For college I bought a 2017 Precision 5520 in 2018 which is identical but with an Nvidia Quadro instead. I loved it for college, wouldn't have wanted anything else in the world but nowadays the performance is definitely a bit lacking. Since I'm not in college anymore I built myself a nice desktop and just keep the laptop for when I need something portable with a larger screen than a phone. Edit: I repasted the CPU, did a fresh install of windows 11 on it (with a little hack because it's not officially supported) and am waiting for my new battery from ifixit to arrive. Performance wise it feels like new again although my standards are definitely higher now. It'll be nice to revive it as a great laptop with the new battery though.
I have had dell laptops for the last 10 years. Started with a latitude e6410, then e5430, e6430 which i finished my engineering masters degree with and my last latitude was an e5480 which made me appreciate somewhat thin and light laptops. I have always wanted an xps, i thought of them as macbooks for windows users. In the end i upgraded to a precision 7530 with a similar gpu to yours, a quadro p2000 and a 6 core i7 8750h with 32gb of ram. This "review" gives me a pretty good idea how the precision would run these games. Good luck with the sale, i would personally like you to review some more cheap cards since you are one of the few people who can find gems in the rough. I think most of the other cards on the wishlist are well documented across youtube already.
Haha, I just got myself a Precision 5540 which is basically the XPS 7590 after buying a Precision 5560 because I missed my ports too much. This thing is still awesome and I won't give it away any time soon :D
I'm a bit of a laptop fan I have a modern Aorus 3070m with i7 10th gen 32gb but my favorite is my scrappy HP Pavilion quad core i5 & GTX 1650 idk it has character I love seeing laptops of this class and era another excellent video as usual cheers
Probably a solid option if someone wants a nice screen for videos and streaming like Netflix with some ok gaming capabilities. Wonder how it stacks up against the Deck performance wise - while that system needs FSR on newer games the small screen usually keeps things looking decent.
I got the 9550, 6th gen i5, 960m, 1080p, 1tb hybrid drive, 8gb ram. Bought the cheapest one to upgrade myself and those were a 16 gb kit of gskill memory,. samsung 950 pro 512gb (the hdd got put into a portable case and the 32gb caching drive went into a mining rig), and an 84wh battery. Doesn't see any use these days but ill still keep it purely for the looks alone.
My laptop, the quirky XPS 9575 (with the equally weird Kaby Lake-G/AMD GPU combo), has served me well since I bought it new back in 2018. Nice seeing how it’s more traditional counterpart still performs today
Would love to see a review of the Vega 64. I remember being so hyped for it only to find out it consumed nearly 300 watts and couldn't keep up with a 1080. I guess it would be interesting to see how it fairs in modern titles (and how much heat it kicks out in the process).
I have the Inspiron with the 7300HQ and 1050 Ti (4GB), 16GB of RAM & 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD. Thing has definitely gotten me through some tough/hard times over the last 6 years, hell I never expected much of it with an entry level desktop GPU but it hasn't let me down just yet (even if everything else -- including modern games -- has). To me the CPU has always held it back more often than not, especially thanks to the lack of hyper-threading & all-core turbo of 3.1Ghz (Great job, Intel). Ah well, it's the product of a different point in time, these days it gets by on being a glorified PS4 alternative for my wife. (Thankfully) I've got a "Moderately Priced Gaming PC"...aka R5 5600 @ 4.6Ghz + RTX 3060 Ti w/ 32GB 3200Mhz 🙂
I had a similarly specced HP gaming laptop and yeah even in late 2020 the thing was screaming for help, ended up building a desktop, that was only slightly better for the 1st year of existence (thanks miners), luckily I had a 960 that I could use in the meantime, so I could use the thing, since the 5600x doesn't have an iGP. Now it has a 2060, didn't even feel like the same system. I don't have that laptop anymore, I've replaced it with a more modern gaming laptop, that has a 6600m instead, to fill my on the go gaming needs. I could have gotten a steam deck, but having a laptop is really handy to me, so it has to fill both roles.
I have the 9570, the 2018 model. That's the first year Intel finally started giving us more than four cores which is good. Problem is that 1050ti isn't doing it any favors when it comes to gaming so I'm stuck mostly using it for work and web browsing
@@lolseagull Given that I picked mine up for its original $139 MSRP in late 2016, I will say I very much got my money's worth out of it and it was a stellar performer for the price, but yeah. The past few years have not been kind to it.
