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@ethn_oce59412 жыл бұрын
nice
@realcartoongirl2 жыл бұрын
you monster you didn't clean off all the paste on the gpu
@psivewri2 жыл бұрын
@@realcartoongirl that stuff on the edges doesn't matter at all. It's really hard and I'd risk ripping off the small capacitors.
@TrollDenied2 жыл бұрын
Respecfully the 17 wasnt the best, the 18 was. dual gpus, big screen, beefy power brick and heavy. i had one second hand myself with the i7-4910 and 880ms sadly it died on me before i could swap 980ms into it. its no biggie cause i ended up getting a great deal on a laptop with a 2070 in it for real cheap.
@SyrizerEnxvity Жыл бұрын
can you tell me what is that car game pls l subcribe to you
@mbrooker792 жыл бұрын
I rebuild/refurbish these laptops as a little side hobby and it's fun to see other people still using them. They were the last of the truly upgradeable Alienware laptops. They can even take a Quadro RTX 3000.
@DevPatel-lo5kw Жыл бұрын
great hobby dude
@Me-eb3wv Жыл бұрын
Based hobby
@RandomThingReviews Жыл бұрын
I have one that I bought recently. Screen turns on with some dim kind of lines and square shapes then goes black. Does not work with hdmi. I replaced the ram and I’m about to replace cmos battery and new thermal paste. Any recommendations?
@nkarim4979 Жыл бұрын
@@RandomThingReviews Did you ever figure out what was wrong?
@RandomThingReviews Жыл бұрын
@@nkarim4979 at this point I’m convinced the gpu is bad. So I’m waiting to find another one with a bad screen and a good motherboard, gpu, cpu to swap
@wizzrobe38962 жыл бұрын
I used one of these with for a while and stuck in a 4930mx and put in an MSI 1070 MXM. With some other mods and some custom heatsinks, it performed quite well. The only limitation was the max of around 118-122 watts the MXM slot could provide for the GPU.
@WweBreezybre2 жыл бұрын
I currently have a 980m in my old one. I was thinking of upgrading to a 1070 but didnt seem worth it for the price.
@ted.86312 жыл бұрын
interesting
@ted.86312 жыл бұрын
@@WweBreezybre the 1080 is the best I think.
@VeeIn3D2 жыл бұрын
@@ted.8631 Sorry g dfe Edit: Somehow I commented this while mowing my lawn and I kinda want to just leave it
@rulvra30722 жыл бұрын
GPU bottlenecks be like
@Obie3272 жыл бұрын
I ended up going with the ASUS Rog Strix 17incher in October of 2014. My unit was equipped with 12 gigs of ram and the GTX 860m Maxwell GPU. This gaming Laptop is still a beast and I use it as my mobile Vacation/travel system when away. Rock solid and surprisingly fast to this day. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I bought new!? Great Laptop when Laptops were built like tanks. Thanks Psivewri for the review!
@curlyefrain98792 жыл бұрын
They werent built like tanks,not at all bro. I remember one of my laptops got its ram broken due to simple fast tapping and had to take it to the repair shop.Nowadays they are more solid.Steam deck for example(still laptop)
@Tattooed_goldenretriever2 жыл бұрын
how have you kept it going for that long? my hope is to keep my brand new gaming laptop for at least 5 years to go through uni
@Obie3272 жыл бұрын
@@Tattooed_goldenretriever I guess it was luck? I did have my issues and skepticism in the beginning with Nvidia driver issues. I remembered a rough early start. A Year later upgraded to Window 10 Pro/SSD Boot/16 Gigs of ram. It's been rock solid since after a little while with Win 10. My Laptop sits next to me on a small table with a cooling Pad underneath. I only really move it when on the road/Vacation. Original battery still holding up great.
@abdur13002 жыл бұрын
Can it runs RDD2 or Battlefield 5?
