Lenovo does budget decently. They typically don't make you regret choosing their brand.

@GameC3nt

3 жыл бұрын

hows the Battery life ??!

@NeblogaiLT

3 жыл бұрын

@@GameC3nt Battery life of 5000-series APUs is just great, but I would go for ideapad5 instead of ideapad 3, just to get a better overall package at minimal price increase.

@DOHA104p3

3 жыл бұрын

@Joel Sunny can't you order online?

@DOHA104p3

3 жыл бұрын

@Joel Sunny then I guess there's nothing else you could do

@juanignacioaschura9437

3 жыл бұрын

Until the plastic around the hinges breaks in the short term and you're left with a dislodged screen. Trust me, I've been repairing many IdeaPads with this issue, hence why I only recommend cheap ThinkPads with Ryzen. There are always deals on E-Series ThinkPads with 4th and 5th gen Ryzen APUs.

"A lot of people just do web browsing" I feel attacked.

@soupwizard

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be - you're not only web browsing, you're watching videos online too!

@Ali-Halal

3 жыл бұрын

My brother only browsing and watching youtube and always ask me to download movies for him xd

@JackPillawa

3 жыл бұрын

Once when I came home, caught my girlfriend was surfing the web, how dare she!? I was so pissed, took my smartphone and started browsing the web right away.

@doiceslife8374

3 жыл бұрын

@@soupwizard Watching videos online is pretty taxing on most budget laptops XD

@Vysair

3 жыл бұрын

According Vivaldi browser history statistic, I have over 1K page view per month and tenth thousands (or was it hundredth thousands?) of page view from 2019 - 2021

This is so close to excellent. I feel like we are on the cusp of a budget gaming laptop that doesn't feel like obsolete tech

@slickrounder6045

3 жыл бұрын

As soon as Amd release an Apu with Zen 3 + Rdna2 we may reach that point where budget laptops can do decent gaming. Intel isn't too far off either, with some impressive performance from their 11th gen tiger lake 1165g7 and 1185g7 with the full 96 E.U igpu.

@broklond

3 жыл бұрын

@@slickrounder6045 problem is, intel is offering those laptops at double the price of this lenovo system

@wikwayer

3 жыл бұрын

@@broklond touche

@Aka.Aka.

3 жыл бұрын

@@slickrounder6045 Intel has some good tech, too bad they sell APU's at the same price as a CPU+ GPU ckmbo

@selohcin

3 жыл бұрын

@@slickrounder6045 AMD won't release any Zen 3 + RDNA2 SoCs. The RDNA2 GPUs will be paired with Zen 4, and that's AFTER AMD releases Zen 4 in 2H 2022. You won't see any RDNA2 iGPs until 2023 at the earliest.

Now that ETA has reviewed it, it'll be $750 everywhere. Lol.

@tamiwu0346

3 жыл бұрын

The scalpers watching this video: 👀

@kobalt9299

3 жыл бұрын

Its 449 now

@kobalt9299

3 жыл бұрын

But has tlc ssd

@isorc5804

3 жыл бұрын

@@kobalt9299 can you send a link to it? I only have my phone as of now

@delta62__9

3 жыл бұрын

@@isorc5804 just look up ryzen 5 5500 on walmart

Honestly for the price this seems like a pretty solid option. I'm looking to do mobile streaming with software encoding and it seems like the CPU has enough "oomph" to do that well enough. Pretty good bang for the buck it seems. Being able to play my massive library of old Steam games and handle emulation well is just icing on the cake.

@vancanque2213

2 жыл бұрын

Hi sir! Where you able to do a stream using your mobile and a capture card with this laptop? Planning to have this with my low budget and I want to stream mobile games. Thanks!

@GameplayandTalk

2 жыл бұрын

​@@vancanque2213 It works fine if you only run a stream. A 1080p60 stream at 6mbps sits at around 30 - 35% CPU utilization in OBS. However, it has limited resources and the moment I even so much as load up a web browser the CPU utilization jumps up a lot, sometimes to the 50+% range which is where you will start dropping frames because it's being pushed too hard. I cannot stream and record a 1080p60 stream at the same time, as it's too much for the system (recording while streaming 720p60 is OK). I still haven't upgraded the RAM yet though and that might help with the performance. Ultimately I wish I just paid the extra $150 or so for a more capable laptop, but it's getting the job done either way. Just not as well as I thought it would.