@@AliceC993 no shame there, I ran a 2600K and RX 580 for a long time. Before that, I had a freaking GTX 570 (2.5GB - most were 1.25GB lol but the EVGA one I had wasn't a launch day model)
@@couriersix2443 I remember the 2.5/3 GB Fermi cards. It's just a shame that none of them really had the horsepower to justify the extra VRAM, since by the time it mattered Fermi was outclassed by Kepler and, later, Maxwell and Pascal quite heavily.
@@AliceC993 good point. Most of the cards from that era could get by on a mere 1GB buffer, it's not like texture quality was even that demanding anyway (except maybe OG Dead Space at 4K or something lol). I think the extra VRAM models came about due to the fact that the demands for creative workloads picked up a lot faster compared to gaming. Either way, my 570 (rather ironically) performed about as good as an RX 560, with a whopping 500MB extra memory albeit less support for modern titles. Last game I played on it was FO4 & and was hanging in there at 1080p/mix of low and med settings
my first gaming pc was also a laptop. it's an hp omen I bought at costco in 2018. it has a gtx 1060 with the the same cpu you have. I recently ditched it for a custom built gaming desktop that has an rtx 3060 ti + ryzen 5600x.
I recently managed to upgrade my desktop from a Ryzen 5 2600 to a Ryzen 7 5700x with a new motherboard aswell but since upgrading I have ended up playing Cyberpunk on steam deck and I am amazed at the performance on a handheld device its absolutely amazing even though I could be playing it on my gaming desktop lol also the Steam deck is amazing for emulation ive got everything running on it.
I have the exact same model you have! the battery just quit working and there's a huge crack on the bottom case caused by me falling off my bike on the way to class. I'm not sure what laptop to replace it with yet. I've owned it since new in 2017 paid over 2 grand for it. Torn between getting a new model xps or joining the dark side and getting an M2 MacBook Pro.
I couldn't care less about this Laptop, but since watched one of your videos a month ago on a 5700XT (ended up grabbing one on eBay auction for £100) I've been watching them all, even the Haswell £1 CPU one! Love your style and you won a subscriber. RandomGamingHD would be proud btw!
2:48 Hoooold up there. My old laptop (A toshiba satellite from 2011) had that happen to it, after a CPU replacement. For about a couple of weeks, it worked fine, but then, randomly, it started doing this. Not specifically during long loads, just playing a game for 10 minutes could trigger it.
@@IcebergTech I'm as surprised as you are in this case. Nor did I ever manage to fix it, I just replaced the laptop after one night where in the span of about 4 hours it happened 5 times. Rather ironically, the replacement is technically the spiritual successor of the old laptop in brand and model, hopefully though, 11 to 12 years of innovation may be enough for that bug not to happen again.
I had the previous generation... "the Mac Book killer." Died after a few years of hard use. Lowest-spec Think Pad of one generation before it is still going strong. It was the second and last Dell I'll ever own. Had their chance, had a second chance, blew it.
Yeah, I keep saying one of these days I'll do a complete "zWORMz knockoff" video. Hello guys, Iceberg here, welcome back to anothervideointhisonemyfriendsI'mgonnabetesting...
I have the same laptop for video editing and from 2022 Premiere Pro could finally use the GTX 1050 for H264 encoding, earlier versions only used the so-so Intel 630 graphics chip. I swapped out the dodgy Killer network card for an Intel AX200. The plastic bases for the hinges need to be stuck down again with crazy glue and better still epoxy resin after six years or so. The hinges should also be loosened stop the hinge seats cracking again.
12:30 I noticed youre trying to boot of a drive either virtual or real. RPCS3 doesnt work that way and youre gonna need a proper dumped copy off the internet or have a compatible BR drive and then rip it.
I use my Dell XPS 15 (9560) 4k touchscreen plugged in because the battery is shot and needs replacement but I don’t want to spend $150 on a battery for a 2017 laptop. I’m a music producer using mac air m1 so this is a nice windows backup I’ve been using to emulate or format files.
From personal experience with this laptop, the processor speed dropping to 800mhz is due to it throttling, sometimes it isnt even that hot but it throttles. Some applications don't work well with 4k, so dropping it to 1080p (desktop resolution)will fix the windowed bug. You also have to play with some in game settings and nvida settings. (This isnt relevant now that its gone though)Its a good laptop but dell has so many problems. I will still stick with it until i can get a similar system
Hmm. I haven’t seen a definitive explanation of what it is, or how to resolve it completely. My fix was to detach the battery and let the bios reset, but I’ve seen people claim that it’s possible to fix it in Windows using power settings.
