Dell G16 7630 - Nuclear Review

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[@NuclearNotebook]

Don't worry, that PS3 was already dead! (RIP)

[@SusWorkYT]

Nice video

[@raaedamhar4175]

dang alright

[@receptazl4120]

Can we have a HP Victus 16. (maybe r0035nt ??)

[@nyobanyoba2580]

But the laptop below it, is not

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

please reply, i need help. I have the g16 with i9 13900HX, RTX 4070 and 64gb ram upgrade. Im having problem where after playing days gone for around 15-20mins, the GPU wattage decreases from 100 to 30max watts, which then results in fps drops from 110 to 35fps. The temps before the drops were 100c for the CPU and around 75 to 85c for the GPU. I tried undervolting the CPU which helped the situation, but as you mentioned these HX chips are meant to run hotter, what is the problem with my case?

[@pixles1]

HE FINALY CAME BACK

[@jeevanjustin1305]

BABE WAKE UP NEW NUCLEAR REVIEW JUST DROPPED

[@one_step_sideways]

About that CPU temperature: HX-series CPUs are supposed to be undervoltable. So undervolt them and reduce the PROCHOT to 80C using Throttlestop, that should make things way more quiet without losing much performance. Your CPU and thermal pads for the VRMs will thank you. Same should be ideally done with every single laptop. Above 85C the silicon starts to degrade much faster, ideally this kind of powerful hardware should serve you for 10+ years, so make sure to rule out the possibility of the laptop dying in your hands due to CPU degradation just 3 years later. This actually happens often, especially with gaming laptops.

[@thanatosor]

Can we do that from bios config ?

[@one_step_sideways]

@@thanatosor Depends on the laptop. But usually you're going to have to do this using Throttlestop in Windows or some similar application on Linux.

[@1Iljo1]

but due to the plundervolt exploit intel locked undervolting

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

So, does this mean that even though they are meant to run hotter temperatures, you should avoid running it at those to prevent degradation? Im new to pc gaming and don’t know much.

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

I have the g16 with i9 13900HX, RTX 4070 and 64gb ram upgrade. Im having problem where after playing days gone for around 15-20mins, the GPU wattage decreases from 100 to 30max watts, which then results in fps drops from 110 to 35fps. The temps before the drops were 100c for the CPU and around 75 to 85c for the GPU. I tried undervolting the CPU which helped the situation, but as mentioned in the video that these HX chips are meant to run hotter, what is the problem with my case?

[@やる]

You're very underrated, the quality of these vids are insane! The fact you have less then 20k subscribers baffles me, you deserve more. Keep up the good work!

[@FerralVideo]

Dell has been burying fans under the motherboard since at least my Lattitude D620. Which has an early gen Core 2 Duo CPU. The fan is literally the last part to come out of the chassis after you've completely gutted the entire rest of the system. Liquid Metal just makes it even more egregious.... Welcome back. It's nice to see you uploading again.

[@lokasz9]

THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK

[@mahmoudyouniss493]

Love the review, keep the nuclears coming!

[@namejust6287]

"Potassium Wand" is innovative way to say Banana 🍌

[@dualdime9361]

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[@mememe37]

I missed your videos, amazing PS3 segment. :)

[@saurovaki]

This is the best review I've ever seen for any laptop in the history of my life.

[@cowforces]

Best reviews ever !

[@xConstipatedPandax]

ilyilyilyilyilyilyilyily. the only LAPTOP REVIEWER WORTH MY TIME!

[@dfec1391]

Thank you for doing the best laptop reviews on youtube!

[@carlospena98]

I love this channel, when you go down the path of not defending bad design decisions I'm sure you got progressively less laptops sent for you for freeto review, so.you have to rely on your own money to give honest and true reviews, where can I find a donation button ?

[@6TheBACH]

Why you have so low views? Your channel is great!

[@thanhthanhtungnguyen8536]

love your review.

[@vvvhhh6303]

Please never leave me again

[@geraldh.8047]

Again an amazingly well done review ❤

[@roadchewerpe5759]

I complained in earlier videos about the keyboard backlight breaking, but an update this past Friday has finally fixed it. Edit: your keyboard looked two or three times as squishy as mine, a 4070 model.

[@santyclos1302]

Very down to earth reviews that hold nothing back. I love it!

