This $450 Gaming Laptop Is An Emulation Beast!

In this video, we test out some of our favorite emulators on this Early Black Friday $450 HP Gaming laptop and the results are amazing!
With an i5 9300H and Nvidia GTX 1650, this could very well be the best Black Friday Laptop deal ive ever been able to get my hands on! So how does it our favorite emulator for $450? Let's Find Out!
We test out some Dreamcast using Redream, PSP using PPSSP, Sega Saturn using RetrioArch, Gamecube, and Wii using the Dolphin emulator, PS2 using PCSX2, 3DS using Citra, PS3 using RPCS3, and Wii U using CEMU!
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CPU: i5 9300H
4-Cores - 8 Threads
2.40GHz - 4.10GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR4-2666
GPU: GTX 1650 4 GB GDDR5
Storage: 256GB NVMe
Display: 15.6 1080P IPS
00:00-Intro
00:05-Overview
01:21-Specs
02:18-Dreamcast Redream
03:06-PSP PPSSPP
03:49-Sega Saturn
04:34-GameCube Dolphin
05:42-Wii Dolphin
06:35-PS2 PCSX2
08:33-3DS Citra
09:13-PS3 RPCS3
11:26-Wii U Cemu
12:01-Final thoughts
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[@hsmreu]

The words "HP", "$400", "laptop", and "emulation beast" together in one title? What a day

[@DeltaSteak991]

I've got a gamer HP laptop. It's a nice heater for winter time. I could iron my clothes with it.

[@Undonefailure]

@@DeltaSteak991 lmao

[@supersquid0045]

Add Chromebook and the world will explode.

[@Joaovitor1.1]

Just $400? Like joke...

[@noki1515]

@@DeltaSteak991 😂😂 nice one man

[@thatanonwholurksmoar7386]

>get this video recommended today >its 2 weeks old >price is back to $700 Ahahaha WHY!

[@FrankieAldaba]

Best Buy

[@BuzzingGoober]

Back in stock today dumbass and it's the better ryzen model.

[@Archemetics]

@@BuzzingGoober The dumbass was unnecessary dude lmao

[@KaibaSeto.]

@@Archemetics C'mon man Is the art of the keyboard How you gonna prove that your keyboard is bigger than others if you don't type unwarranted insults at people?

[@KaibaSeto.]

@Flannette The number of people that can back it up to do it in real life is less than those that do it in the internet,is two different arts,deadly enemies from thousand years when Ego's sensei stole a Keyboard from the Ryu-Ko-Shin Keyboard Dojo

[@SuljaRock]

The title says 450$, me clicking the link to find the price 719$ ...

[@darrickfoster8694]

Yes king

[@luciusirving5926]

I'm better off with some fairly economical Acer laptop.

[@DaStrangeWeasel]

Looks like a great alternative to an energy-hungry desktop PC. Hoping it drops back in price this year's Black Friday!

[@jwhipification]

I haven't been able to get my gaming experience back together for a few years now. With losing my home to natural disasters and then job. Gaming hasn't been a necessity. I think of gaming again everyday. I hope things turn around soon so I will be able to again. Any help on gaming would be very appreciated.

[@HasturWool]

I hope so too

[@mugen11120]

I pray god blesses you in the future brother

[@Jupiters1337]

God Bless

[@papapingas1797]

F

[@vain.a2]

god bless

[@tonymorales936]

So cool to see you talk about this pc I'm super happy because I just picked it up and had it about a week before I seen this posted and I love it so far iv enjoyed it and definitely can't wait to run some emulation on it now

[@noelmcgovern3987]

This is the exact video review I was looking for. Thanks for this 😊 (unfortunately the price has gone up to €800)

[@AppericateGamer]

Thanks for making the video ETA Prime no wonder this laptop sold out in walmart 450 dollar as a emulator beast

[@calebsonicboom35world40]

I'm definitely getting this for Christmas... this is amazing!

[@g.abzilla7665]

Great to see you're changing up the games you try it on! Maybe you can try the switch emulator next time?

