The $7.99 Value Village Laptop Returns (GIVEAWAY OVER)

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[@maiss0]

Its insane how I found this guy literally hours ago and I’ve been bingeing his videos since then

[@kylespevak6781]

Good choice. I did the same thing when I found this channel

[@zenoooooo]

*bringeing

[@w_callaghan8300]

so you've been binging bringus

[@ethansulkin576]

Me as well! I subbed the second he flipped a DS cartridge instead of a coin in the last video

[@AMV12S]

Me too

[@Eggs.]

The GPU didn't show up in Linux Mint because Linux Mint doesn't enable closed-source drivers by default. I also missed it when installing Linux Mint on my Mac. I was extremely confused as to why WiFi wasn't working at all. I think there's an app included in the OS for enabling closed-source drivers.

[@BringusStudios]

That makes sense. I forgot that NVIDIA doesn't play very nice with their Linux drivers

[@sukidable]

@@BringusStudios The drivers aren't bad at all, they're just not in by default. I've actually gotten slightly better performance in older games on linux than on windows as long as it's actually using the right gpu.

[@TrolleyMC]

@@sukidable I disagree, the drivers are terrible. NVIDIA refuses to cooperate with the community and this has lead to in my experiences, a bunch of pains in the ass that I would not have had with AMD or Intel graphics. One of which being Sonic Frontiers

[@infradragon]

it's the "driver manager" app and it's really useful because you can switch between open source and closed source drivers and manage the installed versions and stuff

[@bibasik7]

@@TrolleyMC Additionally, once NVIDIA drops support for your GPU, you have to rely on open-source nouveau drivers, which are hit or miss. Even if they work correctly, performance is rather slow.

[@blood....]

Crazy find man, looks great. Also the 940m can use custom drivers that can uplift performance a decent bit

[@inquerion8867]

Any recommendations? I still have good old 940m DDR3 ;) I'm new to custom drivers. Did some DDU and OC though.

[@blood....]

@@inquerion8867 the ddr3 might be the hold back

[@lordkaczuha4598]

yeah any recommendations? i have the 940mx

[@TTURKI]

Any for my little brother’s 935M ?

[@nullenski]

Love the update! Glad its even better than previously thought. 7.99 is an immaculate pricing for such a beast.

[@willrandship]

Windows device manager is roughly equivalent to the output of lshw in linux (a utility you can install via apt-get). Those are the utilities that will show you what hardware is reporting back via the kernel. The display controls only show you cards with the drivers properly set up. If you don't want to install something just for hardware info like that, use the commands `lspci`, `lsusb`, and `lscpu`, for PCI, USB, and CPU information, respectively. For video cards, you'd be looking at lspci, which would have an output on the command line including something like this in your case. 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940M] (rev a2) along with a bunch of other PCI connected devices. Note that your system is going to need the proprietary nvidia drivers. (not too much work in mint, just open Driver Manager from the menu and tell it to use the proprietary nvidia driver.) You'll probably also need a bumblebee/optimus setup to pass video work to the nvidia gpu before handing it back to the intel gpu for display output. This is a pain, and I wouldn't blame you for not getting it working. Why is it like this? Power consumption. The laptop is set up so the nvidia gpu can be entirely unused for the majority of the time, but turned on when you need high performance 3D graphics. Why is it ass on linux? Because nvidia doesn't give a shit about mobile graphics on linux, and the ways the community gets it working are a bunch of hacky workarounds for the proprietary driver which is famously hard to work with when nvidia hasn't made it just magically do what you want. Send it my way, and I could spend some time getting it all set up and make a follow-up video. I'm the kind of masochist who uses linux primarily, so I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER is as easy to type in as `sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root`.

[@willrandship]

Oh, and my current setup is a dodgy ryzen 5 1600 mini-itx build with a gtx 1050ti and 16GB of RAM. And, of course... I use arch btw.

[@bearfm]

@@willrandship i use arch btw too

[@qchtohere8636]

Install PopOS with Nvidia proprietary drivers and retry then. I used to get cemu running BotW @30-40fps in an i5 HP laptop with that same GPU 6 years ago. GT940M is pretty capable when you don't leave bloated services unsupervised eating the CPU.

[@ValouFCH]

I remember playing on a 920mx a while ago. While it was not powerfull, it allowed the CPU to fully focus on CPU things so it was quite useful !

[@Tamay.]

Please acknowledge the touchscreen! It has one!!