@Code_String2 жыл бұрын
Damn, seeing this is.. something. I have an m17x R4 and 17 R1 laying around. They were the main laptops before I gave everyone appropriate 2021/2022 laptops. Loved their modularity, it made me a lot more confident at dismantling laptops entirely. Albeit these computers aren't being used much anymore, I've planned on getting rid of the MXM GPUs and keep them as backup/server machines with a little touch of novelty.
@TruenoG7772 жыл бұрын
if you don't want them you can sell them to me: v
@Gadgetman19892 жыл бұрын
One of the best things about this particular model is how if you wire a PS3/console to the HDMI it doubles as a handy on the go monitor with really good sound, I loved mine until the mobo went belly up and cooked both my GPU and itself, awesome video dude!!
@XilliosАй бұрын
THIS. This feature along with the upgradeable nature of both the CPU and GPU is the reason why this laptop still kicks ass. We will see nothing like it ever again unfortunately.
@iSamYTBackup2 жыл бұрын
for the money that's a damn good laptop
@stevens10412 ай бұрын
I remember wanting one of these. Their desktops at the time had the same light/material design
@siamfoxtyson37932 жыл бұрын
I have an Alienware 18, had it for 2 years, it's still a beast today!
@unicodefox2 жыл бұрын
I actually had the 14" version of this machine, not as high specced though (4th gen i5, GTX 750M, 8GB DDR3 & shipped 750GB WD Black), and it was a TANK (I have let the magic smoke out, twice, and it still works) and ran better than newer machines in some environments due to the massive amounts of cooling.
@Wile._E_Shitterman2 жыл бұрын
my uncle had bought this around when it came out and i grew up playing this, he passed in 2018 and got passed down to me and played it practically every day, sadly it stopped working, probably fixable but it's great to see that this laptop is still a good option for today
@sawyerstiltz73432 жыл бұрын
What is the laptop doing?
@Wile._E_Shitterman2 жыл бұрын
@@sawyerstiltz7343 if you try to turn it on it'll stay on the blue screen with the loading circle and then it'll go black for a second and do that infinitely
@NatK2010 Жыл бұрын
@@Wile._E_Shitterman Reinstall the Windows Installation. The Laptop is fine, but the Operating System is corrupt.
@thomasmacdonough288 Жыл бұрын
I still use a very similar laptop to this, a late 2015-17R3 with a 4k display, 970M, i7 and 16gigs of ram. Its served me well for 7 years, and by God it'll serve me many more. Its archaic, gets hot asf, and weighs half a ton, yet it's still strong enough to do what I need it to do, truly a fantastic machine.
@WweBreezybre2 жыл бұрын
I was trying to stop mine from constantly restarting a couple months back. Maybe the gpu fan shutting off may have been my problem. I'll have to give that fan curve program a shot to see if it'll fix my problem.
@psivewri2 жыл бұрын
Definitely worth a shot. I was pretty stuck until I realised I needed to do that :)
@greendreeegon2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’m sure it’s because ur gpu fan is stopping and it’s getting too hot and is restarting for safety. Try to clean the fan or something. Had that problem with my pc
@ted.86312 жыл бұрын
I use a cooling stand with mine yo help keep it running cool. they do have pretty good cooling but playing a high demanding game they do run hot. I haven't needed to overclock mine yet for any games.if you can keep them cool it might prolong the life of your laptop.I haven't had any issues yet with mine. I wouldn't use it at all for games if a fan isn't working you could cook it.
@hsvmonarocv81362 жыл бұрын
So can I ask, do you have this laptop and what OS... Win 10? Because I have this exact laptop
@ted.86312 жыл бұрын
@@hsvmonarocv8136 win 10
@notfrostydev2 жыл бұрын
I have always wanted one of those when it was released.
@mitchelldrake71132 жыл бұрын
This was my first gaming laptop and I still use it after upgrading some parts. It basically functions as a desktop for me
@milkbucket20112 жыл бұрын
Great video Psivewri! You're like the only tech youtuber i watch
@Contemporary_2 жыл бұрын
Finally a new videos after weeks!
