HEARTBROKEN MSI Claw A1M Ultra 7 Setup & First Thoughts

please get this video done I'm am bro I've been here for hours I feel you just know just know I know YouTube this is the brand new MSI claw in the ultra 7 edition if you guys watched my previous video then you guys saw me unbox and give my first use first setup with the Ultra 5 now it was somewhat Rocky in the beginning but towards the end I discovered by unplugging it and just using it fully handheld on battery it gave a much smoother result as well as the GPU is the bottleneck at least in Call of Duty from that Benchmark but outside of that I was just wondering if some of the you know bumps in the road that we had were because of it being the Ultra 5 chip so today we get to put that theory to the test or to an end uh by setting up and doing our first impressions and first use with the ultra 7 MSI claw now it's exciting because Intel is entering the handheld Market you know it's only been AMD do well I won't say only but pretty much yes it's AMD dominated for the most part and uh the AMD handhelds that we've had before especially the Windows PC ones the Lenovo Legion go which is a massive beast and this one right here is probably one of the most innovative setups right here with the you know detachable joysticks and then we have the well-rounded Asus Rog Ally right here there's an accessory on here it doesn't come with this uh more on that accessory in my video that I will be dropping actually I'm about to edit it today about this device it's my updated review so stay tuned for that but this thing has been Rock Solid but it's also been out the longest of the three and it has has had the most updates and that's something you got to keep in mind with the MSI claw I know a lot of people are watching videos you guys are seeing you know mixed reactions mixed results these are day one first adopters and unfortunately in the technology world the first adopters we get the rockiest and bumpiest start we you know report back and we share our thoughts our experiences and then the updates and the fixes and hopefully the optimization and the performance gains come after that every other handheld that I shared had a rocky start and eventually it got smoother so hopefully the same carries on here I'm going to grab the power plug I'm going to plug it in so that it's charging we're going to set it up and then I'm going to get straight into it get straight into uh load on some Call of Duty maybe a couple other games and let's see if the issues that we encountered are still present if they're you know eradicated and removed is the ultra 7 any type of improvement that's worth the price bump and so forth you know because there's two versions of the AMD as well like with the Asus Rog Ally there's the extreme and then the non-extreme version this is the extreme version so it's only right that I put it up against the ultra 7 version of this one so let's do that I will be doing a versus video in between these two and laying down you know my real world experience and so forth and getting into you know the Deets for you guys so I'm going to go ahead and power this thing on for the first time you know I had to set up Windows and go through that whole get down and you know I got to spend time getting the drive and so forth so I won't bore you with that so we can get straight to figuring out is the ultra 7 you know that much better or any better than the Ultra 5 or are we bottlenecked by this new Intel Arc GPU all right so I'm going to be transparent moment of transparency my bro c kid hold up man my bro c kid right here for some reason this player he has one of these he has the ultra five but my guy cannot get up and running he got CAU over there and my guy is struggling but I say this I didn't have the same experience but this is my second one this is the ultra 7 I'm about to BU C for the first time hold on let me turn this down side note these speakers are amazing listen I'm about to go here to layover 24/7 getting connection fa every single time it's either telling me to retry or okay but okay let's be real connection fail is Network that has nothing to do with the the unit I think we asked you did you try ethernet let's rule out all of the you know possible factors Wii and then also after that ethernet all right it's my internet bro I knew it all right so I'm back what I did was you know after the debate with CID which turned out to be uh 100% user error it was his Wi-Fi connection was the reason why he could not connect to the Cod servers the thing is with this device you're going to need patience so I did the initial uh updates and drivers install via you know when Windows says is doing all of the updates and then the MSI live updates and restarts and then you go back into the windows menu and then there's a bunch more finally done with these updates bro yes patience it takes time to set these things up all right let's go ahead get into uh Call of Duty gameplay I'm plugged in on power I got it on AI mode hopefully we get the you know highest power and best performance out of this thing that we can with these settings in the AI intelligent mode plugged in I've seen it reach up to like you know 40 WTS power