LOL everytime Dawid does his transition to the sponsor segment, I always expect him to say " and the sponsor for todays video is LINODE"

@STORMFIRE07

Жыл бұрын

You mean “LinOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOde”

@TKIvanov

Жыл бұрын

LINODE! LINOOOODE! LUHNOOODE!

@jabezhane

Жыл бұрын

I keep meaning to sample that for my phone.

@hamdanali2036

Жыл бұрын

and every time he said linode i always think he’s gonna say lenovo

@TheSykoRC

Жыл бұрын

LINOOOOOOOODE. ;))

It's madness that dual channel is such an oversight when it's such a performance boost or performance reduction!

@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe

Жыл бұрын

Manufacturers will do anything to save a buck or two.

@jameswang7362

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's not single-channel vs dual-channel. It's the doubling of the memory. When he was playing without the upgrade the RAM usage was consistently near 8GB, the maximum. This causes large amounts of disk swapping which bottlenecks the CPU.

@Dominik12335

Жыл бұрын

@@jameswang7362 it is dual channel vs single channel cuz dual channel doubles your data rate -.- It's not always about the amount but about the speed of information exchange between cpu and memory, which gets crippled down nearly twice with single channel ram. Of course, exceeding RAM capacity is an problem too.

@xMaFiaKinGz

Жыл бұрын

DDR5 fixes this issue with laptops

@vmafarah9473

Жыл бұрын

My older Dell 7567 was a stuttering below 5fps in origins, after dual channel performance was increased by 20%, now the stuttering was completely gone.

From the time the laptop leaves the factory until it gets in your hands the video drivers are out of date so it's always good to update them. The last driver update from nvidia gave a huge boost in performance for games like CP2077.

@veganssuck2155

Жыл бұрын

dont shorten cyberpunk lol

@fireball4thewin108

4 ай бұрын

​@@veganssuck2155 yeah...

@5:47 "Break the laptop back together" Ohhhhh I'm stealing that phrasing. It's absolutely perfect, and I love it

The GPU seems to just sit at 70 to 71 degrees even after the ram upgrade so i'm thinking they might have applied a thermal limit rather than it being a CPU bottleneck at that point.

@OnTheRocks71

Жыл бұрын

No mention of what power profile was set in Armoury Crate. I think it defaults to Performance which won't let the GPU reach its maximum potential, gotta go to Turbo mode for that. That makes the laptop even louder though in terms of fan noise. On my 3060 machine I find the Performance setting to be just enough to get me by, and it's better than having the fans running at "jet turbine on takeoff" speed.

@ronank2432

Жыл бұрын

@@OnTheRocks71 i dont get the fan noise thing on portable pc just get a good headphones

@Klosop

Жыл бұрын

@@ronank2432 no

@googlewolly

Жыл бұрын

@@ronank2432 Do you mean that you literally don't hear it with headphones, or do you mean that you don't understand how it's an issue for some people?

@kizl666

Жыл бұрын

@Ronan K agreed never cared if my fans are loud even on my tower. Lmao

Bought my TUF A15 from Canada Computers almost 2 years ago. It was my first proper "gaming" device and I experienced above 30fps gaming for the first time. One of the fans is dead so I ghetto-rigged a desk fan to blow into the heatsink but I'm getting it replaced this Christmas. Love the channel btw.

@scarecrow5848

Жыл бұрын

I'd just say build your own PC. you can get make really good desktops in this day and age, even with a budget of sub-$500 USD!

@spcw568

Жыл бұрын

true, but 500 dollars usd can get u much more than 500 cad. You could probably get a igpu, or a r3/12100, and a used gpu of some sort.

@trr4gfreddrtgf

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap, what a coincidence, the fan on my Asus Tuf F15 broke after a few months, how long did yours last?

@ansonjia5146

Жыл бұрын

@@trr4gfreddrtgf After 1 year I noticed on startup that my fan had a bad vibration but went away shortly after. 1/2 a year after that, the vibration became constant and then it died a few weeks later. So it lasted around 1.5 years.

@ronank2432

Жыл бұрын

@@scarecrow5848 y tho it aint broke

Love the fact I just got the same laptop about a month ago in a 16g ram and a RYZEN 4600H. First time owning a laptop and it works good enough for me lol

Congrats on the 500k subs! Love your take on tech and the funny spin you put on it.