@Jack_Meadows2 жыл бұрын
Nice Keychron Q8! Just pi ked one up myself and love the Aloce layout 😃
@m.hreels9822 Жыл бұрын
0:28 I love that TV!📺🤯
@CYB3R2K9 ай бұрын
My rule for gaming laptops: they are fine AS LONG as you dont expect to play the latest games. Usually theyre better for games that came out 3 - 5 years ago. Of course for small indie games they're fine.
@Chrysalis42 жыл бұрын
Recently switched from an alienware laptop with a 970m to a 3080 5950x pc. My laptop has done me well for 4 years straight and couldn't be more grateful for it's wonderful performance.
@Cmdrbzrd2 жыл бұрын
Mobile Haswell processors are still great, and the graphics card can still be upgraded quite a bit. Would be a venerable machine with 32GB of ram, a large SSD(Or two), an I7-4810MQ and at least a 980M.
@siyzerix2 жыл бұрын
The gtx 980m is quite poor these days. Especially considering 1060 laptops and gtx 1650 laptops beat it.
@XilliosАй бұрын
@@siyzerix With modified Nvidia drivers installed and the appropriate upgraded heatsinks, you can install up to a Nvidia P4000 graphics card, which gets similar performance to a GTX 1070. Obviously not everyone is going to do this, but it still makes the machine usable at decent frame rates even by today's standards; if you're not trying to run everything on max settings for the newest titles, that is. Not to mention, this was the last laptop with the capability of using an HDMI Input port, effectively allowing you to use it as a portable monitor for an external game system or anything else, such as an Apple TV. No idea why they removed this feature.
@braylonthomson2 жыл бұрын
You are literally my fave KZbin! Keep up the great work
@BeckyAnn68792 жыл бұрын
I have the little sister to this (the 2016 model) with an i7-6700HQ and 970M GPU. Using it right now to type this. We upped the RAM to the max 32 GB and swapped the 7200 RPM 1 TB HDD for a 1 TB SSD. I don't game HARD, but I find it handles EA titles like Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and The Sims 4 on Ultra-high settings with no issues. Only probs this really has is the keyboard is shot, so I use a Logitech G Pro TKL and I think one USB port is acting shoddy.
@Denny_17762 жыл бұрын
Wow! Very sleek looking laptop. Nice vid!
@eternalrest28592 жыл бұрын
I have one of these and its a beast of a machine for the time and actually pretty good even now.. Excellent build quality, reliable as hell. Thing hasnt skipped a beat in years. If you only have $500 and can get one for this price then its well worth it compared to the cheap laptops of today but as you said a modern GAMING laptop will whoop its ass.
@Cam05452 жыл бұрын
I have been eyeing some old laptops on eBay so this is interesting
@emdotrod2 жыл бұрын
I remembered my friend still using this laptop as his editing machine up until 2020
@JNX072 жыл бұрын
You're making me wanna put some love into my 17 R3 (6700HQ/970m). Might have to pick up some of that eucalyptus oil
@Ll3maFN2 жыл бұрын
got that keychron q8 i see, have you changed the switches to some nicer ones?
@theconjuror1122 жыл бұрын
This is the best KZbin channel, ever! Great video! Thanks!! 👍🤠
@SFH_Jenkins2 жыл бұрын
Man I love seeing these older gaming laptops, I don't know why but there is something about those beefy laptops filled to the brim with everything you could possibly need. An SSD and a HDD AAAND a CD drive with 4 sticks of ram while still being able to cool itself properly, that's impressive.
@arsenal44442 жыл бұрын
@Zaydan Naufal there are m.2 to sata adapters...not nvme, but they will be faster and easily stay at constant max sata 3 speeds of 550MB/s
@razorreaper84402 жыл бұрын
Great video and great classic laptop. A little correction here the best alienware at the time was the ALIENWARE 18 or AW18 R3 with 18 inches and dual graphics... and the entire laptop components were completely upgradeable.... I still have mine both the 15, 17 and the 18 plus the vintage M 18X R2 and all of those laptops can be upgraded up to the RTX graphics and going back to the gtx 500 series.... which is no longer existent today even from alienware themselves or might I say dell ... they no longer want you to upgrade. They just want you to buy a new system every year even the area 51m was garbage only locked in one generation of components... while being sold as upgradeable....