[@12100F]

HELL YEAH I LOVE THIS MAN (also technically the CPU P-Cores are based on Golden Cove, that particular chip uses the 8+8 Alder Lake die, as it's an HX chip)

[@kurothot2203]

Well I bought about a week ago a g16 with 13900hx, a 4060 and the 240hz screen and i like it. Glad to hear that it handles fine on a desk thermally. Its heavy and when the fans are 100% a bit noisy. I kinda like the giant power brick, it doesn't get crazy hot and the cord is nice and long. I suppose price is the main factor that makes it a bit meh but really i feel like its a good quality machine that i can upgrade the ssds or ram and keep in service for a long time. If anyones considering buying i would say definitely look for discount codes (i found one and got 5% off) or when its on sale.

[@arx48]

price is meh? how much did you buy this for? this seems to be the best power for dollar thing. au $2400 for 4070? while the competitors are offering 4050 2000-2200 and 4060 from 2300-2600/2700 aud

[@navmanster]

Really love the presentation, great review, thanks

[@_FaUlti_]

Yes, good content.

[@toptiercontent7123]

Welcome back

[@torinriley7569]

Huh, the cooling setup and chassis on this laptop look almost identical to the HP Victus, right down to those topside intake vents. Great review as per usual!

[@petererk8064]

just got one of these with the 4070 and 13900 $400 off sale and think I'm gonna like it but thanks for the sensor tip!

[@thanatosor]

Instant sub 🎉 Best reviewer 😂

[@faccc]

Came for the review, subbed for the laughs 🙌

[@kianmoiny7860]

Bro solved usb naming

[@ypkr]

Your all point of view is super useful for us. all geeks in the world must subscribe this channel. i've been using g15 5521se 3070ti laptop that is still running so well. 330W smps is also for the nothing with rtx low-mid models. ugly shape is the bonus. for g users, i've purchased alienware oem 240W gan smps which is so sleek and better weight(even meaningless).

[@prosetheus8951]

Great to see you put out another vid

[@BagusGede-f1o]

Mr., can you review laptop in the budget segment more, ( less than $500) and see how future proof that device is

[@Origin_unkn0wn]

Lets goo nuclear came back 😂

[@derekhatake]

Bro come on, you gotta do this more often.

[@thecoolerplayer6813]

OMG YOU ARE BACK

[@chillg4mer]

Hey man love your reviews Any chance of seeing some 14-inchers on here? Quite a few are coming out this year (Zephyrus, Omen Transcend, MSI Cyborg) and a few undercovered ones from last year (Acer Triton, Gigabyte Aero-which I heard is especially bad).

[@skatcat743]

TOP TIER

[@olliecatmax]

dropping that ps3 hurt 😭

[@Kazz7420]

Nice, a new review video - thank you!

[@Ryan-jy5ck]

Excellent edit especially 0:25 to 0:35 is awesome, thank you for continuing to make Callisto protocol content!

[@Syrup_In_My_Mouth]

3:45 “Classic G-key, short for Gee, I’d love it if the computer made more noise” *followed by hurricane winds blasting out the back of the laptop* I laughed way too hard at this.

[@やる]

You should review the Asus TUF A16 Advantage edition sometime :P

[@zoom808]

Welcome back man Could you do lenovo loq and asus A15

[@fiddlesticks8142]

Well, at least the hinges aren't engineered to fail 30 seconds outside of warranty like a lot of dell's inspiron 15 series laptops

[@davidlemilica]

You should try testing microphones on laptops with the audio enhancements disabled, from my experience they sound much better with it disabled

[@ian_1243]

Very good video my friend, i recently bought a G15 5530 and i would like to know how to detect if the "Intel Integrated Sensor Solution" is faulty. Temps on the CPU and GPU while stress testing are 100c and 80c respectively. I didn’t see any frame drops while gaming but CPU can really get hot (90c just using 50%) and most of the time i end up disabling Turbo Boost on ThrottleStop so CPU temps can stay cool. Any tips for lowering CPU temps?

[@MrTrollTheMadGamer]

My fellow aussie blokes back should do a steam deck review in a similar style to these

[@Fungil_]

Bossman, you seem very trustworthy and I am heavily ovewhelmed. If you have the time, could you tell me if the Acer Inspire 7 is worth it? I found one for 631 euro, with an NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2050 4 gb, 16 gb ram and an Intel i5 12450H processor. Any advice is appreciated.

[@NuclearNotebook]

Too expensive I think, what country are you in?