@@IcebergTech it does sound like a windows or chipset driver issue. Similar to how the rx5000 series radeons sometimes dont boost even when under load. Setting it to a different power profile in windows, like high performance would probably keep the cpu boosting all the time as it sets minimum clock speed
I heavily recommend an Alder Lake i7-12700H laptop as the minimum for Xenia and RPCS3 as an upgrade for your 2017 Dell laptop. Specially the 15 inch Lenovo Legion 5 15 inch with an RTX3070 mobile, DDR5 RAM. I have a desktop Alder Lake i7-12700K because i wanted the extra 2 P-cores and clockspeeds. The Lenovo Legion 5 laptop is powerful but it gets pretty hot and is noisy, fortunately the throttling on the GPU is very minimal, same fhe CPU while gaming. Sadly, the i7-12700H has a huge flaw, you can't undervolt it.
This model is notorious for overheating VRMs causing throttling. Enterprising hardware hackers have found that putting thermal pads between them and the bottom cover is a workaround.
really? ive got 16g of ram, and yesterday bought 32g of ram to check if its work better, for more important is if it works faster in lightroom with 32g ram, do u think if its gonna work out?
@@sheriff337 If you're going to open it up, might as well get the thermal pads and put those in as well. It might not affect performance on all CPU configurations, but will still be good for longevity.
I have an Alienware laptop, the CPU throttles down unless I have it on top of a Fan Base / Dock; Cooler Master & Zalman make some good ones. This is common for gaming laptops. I personally prefer Tower PCs, the case & airflow is paramount!
Both of my laptops have had undervolting nerfed in BIOS updates, so Throttlestop and XTU don’t work in that capacity anymore. The Dell could probably be rolled back, but the Razer needs flashing with an external tool. If I had the money I’d replace them both, probably with something Ryzen powered…
@@IcebergTechf you want to target Xenia and RPCS3, anything below Alder Lake mobile is not fast enough. Also, mobile graphics cards below the 3070 mobile aren't good either. If you find a Zen 4 deal with a 3070 mobile equivalent, good, if not just avoid AMD. Sadly that's how barebones the laptop market is.
Afraid not. Every laptop video I make tanks, and this one is no exception. I'll probably do my yearly Razer Blade 2020 video, but I won't be buying any laptops specifically to review.
When the only thing you have is for work and it's a Latitude, really doesn't matter the year. So .... Your XPS is running circles around what im used to.
How did you manage to fix thermal throttling on that laptop can barelyrun fallout 4 60 fps on lowest resolution on medium or play cod bo3 zombie wihout fps dropping 1
my old laptop has an i7 3517u and a radeon HD 8730m, its currently dead cuz of its hinges and screen but a repair is the most cost-friendly thing i can get for it
Been looking for a cheap laptop with those exact specs - the overkill memory but hey ho till i travel more, spending a lot on one doesn't make too much sense..that clock bug does sound pretty annoying..sounds Dell..
Most of the consumer ones are expensive, enterprise and business ones are ridiculously expensive but companies usually switch them out every couple years and you can get those for tenth of the price. I dont think i have ever had a dell that retailed for less than 1.5k, but i always get them used after 3 or 5 years for 150 or less. Ofcourse its a different story when buying new.
My Old MSI GL62VR-7RFX gaming laptop has the same CPU i7 7700HQ and GTX 1060 6gb Laptop GPU and it came with only 16gb of ram in single channel and ran it that way for over 5 years and it did everything that I asked of it during that time but now it getting very long in the tooth and it can't keep up what I wanted to do with it and I got that Laptop back in 2017. Oh boy the Dell 2017 XPs 15 was one of them Laptops that made no sense what so ever in terms of specs There wasn't anything wrong with the CPU and GPU that's those are fine. It's the bloody 4K touch display as shown @3:51 you have to lower the resolution of the games you want to play. However if you are using the machine as a mini workstation then the 4K touchscreen is a nice touch. Now I upgraded my Laptop to a 2022 OriginPC EON-17X/Clevo X170KM-G that has a desktop i7 11700K 32GB of RAM and a Laptop RTX 3080.
Buy a Framework 16 1. Is the dedicated GPU module worth the £400 upgrade compared to the onboard 760m graphics? 2. External GPU shenanigans 3. With changeable module cards can you run 3 monitors from the laptop without a dock? 4. Thoughts vs Dell XPS and the DIY process
Not exactly. I group my GPU review games by "Sony titles", "XBOX titles" and "cross platforms", so right now that's Spider-Man, GOW, Uncharted & TLOU for Sony (about to be joined by Ratchet & Clank), followed by Forza, Plague Tale & Halo (and soon to be Starfield) for MS, and Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Jedi Survivor, RE4R, Warzone & Fortnite for cross-platforms. When I think of "PC focused" as a game category, what tends to come to mind are GPU-light shooters like CS:GO and Valorant, and strategy games, neither of which really fit with graphics card testing IMO. Did you have any PC-specific games you'd like to see me test? I'm always open to suggestions!