@Faisalmajdalz Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your video, so what actually did you do to fix the fan turning off ? I have the same issue in my alienware.
@DevilsReject765 Жыл бұрын
Looks pretty nice 😊😊
@Criticasparareflexio2 жыл бұрын
I came here with no expectations since my current main laptop (4720HQ/960M) is actually 8 years old, so I just wanted to see how you treated the subject of 8 years old computing technology.
@OmegaZeroKiller2 жыл бұрын
As someone who had picked up a Clevo sporting a 1050 Ti Mobile for a similar price, I gotta say that the $400 pricing is definitely not a bad find. Took me a similar amount to max out the upgrades though (shame that mine is embedded onboard and not MXM).
@RebeccaRaven2 жыл бұрын
I have an x17 with a 17 R4 still laying around for backup. My Alienwares never break, they just get a little slower than what I like. I love them.
@iranouspolaris20352 жыл бұрын
Great video full of interesting knowledge on the model. Great job!!!
@vicchopin2 жыл бұрын
man these vids are comfy af!!!
@unbrokendawn7572 жыл бұрын
would like to see some mkb related contents from you, psiverwri. especially that you own a keychron q8 @ 6:30. Would love to see you modding that keeb
@cacciatore91473 ай бұрын
I bought this laptop with GTX860 2GB in 2014, for Kerbal Space Program. I upgraded the GPU to a MXM GTX 1060 6GB (also the power adapter) in 2017. It is a very reliable and stable machine, and it is used for computing tasks for the SETI@home project when I was out. But it is very heavy.
@SmilyTheMare2 жыл бұрын
i love tcl tvs i have a tcl roku 43” 4k uhd tv and i love it also great vid always love ur content
@ivicron5 ай бұрын
I have same laptop Alienware. Looks amazing even after years of usage.
@FoxMccloud422 жыл бұрын
a gpu upgrade to an gtx 980m would bring it more up to date. The nice thing is, it is an MXM-Module. But these are hard to get. I think Eurocom sells MXM-GPUs. But a used one would be cheaper.
@GrimReaper-jm7yh2 жыл бұрын
Hi, I did upgrade mine o the 980m after my graphics card died, took me a long time to get a driver that worked, then Nvidia did a driver update and overnight my graphics card was dead, have tried everything to fix it, but no joy, :(
@MrKillswitch882 жыл бұрын
Getting an 980m is easy, it is getting one new old stock is an issue never mind at an ok cost as both the 970m and 980m are somewhat high failure rate cards due to the mosfets baking to death. Some versions of the 1060 are an good option and same goes for the 1070 be it with some effort. RTX 3000 is known to work well with these machines and I personally use an mxm version of the rx 580 because it was cheap and very easy to install.
@RIPUZI2 жыл бұрын
I love the machines you find. I wish I was more confident in changing the thermal paste on my laptop! Keep the videos coming!
@FrankValchiria8 ай бұрын
not sure how is over there but l most old gtx 980 laptops or 1070 laptop go for more money than newer rtx laptops, literally impossible to find something like you did for less than 500 euros here , it's crazy
@kylethez3872 жыл бұрын
it was my second laptop, when i entered high school, soo nostalgia for the past
@tobylifers33902 жыл бұрын
Damn, our boy has the $$$ TCL sponsorships now?! Congrats Psivewri!
@NexXxus862 жыл бұрын
I had this exact laptop with the same specs. It was quite a beast.
@jortuspelatus73642 жыл бұрын
Watching this guy's videos make me want to clean out my trusty Legion Y720. But I get nervous that I might short circuit some parts and kill my laptop altogether...
@alinosgg2 жыл бұрын
Would be cool to see a device collection video
@kumano73232 жыл бұрын
I own this laptop, but with the 765m option instead of the 880m. Still runs well but the 9 year old 1tb HDD is failing. The rubber coating on this laptop has turned into goop and the whole thing (except the metal top) is a huge fingerprint magnet. Great vid as always!