[@grizzlyindustries7593]

Dang! Even I didn't see that! These viewers got eyes everywhere 🤯 But that's awesome for you giving it away. I hope whoever gets it really enjoys it and gets some good mileage out of it.

[@cristian021492]

I just discovered your channel and I can’t stop binge bringusing em. Love your content ❤❤❤

[@SummonerArthur]

I knew it! I KNEW IT! There had to be a dedicated gpu on this thing. It just made sense. And its a GREAT gaming thingy IMHO,

[@naniwara8673]

this is legitimatedly so much faster than my laptop, i feel so bad..

[@thefuriouscreator]

Is it faster than an intel celeron j3060? If so it's faster than mine

[@IanLantz]

While I absolutely love Linux, I have to admit that it makes having and using a GPU a nightmare. I'm pretty sure that window in Linux Mint will only show you what GPU is actively in-use. Which, especially being as you hadn't installed the drivers, was definitely gonna be the Intel iGPU. I think typically the best way to find a dGPU is running something like "lspci | grep nvidia" at the terminal

[@ozzelot3349]

I am already a Lenovo gamer, except mine kinda has a Ryzen 5800H and RTX3060. Also I'm on an entirely different continent. That being said, I would have loved something like this a few years ago and hope with all my heart it goes to someone who really needs it.

[@c4sualcycl0ps48]

The 940M in my college laptop was the real intro I had to PC gaming.

[@JC7119]

I wonder if some of the issues are a ram bottle neck. Crazy find for 7.99

[@milescarter7803]

No doubt, he never mentioned what the setup for RAM was, that's literally the most important thing with iGPU. Low latency dual rank(2rx8) and dual channel, as fast as you can run. On those systems usually its soldered ram, or 4gb soldered and one slot, or no soldered and one slot. I missed if he ever said how much ram either. Run GPU-Z or HWINFO pleeeease. Or lshw on Linux (LiSt HardWare) That nVidia is going to be bottlenecked by the x4 PCIE link no matter what. It has no video outputs at all. It sends everything over to the Intel chip. You can check the schematics for that. Besides how it runs when the system power or shared cooling hits max

[@penguinminton9178]

been loving these videos

[@Orodreth888]

I would have rolled out 8$ for this too. Looked like a nice thing you can do in your free time and feel good about how you saved it from the landfill.

[@TheDudeWithNoName]

Nice guy bringus not only giving away a laptop but also a nice 25$ gift card, you're such an awesome dude, i hope you're going to make videos for years to come

[@Harry11315]

theres some weird power management stuff for laptops with intel and nvidia graphics that i believe can rely on host os and bios settings so it may be set to hybrid gpu in bios, can force it to dedicated only.

[@mehr5821]

There's stuff that you did in this video and last video that can be done in software. For instance, (while it was funny) you didn't need to take out the SSD you hot glued to image it since you could've just booted any live OS and imaged the SSD while it was installed in the system. Also, you didn't need to take off the cooler to see, you can list all pci devices in linux (a live OS or the LM install) through lspci. You can narrow it down further with "lspci | grep vga" to find the lines with VGA devices. I AM A POOPLY LENOVO GAMER btw

[@hojjat5000]

Ok. Is he pronouncing NVidia weirdly, or am I going crazy?

[@milescarter7803]

I was gonna say, 2 squares on the heatpipe means a GPU chip.

[@AdrianGhastly]

Definitely love me so backseat bringusing giving us some new Bringus Studios content

[@ddevin]

LOL, I like the giveaway phrase. It really makes sure the people entering need it.

[@CSnev3r]

I am a happy Lenovo gamer, hopefully someone makes good use for that laptop. Keep bringing in more videos ;)

[@hreggerino]

lspcie in linux should have listed the gpu. Distros can be super unreliable regarding that stuff unless you actually nerd out in the terminal.

[@toxithot]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER and i'm mostly gaming on a steam deck nowadays, this would mostly just be used for normal laptop things: youtube, chat, doomscrolling, that sorta thing (also yeah, totally sign that shit)

[@Logilype]

Sadly it's only for the US, i am in Germany and I need an upgrade for my laptop

[@Super_Mario_64]

​@@Logilype me too

[@PlGGS]

5:00 huh? Linux runs all old source games fine alve valve recompiled them all for it

[@BringusStudios]

oof I guess the HD 520 is really just that bad then. I assumed it was running in Proton but you're right

[@Skyunai]

@@BringusStudios can confirm the amount of tweaking it took to get my laptop wwith 520 on it to even run borderlands 2 at 480p man... my current rig runs it at a smooth 200+ fps max setting so theres that lol

[@cian.horgan]

My first playthrough of Doom 2016 was on almost exactly these specs, very well optimised game it's great

[@milescarter7803]

Lol, I thought for sure he was gonna look up how to pronounce Na-vidia properly

[@MooseGamingChannel]

Really quick with the follow-up video :). Unfortunately I can't take part in the giveaway. Anyways the Nvidia card probably didn't show up in Linux because you installed the Intel drivers, so it didn't recognize your 940M.