@AhmedAkram903

2 жыл бұрын

@@GameplayandTalk so is it good? I don't stream but I sometimes do record

@GameplayandTalk

2 жыл бұрын

@Husnain Bukhari Don't do it. Save up some cash and get one that's got a better processor.

I have Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 6 13ARE05 powered by Ryzen 4700U with 16GB RAM, and man, this is a beast. So far I'm looking for ways to push it, and yeah, for normal workload and even light gaming, this thing works like a charm. Too bad the RAM is soldered to the board, but M2 NVMe SSD is upgradable. I got mine for over USD1100, but for thin and light 2 in 1 ultrabook, they are quite the bang for the bucks. Battery life (while using intelligent cooling) can last me 6 hours of continuous KZread video, and with Windows Battery Saver mode, I can get at least 7 hours before needing to recharge. Thanks for the tip for adjusting the BIOS setting so we can gain more performance on this laptop. Although I wish Lenovo allows us to hit enter when booting out instead of use a small pin to press Novo button to enter the BIOS. My Novo button located underneath the laptop, which is so super annoying.

Nice surprise that the cooling is sufficient for high power mode, really nice!

would've loved to have that as my first laptop

Thanks for this video. I was helping my mom find a new laptop. I was talking to Asus to try to figure out the difference between their two 5500u Vivobook models, (The customer service didn't even know). Saw this video, and for $150 less, it was a no-brainer.

I have a different 5500U laptop (HP 15s-eq2008 is the exact model) and I am very pleasantly surprised of the machine - snappy APU, good IPS screen, VERY loud speakers, light and respectable battery. The Vega iGPU is very respectable performer and totally wasn't worth buying an i5 + MX330 combo instead like I intended initially. The performance would have been overall the same even worse in some cases and also my track record with the budget laptops I have owned shows that the dedicated GPU always dets gamaged first as a component. So that's why I am glad I found a powerful enough APU solution for a relatively small price ( my budget was not so high and the local PC market sucks in general )

@piyushkadam4296

Жыл бұрын

How's the build quality

I love that you test out emulators, good one thanks! Planning to buy it for my mom as a gift for the classes, might as well use it for some on the go gaming xD

I appreciate the video ETA! My girl has one of these and wants to do some light gaming, so this has answered basically every question i had!

Ryzen laptops in budget category is simply a steal, simply valuable... especially now Intel 11th gen + Nvidia MX would instantly shoot up the price despite the same chassis...

I've been gifted this laptop with the exact same components, with this video i'm really excited to use it

Thanks for this video, specially for the bios trick!

Good review! Instant subscriber, keep up the good work man! Will wait for new AMD/ Intel reviews

I was looking for this one, but i didn't find any review on Internet, til now 😆

My 5600X tops out at 10977 CB and this gets 7126. That's absolutely amazing, as this is 33W or less and mine is about 100w.

your channel is on beast mode. i love it

I picked up an ASUS Zenbook with this APU in it. Pretty happy with it. Seems to have very good power management to extend battery life and can really ramp up when needed. Wish it was on Zen3 and I wish I had researched that before. Still does what I need it to and a few games here and there when I am on the go is a nice addition.

I just wanted to point this out, but you can change the tdp of the laptop by pressing the function and q keys at the same time. It is a really nice timesaver since you can immediately switch between a high tdp for when the laptop is connected to its' power adapter and a lower tdp for when you want to take it somewhere.

@zxv_l.

2 жыл бұрын

There is an indicator?

@Diegonando64

2 ай бұрын

how?

Not too shabby for the price. Lenovo's typically does decent job on their stuff. They did made compromises on cheap stuff, but acceptable if we consider what they deliver for the price. For example, my 1 year old C340 already show the symptoms of battery degradation. But I can't really complaint with what I got.

Awesome laptop. Great video as usual.

Good review. Thanks!👍

FYI I'm pretty sure the 5500u enables per-core voltage scaling on the CPU vs the 4600/4500u, so there should be a modest increase in efficiency when you're doing lightly-threaded stuff.

Thanks for doing the review. Just got it off Walmart for $400. Last one apparently. I had a 4500u/4700u laptop before and it seemed like they were 720p laptops just like this one after watching your review. The 4500u/4700u ran both World of Warcraft/FFXIV at 720p really well.