@mss29812 жыл бұрын
get ssd..
@theforerunnerreclaimer2 жыл бұрын
@@mss2981 It already has an mSATA boot SSD, the 1TB HDD is a game drive. And, no. SSDs are not required for games (atleast not yet...). Besides, a 1TB HDD is way cheaper than a 1TB SATA SSD
@mss29812 жыл бұрын
@@theforerunnerreclaimer Actually, an ssd does speed things up in game load times and some textures in general terms. The difference in performance with SSD is noticeable across the board.
@theforerunnerreclaimer2 жыл бұрын
@@mss2981 Is a 3-5% performance boost worth 30-50% cost increase?
@gordesky12 жыл бұрын
@@theforerunnerreclaimer Really more so the increase of performance ouside of gaming is worth it alone with a ssd :) And makes a older machine feel alot more snappier :)
@spoons49042 жыл бұрын
Really good video as usual
@davidmartineziii73432 жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes ^_^ I have this very same AW17 ^_^ it was a hand me down from my cousin and I occasionally use it for light tasks nowadays. I used to play MMOs on it years back and AAA games, Witcher, etc. I still really enjoy messing with it and it makes for a neat conversation piece with people who don't think that I own a laptop haha! ^_^ great review and a reminder to me that I should also clean mine out as well!
@lamtsang3236 Жыл бұрын
I had mine since 2018 and now its 2023. This laptop is about 5 years old. It can play any games that is in my steam library but not the modern games like marvel spiderman, Horizon etc... Fifa 22 works great on here still. This is what I use to play with my friend sometimes when he has a day off. It extremely heavy and hard to carry on your back. I am planning on selling mine later on in the future for a much better performance with the Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card in the market.
@광동아재廣東大叔2 жыл бұрын
At first sight I thought this to be a mini PC rather than a laptop 🤣
@logangarrison2 жыл бұрын
i wanted to buy a used one for engineering classes, now i want to convert one into a sleeper specifically for gamer
@rokr4559 ай бұрын
i still have my 17 r2, love it
@ypoora12 жыл бұрын
I had the Alienware 14 from this generation. It was so solid and i kind of miss having it.
@Actuallyalex922 жыл бұрын
Still have mine going, bought new laptops, yet always return to the 14 for the build quality…
@LSnium2 жыл бұрын
I dont know why but I love this Eucalyptus man.
@frostqueenmag91Ай бұрын
If that thing costs $3000 out of the store it better last forever
@zayncuriosity23 Жыл бұрын
Crazy how this laptop is still acceptable 8 1/2 years later. It can play some older games quite fine.
@RedHotUzumaki5 ай бұрын
i have the Alienware 17 R2 model from 2015, it was surprising to see the gpu is still supported by Nvidia this afternoon
@durplenurples2941 Жыл бұрын
What kind of eucalyptus oil are you using to clean the rubberized surfaces?
@smartdoctorphysicist30959 ай бұрын
Hi thank you I believe the 2017 or 2019 may be better, that is for 15R model or is the 17" better? I don't do games I would be using it CAD and design only, am I better off with a 17" or 15" one? Please let me know.
@caseytwill2 жыл бұрын
Nice watch... Steeldive 1970 Seiko 6105 homage?
@CesareVesdani Жыл бұрын
Can you find a laptop that is capable of installing Windows NT 4.0. Please try to install Windows NT 4.0 on a laptop with a 4GB or 4.2GB hard drive.
@jimbilello71346 ай бұрын
i have one and still use it on steam from time to time
@HamOzer2 жыл бұрын
7:21 psivewri also check his Twitter aswell during the game runs
@buda3d20072 жыл бұрын
I plan on baking my MXM card, its seems to be having issues only when running 3D excelerated applications, otherwise the whole unit is no good as i7 HD graphics have been disabled on my machine.