[@fabianernestopacheco]

*Finally! Just what i was looking for! This gives me a very clear idea of ​​what is recommended to be able to emulate my favorite games. Thank you very fucking much!!!* 🍺😎🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@Somulo]

WHAT A VIDEO MA MAN I never ever can even imagine what you can run 4k sonic colors on this kind of laptop lol

[@ferceron8992]

I come to this channel for the testings and benchmarks. But that jump on skate 3 was insane.

[@Richie016]

incredible system,Pavilion notebooks are sure worth try some emulation gaming.

[@Sammy0190]

I wish this laptop was as low of a price in the UK, it's like double here

[@KiranR95]

Not just UK, rest of the world😂

[@Sammy0190]

@@Jacespace23 not worth it, shipping would be too much and I don't have anyone in the US

[@OwensMixedChannel]

I’m sorry - an American

[@Sammy0190]

@@OwensMixedChannel lmao thanks

[@acejon2162]

Worse, amazon SG is triple the price! Always sad to see ETA's 299 or 399 notebooks the price of which we'll never get here.

[@BigBad21]

I have the older version of this pc with an 8th gen i5 and 1050 ti. This version looks wayy better even just by the exhaust vent styling, even if it isn’t flush

[@blutarheel1]

Man, I love your videos! Especially emulation running on pc. Would love to know how to run PS3.

[@axilleus]

Man you are the king of emulation on KZbin!

[@hidenman]

love your videos, filling your niche corner well. Could you test Minecraft in the future? i play modded and run VM of linux, would be interesting to see how your devices handle that stuff

[@TeamUnpro]

Dunno why but I love watching videos like these! It's neat to see what these machines are capable of (I especially love pi-related things) eventhough the term "playable" gives me stress for some reason, probably because I always had to make due with what we had growing up but we still got by

[@durgasdelight]

I hear that. I had the same experience growing up, and most of my game knowledge comes from watching my friends play or watching videos on youtube lol. But there is strength in being able to build a machine that is twice as powerful for half the price (without sacrificing portability). ETAP and a few other youtubers have proven that.

[@TeamUnpro]

@@durgasdelight oh for sure, if done right you can save big and get great performance. For example, look at dell workstations ;) 16 thread xeons with 32GB ram or more for cheap.

[@LegacyLoot]

@6:28 did anybody else notice DK just flex on our boy?! He's salty from the butt slams lol

[@Irraptured]

Just snagged it for $550, hyped for it to show up

[@Avatarof-xk5fp]

Great Review! I appreciate the timestamps

[@sachoslks]

Its crazy to look at the CPU usage jump whenever you test RPCS3, up to 100% usage on Skate 3! Really heavy emulator

[@amanitamuscaria5863]

Skate 3 melts CPUs.

[@119princesskida5]

You should try running NCAA Football 14 or NCAA Basketball 10 on RPCS3 on this, the engine in those games is notorious for random crashing and audio issues on Ryzen processors so I'm curious to see if this Intel chip can handle them

[@albnoel]

Thanks for raising the prices

[@skins4thewin]

Would really love to see ya do a video for this laptop for some regular PC titles. Have been looking for a laptop that can run Dragon Quest 11 for the PC.

[@mmm.3839]

Awesome, was getting it for GameCube and Wii games

[@danielknight5609]

two years later and the price went up. gotta love it

[@glennshoemake4200]

HP laptop was the only time that I took out an extended warranty and it was repaired multiple times under warranty, however it would still overheat in the summer unless I ran it on a laptop stand with a huge fan underneath. Next laptop I bought was MSI and I never had any problems at all. All of my friends have had bad experiences with HP laptops being repaired under warranty and still breaking afterwards.

[@CreativeMonsterx]

Walmart in stock alert setup! I think this same laptop is also going to be on a Best Buy Black Friday Sale. I'm gonna try to buy this and then also add another stick of ram and possibly add an SSD drive. Thanks for the video!

[@Harel-DIY]

The best buy version is a bit different, it has the better AMD 4600H cpu, unfortunately it has a TN display and an older chassis

[@CreativeMonsterx]

@@Harel-DIY Thanks for the heads up!

[@cezarresand]

Yes your right it will be on Best Buys black Friday this year. Hopefully it won't sell out like everything else. Early access is Nov 16-17 and normally it will be Nov 22. So good luck to all. I really want to pick this up for my son.

