try
@@theanacondaunderyourbed2279 just reinstall windows, no point using an OS with years of the previous owners crap on it
it has been reset already
i figured it out anyways
I've been working at a place for almost 10 years now that's been a Dell House and I worked their Support for those systems for about 6 years.
- The WD15 Docking Stations launched with a sub par power brick. More Power users would overload it and it would blue screen the system.
- The higher end machines we had would have random GPU issues after about 1-2 years of use.
- The SSDs they use die quite frequently. Not sure why but they're very unreliable.
The positives are that it's easy to push a BIOS update, which does relieve alot of weird issues. They're generally easy to get into to upgrade RAM and swap out Drives. They're pretty cheap sometimes on their website as long as you don't buy their extra non-sense they like to shuck.
On a personal level, the base 1 year support saved my SIL when the Dell I got for her had a dead battery in sub 12 months but they sent a tech to her house to fix it with no charges. It was very easy and painless to submit since the laptop pushed a QR code and it just essentially auto fires it to Dell to get it fixed.
So your videos inspired me to build my own gaming PC for the first time. Damn you Mr. Tech Stuff, you are a bad bad man!
Dawids vids are always amazing!
1:45 got that Mattie Maguire blasting in the background eh? Good music choice. :D
love your b-roll song.. its good
Just bought two week ago with the AmD processer and I experienced no issue working like a charm tho I agree with the fan noise and temp that's almost always high
I've had my G15 5515 Ryzen w/ a 3060 for 2 years now. It has been fine as my desktop replacement and gaming rig. Did do a clean Win11 install. The only issues I've had were with the Ryzen drivers, switched back the Dell drivers and the issue went away. Currently waiting for my X14R2.
Do a Shorts video about this laptop sitting on one of those laptop coolers! :D
I regularly use a Dell G5 SE 5505 and I've had very few issues after a fresh windows install, blocking automatic graphics driver updates, and manually installing the newest Adrenalin drivers from AMD's site. Weird issues exist out of the box (my 144 Hz monitor couldn't use freesync initially), but after some online queries I found ways to fix them quite easily. Thermals aren't even that bad after repasting and purchasing a good cooling pad.
In terms of gaming laptops, I have the 2021 Lenovo Legion 7i 3080 and it is amazing! Would love to see Dawid cover the legions too.
This is a really nice Vid. I like the dell its really good but I got a Hp omen 16 from best buy at the same specs as the dell and at the same price and its pretty good.
Amazing intro, love it.
Dawid your videos never miss.
Best secondary use of a plectrum I have ever seen.
Ive been looking for a black camo mouse pad for years. A large one to. Ill be getting one of those right away!
Hey David, when using a monitor as your secondary display, your laptop display remains on. when put into 2nd display mode, you would have insane input lag and frame drops. 2nd display mode increases fps alot as you would know. to combat that lag and fps drops, disable fast startup mode in device settings, put it in 2nd display mode and restart. should work and helps alot! the issues might come back at some times but just restart for that, should be good to go 😉
In testing a Razer Blade 15 with an external monitor I found it best to disable the Intel iGPU in Device Manager, otherwise I got a fair amount of stutter and bugs in general use. BTW, whatever happened to the custom laptop coorel? Surely this is a great candidate for it.
I have this exact dell laptop for about 3 weeks now. Not a single issue. Games really well and I'm happy.
Please make a video of this laptop where you show changing the thermal paste for the CPU and GPU and test out thermals in gaming later.
Thanks!
I'm an old Inspiron 15 user(base model 7567 with an i5 and GTX 1050 4GB) and it's been treating me well. Only thing that frustrated me to the point of giving up was an audio driver update that fixed some crackling issues in the sound, but it disabled the internal subwoofer. I'm moving over to ASUS soon though, and I'm excited to not have the typical Dell issues anymore👌
Hi Dawid, I have this laptop but with the ryzen 7 5800H and its a great laptop. I turned off processor power boost using registry and temps on the cpu dont go above 75 degrees celsius.
I got an AMAZING deal on an Omen gaming laptop on clearance with a real 1070 inside when the 16 and 20 series came out. i7 and 16 gigs of are still serving me well. It runs as a hot as a pig roast, though.
So glad and happy i built in 2019 i59600 2060super rig and just been so sick of companies over charging and scalpers
My only experience with a Dell computer was my dad's old 2002 Dell Laptop from his work that i got.
I must say it worked pretty well, played Age of Empires 1, 2 and 3 without too many problems.
3:20 Ohhhhh that fingerprint smudge
nice, I started watching about you pc prebuilt and have stuck around.
Really good intro! :)
I got the 11400H and 3050ti version of the G15 5511 during Black Friday sales for £644, and using it for a few months I have to say it's been perfect, especially for the price where at the time similar prices were offering 1650s. I've had no problems with Geforce Experience, and the CPU/GPU temps were around 70-80C during gaming, though mine is a lower spec. I was hesitant on buying a Dell Laptop but I'm so glad I went for it.
I've had a dell g7 with a 8750H and a 1060 max-q for the past 3-4 years and it's served me well enough gaming and productivity side. I use solid works/inventor in college yet, and it powers through that, but my only gripe (besides the lack of adequate cooling) is that the only way to make it usable when not gaming is to disable the "turbo mode" either in bios or with throttle stop. I printed a stand for it and use it as a mobile desktop using a separate monitor and have backed head phones so the noise doesn't normally bother me. At somepoint in the past 1.5 years, it no longer goes above base clock (2.3 GHz I think) but games the same with "better" temps so I don't know whether to call that a plus or minus.