@alexismendoza6661

2 жыл бұрын

Did you buy it online? I saw it on sale this morning but I just checked again and its 560 again

@QuintessenceON

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexismendoza6661 Yeah. I got mine directly from Walmart. Looks like third party sellers bought the rest of the stock (maybe Walmart is reselling them under a third party name) and raised the price. Hard to say but it's not 400 anymore.

@alexismendoza6661

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuintessenceON damn that sucks, I was planning on buying it later this week

@tryhard3244

2 жыл бұрын

How's your experience after 6month I was thinking to buy my dad this or is there a better one you'd recommend me to buy?

i didn't know that performance settings include in the bios😅, this is really helpful

Thanks for keeping it real on the current price

This looks sick

And as always, thanks for posting!

Keep it up one day your channel have lots of sub

And this one cost 700€ in Europe! How can the US have always such good prices?!

@donofriocarlo46

3 жыл бұрын

USA always has amazing prices in EVERYTHING. Example: Cheapest 65" TV in Italy is 650€ while in USA is 429$.

@pgee8702

3 жыл бұрын

Blame it on your government and the EU for placing all those"protectionist" taxes on all products not from the EU..

@Its_Soph_ie

3 жыл бұрын

@@pgee8702 to be fair, we now have hiked gpu prices in the states due to anti China tariffs,so it's not like we're free from "protection" taxes

@worldsendace

3 жыл бұрын

Price in the US is without taxes. And i payed for the same model with 12 GB RAM and 3500u 389 Euro inkl. Taxes in Germany Back in 2019 when the 3500u was new. Right now prices are up because of Corona. But they slowly come down again. also dont forget europeans get always 2 years mandatory warrenty on items . The US dosnt.

@zg3746

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldsendace 500€ for the 8gb model here in Greece. I need a new laptop but no way in hell I pay 500€ for a dated 3500u

Amazing what AMD has accomplished in a few short years. CPU's were so stagnant for so long and now we have a budget laptop with a low power cpu that is faster then the once mighty i7 7700K! This reminds me of the late 90's. You would buy a new computer and it would be overshadowed in less than 6 months. It's happening again. Bought my daughter a thin and light Ryzen APU laptop for christmas with 3600U for same price as this. 5 months later this comes along. Oh well. So glad AMD is back on top of their game!

@Tol1as

2 жыл бұрын

I ordered this model with a ryzen 7 5700U for 650€ (730$) a few days ago and there's quite a bit of sales tax in my country for electronics.

@ikillyou

2 жыл бұрын

It's astonishing

@richard35791

Жыл бұрын

i7 7700k only minor improvement over 4700k

This CPU is absolute beast. AMD has insane power with APUs. 6c 12T in this price... I'm satisfed with this CPU

@Prod-Fresh

6 ай бұрын

and yet you can get way better price to performance if you legit look around locally lmaoo

Excellent, informative review. Just ordered the same laptop but with 17.3" screen on Amazon for $479.

Am really digging the colour of this lap top.

People: We want a cheap laptop Lenovo: Yes

I would like to see a review of how this laptop handles audio production. Ableton or Fl Studio or any DAW would be cool

@kaojaicam

2 жыл бұрын

It's gonna handle it just fine I'm sure

@preachfab

2 жыл бұрын

Bet its gonna run daw amazingly. As long as the ram is sufficent, you will be fine. Because i used to have a 2010 notebook with 4 gigs of ram and intel hd processor and i still could run ableton 10 smoothly with vst n stuff

Great video but i suggest you talk about screen panel quality as well. we do value screen quality as well.

Thank for your review! I was looking for a laptop with these specs and went online and purchased for $449.00 at Walmart. Microcenter sells this laptop for $699.99. I got a great deal. 😃

Please can you test ryzen 3 5300u laptop. I am buying it for studying but I will do some casual emulation like Pokémon games .You should definitely try Nintendo switch emulation also.

I've been hearing that those CPUs without a dedicated graphics card are quite demanding of your RAM so upgrading the Rams should get substantially better benchmarks

@jesus5258

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe not because one of the ram sticks is soldered and upgrading will disable dual channel so it might end up slower unless he is playing a highly ram demanding game like call of duty.

@jesus5258

2 жыл бұрын

After researching more the dual channel actually only works for however much ram the smaller stick has. After that it is single channel so maybe the more demanding games do work a bit better since they have access to more ram

I seriously bought this laptop cause of this video and have been enjoying watching your integrated graphics PC videos. I had a 10+ year old gaming PC and it barely runs league of legends at 60fps on low. Can't wait to play some more modern stuff.