[@Fungil_]

@@NuclearNotebook Greece, looking at all the other options in my country it was actually probably the cheapest for its specs. Sadly, I've already ordered it although I guess I could return it.

[@Fungil_]

Also it turned out 629 which is a bit better. No transportation fees thankfully.

[@shirishgandhi007]

Great review!

[@ypkr]

not for the g16 but for my cas g15 that I do disable for intel dynamic application ... ... & intel Dynamic tuning ... & intel management engine wmi ... after it, max cpu load can maintain min.95W-max 110W continuously on G-shifted without throttling during over 10min. before it, immeidately dropping town to 45W it's insanly slow. G15(I think G16 also) has a good cooling solution the thermal exchange volume is enouth to use 100-200W total load from cpu&dgpu. i use it as this way without any problem 2years.

[@geronimo5559]

Why is it that you are the only good laptop reviewer?

[@EngineeringNibbles]

That power brick 🥵 Gimme the damn trackpad back

[@PedroSouza-mt8rr]

I know it can sound as a stupid question, but at the same price, would you choose a: Dell G16, GeForce RTX 4070 8Gb GDDR6, Intel i9-13000HX, 1Tb M2 SSD, 32Gb RAM with the 2560x1600 240Hz display or Asus ROG Strix G16, GeForce RTX 4060 8Gb GDDR6, intel i9-13980HX, 1Tb SSD, 16 Gb RAM with the 2560x1600 240 Hz Display ?

[@kursatsaimtuna7163]

You talked about i5 and 4050 version of the laptop. I am considering to buy i9 13900hx and 4070 version of G16 so performance issues oughtta be smoothened out. Would you recommend the laptop under those specs?

[@julianaenrique]

Did you buy it?

[@stevejobs3895]

For whatever reason I’ve been having issues getting the laptop to actually use my GPU for games. I went as far as switching over to linux mint to try and see if maybe it was just a bad Windows update and nope… Nothing… Extremely frustrating… Updated the BIOS. Swapped Linux Kernel. Swapped integrated graphics from off to on, (Can’t reach 240hz on desktop with it off, which I think is definitely weird.) then tried switching to nvidia on demand as well as performance mode… Updated nvidia drivers again… Rolled them back… Rolled the BIOS back… Nothing… Model Im using has the i5 13900 with an RTX 4070. If anyone has a solution to this problem you will forever be a legend… Im to the point of giving up and going to a pc repair shop which for someone like me is the ultimate defeat…

[@ShreyasMeher]

LFG!!! Any plans on reviewing Legion laptops?

[@PhilfreezeCH]

Nit being able to charge with USB-C is so stupid. Sure you can‘t charge while gaming this way but I have seen a fair number of people using these chonkers in university as well (for CAD stuff or just as an office machine), you need more battery life but there is literally zero need for more than 100W of charging.

[@0x0rOSRS]

Just bought the G16 i9 rtx 4070 got a really good deal atm they have 30% off and i got a promo code for registering with dell rewards and 5% off extra so laptop was £1690 but i got it for £1280 so not bad saved a bunch!

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

please reply, i need help. I have the g16 with i9 13900HX, RTX 4070 and 64gb ram upgrade. Im having problem where after playing days gone for around 15-20mins, the GPU wattage decreases from 100 to 30max watts, which then results in fps drops from 110 to 35fps. The temps before the drops were 100c for the CPU and around 75 to 85c for the GPU. I tried undervolting the CPU which helped the situation, but as you mentioned these HX chips are meant to run hotter, what is the problem with my case?

[@NuclearNotebook]

That sounds like the motion sensor-related issue I run through at about 8:15 in this video - give the solution there a go and see if that solves your problem. Dell's firmware can be pretty flaky so it might be something else but I think that's most likely it.

[@ypkr]

for further info, what game you are playing? some games has troubles to play with laptop rtx, in this case you can jsut put winkey+g just to launch a gamebar then all solved. after alt+tab, then some dx11 games are getting low fps with very low gpu(dgpu)consumption. but after having winkey+g then solved.

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

@@NuclearNotebook thanks for replying, will definitely try it out

[@MrPrime-mt8dd]

@@ypkr thanks for the reply, we’ll definitely try it out

[@やる]

Wooooo

[@ii_uw]

Late but, WE ARE SO BACK!

[@z2x128]

What happened to the acer laptop with the ryzen 3 7320u, why did you delete the video?