@internet_userr

9 ай бұрын

His channel is growing slowly I mean 100k in 8 months Mr beast makes about 3 times as much in a day

@alderwield9636

6 ай бұрын

​@@internet_userri bet you compare everything in your puny life to mrbeast

@Avgosbos

5 ай бұрын

@@internet_userr imagine comparing to mrbeast bruh

In addition to the comedy, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the sound mixing and high resolution of your vids.

For its price, it really is a decent laptop. Thanks for sharing these affordable options!

@antondovydaitis2261

Жыл бұрын

I would hold out for a 3060 and 16GB RAM for the same price. Bought a Gigabyte G5 GD with 3060 and 16GB in July from Best Buy for $699.99.

@THEGRANDTOUR-kt3jh

Жыл бұрын

@@antondovydaitis2261 gigabyte build quality sucks tho and they have warranty issue i got the legion 5 brand new has been awesome so far

@antondovydaitis2261

Жыл бұрын

@@THEGRANDTOUR-kt3jh Obviously, if I could afford a Legion, that would be much better, but I feel I got my $700's worth.

@jesusbarrera6916

Жыл бұрын

it's actually terrible value for the price... heck a year ago you could get a similar setup for the same price with a RYZEN 5 5600H

@mdhafigurrahaman3441

Жыл бұрын

@@jesusbarrera6916 ikr I got my laptop last year for £700 (now it's £630) and it came with dual channel 8gh ram and a Ryzen 5 5600h. I hate how some manufacturers will use a very weak CPU in their budget laptops and say it's 'good value" when there are many others with a much more powerful CPU

I got an Acer Swift X for 780 new and I really enjoy how powerful it is while not looking like a gaming laptop. The battery life is great too.

@anthonynoelson827

Жыл бұрын

Did you get it from that amazon discount atm? How is it doing so far? The build quality? Performance? Any problems you occured?

@zhon5311

Жыл бұрын

@Anthony Noelson yes, got it for the Amazon price. It's a great laptop at that price point. The biggest pros are the specs (5800u 3050ti) it jams into a weight you can hold in 1 hand. It has half the power as my main PC and can play mostly all games at medium to high settings. With the 60hz display, anything over 60 is overkill on the main display so most games come out smooth as butter. The performance of the Acer Swift X is actually insane for the size and price you get. 14 inch ultrabook gaming. Another huge plus is the amazing IPS screen it ships with. Has amazing color accuracy because the laptop is marketed towards creative professionals. My biggest gripe would be the speakers and keyboard. Speakers were cheaped out and are bottom facing, making them muffled on a bed or table top. Keyboard has really strange placement for the power button, sleep button, and pgup pgdown buttons where you'll end up accidently pressing one all the time. No big deal to me I can get used to it. Another gripe would be the color scheme. Silver and Gold gets dirty easily. Bottom line it's an awesome laptop if you need a thin and light laptop that has power to do productivity or gaming. It works perfectly as a college laptop.

@anthonynoelson827

Жыл бұрын

@@zhon5311 okay cool. Thanks for your review! Very helpful

Well you make that sound better then you truly meant. "Screwing for three hours to get your laptop open."

Man I really wished dual channel was the standard for laptops, yes you can just upgrade it yourself, but not everyone does that (mostly because they're probably just scared to open their laptop).

@atrociouscow

Жыл бұрын

What you said is true I’ve been saving for some upgrades but my dad is so old fashioned that he refuses to buy the upgrades

@kael2965

Жыл бұрын

But upgradeable cpu would be nice.

@AC-rx6fr

Жыл бұрын

​​@@kael2965eah, upgradable cpu would be very nice and upgradable gpu. Luckly framework is trying to make something like that

@KuntalGhosh

10 ай бұрын

​@@kael2965upgradable cpu was there back in the 3rd gen days. From 4th & 5th gen it all went bga because everyone wanted to slim the laptops down. And a socket adds few millimetres of height.

I’m happy to see your channel grow so big! I remember a couple years ago when I built my first pc I messaged you on Twitter and you helped me and responded to all my questions man. Happy holidays Dawid

@raylopez99

Жыл бұрын

And now? Dawid won't give you the time of day! Way to go! Just kiddin'.

I don't always watch on release but this is the best chilled out tech channel thats informative without being overly technical

I am honestly impressed how well this thing runs games after the RAM upgrade. 60 fps in Cyberpunk with a 1650 and a 4-8t CPU is surprising. Also, regarding the memory speeds, you may need to look for XMP profile settings in the BIOS. I have an MSI GF65 (3060 with 10500H) and I had the same issue and to enable XMP after adding the very same RAM you used in this video. As always, I love your humor. Keep up the good work!

