The Cheapest Gaming Laptop From Best Buy...

who knew that the cheapest gaming laptop from a  Best Buy would be a tough gaming by Asus fancy   and it even comes with hexagons on the box  which as we've established are the gameriest   shape but first a word from the sponsor that  helped pay for the laptop today's video is   sponsored by Deep cool and their new lt720  aios which is a 360 millimeter AIO infused   with Borg Cube technology or if you have a  smaller case there's also a 240mm version   built around deepcool's new 4th generation  high performance pump and compatibility with   all modern sockets means the Deep cool lt720 is  a great choice for all your cooling needs get   yours using the link in the video description  thanks deepcool for sponsoring today's video [Music] thank you oh it's got some Intel in it whoa there's even more hexagons in here this  really is a high hexagon per dollar product   good value terrible dad joke aside that's pretty  nice packaging [Music] look who we have under here   not going to mention it any further let's kind of  lift this bottom out and see what do we get here   we've got some hard drive connecting accessory  action and some mounting screws which is almost   as exciting as the hexagons it's not quite a one  tug on sheath which is a little disappointing but   then we do have a very nicely sized power brick  it's 150 watts and it feels nice and soft matte   and then finally on the base of the power  brick we have our Disney power port [Music]   hey would you look at that it actually looks  like a reasonable gaming laptop it may be hewn   out of not very high quality Plastics and look a  little more gaming than I like but for the amount   that this cost that's a reasonable looking gaming  laptop although one thing that I will say about   the plastic is that it is not a fingerprint magnet  I mean it is a little bit but not nearly as bad as   a lot of laptops and then on the back we have more  hexagons very good we've even got some radiation   warnings on here so it seems like they use  plutonium or something similar in the construction   feels a bit light for something that has  plutonium in it other than that it doesn't   have a glory hole on the back which is a bit  disappointing but it looks like the back is   going to be relatively easy to remove which  is important on the back we have some vents   with actual heatsink behind them another good  sign in terms of i o on the left we've got a   whole bunch of ports you probably don't have  to worry about dongles with this thing and   on the right we've got an extra USB 3 port and  a Kensington knock that's good let's see does   it pass the one hand open test it does not  okay [Music] it is relatively rigid to open wow that's a bit of a poopy keyboard but at least  we do have a full numpad on the side for those of   you that love to to recreationally Excel it is all  pretty cheap plastic like you can feel that this   is a budget laptop just from the build quality  but it does come with a high refresh rate display   which is awesome and we get a webcam but with  that it's very irresponsibly try and open this   laptop before we test it [Music] I just feel like  this is already more effort than it needs to be I   know that it's like standard or whatever to spend  three hours screwing to get your laptop open but   it doesn't have to be like this [Music] there  you go there's always some yummy crack sounds   oh it's coming oh there's already a clip broken  off oh there we go okay um so the braking is is   out of the way that was not the nicest process  but at least the back's off and it wasn't as   destructive feeling as it often is with these  laptops that is a reasonable laptop booty it   does come with an m.2 drive in it which is awesome  considering that some Best Buy reviews said theirs   came with a very slow mechanical hard drive in it  so this is a great step up from that we even have   an additional m.2 slot so we can drop another SSD  in here without having to sacrifice the drive in   here that's really cool as you can see under here  uh there is just a blank space so we just have   a single stick of ram which is probably gonna  curb stop the gaming performance we'll see how   much later in the video but for the price can you  really expect more and at least you can upgrade it   after ruining the laptop's Innocence but you  still can we also have a reasonable looking   cooling Solution on the laptop up which is good  and we don't have particularly high power Parts   in here so temperatures may not be that bad for a  laptop in terms of those specs cpu-wise we have an   Intel i5 10300h which is borderline geriatric  at this point but maybe it performs fine what   we'll find out soon enough and then we have a  single 8 gig stick of RAM and finally gpu-wise   we have a GTX 1650 in here so when all said  and done this may actually be able to do some   gaming okay so now I'm just gonna break the laptop  back together and then we'll do some gaming on it [Music] that is the softest