@notyouraverage1saiah660

3 жыл бұрын

What games u play

thank god! i'm so glad i found this, because my sister wants to give me this for xmas.

After owning this for a month or so I figured I'd comment since I doubt this will get a revisit. This has been a great laptop for some Pc gaming and pretty much all emulation for me. The weird problems he was having running skate3 have been fixed in later versions of rpcs3, and If I lock sake3 to vsync 30fps It's smooth and playable at a constant 30. All other emu has been great, ps3, psp (chains of olympus I played though the entire game 3x res) it's all been great. I put a 1tb m.2 drive and an 8gb stick for 12gb total. Also, I run a laptop cooler and boost the TDP to 40w.Play Forza Horizon 4 900p low, gtaV 900p low no problem. This thing has performed beyond my expectations and my only real complaint would be the TN panel. Should have been IPS. Otherwise, Lenovo hit a home run on this and if you can handle the TN display (doesn't bother me that much) the performance of this thing is great.

@selfdestructivef0rce

2 жыл бұрын

I just recently got this a issue I have with this laptop is my usb memory stick fits on the left side but wont fit on the right side. Also my micro sd cards wont fit on the left side is it a certain card that fits in there?

@djcaptkirk

2 жыл бұрын

is that an additional m.2? or did you have to clone the main drive and reinstall? thanks

@creepingmee

2 жыл бұрын

@@djcaptkirk It only has the 1 m.2 slot. I removed the original 256 and added a 1tb. Fresh install no clone.

@mparagames

2 жыл бұрын

@@creepingmee how does the 5700u version of this laptop compare to this??

Holy shit! This is shockingly decent. Way better than what I was expecting. We are getting very close to good budget laptop gaming here. Has anyone tested performance gains with expanded ram?

@daniellondono7927

2 жыл бұрын

Excelente 20 GB de ram

I bought one about a year ago, no regrets. I 3D model, do architectural drawings, use a secondary monitor often and it all runs smoothly. I did NOT know about the BIOS performance mode and will check that out next! The LCD screen leaves a lot to be desired however. Poor viewing angles, poor colour representation, very dim backlight not suitable for outdoor or brightly lit areas. Solid 9/10 for a business and light gaming machine for this price point.

I know it takes a lot of time to do this tests, but I'd appreciate it if you threw Rocket League into the mix. Since it's free now I believe more people would be interested to know about its performance in several devices too. Cheers and good work!

@AdilAli-dj8uo

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone tried this yet?

@felixklimm7225

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdilAli-dj8uo You get 60 fps + on 1080p quality. So it's basically like playing on old gen consoles

@AdilAli-dj8uo

2 жыл бұрын

@@felixklimm7225 Ye I've got one now Ryzen 7 5700u, I'm getting anywhere between 90fps and 150fps

@alioksuz4693

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdilAli-dj8uo Did you buy the same model with upgraded cpu? How is the battery life. Ive seen pople saying that a full charge only lasts about 2 hours. Is that true? What are your experiences?

@AdilAli-dj8uo

2 жыл бұрын

@@alioksuz4693 I got the Lenovo ideapad flex 5 Ryzen 7 5700 for £700. Overall it's great! Smooth and snappy. However the fans can randomly start to get slightly loud when having multiple tabs and programs open. Gaming also worked decently depending on the game but the fan can get very loud during gaming.

Can you make a pc inside of a wii? It would make a cool series after the gamecube!

@marcialpena2730

3 жыл бұрын

Put a 3090 in it. Thermals be dammed

@HowToRacist

3 жыл бұрын

An rtx 3090 is huge

@marcialpena2730

3 жыл бұрын

@@HowToRacist laws of physics be dammed

@HowToRacist

3 жыл бұрын

It would be really cool if he could fit a dvd drive in but...

@lukepayne7657

3 жыл бұрын

Wii is pretty small that would be tough

I recently bought HP 15s as a secondary PC. It surprises me that it can still be capable to do the same tasks as on my main desktop gaming/heavy video rendering machine even with a Radeon iGPU. What I also love with this HP laptop is it has 2 upgradeable RAM slots instead of 1 soldered RAM so I quickly installed another 8GB of RAM after purchase.

@arrjayarejae

2 жыл бұрын

same!! im loving my hp15s

@piyushkadam4296

Жыл бұрын

@@arrjayarejae how's the build quality and your experience till now?