[@aveatdj]

men you are very lucky for being in usa, i got the last model before that one with a i5 8300h and gtx1050 at equivalent of 1000 USD in my country, well that was like 2 years ago so yeah

[@jasonkaramoy561]

Hello loves your video, could you show us you settings for each emulator? Thank you.

[@minochanel]

Well, I just hope I can bust for the next year. Because this laptop looks and runs amazing.

[@KyudoKun]

The price just goes up. Thanks to this video.

[@pg2990]

Your reviews are the best! (as always) Does this PC already have the bracket and SATA 3 cable for a 2.5 SSD, just to mount and go? Really need to know if I can get just de SSD or if I'll need to buy the mounting kit? Also, any SSD recommendations for 1TB?

[@GonnyParson]

Wow. Pretty good performance

[@liamgardner6033]

I need this it's so smooth man

[@robloxfan23_]

Oh, I got that pc for my birthday today!

[@jasonreviews]

how i not subbed to your channel. I've been watching your channel for 1 year. LMFAO.

[@cyberrider1765]

What a beast for that price! Start to lag audio with Skate 3 for Ps3😱😱😱

[@WarpPal]

That consistent 4GHZ is what helps tremendously with Emulator speed is that a function of the CPU or a mamual setting?

[@seebarry4068]

That looks really similar to my old Alienware.

[@builtbyrhondy1111]

can you kindly list the settings.configs that you use for each emulator? i have the aspire 7 laptop (i79750H and gtx1650 w/ 16gb ram) and I feel as if my emulators dont perform the same as yours.

[@alexeyg501]

Maybe u should use high performance mode? This setting really effects the performance of emulators

[@sonicjerry]

That is a pretty good reasonable price gaming laptop. I might be interested in picking one up if they get it back in stock

[@AnarickTheDevil]

It's $600.00 now.

[@Lukes-Tech]

Great one ETA! This looks like a nice laptop! Yeah

[@waleedaolnzi1248]

ok cill

[@Phenom98]

Chill m8. Lay off the blow.

[@coreykouns3538]

Awesome to see something like this on the market. Greatly appreciate the in-depth work you're doing to check all this stuff out for us. It's out of stock online, but I've got a restock alert email set up. My current laptop is a 9-year-old Dell XPS that was a gift from the family before college...so just about anything I can get my hands on is going to perform better than it, and if I can spend $450 instead of one or two thousand, that seems like a good gig to me!

[@robmalcolm8042]

Still works tho right? And they say only MacBooks last that long.

[@MarcoAntonioSalcedoGalindez]

Something like this this year? My only black Friday buy will be a nice laptop :)

[@kevinthompson7401]

I have this laptop with a Ryzen 7 and can stream VR wirelessly with virtual desktop to my oculus quest. I'm extremely happy with this laptop. Edit: I should mention I did bump it up to 16GB RAM.

[@kidgagorolo820]

that you recommend me more, the same model but with an Intel Core i5-9300H or with an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H?

[@alejandrocuevas5556]

Can you please show some of the higher end arcade based emulatation games from the teknoparrot emulator such as Daytona Championship USA, Battlegear 4, Gaelco Championship Tuning Racing, GRID, H2Overdrive, Initial D Arcade, Outrun 2, Sega Rally 3, Tokyo Cop, Valve Limit R, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5 (WMMT5) and all the Fast and the Furious racing games. I like rail shooters and racing games but racers are much faster pace so wanted to see how it handled them.

[@optimusslayer7246]

I had this laptop before. The first time I had it I noticed right away that the w key would not physically get stuck but randomly it would just stop working for a second. For example let’s say I’m running in a game, it would stop by itself and I’d have to click w again. I thought it was just that laptop and got a replacement but it turned out to have the same issue. So I think it’s just HP’s laptops or something. I ended up getting a lenovo legion 5 which is working really well.

[@Shikaku11373]

That is crazy how this can run PS3 games, just curious about how large are those games? Are you running them off an external HD?

[@ZamuCubingLab]

Hi, I have a problem. I can't boot my pi4 from usb 512gb ssd. I've tried to flash with raspbian and it works. But when I flash it with 400gb premade retropie image it doesn't boot. What can I do?

[@Trusteft]

I am still hoping someone will create a Xbox360 emulator and run perfectly PGR3 and PGR4. As for this machine, it looks good for emulation. Thanks for the video.