[@TauAkiou]

the short answer is that NVIDIA cards don't have native support on Linux and require a closed-source driver and that most laptops that have dedicated NVIDIA GPU setups use a technology called "Optimus" which powers the dedicated GPU on and off automatically. for future reference, you should always use a utility like 'lspci' or 'lshw' to see what the operating system detects, like other people have said.

[@_DRMR_]

The closed-source driver _is_ "native" (this word doesn't mean what you think it means).

[@TauAkiou]

@@_DRMR_ I could have been a bit more clear in my word choice (perhaps 'default' would have been a better choice) but this is just semantics. My point is that the default NVIDIA driver 'nouveau' has limited support for NVIDIA cards, and extremely limited support for modern laptop NVIDIA cards using the "Optimus" display technology.

[@glassramen]

@5:50 I'm fairly certain you had skyrim locked to 30 through either vsync or a frame cap. It didn't break it because it literally couldn't go any higher. If you can get black mesa at 100+ fps you're definitely able to get skyrim running at 60, even special edition.

[@milescarter7803]

So the 940mx has no outputs, the only connection at all to the system is a hopefully x4 PCIE 3.0 link. It compresses the video and sends it back over the PCIE bus. All outputs: HDMI, USB-C, internal LCD eDP port, and DisplayPort or DisplayPort Mini will be coming off of the Intel chip with this class of chip. It isn't nothing, but its tough to say if it outperforms tuning the Intel GPU if you have the option for lower latency dual channel dual rank memory. Also the heatsink is shared so if you are really pushing that nVidia chip the system will throttle. The real benefit of the nVidia chip is game compatibility. Because in this configuration it doesn't offer benefits in thermal efficiency (once you count the Optimus losses of sending the output back over the bus.) All in all some hot rodding can be done, its fun.

[@luxpulvis]

Yeah after using linux for 3 years, I was with you in terms of troubleshooting the GPU, if it works with windows but not linux mint, then stick with windows, if you really need to run linux then I suggest Manjaro

[@Sithhy]

Manjaro is a bad choice considering all the "drama" they had in the last few months with broken certificates, broken system after updates etc.

[@limpfall13]

Ok the beeping for the curse words kept making me think I accidentally turned on my steam deck 😂

[@pikaflash4821]

did you download the game ready drivers for the gpu? theres a lot more performance boosts from doing so

[@apparentlyexists]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER I would probably give it to my friend who is currently playing what few games he can on an over 10 year old laptop. It would definitely help him be able to game a lot better than he has been lately.

[@tech-ishbrad183]

if im not mistaken, that cpu (designated by the "U") is a dual core i7. ...... yeah, i know. its possible it was a cpu bottleneck however skylake chips are some surprisingly formidable silicon so im going to lean towards one of the following or a bit of both: RAM config is probably subpar at best and being a laptop, windows will preconfigure everything to "power saver" settings by default. try it after enabling the "ultimate performance" power plan (via a simple powershell command) and go into nvidia control panel and set its power mode to max performance. also, being that cpu and gpu share a heatpipe, i guarantee 1 if not both were thermal throttling once your testing started to heat up

[@joseandorthe]

@Bringusstudios. how does one live a comment?

[@jerrystraight4916]

My Acer Laptop has Intel HD 620 but also the Nvidia 940 MX with Linux Mint 21.1 it was the first thing suggested after opening the drive manager to get the drivers wasn't happy with Windows 10 on it since windows doesn't seem to run the graphics right

[@fatburdo]

Damn I wish the giveaway would be worldwide, my niece could really use a poopy Lenovo gamer and you can't really find that kind of deal here in Brazil

[@visiblydisturbed1688]

Don't even have a PC but now I kinda wanna go thrift shopping to see if I can find something

[@Jdudhhsuxbsksj]

Mr. daddy Linus drop tips. Sebastian would be so proud of your Segway.