@evillohuntcasualplayer7974

Жыл бұрын

it the bios is like the older one I have it's kind of useless to even go in there since there are no usefull setting inside :\

@PatientXero607

Жыл бұрын

There are no XMP settings in the BIOS on these laptops. They were built to run at JEDEC standards, and 10th Gen was 2666 MHz at the time.

@Hito_kun

Жыл бұрын

@@PatientXero607 really? I thought this only happened with the AMD Laptops. Really sucks if you can't set XMP even when you have an Intel CPU

@hailgod1

Жыл бұрын

@@PatientXero607 no. their ram was jedec 2933. u just need to buy the right one.

@atiebiss

Жыл бұрын

@@hailgod1 I have 8gb single channel 2933 standard. And planning to upgrade it to dual channel. So what RAM brand is the right one?

Yeah, with the TUF series in general, the ram seems to be a limiting factor by default. Had to reuse my 16GB ram into the 2nd channel for 24GB total on my A17 and it made a huge difference though planning on replacing the 8GB one with another 16GB one at some point

It's worth mentioning that disabling core isolation on windows 11 pre installed on these laptop significantly improves the performance as well, great video Dawid!

@arandomcommenter412

Жыл бұрын

I don’t quite understand what you’re saying

@KYRUXI

Жыл бұрын

@@arandomcommenter412 there's a setting called core isolation that slows down your computer by ALOT you should disable it

@AC-rx6fr

Жыл бұрын

​@@KYRUXIi have no idea how it works, but wouldnt it have an effect on laptop's temperatures?

@KYRUXI

Жыл бұрын

@@AC-rx6fr i mean yeah and the RAM i think

I have exactly the same laptop 1.5 year now but with 16 gigs of RAM pre installed. And it's funny how cooling solution is made. Mine opens with one hand just fine and it takes a little bit of air from keyboard and prevent it to get hot. And it's kind of laptop that better to use just on table without "helping" it with cooling pads

I saw somewhat similar gains from adding a second stick of RAM to my Odyssey (i5-9300H + GTX 1650). It's a little beast now.

There's something called a turbo mode. You can use that by pressing the fan button on the laptop. (idk if it's still present or not, ROG strix budget ones have those...) and that turbo mode literally overclocks and maintains it at 4-4.3 GHz idle and reaches 4.4Ghz max at games and stuff and I'm pretty sure it makes a difference in games...

I have a previus version of this laptop with a 9300h cpu and for gaming I always need to remember to swich the profile in armory crate to unlock the cpu tpd and clock, I also had to add the 2nd stick of ram and replace all the termalpaste to improve the performance since for some reason the stock one appreared to be dried up from the start

@ARCx9

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I don't know why they use that cheap Aliexpress thermal paste stuff. Does it actually cost that much more to use decent stuff? That's so hostile towards the consumer, and they save what? Half a cent, cent? Remove a couple of hexagons from the box and they are even.

@evillohuntcasualplayer7974

Жыл бұрын

@@ARCx9 I evem replaced that weid glue that tey used on the vrm with folded termalpads they seem to work better^^

Good that they still have the dual M.2 & single 2.5" bay configuration, something a lot of budget laptops don't have and it enables you to chuck an older SSD in the 2.5" bay which would otherwise be useless. I have an older TUF with a Ryzen 4600H & 1660ti which has been great, upgraded to 16gb and 4tb of SSD storage.

great review! It gives a reasonable option for gamers on a budget, specially upgrading the RAM. I couldn't stop watching what I think was a Bambino watch on your wrist. Good taste for watches!!!

i really enjoy your stuff dawid, keeo it up!

@nil0ww598

Жыл бұрын

Keeo 🗿

@TKIvanov

Жыл бұрын

KappaPride

I've got the same laptop as you and after changing to the same kit of 16 gb i was blown how much an improvement made and i love it. The noise it makes is a bit too much but on silent its very very SILENT. Best mid range laptop.

@Accorinrin

Жыл бұрын

I have the same laptop. How did you add more ram, is it easy to do so?

@juanpablovilla3937

Жыл бұрын

@@Accorinrin Its really easy to add more ram, just look a video in youtube, follow it and you're good

@Accorinrin

Жыл бұрын

@@juanpablovilla3937 thanks, pal

@bbpoItergeist

Жыл бұрын

@@Accorinrin would u recommend this laptop? I want something to play LOL

@Accorinrin

Жыл бұрын

@@bbpoItergeist I really would recommend it if you're on a tight budget. It will run league perfectly. I added extra ram to it and it's much faster

Very exciting to see a review on the newest version of my very first gaming computer. The nostalgic factor is through the roof!