[@nist3188]

I mean. Just because it doesn't run at constant 60fps doesn't mean it's not running full speed. Sure it's nice but 50-60fps is perfectly running imo. Also a google search can help you with the shaders compiling issue happy emulation!!!! (Great video as always btw)

[@requiett]

Are you using async shader compilation in CEMU? I've found that all but eliminated stuttering in BotW. It was an amazing update put out around 6 months ago.

[@micahretief7893]

Nice... I'm definitely going to get this laptop

[@micahretief7893]

@Ennis jr. I got it actually, it's pretty good

[@micahretief7893]

@Ennis jr. just the fan gets loud when playing more demanding games

[@Liran1206]

Hi man thanks for the video! Quick question: I want to buy/build a PC, what CPU and GPU do I need for running GameCube Dolphin Emulator at 4k resolution?

[@xymoriintus]

Scalpers are going to love this

[@infowarrior6644]

Lol love it go to see if it’s still relatively the same price and almost have a heart attack when it’s almost 1k

[@tzielsky]

A great video you have there buddy. but I have a question about psp emulation, you said midnight club and liberation is standard of running in psp, but how about Final Fantasy Disiddia or Dante Inferno, because my laptop can run midnight club, not really smoothly but barely running disiddia and dante inferno, any sugestion about that?

[@felipesereno2479]

bruh, emulating the saturn just costs 4w of energy, incredible

[@sachoslks]

What are your settings for Killzone? I can run Midnight Club at x10 resolution with an i3 4170 and a GTX 960, but Killzone stutters in like x2 resolution, really weird.

[@sachoslks]

Look at the GPU usage with PCSX2, its crazy how heavy on the GPU it is when upscaling games even as "low" as 1080p

[@jordantherubio]

Is it better to download individual emulators or get something like retro arch? And is there something similar to retroarch that has a better UI and faster way to launch games?

[@kingofmonsters14]

i have a question about gaming on a laptop: can you use a PS4 or XBONE controller? especially with the old stuff like Rogue Squadron? and can this laptop also do Steam, Xbox Game Pass, Playstaion Plus, and Epic?

[@Anderixx]

The price is great, but there is one big problem: In Germany we have to pay ~ 1000 bugs for it :(((

[@BigBooBoo]

I'm getting this laptop for Christmas

[@coryjkrum]

I just bought this one of these the other day for 7 days 2 die I love it it is pretty good for a starter gaming laptop wish I could have got the sale price but I am still happy

[@slavvoslava4694]

Interesting to see the inflation on this. Almost doubled in price in a year if the link is correct...

[@AmgedIsmail]

Hello. Do you have any idea if this gaming laptop MSI GS75 Stealth 10SFS which has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q can run RPCS3 games at smooth speed?

[@galihriskipratama3631]

Hey, thanks for using that 2 games for psp emulation, but can you use a psp game called "silent hill shattered memories"? That game is pretty hard to emulate in low end pc i just want to know if some laptop could play it on full performance

[@IRWPD]

Thank you for showing off some PS2 emulation.

[@MuhammadNajmi1]

Hey there, do you think if the laptop are in dual channel memory mode, that performance on ps3 emulator will be improve?

[@SuperRogeta]

hey awesome video, but can you possibly send the links for all the emulators that we can use if possible?

[@TrueSonOfSkyrim]

What is the fighting game in between Gran Turismo and God of War called?? I used to play something like this in the psx please reply :3

[@cesarcardenas6162]

Wow, this laptop is amazing, greetings

[@originofcomics4973]

Great laptop for the price 👍🏻

[@expotemkin]

This sold out like the instant it went up so I ended up getting the EVOO with the 16 gb ram and i7 9th gen for 750 instead. Would have preferred to save the extra $300 though.

[@Thedude897]

Damn that laptop is 700 now. I got a nitro 5 close to the same specs. So I'm gonna use this video as a reference.

[@EnterpriseKnight]

By the way, how do you get that good performance for Rogue Squadron? I do have a 1060 but it should run similar to that. It doesn't.