Thanks for trying Street Fighter 5 !👍

I love you man for doing og skyrim

Which resolution are u using in cemu emulator?

@ETAPRIME

3 жыл бұрын

Stock 720

The gaming performance is excellent for the price .

@ans3825

2 жыл бұрын

Hell nah it lagging asf on Valo the FPS ping

@zsanettdulai5180

2 жыл бұрын

I had a 4gb ram laptop with a shit intel on it still played genshin, it was laggy af but it played so this is really good. You don't need it to play in the highest graphics.

@afdalridwan3813

2 жыл бұрын

@бог done i call that was either a fake or abyss level of painful life to dealt with such a soesification lmfao Must be reach -4fps....

Solid Review!

Nothing can beat this configuration and price, this is THE back to school laptop... now if we only were able to go back to school.

This is still Zen 2, still waiting for the R5 5600U that would be the Zen 3 R5 U series. But still a really great product. Its so incredible how much AMD raised the bar

@jkaustok

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's exactly why the pricing is so on point. A laptop like this before zen at this price point was unthinkable. I love how AMD has made Intel start playing their game at all price points for once.

@sinephase

3 жыл бұрын

interesting thing is that intel's mobile graphics are better than all the mobile radeon GPUs

@camryuser

3 жыл бұрын

@@sinephase AMD is still using GCN architecture for the Vega igpu. They are saving integrated RDNA2 for Ryzen 6000 and/or 7000.

@pedro4205

3 жыл бұрын

@sinephase AMD is keeping Vega for a lot of generations, they are making little improving but it's still an old architecture. In the mean time Intel has contracted a lot of Radeon engineering directors for the last 5 years and Intel Xe is the first product coming from that brain steal wave. I think AMD was overconfident and should have at least change for RDNA 1 in the 4XXX series. But i don't know how good RDNA scales in low core counts, Vega is really impressive for APUs in that matter.

@MarcABrown-tt1fp

3 жыл бұрын

@@camryuser They will still perform the same as Vega igpu's though without a solution to DDR4's low bandwidth.

How does dual channel memory work when 4gb are soldered and you have something like a 8gb or 16gb in the dimm slot?

@mattmichael2441

3 жыл бұрын

If you place say 16gb on the dim slot 4gbs of it will run in dual channel mode and the rest 12gb will run in single channel mode.

@Josh-cd4pt

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure I’ve seen that for these Ryzen laptops. I’ve heard of people doing that on desktop Ryzen, but every sample I’ve seen for laptops doesn’t play well with the Flex mode

@justassimple8328

3 жыл бұрын

That is still in dual channel but in asynchronous dual channel mode. So your lowest capacity of your ram will be followed and the rest will be in single channel. So once the lower Ram is full it has a performance penalty

@maugod6972

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattmichael2441 no, no dual channel at all

@maugod6972

3 жыл бұрын

It just isn't dual channel lol

Which tool do you use for monitoring GPU and CPU in-game? Thank you.

Damn bro, what a good video

For a 450 dollar laptop it's pretty good for gaming on medium settings 👍 you really can't complain

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but if you upgrade the RAM to more than 8GB combined, you won’t be able to run them in Dual Channel mode which should mean less gaming performance for Ryzen CPUs. I think the “Flex mode” where you can run the first 4+4 in Dual and the remaining 4 in Single doesn’t work on these laptops

@haunt97

3 жыл бұрын

yes, less a tiny bit of performance, but its still dual channel 8gb , the rest is single channel. and the ram share as vram is always in dual channel

I'm hoping this thing will hold up to dual monitors as that is how I roll every day although when I travel, I see this thing as being a perfect solution for just about everything until I get another monster desktop replacement laptop.

cool video, the version of this laptop that lenovo sells here in brazil has a sata conector for 2’5 hard drives or ssds

Calling it a gaming laptop might be a stretch, but for that price it's bloody amazing!

@brendankirk3917

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, the most demanding game I want to play is Minecraft, so close enough for me lol.

Finally a review that tests Genshin, all the other games ppl normally test I don’t even know about or play

@alexsalazar5161

2 жыл бұрын

Eww gensin is weird af.

@maublie4868

2 жыл бұрын

literally same,when I saw the thumbnail I clicked instantly 😄

@hijacked6663

2 жыл бұрын

Hey genshin impact fan wanna learn a fun fact

@edgelord6094

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexsalazar5161 lol you wish. of course it's ranked the highest because it's 'weird'

How does the same laptop, with a ryzen 5700u, compare to this? Does the extra cumputing unit improve the FPS in games a bit? does the two extra core allow you to game better while multitasking?