The Asus TUF Gaming FX505D was my first real gaming PC/Laptop. I used to be a console player until my friend recommended I step up to a PC. I bought this and it was slightly better than console gaming, but clearly was limited in a lot of ways. I later upgraded to building a PC myself, but I still use that laptop sometimes.

I actually picked this up in 2020 for I think $500, it was the exact same specs just with a 60 hz refresh rate. Served me pretty well but I got a new one for university cause it was so damn heavy and I also needed something more powerful to run programs for classes. I liked it at the end of the day tho, it was cool to see a bit of a retrospective on it!

@jahyeet1137

Жыл бұрын

Do you happen to still have it?

@prod.7aco194

Жыл бұрын

@@jahyeet1137 yes, why?

@Wind0wsMediaPlayer

Жыл бұрын

are you a CS major by any chance? which laptop did you buy for uni?

@loganricherson3749

Жыл бұрын

​@Windows Media Player honestly, you don't need an extremely powerful laptop as a CS major. Most programs that you would write for a class can be done on a potato and there are usually computer labs when more powerful computers are required. I'm graduating in 2024 and I've been able to do all of my programs assignments on my crappy duel core laptop from 10 years ago. I recently bought a lenovo ideapad gaming 3 used for $600 because I'm studying abroud next semester and can't bring my desktop. Obviously, having a better laptop makes things more efficient and quick but it's not necessary to get a gaming laptop for CS. Now, for stuff like game development, you will need a more powerful system, if you're uni doesn't have a lab for it, but that's a compleatly different subject

@Wind0wsMediaPlayer

Жыл бұрын

@@loganricherson3749 i see! i’ll be moving to canada this fall to study computer science as an international student. guess i’ll bring my potato dual core there and see if i can get by using it. otherwise i’ll maybe wait for some good warehouse deal on some samsung 2-in-1 laptop with an i7 and 16 GB RAM, they seem quite appealing to me and can be bought for around 950 CAD

Was waiting for this since saw the story!! 💙🔥

I have to say I have grown to love your videos. They always make me laugh especially on long drives stay awesome my friend keep up the amazing content.!!

Something about your videos brings me joy. Keep up the great videos!

I own this laptop in the 16gb variant and it's actually quite decent tbh.

@HA05GER

Жыл бұрын

ive got the rtx2050 version and i put the 8gb extra in it for dual channel. runs really well. i cant fault it.

@Yap_beatz

11 ай бұрын

Hey bro

The sound the laptop made being closed really got me 😅

I actually bought this laptop when it was fairly new back in August 2021. I’ve upgraded the RAM and storage and after one and half year of constant usage (playing games like PUBG, Hunt: Showdown, Tom Clancy’s R6S, Far Cry 5, COD Modern Warfare Remastered, COD WWII etc, all on a mixture of Very High and Low graphical settings) it’s still holding up really well. It’s actually impressive for the price point at which it is sold. Would definitely recommend.

Picked up a Ryzen 4800H w/ 1660-Ti combo Tuf Laptop during covid for a grand. Gotta say, very impressed and handles 10-80p gaming like a champ.

I'd always test these machines with a factory build and then do a clean fresh driver build. Any laptop I buy I rebuild straight away.

The desing is very cool. The ports are also very good, the screen being 144hrz and the m.2 + ram upgradeabilaty ports are a nice adition. The bloat-ware situation is not bad at all witch is always a plus. The cyberpunk proformance was a suprise for the better. I think you to have a stick of ram bundled in to the cost of the laptop with that you have a very capable system and a great upgradeable laptop. :)

I usually skip the sponsor parts but that's a pretty slick looking AIO cold block topper.

I just got my first gaming laptop this month because I work in a shop where we pretty much sell everything from phones, laptops, desktops etc and I found the best deal ever. A 600€ brand new Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ACH6 with RTX 3050Ti, Ryzen 7 5800H, 2x8gb ram 3200mhz, 512gb nvme ssd and a 165Hz IPS 1080p display. That's crazy good I think for the money. I watched your rtx 3050 review with Ray Tracing testing and decided it was doing a fine job for the price. The Ti seems to be around 10% faster tho so my games run awesome. The 4gb of vram will make this gpu obsolete faster and that's a bummer. Thank you for your videos!

I love that it's been two years and my $650 Omen15 with 4800h/1660ti is still an insane deal!