matter of fact one thing I can say that seems to be pretty certain is if you're chasing like high high frame rates and FPS as of right now you know I mean pre updates prefixes pre whatever they're going to do this device or these devices have not seemed to show that they're capable of much more than around like 60 frames per second we'll see if I can even get into a game right now I was able to play earlier a lot quicker a lot faster but now after doing the Windows updates and so forth seems to be a little hiccup like it's crazy cuz I played on this map before already now and I'm not getting audio that's another issue I have right now I'm not getting game audio which is crazy and weird like I get that audio but I'm not getting like the actual game like the you know the effects and things like that which is weird really really really weird Bravo so as you guys can see we're at about what 54 frames per second 56 60 somewhere around there like I said I don't think you get more than 60 fpss right now with this current driver and the current setup in Call of Duty but it's not running bad it's actually running pretty solid it's just 60 f FPS so basically I've seen higher and greater FPS performance with the AMD platform uh devices I don't know what they were like at launch though considering this is at launch this audio issue is kind of driving me nuts though that's crazy that I can't hear any of the footsteps none of that so other than my audio issue which I'm hoping it's just a Call of Duty issue uh yeah it's r running solid even plugged in this time so I'm getting about 39 Watts like like I said probably close to around those 40 watts is about what you get plugged in on a 40 watt TDP the thing is the CPU is extremely capable I think the bottleneck and the drawback to this device is the GPU I wonder why not go with Nvidia like this device with this Intel uh CPU that's in here plus a Nvidia like a you know what I mean could have gave us like a 4080 4090 those two options that would have probably been crazy if that was possible now I don't know with the cooling and all that kind of stuff they feel good too oh yeah I'm chopping I will say I don't know this might be running smoother well I mean it's the same performance though as the other one oh oh bro playing this game with no audio right now is wild I need to bro I got to go on Twitter I got to see what's going on this is crazy so regardless of how you play it like right here as you guys can see the CPU is capable of 93 frames per second I'm pretty sure if I was plugged in it probably be around 100 or whatever and the average FPS is 49 frames per second but the bottleneck is the GPU 100% And that's the story of this device is the fact that you know you got a 120 HZ refresh rate panel but when it comes to certain games like Call of Duty and this is on the lowest settings this is set for performance so it's not you know like high resolution it's not high stress and the GPU is maxing out it's hitting 100% GPU usage hopefully that can optimize that but the GPU is the bottleneck all right we're going to try this one last final time uh right now I'm on battery power plugged into ethernet uh I just reinstalled Call of Duty I had to reinstall it because I wasn't getting any game audio like I could hear dialogue valume but I couldn't hear sound effects or anything else game valume not even the music if I turned it up I got to redo settings bro this I swear this is like becoming quite annoying um and this is just a sneak peek into the realities of what some of you may face like CK was having some issues um on this one I encountered a few issues you know and it's just like little things like little things that like kind of turn into long lengthy you know annoying things obviously I don't think any of it is the fault of the unit or the device uh you know there's a lot of different moving parts and softwares and other companies involved in this overall experience and that's what makes it complicated you know this company has a driver that company has a driver this company has their software that company has their software and there's a lot of moving parts and they have to come and sing in harmony uh yeah and basically singing In Harmony is not easy so one thing I noticed when I was just on the Rog Ally like it's so much quicker and responsive to react uh when loading these games and so forth obviously it's probably a lot more optimized than this game is okay now they're going all right they got it going I'll get back when the shaders preload bro I I'mma have like so many video files with this uh video you guys do not understand it's uh it's quite nuts all right layover 24/7 let's go please get this video done I'm am bro I've been here for hours for all my early adopters or my early users on the uh claw I feel you just know just know I know now I don't know what game you guys are choosing to play and hopefully it's going smooth for you and if especially if you choosing a like GPU heavy game or like a you know just power intensive or you know just resource heavy game I hope it's working out well for you yeah I'm not getting any game audio and I don't know what to do to fix that I don't know if I even can