Would there be any significant gains with overclocking? Just wondering since temps seem pretty great at stock

@ChrisHarmon1

2 жыл бұрын

Was wondering myself. Gpu overclocks don't usually effect Temps that much on APUs and I believe there is probably 300+ mhz left on table.

Basically only CPU-5500U is evaluated through the whole video, and it gets well powered. I know there must be tradeoffs considering the price, like chassis, screen panel, keyboard, speakers, SSD speed and etc. That's fine, but it would be more helpful if you listed them out. A fingerprint reader integrated within the power button is above expectation though.

@9099Bruce

2 жыл бұрын

I bought this after the review and its mostly awesome. Did upgrade the ram to have dual channel. The NVME SSD is very fast 2389MB read and 1207MB write in Crystal mark. The only possible drawback would be the screen. I use a monitor attached so not a bid deal but it works for browsing and watching video, etc. Would not work for video editing (profesisonal) , image editing (pro) gaming beyond some simple Esports games. Very fast overall and capable Laptop.

@TheRedOwl

2 жыл бұрын

Wait it has a fingerpring reader integrated within the power button?!

@AhmedAkram903

2 жыл бұрын

@@9099Bruce so should I buy it? I do game and do not so professional video editing

@matuzaato

2 жыл бұрын

@@AhmedAkram903 the screen on the ideapad 3 is incredibly awful

@AhmedAkram903

2 жыл бұрын

@@matuzaato interesting. What about the HP 15z-ef2000? I'm currently looking at laptops to buy, I stumbled upon the HP 15z It has a 5700U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Idk about the screen and if it's good Thank you for the reply tho

The IO This is impressive for $450.

Great video

Hey, I have a question, and I hope you can help me 😅 Is it possible for you to do the cpu max set up for a Ryzen 3500U. I would really appreciate if you could make a video explaining that. 😩🙏🏿

I just got a thinkpad L14 with ryzen pro 3 4450u for $160 like new... I already had 2 sticks of ddr4 3200 32gb..... and 500gb nvme on hand to stick in it..

@kevinjahir18

3 жыл бұрын

Omg, such a nice deal :D

@GreySkullification

3 жыл бұрын

How significant was the performance boost with more RAM. I believe APUs benefit greatly from more available RAM.

@someonehere4380

3 жыл бұрын

eyy good catch my country's economic crisis is rlly bad and everything is so expensive so im still hunting for a laptop like in my country not in the us lol

@justassimple8328

3 жыл бұрын

@@GreySkullification Not actually since APU have maximum allocation of 2GB. But the speed of APU relies in RAM speed or memory bandwidth

@VanillaB3ar5

3 жыл бұрын

Where at Ebay?

Since you have 4gb in the motherboard, that means that if you want dual channel you can only have 8gb of ram?

@zydiz

3 жыл бұрын

@@rustyshakkleford which doesn't mean "dual channel" you just have a total memory of the soldered ram+slotted ram

@Dracossaint

3 жыл бұрын

Dual channel just means both slots are occupied allowing a larger address size per cycle of the ram clock. It dosnt have to be matching size for dual channel, its ideal, but not completely necessary. Check the specification tab to see how big of a stick it'll support. Some laptops even lock it to only accept ram with x model#'s, dells known for it. However the size limit should be a 8-16gb dimm, but the speed will be forced to whatever the soldered ram will run at, which id imagine is set out of the box and can be found in the bios screen. 8gb is usually whats typical for laptops. Some of them support 16gb dimms, but if thats not listed, check the oem page and see what is the largest ram size they'll let you add if you purchase it from them and just minus the soldered on ram

@chochanga

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dracossaint thanks! I thought they HAVE to be matching size in order to work as dual channel. Thanks! Bye!

@maugod6972

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dracossaint if they aren't the same capacity there isn't dual channel lol

@maugod6972

3 жыл бұрын

@@chochanga they do XD

Literally bought this laptop. Would you recommend buying a cooling pad if I'm planning on gaming extensive periods of time in performance mode?

When we start getting budget laptops like this with rx680m it will be glorious.

Lenovo is just killing it, so much value!