@NahashonMuriithi-pu6mc Жыл бұрын
would you recommend this laptop in 2022 for light gaming like gta 5 or so?
@reddeadryan782 жыл бұрын
I have it, still works.
@PinkPeachhh2 ай бұрын
So this eucalyptus oil... is it the essential oil? What other oil can be used?
@starbirbs5128 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know much about pc gaming/upgrades, but I have this laptop. Would it run the Director’s cut of Death Stranding from steam?
@starbirbs5128 Жыл бұрын
Turns out it will, with only a bit of stuttering at the beginning of heavy/quick movement cutscenes. It’s not that bad and only happens about every few hours and my sister who isn’t into gaming didn’t even notice the stutter. I’m now trying to figure out if it will run Cyberpunk 2077 with alright graphics. I had played when it first came out and it ran beautifully, but I can’t remember the quality of the graphics. I know it will run the DLC as well, but I don’t know how prettily. Trying to figure it out though so I can decide whether to get the dlc on pc or Xbox.
@kabalinalex Жыл бұрын
Hello. How did you wipe the case and keyboard? They became like new
@themadatheist19762 жыл бұрын
I missed my old laptop with it's 12.5mm ODD that I swapped for a HDD caddy with a 12.5mm 1.5GB HDD pulled from a external HDD bought a Radio Shack, those were the good old days of basic modding. I just finished repasting my 2021 GL65 Leopard, 1st time removing a HS with that many chips to cool and it felt look I could lift a chip. Half the paste easily crumbled to powered and I'm pretty sure I used 1/2 a tube of MX-4 for everything. I did forget to do a complete fan and fin cleaning but the mesh intakes, like what you have, do a great job keeping junk out. I still want to under volt it to get lower temps. Nice to see lots of storage options on laptops. Mine shipped with a 1 m.2 NVME and 1 2.5mm SATA bays, but there was a 2nd unpopulated m.2 bay MSI left off. Luckily the BIOS supported 2 m.2 so I ordered the connector and support components and soldered them on. Now I have separate drive for the OS and my game while leaving the 2.5 disk for bulk media.
@Jeminai772 жыл бұрын
im on one of these atm. an m18, 8 years old and still kicking. sure it cant play some most recent AAA games but this laptop made me an Alienware fan, i was stupid enough to invest in SLI back then so when the first GPU finally died i was able to swap them out with the relatively unused GPU & its fine. WAS impressed with Alienware, right up until i recently tried upgrading to the new x17. you can see what they tried there even though they removed a few features & dumped shit speakers into it, but i returned that piece of shit ASAP. upgraded screen was full of blister points in the black screen on TWO units they sent me, the second one had faulty speakers too. suffice to say i didnt feel as confident in investing that much in another Alienware. took them nearly 2 months to reimburse me and i made the move to a custom desktop PC instead. they had no interest in keeping me as a customer, fuck Dell.
@WellBeSerious122 жыл бұрын
Did you know MSI Afterburner exists? Also stunning reflective footage at the end.
@Chrysalis42 жыл бұрын
i would try overclocking on a laptop
@samuelsaady990910 ай бұрын
could you try upgrading the gpu? I heard that there is an mxm 1070 that should fit in, im considering it with my alienware since my gpu died, but im not sure if its worth it
@nathanmead1402 жыл бұрын
I have a m17x r3 that I built from parts for about $900 USD with a i7 2820qm, a GeForce GTX 560m, 16GBs (4x 4GB) of 1600MHz RAM, a 2TB 5400RPM HDD and windows 7 professional, it's heavy with almost everything installed (it's only missing the battery) and I use it on my lap, the m17x r3 is a good upgrade from my old laptop which is a linux PC now with LMDE 5 64 bit the only problem with that is debian does not support PPAs so I can't install the fixed nvidia 340 legacy driver that works on the 5.10 kernel and nouveau crashes cinnamon all the time.