[@Jdudhhsuxbsksj]

To your sponsor!

[@era2legit]

i legit daily drive these exact specs as a secondary pc on the side. the only difference is that mine has a touch screen which i use for discord and spotify. the 940m is very underrated and if you get the laptop for a cheap price is very worth it!

[@totalslayer183]

I also have the same specs but I'm wondering how you make the 940m do anything? Everytime I've enabled it things go from a bad and stuttery 20-40fps to a silky smooth 3fps max.

[@era2legit]

@@totalslayer183 prob a thermal issue, have you put new thermal paste on it?

[@totalslayer183]

It's been like this since new but no I haven't, I'm going to be checking that now. It doesn't ever seem to have overheating issues though.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Finally, Lenovoment 2: The Squeakquel

[@aramisperez9923]

A happy ending to a scruffy laptop. I like it

[@weegee33]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER I have a chromebook with a crappy celeron cpu, running steam games in crostini runs horrible. Also found your channel a few days back, love the content.

[@SaiMorphX]

I know I'm late, but... If you had looked at more than the first page of the BIOS with the CPU info, There should have been a setting to turn off the integrated graphics, this would have been a tell-tell sign there was a dedicated GPU, and the OS's would have only see the NVIDIA GPU.

[@TechSpec04]

I use a Dell OptiPlex 790 with a 17 2600k, 8 gb ddr3 1333Mhz, 2 500 gb hdds, and a gigabyte gt 1030 2gb gddr4

[@_DRMR_]

Under Linux you probably would've needed to use Bumblebee to use the alternate "Nuh-videa" GPU. Still would've been nice to have seen a proper comparison. Oh well 🤷

[@abasgames]

Probably because there's a special version of linux mint just for Nvidia gpus ? Edit it have to be installed manually If your graphics card is from NVIDIA, once in Linux Mint, perform the following steps to install the NVIDIA drivers: Run the Driver Manager Choose the NVIDIA drivers and wait for them to be installed Reboot the computer

[@randomweirdyoutubechannel8955]

Tbh it would be great for anyone who actually needs a laptop for school or something like that

[@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret]

And here is why the lspci command exists 😂

[@fisheatergaming]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER. Amazing giveaway tag, by the way! I want to have to have this really badly because I have never had a computer other than a Chromebook and gaming looks really fun

[@Psycheux_]

your vids are always fun and awesome, keep up the awesome work ^w^ also good luck to all who enter the give away~ ^w^

[@Vegatablez]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER and right now im using a 5700xt and ryzen 2600 system, but im about to go on a long visit(maybe moving) with family and i really wont be able to bring my desktop so a laptop would be very nice. Also I think that generation of lenovo touch screen still was licensed by wacom and they make really decent art tablets, which I've always wanted!

[@Bboyman1150]

It’s funny because my first gaming laptop had an i5-6300hq and 960m 4gb. Kind of the opposite of this laptop

[@tahaak]

$7.99 is a steal for that notebook. Just give it some love, maybe a new case and it will run another 5 years.

[@TotMannsFete]

If (well, when) you're running Linux, running the inxi command line utility is invaluable for figuring out what hardware you have. 'inxi -v 7' will give you pretty much all the info you'll every need.

[@netronin504]

DId you install the proprietary nvidia drivers from the driver manager?

[@EmergencyChannel]

Good luck to whoever wins the laptop! I have a Steam Deck and a Desktop I built in 2019 so no need for it.

[@jamesneal5260]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER My setup is a 12900k with a 3070 ti but I would love to give this to my son as an upgrade to what he's currently using. And absolutely sign that thing!

[@kinglooper]

lspci will be helpful on future 6 dollar laptop

[@OfficialSilentPLAYS]

Best $7.99 purchase ever

[@TechDave]

*cries in UK Residency*

[@kohlrabigaming677]

same bro

[@jams64]

I do have a semi-decent desktop setup (i7-4770 with a GTX 1080ti), but it would be nice to have a laptop, mostly just for college work and the occasional game now and then. Good luck with everyone participating in the giveaway!

[@SentryDoesRetro]

I envy your 1080 good sir

[@xxzenonionnex7658]

@@SentryDoesRetro they only cost like 100$ lol

[@Dash64_png]

I am a poppy Lenovo gamer. I use a hand me down 2015 Mac. It’s powerful but lack game support.