@TheHonestTruth

Жыл бұрын

Literally what I got. Price and all lol

CAN I HAVE IT

@pixell3607

Ай бұрын

real boris comment with 9 likes, thats a first

@thephantom1885

5 күн бұрын

no

@Aryx_Playz

4 күн бұрын

it's boris

I bought a laptop with a 10500H and an RTX 3060 last year because it was the same price as a desktop 3060 during The Scalpocalypse. It also came with a single 8Gb stick and putting a 2x16Gb setup into it made a similar difference.

@LiLBitsDK

Жыл бұрын

the laptop 3060 is really just a glorified 3050 though but it works fine

My second machine is an Asus TUF A17 I bought recently, and I’m rather happy with it. I got the latest model at the time; R7 6800H, RTX 3070 Ti, and 16GB DDR5@4800mhz. I run Linux on it and am impressed. I use my R5 3600XT/RTX 3070 rig at home, and my laptop when I visit my mom or whatever. Linux on both, no issues, besides having to write a script for the Optimus GPU swapping in Linux on the laptop.

FidelityFX really lengthened the lifespan of a lot of older GPUs- the fact it's hardware agnostic was such a consumer-oriented move.

I have this laptops previous cousin. Mine has a 9th gen Intel i7 and a 1650. Slightly different LCD lid cover. But the same overall chassis design. I've had to upgrade the RAM on it to 16 gigs but it's been a fairly okay laptop for what I got. Would love to have something way more powerful but I was on a budget and had to make a decision on which way to go.

@TKIvanov

Жыл бұрын

"previous cousin"?? 🤣

@barryj0413

Жыл бұрын

They have been putting the 1650 in since like 7th gen Intel. It's disappointing they are still using it in new laptops.

@TKIvanov

Жыл бұрын

@@barryj0413 7th gen with a 1650?? I want examples

@nightwheel

Жыл бұрын

@@barryj0413 Well it was this or one with a Ryzen paired with a 1660. A quick check online showed the Ryzen on offer actually bottlenecked the 1660. So I went with the one with the i7 and 1650. Mine also has a 120hz screen while the Ryzen one was 60hz.

I personally use a dell gaming laptop from 2017 as my main machine. It also came with a single stick of 8gb ram. I just changed it to 2 sticks to make it 16gb and I can confirm it made games perform like it was new again honestly. Major difference. RIP this machine, the screen is dead so now it's closed and under my desk plugged into a monitor + mouse + keyboard. All that extra money for portability and it's a desktop now. At least the battery was removable so I just scrapped that entirely.

Back in august I was gonna buy this because it had rgb but then I saw an hp pavilion for the same price with higher refresh rate less storage but an r5 5600h and I’m so happy I did when you compare the performance

I bought this for approx. £650 last Christmas in the sales, as I needed a new laptop capable of playing at least some games. It is generally a great starter laptop, but I agree with Dawid it gets very noisy very quickly!

@raycool488

Жыл бұрын

I can agree because I myself have the exact same model shown. You can solve the fan noise issue by going into ARMOURY CRATE in your laptop and select silent mode. Or, you can press and hold on the FN key and click F5 and you can see either silent, performance, or turbo mode. (turbo mode will show if plugged in to AC).

As other commenters have said, you need to get JEDEC standard ram that runs at 3200mhz or whatever the max that older chipset will support is. XMP isn't an option in just about any new laptop. In my Acer Predator 300 I had to research this like crazy, and chose the Kingston Fury 32GB kit. Runs at 3200mhz with no XMP control, just right out of the box. Would probably unlock at least a little more performance if you went with a higher MHz JEDEC standard RAM kit.

"you can still upgrade it! after ruining the laptop's innocence, but you still can!" that is exactly how breaking the plastic feels!!!

I have the a15 with a ryzen 7 6800h and a 3050ti upgraded 16gb ram. Really happy with the performance of it, no issues with rb6 on ultra and warzone on high settings

I was about to buy this exact laptop but I found another laptop which is an HP Victus which is just $100 CAD more than the Asus TUF and it is worth it. Does have a ton of simularities but feels like a huge difference when you are using it. If you have the budget to buy it for $799 I recommend buying that. P.S. I bought it for sale

QUICK NOTE from an IT tech: You normally start opening the laptop starting at the hinges and towards the front... although some manufacturers simply can't be bothered with conventions or even planning a good way to open their products (especially cheap consumer products like this one).