For web browsing, media consumption, document writing and keeping a spreadsheet? Yes, but check the battery as it might be an expensive add-on. For compute-heavy tasks and gaming? Not really.
Ummm wanted to ask you about this: th-cam.com/video/NWmConRMbD4/w-d-xo.html Even a 3770k overclocked to 4.5ghz is bottlenecked heavily by a gtx 1660 So what do you think about xeon cpu from the same era
Is BF V a game you specifically want to play? If so, that generation of CPU is going to perform poorly in my experience. I recommend Haswell (Core i 4000 series, Xeon E3 v3) or later, and ideally something new like an i5 10400F or a Ryzen 5 5500 or better. Re: the linked video, that appears to be an example of Nvidia's heavier driver overhead causing a CPU bottleneck. That won't be the case in every game, but in CPU intensive titles like BF V a Radeon should work much better with weaker CPUs. (sorry for the late reply, TH-cam automatically filters comments containing links!)
I respect that BOTW slander, I was even more disappointed by the fact that TOTK is nothing more but that BOTW again but now with more ragdoll and tech shit, it wouldbe great if nintendo fans wasn't just a dick sucking contest and instead of TOTK being BOTW2 it was actually improved version and made exploring hyrule FUN and not like in every open wolrd ever made expect skyrim
Lol, it was intended as a criticism of every lazy copycat that followed BOTW. I’ve never played TOTK, so I have nothing to comment there, but if we don’t see a million Ultrahand knockoffs in the future I’ll be genuinely shocked!
TOTK is way better than BOTW. They fixed enemy variety, improved the dungeons, characters, sidequests, weapon durability... The story is still terrible but overall the game is better.
Please do more emulation based tests
Especially when you try out CPUs
Really love your videos
Two finger tap to, *STOP IT*, god I haven’t laughed like this in a while
didn't get this one (am dumb)
would you explain the joke if you feel inclined to do so
It got me as well 😅
I don't get it either
@@saintsdgessus8823well.. son, when a woman and her fingers really love each other
@@MartezAnims Ahh I see. Thanks for explaining
For college I bought a 2017 Precision 5520 in 2018 which is identical but with an Nvidia Quadro instead.
I loved it for college, wouldn't have wanted anything else in the world but nowadays the performance is definitely a bit lacking. Since I'm not in college anymore I built myself a nice desktop and just keep the laptop for when I need something portable with a larger screen than a phone.
Edit: I repasted the CPU, did a fresh install of windows 11 on it (with a little hack because it's not officially supported) and am waiting for my new battery from ifixit to arrive. Performance wise it feels like new again although my standards are definitely higher now. It'll be nice to revive it as a great laptop with the new battery though.
I had that exact feeling about the slim version of it, that screen was beautiful
I have had dell laptops for the last 10 years. Started with a latitude e6410, then e5430, e6430 which i finished my engineering masters degree with and my last latitude was an e5480 which made me appreciate somewhat thin and light laptops. I have always wanted an xps, i thought of them as macbooks for windows users. In the end i upgraded to a precision 7530 with a similar gpu to yours, a quadro p2000 and a 6 core i7 8750h with 32gb of ram. This "review" gives me a pretty good idea how the precision would run these games. Good luck with the sale, i would personally like you to review some more cheap cards since you are one of the few people who can find gems in the rough. I think most of the other cards on the wishlist are well documented across youtube already.
Haha, I just got myself a Precision 5540 which is basically the XPS 7590 after buying a Precision 5560 because I missed my ports too much. This thing is still awesome and I won't give it away any time soon :D
Thank you for covering emulation iceberg! Ive been waiting for you to test them!
bro your videos are the first to watch in my feed , good work
Damn this pc’s specs could rival my old desktop 😅
The orange trackpad 😍
Yes, I secretly love orange, but I could never admit that 😢
I'm a bit of a laptop fan I have a modern Aorus 3070m with i7 10th gen 32gb but my favorite is my scrappy HP Pavilion quad core i5 & GTX 1650 idk it has character I love seeing laptops of this class and era another excellent video as usual cheers
Probably a solid option if someone wants a nice screen for videos and streaming like Netflix with some ok gaming capabilities. Wonder how it stacks up against the Deck performance wise - while that system needs FSR on newer games the small screen usually keeps things looking decent.