@o_o68692 жыл бұрын
nathan is quite a nice person to have on KZbin community
@xfinalhellx2 жыл бұрын
I have the same laptop what settings did you put on the fans I’d like to know 🙏🏻
@imakesushinotsushit2 жыл бұрын
you deserve a sub
@sineadpuddles Жыл бұрын
Just saved me a battery replacement thank you!
@Danquerez2 жыл бұрын
Please tell me. How does your windows 10 work with this laptop?
@stefanegger2 жыл бұрын
why do you think the thermal paste needs to be liquid? It just has to bridge the gap which it does perfectly if you would not finger around in the system.
@AMPTechGrade2 жыл бұрын
This was my laptop in college, came with a 770m. It was cheaper than a MacBook Pro 15 inch if you could believe it. An absolute dream but it was noisy as hell pissing off my roommate & heavy as shit to lug around to class
@doncoons676110 ай бұрын
what software did you run for the temperatures ?
@adamek97502 жыл бұрын
The AW13 was quite interesting it had oled all those years ago with a decent gpu in a small form factor
@glthunder2 жыл бұрын
Would you post a link for the eucalyptus oil that you were using?
@warrenmcclure78193 ай бұрын
8GB vRAM in that thing is nuts since this thing came out 9 years ago, wow
@LazySpartan1172 жыл бұрын
Lucky, I got mine of fb market place for only 280 cad, it has a i7 4700MQ and a gtx 770M with 8gb of ram, still hoping I can someday find a nice MXM gpu for a good price to upgrade my 17 r1, i did eventually find some spare ram so its my main gaming beast, still going proud, even if it cant run the highest settings on games
@RafikExe11 ай бұрын
Hello sorry to reach out, im planning to buy used Dell g7(2018) with i5 gen 8 and gtx 1050, does these old gaming laptops hold up for years? Planning to use on college
@zingythelemon79492 жыл бұрын
Damn that's the laptop Sheldon's got from The Big Bang Theory.
@elsombero17472 жыл бұрын
Ah, thx for showing how you fixed that thermal issue with that software tool. I actually bought a RTX 2080 very recently for 210$ and I had a similar issue where one of the fans would shut off till the GPU reached 92°c. GPU Tweak Software which came with the drivers, that I also used to overclock the GPU, didn't help. Even after disabling that 0db fan setting. Well, I think the sensor was broken or something like that since it was reading the wrong temperatures but I don't mind. The GPU was advertised as broken and 210$ isn't such a high price. The thermal compound was alright but I replaced it anyway since the GPU was overheating before doing that software "tweak" of the fan control.
@diegoplayz63462 жыл бұрын
210 dollars?!?!?! Edit: I just read the full comment and I realized the fan was screwed up
@jokiph98302 жыл бұрын
you can optimize the ram and defrag the storage it can help
@jokiph98302 жыл бұрын
😲 is that true
@Crashoverride1234 Жыл бұрын
For anyone having mouse pad issues and the cpu fan running loud, try uninstalling the Synaptic Touchpad Driver or software. Once I removed that the mousepad was back in action and the fan stopped running so loud. No idea why tho.
@kakakiri26012 жыл бұрын
Is this still worth it to buy and use only in desk?
@surajshetty3887 Жыл бұрын
I have the AW 14 R1, i7 4700mq, 8gb ram, 765m, 750gb hdd+64gb ssd. It's been 10 years, got it on October 2013. I did lot of gaming from 2013 to 2018, 2018 to 2020 I had removed windows and replaced it with linux, many things didn't work due to driver problem but was enough for my college purpose. Now it's 2023, I started the laptop after 3 years and it's still running. I was thinking to just upgrade it to 16GB Ram and Upgrade to complete ssd and install windows 10, like a restoration hobby project. Hope windows 10 works fine now, not sure how the drivers will work well or not.
@ghazgoldfield12892 жыл бұрын
What Thermal Paste Do You Use? Seems Very Good At The Temps ^_^
@Wasmachineman2 жыл бұрын
Arctic MX-5.
@ghazgoldfield12892 жыл бұрын
@@Wasmachineman Damn So Fast Reply, Thanks Bro. Subs You ^_^