@TocyBlox

Жыл бұрын

IT Tech here too. I disagree. This laptop uses the same design as their more expensive tuf laptops (upwards of 1,100). This laptop actually came with a “lifting screw” on the front right corner where it stays in place and lifts the bottom cover up from the case. This implies they want you to open from the front. Also the cover toward the back part of this laptop covers the vents. It’s almost impossible to open it from the back. I’ll say it’s designed good but executed badly. The clips are too tight. I’ll rather open this than laptops 5-10 years ago. Where everything is UNDER the keyboard. On Dells and Lenovos that I normally work on, you can open however you wish lol. The clips are carbon fiber and very lose.

There is also that 2.5 inch bay too so you can add both an extra M.2 Drive AND a 2.5 inch HDD for mass storage or a SATA SSD.

I got the F17 version on amazon for 700 dollars. Its been a trooper. It still functions even after accidentally getting dropped so often that the plastic got all scuffed up. Not a bad option for college students at all. Since you can buy it for school, then upgrade it with better ram for gaming once you scrape enough money together. Not a bad system at all. The 3050 ti won't win any game awards. But it's fine for basic gaming, blender, and adobe stuff.

dawid i was thinking of your videos and i went to see if you had anything new posted this video was posted 58 seconds ago coincidence?

As proven by Hardware Unboxed, the cooling on that model can be significantly improved with some precise-yet-violent Dremeling, which is not exactly glowing praise towards Asus's product design department.

@sixtyinsix

Жыл бұрын

I remember that episode. Quality hackery.

@TKIvanov

Жыл бұрын

Yo! I've missed that one... Imma check it out 🤣

@jabezhane

Жыл бұрын

I had a Dell in recently that the customer thought needed a new fan. It was really loud, fan going like the clappers, temps off the charts. Looked at the bottom, big intake vent area...what's the issue? Took the bottom plate off...the whole intake area the fan sucks up from was covered with a thick black plastic sticker. The kind of stuff you get wrapped round a laptop HDD. 5 minutes with a scalpel cutting out the slots and the laptop was purring. I do wonder if these companies really know what they are doing sometimes.

I bought the version that has an RTX 3050 and a 512 ssd for 580USD on cyber Monday and ordered another 500GB m.2 and Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB kits(these things also bought on cyber Monday deals) and it’s pretty solid now. I use it to game at home with my game on another monitor and the Armoury Crate app on the laptop monitor showing all my stats.

I grabbed a Lenovo Legion almost 2 years ago, $800 for a i7 10something and a 1660ti. It had 8gb ram as well. Immediately added another 8gb stick and an m.2 and it went from OK to awesome (for a laptop)

I'm suprised, that the CPU is that "bad" . I've expected the GTX 1650 would be the problem in this case :D I have the same laptop, only with i5-11400h and RTX 3060.

@karan3952

Жыл бұрын

Lol I was also shocked 🤣

@ARCx9

Жыл бұрын

Well, not that surprising. That CPU is 4 cores and 8 threads, somewhere in the ball park of an i7-3770.

@jesusbarrera6916

Жыл бұрын

there should be a thermal limit... no modern 4 core CPU can really bottleneck a 1650 laptop

@karan3952

Жыл бұрын

@@jesusbarrera6916 I did some search online and the I5 10300H is a perfect CPU for 1650 I think it would be a driver issue sir something

It says no views somewhy

Wow! Crazy leap in game perf with dual channel, incredible!

I bought one of these (I'm typing to you on it right now on the shite keyboard, which isn't terrible to my mechanical keyboard inclined fingers). Mine has a Ryzen 5 4600H and the GTX 1660 Ti. Mine was used, and has upgraded RAM (the original 8GB, and a 16GB added for 24GB) and 1.5TB of SSDs, and I got this for the same price as yours. It does great on Fortnite (locked at 120), and Forza 5 (around 60 with mostly high settings). The GPU does get a little warm, sometimes hovering around 90. But I love it, since it replaced the much heavier Dell 15 7000 Gaming with an i5 and 1050.

Some time ago, I wanted to buy this laptop(not the same specs). I thought it was a very good deal, but all of the reviews I saw said that this laptop runs very hot, and that the CPU and the GPU are thermal thorttling(correct me if I said it wrong). I am very surprised that this laptop isn't thermal thorttling

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

It is not thermal throttling because neither GPU or CPU are running at full speed 😆All the bloatware taking up RAM serves as sort of passive cooler 😆

Well well well, if it isn’t that same tuf A15 that created controversy for having little to no air intakes for the fans, thus resulting in high temps and reduced performance (Hardware Unboxed has a video on it, two in fact, one named “Don’t buy the asus tuf a15 2020 model” and another “asus claims we are wrong about tuf a15”)

@-Gadget-

Жыл бұрын

And undoubtedly, both sucked 🤔 And this after their "denying" there was anything wrong, with the first iteration or the follow up 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

This is awesome, finally on to a look at a TUF. Bit pricey considering you can get that for 550USD. Does best buy have price matching? Hmm.. I've been recommending the one with the 4800H/3050 16G mem/512G nvme for $740. But the model with the 4600H (similar to the one your looking at .. same 700CAD price tag, is pretty ok to..) I'd recommend having them install that additional 8G of memory. MemX does it for the cost of the stick which is nice. Not sure on BB.