I got the 9550, 6th gen i5, 960m, 1080p, 1tb hybrid drive, 8gb ram. Bought the cheapest one to upgrade myself and those were a 16 gb kit of gskill memory,. samsung 950 pro 512gb (the hdd got put into a portable case and the 32gb caching drive went into a mining rig), and an 84wh battery. Doesn't see any use these days but ill still keep it purely for the looks alone.
My laptop, the quirky XPS 9575 (with the equally weird Kaby Lake-G/AMD GPU combo), has served me well since I bought it new back in 2018. Nice seeing how it’s more traditional counterpart still performs today
Funny how a TH-cam channel goes from a recommendation from a friend to a must watch just like that!
Would love to see a review of the Vega 64. I remember being so hyped for it only to find out it consumed nearly 300 watts and couldn't keep up with a 1080. I guess it would be interesting to see how it fairs in modern titles (and how much heat it kicks out in the process).
I have the Inspiron with the 7300HQ and 1050 Ti (4GB), 16GB of RAM & 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD. Thing has definitely gotten me through some tough/hard times over the last 6 years, hell I never expected much of it with an entry level desktop GPU but it hasn't let me down just yet (even if everything else -- including modern games -- has). To me the CPU has always held it back more often than not, especially thanks to the lack of hyper-threading & all-core turbo of 3.1Ghz (Great job, Intel). Ah well, it's the product of a different point in time, these days it gets by on being a glorified PS4 alternative for my wife. (Thankfully) I've got a "Moderately Priced Gaming PC"...aka R5 5600 @ 4.6Ghz + RTX 3060 Ti w/ 32GB 3200Mhz 🙂
I had a similarly specced HP gaming laptop and yeah even in late 2020 the thing was screaming for help, ended up building a desktop, that was only slightly better for the 1st year of existence (thanks miners), luckily I had a 960 that I could use in the meantime, so I could use the thing, since the 5600x doesn't have an iGP. Now it has a 2060, didn't even feel like the same system.
I don't have that laptop anymore, I've replaced it with a more modern gaming laptop, that has a 6600m instead, to fill my on the go gaming needs. I could have gotten a steam deck, but having a laptop is really handy to me, so it has to fill both roles.
That thing is way faster than my best laptop.
I have the 9570, the 2018 model. That's the first year Intel finally started giving us more than four cores which is good. Problem is that 1050ti isn't doing it any favors when it comes to gaming so I'm stuck mostly using it for work and web browsing
me, using a desktop 1050 Ti and a 3570K until two months ago: haha yeah mate
@@lolseagull Given that I picked mine up for its original $139 MSRP in late 2016, I will say I very much got my money's worth out of it and it was a stellar performer for the price, but yeah. The past few years have not been kind to it.
@@AliceC993 no shame there, I ran a 2600K and RX 580 for a long time. Before that, I had a freaking GTX 570 (2.5GB - most were 1.25GB lol but the EVGA one I had wasn't a launch day model)
@@couriersix2443 I remember the 2.5/3 GB Fermi cards. It's just a shame that none of them really had the horsepower to justify the extra VRAM, since by the time it mattered Fermi was outclassed by Kepler and, later, Maxwell and Pascal quite heavily.
@@AliceC993 good point. Most of the cards from that era could get by on a mere 1GB buffer, it's not like texture quality was even that demanding anyway (except maybe OG Dead Space at 4K or something lol). I think the extra VRAM models came about due to the fact that the demands for creative workloads picked up a lot faster compared to gaming. Either way, my 570 (rather ironically) performed about as good as an RX 560, with a whopping 500MB extra memory albeit less support for modern titles. Last game I played on it was FO4 & and was hanging in there at 1080p/mix of low and med settings
my first gaming pc was also a laptop. it's an hp omen I bought at costco in 2018. it has a gtx 1060 with the the same cpu you have. I recently ditched it for a custom built gaming desktop that has an rtx 3060 ti + ryzen 5600x.
I have dell latitude and its built like a tank, been using it since 2018 and still strong
I recently managed to upgrade my desktop from a Ryzen 5 2600 to a Ryzen 7 5700x with a new motherboard aswell but since upgrading I have ended up playing Cyberpunk on steam deck and I am amazed at the performance on a handheld device its absolutely amazing even though I could be playing it on my gaming desktop lol also the Steam deck is amazing for emulation ive got everything running on it.
so you went with AM4 just to not have to swap motherboard and yet you swapped motherboard...