[@Chickenking9080]

I was thinking of entering for it for a laptop for school but im in australia

[@katherinehackworth]

"nuhvidia" lol. love your shit tho

[@TtEL]

Dang my ASUS Q550LF Laptop has a 745M that 940M is so great in comparison

[@Anti_Kayden]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER I am currently using a freaking chromebook that can't run roblox and want to be able to play games instead of just watching people play games and thank you for this offer

[@windows7thinkpadtv]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER right now, I am using a 2011 HP EliteBook 8560w and a Dell Precision T3600 (same year). Both have lackluster GPUs for gaming nowadays, and even my backup (Lenovo ThinkPad X250) only has Intel HD Graphics 5500.

[@muffinman3923]

Honestly a steal for 8 bucks. Thats a fairly usable system even in 2023

[@snesguy9176]

I mean it's way better than the super budget "gateway" laptop I got in 2022 on sale for $100. 😂 That piece of crap wouldn't run 720p KZbin smoothly untill I put Linux on it. Impulse purchase I basically got for watching media in bed and it had the best looking LCD at Walmart for 200 or less at the time. 😅

[@cookies5129]

old title: "THERE WAS A GPU ALL ??? " and i forgot the last word

[@shadowthefurryscientist]

it said "THERE WAS A GPU ALL ALONG"

[@fisheatergaming]

THERE WAS A GPU ALL ALONG???

[@cookies5129]

thanks to the 2 people that the last word

[@BlindingWulf]

That’s awesome though

[@andri1319]

i have this kind of laptop but with a i3

[@Jonathan.R.Pereira]

I'm fairly certain that laptop has a Touch Screen and Bringus has not tested it hahaha.

[@RichsRandomRetroReviews]

You didn't just say Nah-Vidia did you....?

[@BringusStudios]

😶 bad habit

[@backprints]

IVE BEEN SAYING "BINGUS" THIS WHOLE TIME LMAOOO OHH NO

[@Nexplane]

I had a laptop with an i7-7500U and 940MX

[@wingzzzzy]

I AM A POPPY LENOVO GAMER i already have a good laptop but entering to give it to someone who i know needs it more

[@JKBun_0]

when u dont know whats going on but still watching the whole video. LOL

[@hannescampidell]

it didnt show in the settings because the driver wasnt installed

[@kirilnikolovski81]

ahhh i would love this lappy. better then my dell 7480.

[@kirilnikolovski81]

As much as I would love this, I live in a land down under.

[@joseandorthe]

@Bringusstudios. how does one live a comment?

[@bibasik7]

As a wise man once said, "NVIDIA, f**k you!"

[@thealien_ali3382]

I subscribed, Ur video's are awesome ☺️

[@DNMRULES]

So... I thought this was a weird old system and it turns out it's almost the same I have (I still got a 7th gen i7 and a 960m). And it was way more than 7,99 (8 years ago)

[@sp3cterj738]

okay dude, true quesions now, can it run Crysis?!?

[@el_dallasyt]

Oh wow

[@yazzy00000]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER I am using an even older dell "workstation" laptop running the effervescent Windows 7. Love the channel, keep it up!

[@mediapcaccount1154]

you look like the singer of a grunge band. this is in no way an insult

[@inkontainableargs6]

Jup. Was the very smart neaouvou driver

[@fredrik2008]

Just remember that steamOS is pretty mutch AMD only, it can work with Intel, but its a pain and you need to downgrade graphics drivers.

[@ussrname1769]

dam no australia

[@Kubovec20]

How has this 8 dollar laptop have better specs than my fucking desktop

[@johnsmith8988]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER

[@0xlol64]

I use Arch BTW

[@georgiepoo3304]

I AM A POOPY LENOVO GAMER My current laptop is a Toshiba Sattelite C55t-A that a friend's mom upgraded from and gave to me free of charge. Intel Pentium 2020M dual core CPU, 2.4ghz No dedicated GPU 12gbs of RAM 1tb HDD Comes with standard ports and a dvd drive, but the laptop has suffered a lot of wear due to missing screws since the day I got it and the manufacturing age of the machine being very old. The machine itself dates back to the Windows 8 era based off the sticker. Would be nice to have a beefier piece of tech to run some more games on, but I'm content with the things I have as of now and I mainly support the channel by watching. Your content and personality clicked with me the moment I first found you and will continue to watch you for as long as your channel stays operating. Sorry for the long comment, hope your life is doing well.

[@omerakgoz34]

Did you even install nvidia driver on linux???