power button ever damn  feels like you're squeezing into a pimple or a   Sonic wow the background on this laptop reminds  me of the kind of pattern on like sneakers that   people with social skills wear it's actually so  loud so now let's see what kind of VD we have on   here uh I miss yeah we got McAfee that's that's  kind of standard for a device like this so you   may have to de-elma this device at some point  other than that we have Adobe Express Armory   crate and then my Asus oh this is like the uh  support thing so if something breaks you can   you can chat to an AI chat bot on here probably  I mean honestly the whole VD situation on most   of the devices I've looked at lately haven't  been that bad actually I guess it's because I   haven't looked at a Dell Acer or HP system in  a while but anyway okay so the BD situation is   not that bad and then here here we have our  single eight gig stick of rabbits running at   29.33 megahertz and then here we have our 512  gig Intel pecanus SSD yeah I mean this is just   laptop stuff okay so uh let's let's plug a mouse  into it and do some gaming [Music] this is GTA   5 at 1080p with everything on normal settings so  it's it's basically the lowest that the game goes   and I mean it's it's running fine like we're not  quite making use of our high refresh rate panel   in here I I just noticed our GPU isn't really  doing anything and it seems like the CPU is part   of the problem uh you know a CPU is a beast when  it bottlenecks a GTX 1650 uh but it may be the ram   configuration because again we just have a single  eight gig stick of ram in here so we'll upgrade   that in a bit but you know first we wanna we wanna  try some games temperature wise it's not terrible   and at least the GPU isn't terrible but I guess  I guess it's because it's not really doing much wow that that CPU really is bottlenecking the  little 1650 hard it is 1650 is not doing much   and it's it's quite stuttery it has  these moments of clarity like this   where the frame rates decent and then  re really heavy starters set in so with   Battlefield 5 single player kind of worked  but the moment you click on multiplayer   it crashes every time that's the third time in  a row it's done that I've not seen Battlefield   5 do that before so that's a little weird  um I guess let's try another game and then   we'll come back to it after we upgrade the  RAM because maybe that's the problem Maybe okay it's settling in around 30 frames per  second it does dip quite readily down to about   22 24 frames per second I mean I guess it's fine  right it's still borderline usable let me go turn   Fidelity FX on oh they've upgraded to 2.1 that's  fancy oh obviously that wouldn't really help   because the GPU isn't the performance bottleneck  reducing the render resolution isn't going to help   much because the CPU is the problem I really hope  the ram upgrade is Gonna Save this laptop because   gaming performance wise it's not doing that well  so let's let's see let's give it a try [Music] okay so it's only running at 266 megahertz uh  but it is dual Channel and double the amount so   hopefully we'll be fine wow that has made a huge  difference our GPU is still being bottlenecked   but we're getting a lot more performance  than we did before with our our fancy new   Ram configuration wow that it's made such a  big difference wait it's running it like 120   frames per second now a Battlefield 5 at 1080p  low settings is also very playable now I think   this is the biggest difference I've seen a a  ram upgrade make in one of these pre-builts   before it's essentially doubled the frame rate  in Battlefield 5 when it comes to the single   player results and considering that it's running  multiplayer now it's it's like infinitely better   right that's a oh that's a big difference granted  this is with Fidelity FX on quality but before   that didn't really make much of a difference  whereas now the fact that the graphics card   isn't running head first into the CPU the whole  time with low settings using quality Fidelity   FX we are getting over 60 frames per second it  feels good it looks nice this is a very usable   gaming experience now and in terms of noise and  temps while gaming it's not that bad for a laptop although it does sound similar just on the  desktop which is not ideal so at the end of   the day after the ram upgrade which is an  absolute minimum requirement the cheapest   gaming laptop from Best Buy is actually pretty  solid you get a display that won't destroy your   retina reasonable gaming performance and decent  temperatures and noise for a gaming laptop I just   wish the keyboard was less for the lack of a  better word shite anyway with that thank you   for watching if you enjoyed the video consider  subscribing to the channel and maybe watching   another video a suggestion will pop up in  a second and until the next video bye-bye [Music]

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Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 10 2022