@@GewelReal no I planned on swapping motherboard as my old one was a a320 board so I always planned in swapping to a b550 board
@@brett9000 ah that makes sense
@@GewelReal sticking with am4 meant I could reuse my big cooler and my RAM plus I got a good deal on the CPU and motherboard
I have the exact same model you have! the battery just quit working and there's a huge crack on the bottom case caused by me falling off my bike on the way to class. I'm not sure what laptop to replace it with yet. I've owned it since new in 2017 paid over 2 grand for it. Torn between getting a new model xps or joining the dark side and getting an M2 MacBook Pro.
I couldn't care less about this Laptop, but since watched one of your videos a month ago on a 5700XT (ended up grabbing one on eBay auction for £100) I've been watching them all, even the Haswell £1 CPU one! Love your style and you won a subscriber. RandomGamingHD would be proud btw!
2:48 Hoooold up there.
My old laptop (A toshiba satellite from 2011) had that happen to it, after a CPU replacement. For about a couple of weeks, it worked fine, but then, randomly, it started doing this. Not specifically during long loads, just playing a game for 10 minutes could trigger it.
Wow, didn’t realise that this bug transcends across different brands.
@@IcebergTech I'm as surprised as you are in this case.
Nor did I ever manage to fix it, I just replaced the laptop after one night where in the span of about 4 hours it happened 5 times.
Rather ironically, the replacement is technically the spiritual successor of the old laptop in brand and model, hopefully though, 11 to 12 years of innovation may be enough for that bug not to happen again.
1:37 achairleg reference, very based
Rip 🛬💥
1:11 HELLO GUYS KRYZZP HERE
i just bought a titan xp its still a beast can be had for around $200 here in the states well worth the money
You should definetly review the Rx 6600
I had the previous generation... "the Mac Book killer." Died after a few years of hard use. Lowest-spec Think Pad of one generation before it is still going strong. It was the second and last Dell I'll ever own. Had their chance, had a second chance, blew it.
Nice cameo there when you said crisp. Just missing a “SHALL WE!?”For a complete reference.
Yeah, I keep saying one of these days I'll do a complete "zWORMz knockoff" video. Hello guys, Iceberg here, welcome back to anothervideointhisonemyfriendsI'mgonnabetesting...
I have the same laptop for video editing and from 2022 Premiere Pro could finally use the GTX 1050 for H264 encoding, earlier versions only used the so-so Intel 630 graphics chip. I swapped out the dodgy Killer network card for an Intel AX200. The plastic bases for the hinges need to be stuck down again with crazy glue and better still epoxy resin after six years or so. The hinges should also be loosened stop the hinge seats cracking again.
I have the Precision variant of the 9560 with the 4GB Quadro, so all around performance is better with Premiere Pro 2022? Im still using 2019.
Thanks!
Thank you!
12:30 I noticed youre trying to boot of a drive either virtual or real. RPCS3 doesnt work that way and youre gonna need a proper dumped copy off the internet or have a compatible BR drive and then rip it.
Still worth a buy in 2024 for photo editing and Minecraft?
Honestly man just buy something for you, no need to review it, you are the best benchmarker i have ever seen, you deserve it. 13:36
I use my Dell XPS 15 (9560) 4k touchscreen plugged in because the battery is shot and needs replacement but I don’t want to spend $150 on a battery for a 2017 laptop. I’m a music producer using mac air m1 so this is a nice windows backup I’ve been using to emulate or format files.
From personal experience with this laptop, the processor speed dropping to 800mhz is due to it throttling, sometimes it isnt even that hot but it throttles. Some applications don't work well with 4k, so dropping it to 1080p (desktop resolution)will fix the windowed bug. You also have to play with some in game settings and nvida settings. (This isnt relevant now that its gone though)Its a good laptop but dell has so many problems. I will still stick with it until i can get a similar system
Thanks!
Have you changed the i7-7700HQ's thermal paste and undervolted it?
You lose A LOT of singlethread speed between 2.8GHz and 3.4GHz.
brilliant mate
Huh. I have experienced the same 780Mhz bug on some of our older Dell Precision 7520s (7th gen xeon m) at work.
Hmm. I haven’t seen a definitive explanation of what it is, or how to resolve it completely. My fix was to detach the battery and let the bios reset, but I’ve seen people claim that it’s possible to fix it in Windows using power settings.