@Wingedmagician

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr it’s like they’re trying the be the Apple of laptops

@CDYTRCG

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wingedmagician accept this laptop is more powerful then most MacBooks before 2020 for like 1/3 of the price

Man, when AMD eventually releases Zen3 APUs with RDNA2 GFX(both desktop and laptop) we will have the ultimate emulation systems. :-D The GPUs will finally have the horsepower to match the Ryzen CPUs. And it should be at a decent price.

@jusia80

3 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of talk about any increase in APU graphics performance being linked to DDR5 introduction, so in a way that is the step we're waiting for. Without DDR5 the bandwidth to support better graphics performance is not there, which is likely why the current APUs still don't have RDNA2 in them

@chriswright8074

3 жыл бұрын

6800m is out

@SirReptitious

3 жыл бұрын

@@jusia80 Actually, when new DDR versions come out, they are around the same performance as the high end of the previous one, so there is very little gain. But once it's been out for a while, THAT is when the speeds start to go up and you realize it's actual potential. So what I am saying is that DDR5 is not required to have RDNA1 or 2 perform better than Vega. I am still on AM3+ with a FX-8350, so I am not yet on Ryzen. I would be perfectly satisfied with an 8 core- 16 thread Ryzen APU with RDNA using DDR3200-3600.

Que versión del driver de AMD usaste para las pruebas?? Y en el modo rendimiento que te da la BIOS, cómo se comporta el ventilador? No suena mucho o que tal viste ese modo activado?

Thanks for video. I'm about to buy the same laptop with upgraded APU. A Ryzen 7 5700U. 😊

thanks for trying genshin its really a good game at the moment. Update got the laptop tested it out works just as stated in the vid tried dirt 5 its works nice even without the messing with the bios but there was like 2 dips in fps but overall good experience. the laptop is feature rich its likely the best laptop for the price ( i seen so many horrible laptops while looking some trying to catch you with there marketing and vibrant color options but use an ancient rock of a CPU and others that are using 2 year old CPUs but selling for the same price if not more while offering less features and performance)

@augusto0187

2 жыл бұрын

I bought this laptop, but is the maximum ram really 20Gb? because I want to buy more ram but Lenovo tells me that the maximum ram supported is 12GB. Please help me.

@reze0001

2 жыл бұрын

Can u send me the link from amazon I'm looking everywhere and cant find it?

I would like to see something about the quality of the display also - without that this review is incomplete.

@Gnerma

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah if nothing else if it's a TN display it's ruined. I'm surprised he didn't mention that.

@slanted4me

2 жыл бұрын

I have this laptop, the display is mid almost high, its a very good display for price

I recently bought the 14" version Lenovo V14 G2 ALC, AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500U, 14", Full HD, 8GB, 512GB SSD. It has some differences, for example it has 8GB RAM soldered and comes with empty ram slot(instead of dual channel 4GB soldered and 4Gb in the slot), and also has a slot for an additional 2.5" drive(but you need to buy HDD/SSD connector flex cable ~$5).

@user-jm5sw1od2p

2 жыл бұрын

Did you notice some overheating while gaming ?

Can you add streaming to the tests i have peeps always asking me for budget items for basic streaming for console/ mobile streaming on Trovo

Nothing about the display? Is it an IPS ? How are the viewing angles ?

@someonehere4380

3 жыл бұрын

ikr ill go check the link for specs brb

@someonehere4380

3 жыл бұрын

it just says 15.6" FHD display

@sinephase

3 жыл бұрын

@@someonehere4380 Probably TN at that price and resolution

@camryuser

3 жыл бұрын

@@sinephase Your right it is a TN panel. Item code: 82KU003NUS Lenovo's site says 250nit; TN panel

There's an Asus Vivobook flip for a $500 on sale and $530 normal price

@_haru_na

3 жыл бұрын

my experience with the vivobooks has been shit, cpus are always pegged at the highest temps possible. (Though it may just be the country i live in being hot too)

@ashwin372

3 жыл бұрын

Worst don't buy

@MrDavidRicketts

3 жыл бұрын

What to buy then?

@MrDavidRicketts

3 жыл бұрын

@black-leg Sanji that's what I was wanting to get for my girlfriend

@MrDavidRicketts

3 жыл бұрын

@black-leg Sanji dang. Eh IDK I was kinda wanting to wait until they came out with Navi Apu. It'll be better overall

excelent review

THANK YOU! I just bought it.