I think I spent
i have one (and one of the 5515 - ryzen version)
Prefer the ryzen for the battery life.
Both respond really well to a cooling pad due to the open bottom intakes
Both also mine ethereum really well too if thats your game (46.5mh @ 80w)
I use number pads every day for every day things, they also work nicely for more slow paced games to map functions too as well.
Heck you can even ditch the Keyboard entirely and use just the mouse and a number pad and you can even have them on the couch with a bit of effort.
For those who think gaming at a desk is a tad inconvenient.
About time you tested some of those laptop coolers that plug in via usb and see if the temps are any better?
A couple years ago I bought an MSI GP75 10SEK for about $2300 Canadian dollars after tax. It has an RTX 2060 and i7 10750h in it. I've loved using it ever since. The only problems I've had with it are the bottom panel is extremely hard to take apart and I did break some plastic clips whilst doing so. And the battery I think is 45 watt hours, which I didn't know until after I got it. It lasts maybe 2 hours on battery saver mode not doing anything. But it's played all the games I've thrown at it, including BF2042.
I picked up an older Dell Inspiron 7567 last year for about $300, cause I'm poor and just needed something for work that can also handle some games. It's thankfully a non-TN panel, but only 60hz 1080p. Also has a *7th gen i5-7300HQ* which I didn't think would be *too* much of a problem, seeing as a lot of 4c/4t CPUs can still be fairly capable. It's all-core turbo is only 3.1Ghz, but it's paired with a 4gb 1050 Ti so only the really demanding games are CPU-bound vs being held back by the GPU. The previous owner did me a solid and had already added an extra 8gb stick of ram (stock config is 8gb only) so I got it with that sweet 16gb ram goodness. It uses a 256gb nvme for the boot drive and I added a 1tb hdd to give it some room to breathe with storage. All in all, it's almost 5 years old now, uses some older gen parts, and isn't anything to write home about. But it handles everything I need it to just fine. Although I've noticed that when gaming or doing anything intensive, it will sound more or less like the one in this video. And that's with lower power components lol.
I have one of these exact Dell G15 laptops, and this was my Christmas gift! I am typing on it as well as of writing this comment. Best computer I have owned in the 9 years I have been in computers and technology.
I still have my Acer Predator Triton with the RTX 2060 and it still runs really well.
as soon as you opened that boc i knew that it was a g15 the same as mine
I bought my son a Dell Insprion 3880 desktop refurb last year for under $300. i3-10100. Added in an m.2 drive and his existing GTX1050. I did have to have dell replace the motherboard once because it just spontaneously died one day but that was only a couple days down with the onsite warranty. I immediately reinstalled windows using the Dell image and it's been fantastic and glitch-free.
I have the g7 with an 8th gen i7 and 1060 max q. This laptop was always stuttering on windows 10. It would even be choppy while playing youtube. After installing Manjaro Linux, no more stuttering. I am actually happy gaming on it now.
I have the same one and I love it. It had Elma at first but I did a fresh windows install and everything is fine. I just don't know how I'm gonna clean it up later tho.
hi, i'm new to this channel. What does Elma mean?
loved the parasyte pics lol
I got one of these in September for 1300 CAD, very happy with it. I got ryzen edition too and got 11 hours of battery watching youtube away from a plug all day. CPU gets too hot by default, but other than that it's perfect.
I have the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 with an i5-6300hq, 8GB 1600mhz ddr3 and an Nvidia GTX 960m 4GB
Pretty good laptop but it fell apart after less than a year of owning it. It still works just have to keep tightening the hinge screws. Also setting boot mode to legacy makes it impossible to enter the BIOS without taking the laptop apart and removing the CMOS battery.
@ Dawid does tech stuff don't forget to talk about the Dell™ DB_PROCHOT error that always creeps up when your laptop overheats, throttling you to base clock speed...
3000 series implements max-q dynamic boost
What I did with my max-q laptop is disable the turbo boost of the cpu so most power goes to the gpu
I have this laptop, currently undervolted and liquid metal'd and temps are much, much improved!
Hell ya. Love your videos
I had a Dell laptop back in 2006. It wasn't a gaming laptop but it did what I asked of it and it was myain PC for a while. It was so easy to upgrade, with little panels dor the Hdd, memory. I had for a long while until time caught up with it.
My latest laptop is an Acer and thinking it would be as easy as my previous laptop to upgrade was a mistake. Just upgrading the memory meant removing the whole back panel (14 screws) and then the motherboard because the memory slots were on the otherwise.....and I had to do it all again when I had to change the thermal paste for the CPU.
Good old days....😪
I had a Dell g3 (3590), the predecessor to this laptop. Within a few months of owning it, one of the fans failed because it got a rubber stopper stuck between. I only realized when I got a new laptop, but the thermals on it suck too. Without doing anything super intensive, it gets quite warm underneath. Finally, in BIOS, they disabled legacy boot which made it much more difficult to simply replace my ssd when I wanted to. These are pretty serious gripes, but I did get what I paid for so I can’t complain too much. Good price
I'm on an old MSI at the moment which dose me just fine. Performance mode has it's own dedicated button, which I only need to use when it starts to melt, and the rest of the time it's pretty quiet! Re: the melting though, unfortunate speaker placement (bottom front) meant that their plastic grates got very brittle, pieces broke off and now one speaker is fully exposed. The bigger problem is that some bits fell back into the machine, and got caught in the fan. So for a while, it was also a smoke machine lol very spinal tap very fire hazard
just got one from microcenter open box. been a great deal!