@@IcebergTech it does sound like a windows or chipset driver issue. Similar to how the rx5000 series radeons sometimes dont boost even when under load. Setting it to a different power profile in windows, like high performance would probably keep the cpu boosting all the time as it sets minimum clock speed
I heavily recommend an Alder Lake i7-12700H laptop as the minimum for Xenia and RPCS3 as an upgrade for your 2017 Dell laptop. Specially the 15 inch Lenovo Legion 5 15 inch with an RTX3070 mobile, DDR5 RAM.
I have a desktop Alder Lake i7-12700K because i wanted the extra 2 P-cores and clockspeeds. The Lenovo Legion 5 laptop is powerful but it gets pretty hot and is noisy, fortunately the throttling on the GPU is very minimal, same fhe CPU while gaming.
Sadly, the i7-12700H has a huge flaw, you can't undervolt it.
This model is notorious for overheating VRMs causing throttling. Enterprising hardware hackers have found that putting thermal pads between them and the bottom cover is a workaround.
really? ive got 16g of ram, and yesterday bought 32g of ram to check if its work better, for more important is if it works faster in lightroom with 32g ram, do u think if its gonna work out?
@@sheriff337 If you're going to open it up, might as well get the thermal pads and put those in as well. It might not affect performance on all CPU configurations, but will still be good for longevity.
I have an Alienware laptop, the CPU throttles down unless I have it on top of a Fan Base / Dock; Cooler Master & Zalman make some good ones. This is common for gaming laptops. I personally prefer Tower PCs, the case & airflow is paramount!
This laptop need throttlestop.
I've done -120mv uv on my i5 7300hq
Both of my laptops have had undervolting nerfed in BIOS updates, so Throttlestop and XTU don’t work in that capacity anymore. The Dell could probably be rolled back, but the Razer needs flashing with an external tool.
If I had the money I’d replace them both, probably with something Ryzen powered…
@@IcebergTechf you want to target Xenia and RPCS3, anything below Alder Lake mobile is not fast enough.
Also, mobile graphics cards below the 3070 mobile aren't good either. If you find a Zen 4 deal with a 3070 mobile equivalent, good, if not just avoid AMD.
Sadly that's how barebones the laptop market is.
Are we gonna get laptop specials now? I hope so
Afraid not. Every laptop video I make tanks, and this one is no exception. I'll probably do my yearly Razer Blade 2020 video, but I won't be buying any laptops specifically to review.
in your gameplay test, gtx 1050 showing 0watts of power consumption all the time. do you know the reason of this?
When the only thing you have is for work and it's a Latitude, really doesn't matter the year. So .... Your XPS is running circles around what im used to.
How did you manage to fix thermal throttling on that laptop can barelyrun fallout 4 60 fps on lowest resolution on medium or play cod bo3 zombie wihout fps dropping 1
They fixed the awkward webcam placement in later renditions but destroyed universal compatibility by getting rid of the USB and HDMI ports.
my old laptop has an i7 3517u and a radeon HD 8730m, its currently dead cuz of its hinges and screen but a repair is the most cost-friendly thing i can get for it
Had cpu and gpu upgrades been possible you would have likely kept it never mind it been viable for regular gaming for another couple of years.
Been looking for a cheap laptop with those exact specs - the overkill memory but hey ho till i travel more, spending a lot on one doesn't make too much sense..that clock bug does sound pretty annoying..sounds Dell..
I managed to score a slightly older acer nitro with a 950m for €70 today, crazy find imo
This thing should run RPCS3 more than fine. My i5 6400 which is abysmally slow at 3.1GHz 4core boost can run pretty much all games at 30FPS+
Dell Laptops are expensive, but they indeed look really nice
Most of the consumer ones are expensive, enterprise and business ones are ridiculously expensive but companies usually switch them out every couple years and you can get those for tenth of the price. I dont think i have ever had a dell that retailed for less than 1.5k, but i always get them used after 3 or 5 years for 150 or less. Ofcourse its a different story when buying new.
My Old MSI GL62VR-7RFX gaming laptop has the same CPU i7 7700HQ and GTX 1060 6gb Laptop GPU and it came with only 16gb of ram in single channel and ran it that way for over 5 years and it did everything that I asked of it during that time but now it getting very long in the tooth and it can't keep up what I wanted to do with it and I got that Laptop back in 2017. Oh boy the Dell 2017 XPs 15 was one of them Laptops that made no sense what so ever in terms of specs There wasn't anything wrong with the CPU and GPU that's those are fine. It's the bloody 4K touch display as shown @3:51 you have to lower the resolution of the games you want to play. However if you are using the machine as a mini workstation then the 4K touchscreen is a nice touch. Now I upgraded my Laptop to a 2022 OriginPC EON-17X/Clevo X170KM-G that has a desktop i7 11700K 32GB of RAM and a Laptop RTX 3080.