Great video. Thank-you

Which fossil did you pick?

I got a variety of this laptop a couple years ago called the asus tuf f17. It’s pretty much the same but it has a 17 inch monitor instead of a 15 inch monitor. It also has an Intel cpu. I definitely would recommend this laptop, it works well for what it is.

@thetalesofdaneandco

Жыл бұрын

I have this laptop. Is it the 3050Ti 11400H version?

@randomizedcontent9461

Жыл бұрын

@@thetalesofdaneandco nah I have the 1650 ti version

I really love ur content, u're the best tech content creator

Hey, it's my old gaming laptop. The issue with fps in games and them crashing is... the wireless card, upgrade it to a pcie+usb one and you're good (eg. intel ax210). For some reason the pcie+pcie stock card doesn't work too good and you lose a bunch of performance.

i remember my friend has this exact laptop except 1660, it has frequent issues regarding it's fans, that brush the insides when it comes loose and make a scraping noise. obviously started after the warranty finished, and sends it back to get fixed, after which it comes back in 6 months, this thing is the reason i decided to stay away from Asus and went with an Alienware X15 instead. The build quality also reminds me of Old HP Pavilions, though i guess for how cheap it is, you can't really fault it that much on that,other then the fact that you are still wayy better of with a legion device.

David

I really hope to see WZ2 in your future testing!

I've got a one of TUF's laptops and despite being about twice the price it's got the same bottom plastic half on it. Given I don't use it all the time it's barely even noticeable. The screws on the back are also my biggest gripe with it. I wanted to install another NVME and it's a huge pain in the ass to get the back off.

Good day everyone ❤️

Yo

I have the 3050 version because I was tired of hauling my G7 back and forth from the school I work at. I paid 600USD. With 8gb single channel it was craptastic, but upgrading the ram and adding a 1tb ssd was a $100 upgrade and works just great for my needs. And yes, I do use the numpad.

I got the bigger brother of this with the 11400H and a 3050ti. Same shell. They're really not bad for an on the go gaming laptop.

When i came here it shows no views nice69

Buy the cheapest laptop on ebay

I owned this laptop for some time and its quite good and love the build quality and upgradability of it. My only gripe with the computer is that when you have the computer on idle, the fans go to warp speed and you typically have to put the computer to sleep or shut off, so that you don't hear this blow dryer sound in the corner of your room. But overall, I loved it and only had to get rid of it, because I needed a 4k screen for some projects over the 144hz refresh rate 1080p monitor, which was still nice to have.

@__-mv2tk

10 ай бұрын

Where did you buy it because im trying to buy one and don’t know where to

That performance improvement after the RAM upgrade was wild, It never ceases to amaze me how much companies kneecap their products to save a few pennies. I suspect that the ram they used must have had something more going against it then just the single channel. I wish you would have tested it in at least one game with just 1 stick of the good ram to see if there was something else going on there. Still a very interesting video, great work Dawid giving people a really good example of a case where a relatively simple upgrade to a laptop really matters.

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

This is mostly lack of RAM, not single channel problem. Difference between 2x8 GB and 1x16 GB is few percent.

@AchiragChiragg

10 ай бұрын

​@@aleksazunjic9672surely GTA 5 didn't need more than 8GB of RAM to run at 60+ fps

@aleksazunjic9672

10 ай бұрын

@@AchiragChiragg Depends on OS. Modern versions of Win 10 and 11 eat up 4GB RAM like cookies 😄 Thus you are left with barely 4 for all other stuff. 8 GB RAM was enough for GTA 5 on Win 7, but on Win 10 ...

@AchiragChiragg

10 ай бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 I can run GTA 5 with 8GB of dual channel DDR4 RAM on my laptop running Windows 10.

Yoo

I appreciate the radiation warning on the back. I must say that it makes me hesitate using it as a true laptop on my sensitive body bits. You'd think the hexagons would block those rads.