wow all right I'm going try to plug in some headphones at this point no game audio still oh wait game audio oh my God that scared me it was loud well you guys won't hear it but I can hear it and it's kind of unfortunate because the arm board speakers are actually like really good but it's weird though cuz it's only with Cod like I could go out and play a YouTube video and I get sound I could use something in windows with audio and I'll get sound but when I go on Call of Duty for some reason it's like headphones only so as you can see generally wow the uh the game play is smooth the only issue I see is that the GPU is being maxed and the CPU is only at 50% that shows you that the CPU could hang if you were doing 100 FPS it's this new Intel Arc you know and you anticipated it and you hope that when something's being brought to the market it's going to yield you know you just have expectations that's all that it is it's all about expectations and whether or not they are met literally this GPU is getting maxed out and 30 Watts on batter is actually pretty solid like this thing has so much potential at least like what you're seeing and what it's geared towards it's just not translating and that's my biggest issue with this thing it's not translating to what it should be like battery 30 wat performance TDP like it should be solid like on AMD I have to plug in to get 30 watts and then I'm getting like 10 what like 50 frames per second but on here I don't have to plug in to get 30 wat TDP and I'm not able to get the uh all right cool I'm glad that uh ended actually cuz I need to plug in to power uh honestly I've seen enough uh the number one thing that I will do oh actually I don't even have to I already did it I did a benchmark on here I'mma actually boot up the Rog Ally I'mma plug it in I'm going to do a benchmark I'mma boot up the uh Legion go I'mma plug it in I'm going do a benchmark actually I shouldn't even have to I don't think I should because the GPU is not being limitated over there I don't see it like the frame rates and so forth yeah I don't even think I need that for the science aspect of it because it's easy to draw a conclusion as to right now what the drawback or the holdup is with this device in this playing setting that I'm trying to accomplish so this is my first use first impressions of the ultra 7 MSI claw I had first thoughts First Impressions with the Ultra 5 Ms I claw yesterday and with that being said and with me using them both of these again I'mma say this this is early they still have opportunity to optimize and crank something or show some type of improvement as the other handhelds had that room but day one out the box off the updates that they've given so far uh the performance is fair but it's not what I expected and the GPU throttle in or bottleneck in before the CPU I mean it should like you know whatever be the I guess um throttle before that but at 50% of performance that's kind of crazy the fact that we know that this system with the chip should be able to do 100 FPS in this gaming situation but the GPU is the bottleneck and it's as simple as that and that's where it's at as of right now I'm going to be patient I'mma consider which one of these I'mma hold on to now for those people it's still too early to give a conclusion as to whether the ultra 7 is worth it over the Ultra 5 here's my reality as of right here right now where it stands they both have the same GPU so they both have the same limitation as far as GPU which is where I'm hitting the threshold before I'm even touching the CPU so in this current situation right here right now I mean a self upgrade to the internal SSD and storage if it is you know something that you can do I haven't opened this up yet is worth me saving what I would spend on the highend because this thing is very highend and cost if I don't see an improvement within a certain amount of time to the ultra 7 to show anything over the Ultra 5 and I don't know what that could be because it's the same GPU it's tough to justify it but there's still more to be tested and still more areas where the ultra 7 can show it's worth over the Ultra 5 so like I said it's too early to give a solid conclusion I just wanted to speak to kind of how I feel about it right here right now uh yeah I they're in the same boat at this point okay so look the fun fact before this I told him I asked him when you got here what did you pick did you pick quality or did you pick performance he talking about he pick quality cuz cuz he a snob he a snob for Quality he want to play Everything 4K and all that n n hey man you hear that that's a biased PS5 user don't listen to that Terry don't have these issues you don't have none of these problems look okay right now let me hold on bring the camera back watch no diamonds no watch good timing yeah new watch no diamonds new watch good yeah no middle man I'm the man man send it in I like what I like me I know my right is sipping in I lay having fun I do what I want it's what it is for my son for my daugh for my twin I work through the night

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Length: 17min 52sec (1072 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 16 2024