Buy a Framework 16
1. Is the dedicated GPU module worth the £400 upgrade compared to the onboard 760m graphics?
2. External GPU shenanigans
3. With changeable module cards can you run 3 monitors from the laptop without a dock?
4. Thoughts vs Dell XPS and the DIY process
Its a shame those framework laptops are pretty pricey outside of US
@@martinbernath No more so than anything else tech related be it GPU's, phones etc. Always been a case of take the Dollar symbol and switch to £/€
I'm still using my 2018 XPS 13 - the CPU is notcieably slow but i still don't feel like switching
You undervolt the i7-7700HQ to avoid throttling and it matches a desktop i7-4790K stock.
Massive difference between 2.8GHz and 3.4GHz all core.
Well, gaming laptops?
more laptop content? 😮
Dude, absolutely love your videos, but just noticed... you only play PC ports of console focused games? I was a strange thing to realise...
Not exactly. I group my GPU review games by "Sony titles", "XBOX titles" and "cross platforms", so right now that's Spider-Man, GOW, Uncharted & TLOU for Sony (about to be joined by Ratchet & Clank), followed by Forza, Plague Tale & Halo (and soon to be Starfield) for MS, and Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Jedi Survivor, RE4R, Warzone & Fortnite for cross-platforms.
When I think of "PC focused" as a game category, what tends to come to mind are GPU-light shooters like CS:GO and Valorant, and strategy games, neither of which really fit with graphics card testing IMO.
Did you have any PC-specific games you'd like to see me test? I'm always open to suggestions!
Is this still good for 2023 ? I planning to bought 1
For web browsing, media consumption, document writing and keeping a spreadsheet? Yes, but check the battery as it might be an expensive add-on.
For compute-heavy tasks and gaming? Not really.
@@IcebergTech thank u so much
I guess I have to go watch the first video before this one.
any large/open world gamig built of ue4 and maybe 5 (yet to see for myself) will stutter no matte the cpu/gpu. eg fortnite and pubg
please tell me you will buy a framework
Notification squad 🎉
Will you make a community Discord?
No plans just yet.
I like dell and Alienware and I don't care at all what the haters say.
i just sold my legion 5pro 2021 to help me buy a new desktop... i still crying..
I need to sell all my extra laptops. But i have a hoarder mindset when it comes too my computers.
Yo we need more Emulators from you
This is better as my “gaming laptop”
It’s a acer nitro 5 an515-42 and it’s shockingly bad
If its not to much to ask try it
how about FIFA 23?
I have one dont sell it please.( i was kiding the weaker one must go. But it wil be missed.
Visit the RX6600 would be great :3
kryzzp easter egg!!!!
I wouldn't sell it, it can still play old games and it's GREAT as a multimedia player with it's nice 4k screen.
10:51 say that to factor 5‘s face! Their starwars rouge squadron will beat yo a$$
Ummm wanted to ask you about this:
th-cam.com/video/NWmConRMbD4/w-d-xo.html
Even a 3770k overclocked to 4.5ghz is bottlenecked heavily by a gtx 1660
So what do you think about xeon cpu from the same era
Is BF V a game you specifically want to play? If so, that generation of CPU is going to perform poorly in my experience. I recommend Haswell (Core i 4000 series, Xeon E3 v3) or later, and ideally something new like an i5 10400F or a Ryzen 5 5500 or better.
Re: the linked video, that appears to be an example of Nvidia's heavier driver overhead causing a CPU bottleneck. That won't be the case in every game, but in CPU intensive titles like BF V a Radeon should work much better with weaker CPUs.
(sorry for the late reply, TH-cam automatically filters comments containing links!)
I respect that BOTW slander, I was even more disappointed by the fact that TOTK is nothing more but that BOTW again but now with more ragdoll and tech shit, it wouldbe great if nintendo fans wasn't just a dick sucking contest and instead of TOTK being BOTW2 it was actually improved version and made exploring hyrule FUN and not like in every open wolrd ever made expect skyrim
Lol, it was intended as a criticism of every lazy copycat that followed BOTW. I’ve never played TOTK, so I have nothing to comment there, but if we don’t see a million Ultrahand knockoffs in the future I’ll be genuinely shocked!
TOTK is way better than BOTW.
They fixed enemy variety, improved the dungeons, characters, sidequests, weapon durability...
The story is still terrible but overall the game is better.
very e
Buy hundreds of £1 CPUs to review with the money?😂
@zWORMzGaming at 01:12
I will give you a dollar for it