Hey there.. if you want to get this to run at maximum MT/s on the ram.. make sure to get ram that runs its max speed at 1.2v. So many people buy laptop ram that needs XMP and 1.35v to see max speed and then blame the laptop for not being able to run it. I generally use teamgroup as it's pretty affordable and has a lot of options for 3200 ram that runs natively at 1.2v. I have the 17" version of this with the i5 IIth gen and teh 3050ti and it runs great with the right ram in it. Hope that helps. Rick

Well m using the same laptop just the different variant (Ryzen 7 3050) , yes I agree the plastic feels really cheap but honestly i have no regrets as it was the best deal in my budget. Love your content man. And btw the my asus thing is more like all in one app for the device where u can do anything from claiming warranty and registering product to setting the charge limit of battery to 60 or 80 to extend battery life.

I bought the one with the Ryzen 5 4600H variant for around $700 at the beginning of 2021, and it was my first gaming laptop purchase. Aside from the awful battery life, and lack of memory out of the box.. it ran pretty decent. Logged roughly about 50 hours of Tarkov on it with no issues. I use it mostly when i travel, but it runs like a champ.

@Melodie_Info3

Жыл бұрын

is not awful is just games eat more power. Laptop is trying to keep the batttery from dying to quick but its because games is more powerful then working online.

I bought an Asus TUF A15 2 years ago but with a Ryzen 5 4600 in it, upgraded the ram before the first boot to 16gb, they ran standard on DDR4-3200.

Bought thé 17 inch one here, with a 3050 GPU and an I5, I upgraded to 32 GB of ram and it s a wonderful cheap gaming solution, I m very glad and took a 32 inch monitor from Asus too to put in my desk, very good combo

The reason it is struggling with 1 stick of ram isn't speed, it's the amount. CPU has to compress the memory, put it in pagefile, and have to cover the work of pushing things elsewhere so the RAM won't be fully utilized and might get a system crash. Even a single 16GB stick will help. But dual-channel is always better.

I remember shopping for a laptop for a friend and I found a decent listing for a brand new laptop with a high refresh rate 1080p panel, a ryzen 7 4800h, 1660ti mobile and dual channel ram at a similar price (620 cad after taxes). No regrets!

Like many other comments already said : The 16 Gb variant of this laptop is really decent. And the keyboard thingy is a real "you" problem. I feel like it's one of the better typing experiences on a laptop. And build quality is really good for the price point.

@Cl1cke0n

Жыл бұрын

I could see people perhaps just doing what I did in college with my gaming laptop and closing the lid and using it more like a desktop by hooking up a external display and then using a better mechanical keyboard. Realistically you’re not gonna be gaming far from a wall plug for long so you may as well use a bigger monitor if you have the room.

i ordered this laptop a few days ago as of today still waiting for it to come in and when i saw the performance boost from dual channel i quickly went to amazon and bought dual channel ram haha

I have this exact laptop. I replaced the m.2 256gb with a 1 tb m.2, populated the second slot with a 1 tb m.2 and then installed a 2tb sata SSD, which is something dawid overlooked. That's 4tb of storage. I am running 16 GB of RAM also. It's not a bad machine but it will easily thermal throttle.

@thealien_ali3382

Жыл бұрын

Would u do David raw?

@ScavengerFX

Жыл бұрын

@@thealien_ali3382 he's not my type.

for an iGPU on an i3 this is seriously impressive. i wished this was the case when i was playing hot wheels online like 20 years ago lol. 2fps racing battles ftw!

I used to have the same laptop but the ryzen version with r5 4600h and GTX 1650. I used to get cpu temps of 95 degrees frequently and GPU temps of around 80 degrees. Seems like ambient temperature is a real deal 😂

Great video! Usually the cheapest gaming laptop at best buy is the HP Victus. Not a bad laptop for what you pay

I have the i5 9300H version of this laptop, same gpu. In my case, using the same RAM, the speed was a limitation of the CPU and cannot be modified in BIOS. If that model has 3200 originally, then the RAM modules need to have the same timings as the original in order to get the advertised speed. As for cooling, it has the same heatsink as mine. I modified it by getting an additional heatsink, separating the copper tubing from the plates and fins and gluing it on top of the already installed heatsink. Also used Kryonaut. Temps are a lot better and allow to squeeze more performance out of the gpu. The temps don't stay that good for long, so a re-paste will be needed shortly, and the same goes for liquid metal. Temps get better with liquid metal, but it's efficiency gets lost after a few months. Overall it's a good laptop. It's done me well for the past 3 years or so. I played plenty of games on it by tweaking settings to stay at 60FPS.