@Wingedmagician

3 жыл бұрын

It’s good for the price. Screen isn’t great, it’s plastiky, shows a lot of finger prints. the version I bought which I’m guessing is the same I’m not checking has only 250 gigabytes storage which is a big mistake on my part. But for all it’s faults it does play my little indie games well, the keyboard is decent, I pretty happy with if you don’t count the memory. 👍

Thank you for including Genshin again 👍🏼

You need to start testing battery life

Which on screen benchmarks are used while gaming? msi after burner doesn't show tdp or does it ?

I got this a few months ago, it works great. I like using with dual monitors. Although I’m probably gonna have to buy an external hard drive. I only have 90 GB left. I think overall it’s a pretty good budget gaming laptop, especially the fact that it has an AMD processor.

@XoWill999

Жыл бұрын

Aye uhh I’m trying but this but I wanna know if this is good for streaming

@nathanlamaire

Жыл бұрын

​@@XoWill999 Nope. You'd need a capture card and another $100 second handed laptop or PC to help you stream. But honestly it's far from ideal unless you absolutely want to.

The Ryzen 5 5500U can support 2x32GB RAM sticks depending on the motherboard/notebook so maybe it's possible to get a total of 36GB of RAM to work on this. Too bad no Gen4 NVMe.

@ocha-time

Жыл бұрын

Slot taps out at 16GB so unless you can find a way to solder on another 16GB of RAM you're not even gonna break 20GB. This is a limitation of the interface, not the CPU

@vbvmaratha

Жыл бұрын

​@@ocha-time As per what i could find on internet, 20GB (4+16) is working fine. But I'm not sure about 36GB. Have you tried?

@vbvmaratha

Жыл бұрын

I checked crucial website and 16GB stick can be added as per them to go upto 20GB. Not sure about 32GB stick, if you tried then please share the results.

I envy people from the US. Their laptop prices are very cheap!

@tamjc9093

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, laptops in China are cheap too even with 16gb and 100%sRGB screen configuration(usually 5000~6000yuan)my country can only get 8gb with low color gamut screen. I'm so envy:'(

@myerwerl

3 жыл бұрын

@@tamjc9093 where are you from?

@tamjc9093

3 жыл бұрын

@@myerwerl Malaysia

Wow! This thing will kick my desktop to the curb! My next computer will be a gaming laptop like this.

That laptop looks quite neat! 7,000 on cinebench is great! I am on a desktop that scores 180pts at best.

I just want to know if it runs TF2 at 1080p at 60fps lol.

@Skerp129

3 жыл бұрын

If it can run dolphin, rpcs3, and CSGO then I'm sure it can run tf2

@nolifealan9746

2 жыл бұрын

it should be able to based on everything else it can run well

you HAVE TO retest all APUs that you have once FSR gets released. Try playing games at 360p upscaled to 1080p, let's see how worth it APUs will be due to FSR

@hoangd4132

3 жыл бұрын

don't give FSR such unrealistic expectation since the tech is just annouced. if it can upscale from 720p to 1080p without notable quality downgrade then it's already a huge success

@scale8125

3 жыл бұрын

Idk about 360p to 1080p, it can turn dirt to gold but it probably won't even be able to turn liquid shit to metal. FSR is expected to not be as good as DLSS 2.0 (at least at launch, fingers crossed for open source). In their press conference they showed mostly upscaling to 4k from "Almost 4k". We aren't sure how bad their lower end super sampling will be, but I can guarantee 360p will not work, or will look terrible. You're probably gonna see "almost 1080p" do the best. 720p on the low end, 900p in most scenarios.

@icerink239

3 жыл бұрын

@@hoangd4132 nahhh I just saw one of 2kliksphilipp's videos regarding dlss 2.0 and he did that. There were obvious artifacts but I'd happily accept that trade-off if it meant me being able to play high end titles during this gpu unavailability situation.

@hoanganhnguyen894

3 жыл бұрын

i dont think fsr will be good, at least for now. Mainly because it doesnt use computing core like dlss 2.0, and more like spatial upscale method used by dlss 1.0, which everyone already know how terrible the quality was back in the day. But i still hope that with AMD's support for the game dev and the tech being an open-source project, i think it will be a good thing for APUs and old gpu in the future.

Thats more than impressive. Pretty decent one, despite my bad previous experiences with lenovo..

Will laptops with soldered-in memory run in dual-channel mode though ? Hell , I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with a A6 CPU and it refuses to run in dual-channel mode even though the memory isn't soldered in !