[@CresentMoon18]

What settings did you use for PS3 on this computer. I am currently struggling and the frame rate has just been at 1.74

[@CMAC86]

Invested in a Lenovo L340 gaming laptop in February, has everything this has but with 16gb ram & i7 9750H 9th gen. I honestly would not expect it to run Wii U nor GameCube! Looks like Metal Gear Solid GameCube is getting a run for its money! Any other systems this can run? Ps Vita?

[@ThePaulKM]

Could you compare this laptop with a high-end gaming phone for emulation? I would like to see that comparison.

[@GURken]

Did you try yuzu? I have the same model but with ryzen 5 4600h in it and I had some stutters in Super Mario Odyssey.

[@IlTHATGUYlI]

Could you do rust in your game test list next gaming laptop

[@alexanderdimoglo]

Thanks for a great review, but from my experience with the same specs laptop it has its downsides. For example throttling when CPU is overheating (~85+°C) and that happens a lot during the PS3 emulation or other things. Have you encountered something similar while testing this model?

[@glow2215]

It's a fuckin laptop not a gaming pc, the damn thing has 2 fans of course it's going to be hot, especially when you are emulating ps3 games.

[@III-ph3hb]

@@glow2215 😂😂😂😂

[@stewwey4059]

compare your hp pavillion gaming laptop to my acer nitro 5 the cpu temperature throttle up to 93celsius

[@lee-am5557]

8:14 the childhood game.i beat the game like 2 or 3 times.u keep the guns but i thinkthey get better

[@krazycharlie]

Very impressive emulation performance in this laptop. If only those $450 were the actual price here in Colombia... :(.

[@greibaz]

Hey, can you make a video explaining the setup of those emulators? I have the same PC, but sometimes it's hard for me to configure them the right way.

[@chipisgreat]

Search up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoDPmpSerrqMd8U

[@chipisgreat]

Hope this helps

[@Riska__]

Man I had such high hopes to get this laptop, but unfortunately it has nearly doubled from the price you got it at 😔

[@cyristroy9795]

How well does this laptop output to a TV? It has hdmi out, was curious if it has good output to do 4k to a monitor or TV?

[@datrumpettdudeee]

Hey how come my desktop with an i5-8500 and a gtx 1070 ti can't run infamous smoothly? Also it's a shame that the sound wasn't working on skate 3. That's a huge part of the experience. Is there any way to improve sound performance in emulators?

[@razariopatton9666]

look good I'm going to buy it :)

[@DangerousDevilOfficial]

Seems like one of the best units for the money you have had on the channel in a while! 👍

[@Firetorm2999]

I got the Ryzen version from Best Buy and I love it!! Just ordered an 8GB stick to upgrade to 16GB and I already have a 4TB HDD hooked up to it.

[@Elias-dw4oz]

Where can I buy those things for mine? Also mine has had overheating issues and I don't know what to do to fix it

[@ameyashetty1441]

me toooo

[@2NDSEATEROFMOTHORCOUNCIL]

@@Elias-dw4oz get a cooling pad

[@2NDSEATEROFMOTHORCOUNCIL]

@@Elias-dw4oz and 4tb hard drives are available at any electronic store

[@2NDSEATEROFMOTHORCOUNCIL]

@@Elias-dw4oz same with ram, get someone to install all of it for you as laptops are hard to upgrade

[@zachsteiner]

Damn I really want this laptop but idk if it’ll ever be in stock

[@donrosalioroasters]

Hello, big fan of your and follow your recommendations. On this laptop, would it be possible to demo it using the Coin ops Pinball FX. I had a laptop that it worked find on and since sold it. I'm looking for a cheap solution that I can run this and maybe this is it. Since you mentioned you have a son, and you are a Half-life fan I have some cool posters that I was going to put on e-bay for sale, and would be happy to send them to a a youtube contributor like yourself. They are posters from the initial release of Halflife and HalfLife 2 in perfect condition. Thanks so much! G

[@Lucky-Scratcher]

What parts you recommend for upgrading this gaming laptop? I don't know much about computers parts, I would appreciate if you can link what parts and where to buy them. Thank you.

[@gunstarrgames]

Well with the 8GB of ram, it’s usually recommended to upgrade to 16GB to squeeze out more performance, but 8GB is fine if you’re on a budget, and the storage is great for upgrading if you wanna install more games or ROMs for your emulators