[@NuclearNotebook]

I've still got it, I put the unboxing on "Private" so people wouldn't be misled about the likelihood of a review coming when I realised I had no time. I think I am still going to do something with that one & one or two other things... stay tuned!

[@z2x128]

@@NuclearNotebook i see you put other older videos on private

[@supercellex4D]

even though macs and gaming performance are mutually exclusive I wanna see you rip one to shreds in a review just cause

[@Pikafys]

does this review also go for the 2022 g16?

[@tigeroats913]

Missed you man make more videos please

[@pound9799]

how aren't you a million subscribers yet ?

[@Darknight_smaw]

oh your alive anyway dell be like we made a brick guess who's gonna be in someone's house 15 years later cuz it wont die honestly we need to makes a mans laptop made out of industrial steel and the shell be 1/3 inch steel

[@burak_atan]

This laptop (G15 and G16) has a really big problem. Many users have 25-30W GPU wattage lock problem while gaming. I couldn't find a proper solution for this. None of the suggested solutions work.

[@fourppounds]

MX5 is not laptop thermal paste and almost immediately pumps out. Use SYY. MX5 isn't representing what good paste can do.

[@Derpsii]

QHD high refresh rate panel and an RTX 4050... who specs these? Why not FHD 144hz??

[@marcopol0117]

Why did the first impressions on potato video disapear?

[@obliterated4gaming]

What about g16 dell gaming laptop with this stuff? 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX (36 MB cache, 24 cores, 32 threads, up to 5.40 GHz Turbo) NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060, 8 GB GDDR6 16", QHD+ 2560x1600, 240Hz, Non-Touch, 100% DCI-P3, 3ms, ComfortView Plus, NVIDIA G-SYNC + DDS 16 GB: 1 x 16 GB, DDR5, 4800 MT/s; up to 32 GB

[@vinhquanghoang8301]

Did not see this coming in 2024 Also can u do one for HP victus?

[@NuclearNotebook]

Victus is a common request, hmmm...

[@vinhquanghoang8301]

@@NuclearNotebook i mean the victus 15 with r5 7535 and rtx 2050 was like $499 or cheaper on sale and i heard it is build better with 2023 version. But would love to heard your review on it.

[@ExploringJ]

Wait you did a review on a i7 4050 model?!? Why?!? Literally the cheapest version of the G16!

[@joelconolly5574]

Weirdly, my Dell 7567 has slimmer and more portable charger than this tiny behemoth. Then again it is a 240W brick. Weird that for a bit company they can't invest in smaller chargers. Typical I suppose 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@arthurmixed3323]

What's the point of the motion sensor?

[@forsaken5268]

dude if this used a power brick of much less wattage and put in a thunderbolt type c this is the best laptop rn at ~1200$

[@raaedamhar4175]

ps3 dropped hurt me

[@DmytroBogdan]

He was so calm about it

[@ichwalsadam9179]

hp victus 16 2024 version review plz

[@beller-s8j]

review the lenovo ideapad gaming 3

[@ChuwiEnjoyer]

Ahhh I missed your humour, luckily laptop manufacturers haven't stopped making bad laptops for you to trash.

[@TheUnkown49]

Hey how can i disable the motion sensor on a laptop

[@gtx1650max-q]

1.6kg charger ? It better has a gold bar hidden inside it like wth

[@seppeseppe-jq7nr]

please check legion go !!!!

[@trptrpleum9385]

they put an inch in it

[@unionofslavstanrepublics2317]

0:30 lol

[@mf_glitch]

gud oen

[@Sebastian-kr3re]

Promo'SM ❤️

[@BogdanNAV]

so ugly ,useless , heavy and expensive

[@NuclearNotebook]

In a nutshell...

[@100uschallenge3]

1)Yes really the numpad is really useful. How can they increase an inch and yet size down the keyboard.typical dell 2) glad trackpad is better 3) glad the top lid has no more flex 4)that keyboard flex 😑how can they downgrade the same laptop g15 had no flex in keyb 5)Same old below average speakers 😑 6) why is there still no USB C charging support 😑 7) there is still no extra usb port. 3 ports is not enough we need 4 8) thankfully the SSD mounting hardware is here 😂

[@Gatar47858]

Any laptop with same-like characteristics and quality like this one you can recommend ? I saw that you rated it kinda meh. I would really appreciate an answer 😊😅 thanks and subscribed !