[WARMish] Dell G3 15 Laptop 10750h 6cores 12threads- $1029.99

Not that good of a deal IMO, especially compared to the G5 SE for 20$ more. If it had a 1660 Ti and/or more RAM and storage than maybe, but the 1650 is not a great card for a dedicated gaming laptop. The G5 SE has Ryzen 4000 and a significantly more powerful GPU.

AlexT909 wrote: ↑Not that good of a deal IMO, especially compared to the G5 SE for 20$ more. If it had a 1660 Ti and/or more RAM and storage than maybe, but the 1650 is not a great card for a dedicated gaming laptop. The G5 SE has Ryzen 4000 and a significantly more powerful GPU.

There is one with a 1660ti but it is quite a bit more expensive and the CPU is the 10300 which is 4 cores instead of 6. I wish this had a 1660ti at this price tho. Keep in mind that a laptop with a 1660ti will run warmer and possibly louder and the battery will also drain quicker if not plugged in. For browsing and having multiple tabs open the system listed is quite good.

Eww Intel

Former Intel fan boi

No Ryzen options ? in 2020 ? Really ?

So sick of all the babies whining about intel laptop. It's like no one has any clue that in most of the performance brackets intel matches amd in laptops. Its only in the 4800/4900 that intel is beaten. If you're comparing the other offerings, there are comparable intel models Stop being blind sheep that can't do basic research into performance. You all saw that 1 LTT video with a 4800h and suddenly you're an expert on all amd and intel processors.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up within 2 months.
Most likely they'll hold off on providing their best deals until then, to better inflate their "Regular Price".
I'd wait if not urgent

ryokoseigo wrote: ↑ So sick of all the babies whining about intel laptop. It's like no one has any clue that in most of the performance brackets intel matches amd in laptops. Its only in the 4800/4900 that intel is beaten. If you're comparing the other offerings, there are comparable intel models Stop being blind sheep that can't do basic research into performance. You all saw that 1 LTT video with a 4800h and suddenly you're an expert on all amd and intel processors.

Intel CPUs are comparable to AMD in terms of performance yes. All the security vulnerabilities left a bad taste, generally from what I've seen AMD with comparable specs are still cheaper.

aviador wrote: ↑ For the AMD fans, here's the AMD alternative:

New Dell G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop CAD $1,099.99 (regular price: CAD $1,338.99)

• AMD Ryzen 5 4600H Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics
• Windows 10 Home 64-bit English
• AMD Radeon RX 5600M 6GB GDDR6
• 8GB, 2x4GB, DDR4, 3200MHz
• 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
• Supernova Silver Cover with mDP and with USB-C
• Ports and slots: 1. Standard SD card | 2. Headset jack | 3. USB 2.0 |4. USB 2.0 | 5. Wedge lock slot | 6. Power-in | 7. mini DP | 8. HDMI 2.0 | 9. SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1 | 10. RJ45 Ethernet | 11. USB-C DisplayPort Alt-Mode only

10% Unidays discount, 3% Dell Rewards store credit rebate, 2% Rakuten rebate -- There are some discount coupons available, but it seems Dell has made them incompatible with Unidays.

Real deal right here. The RX5600M will blow the GTX1650 away.

Intel version: Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (2x2) Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5.1

AMD Version: 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth

So if wireless connectivity is super important to you, then the intel has the edge on that aspect since it is already has Wifi 6 and latest bluetooth. Too bad stuff like Wifi and SSD sizes are not easily customizable.
CPU speed, the average user will probably not notice a whole lot of difference between the 2. All depends on application, single thread, multi-thread, etc... but at the end it is about the same.
Graphics, AMD has the edge in terms of performance, even though the AMD CPU only has 12 PCIe lanes, compared to the 16 on the intel. But I doubt either of these cards can saturate the PCIe bus anyhow. However this performance boost does take about an extra 25% more power consumption (GPU-wise), so battery life may be shorter during the usage of apps with high gpu usage.

aviador wrote: ↑ For the AMD fans, here's the AMD alternative:

New Dell G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop CAD $1,099.99 (regular price: CAD $1,338.99)

• AMD Ryzen 5 4600H Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics
• Windows 10 Home 64-bit English
• AMD Radeon RX 5600M 6GB GDDR6
• 8GB, 2x4GB, DDR4, 3200MHz
• 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
• Supernova Silver Cover with mDP and with USB-C
• Ports and slots: 1. Standard SD card | 2. Headset jack | 3. USB 2.0 |4. USB 2.0 | 5. Wedge lock slot | 6. Power-in | 7. mini DP | 8. HDMI 2.0 | 9. SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1 | 10. RJ45 Ethernet | 11. USB-C DisplayPort Alt-Mode only

10% Unidays discount, 3% Dell Rewards store credit rebate, 2% Rakuten rebate -- There are some discount coupons available, but it seems Dell has made them incompatible with Unidays.

This is a hot deal and probably deserves its own thread.
The 5600M is between the GTX 1660ti and RTX 2060. To get that for under 1k (with unidays) along with Ryzen 3rd gen is a pretty insane.

The case is plastic and you probably need to upgrade the RAM and SSD afterwards though.

chaugh wrote: ↑ This is a hot deal and probably deserves its own thread.
The 5600M is between the GTX 1660ti and RTX 2060. To get that for under 1k (with unidays) along with Ryzen 3rd gen is a pretty insane.

The case is plastic and you probably need to upgrade the RAM and SSD afterwards though.

For storage, according to the specs of the G3 15 series, there is the option to also add a SATA 2.5" SSD (storage option) along with the existing 256GB NVMe drive. That is actually pretty good. the 256GB drive is plenty for the basic OS, documents and critical applications. For gaming, you can install a secondary drive, and ensure you configure your game engines to install your game libraries onto the second drive. With SSD prices dropping, you can easily pop in a nice 1TB SSD as second drive.
NOTE: I don;t know if the actual connectors are including in the laptop, or if you need any custom cable on this specific laptop (sometime dell (and others) use use custom cables to convert the sata data/pwr connectors from the drive, to some onboard proprietary connector.

I like the use of 2 drives, that way you can set up windows to do automatic backups of your main "documents" folder onto the second drive. Keeping them in sync so if anything ever happens to any of the disks, your critical documents are still safe. OS can be reinstalled, and games also. However your personal documents or schoolwork, would be painful to lose sometimes.

is G5 15 SE better than Nitro 5?

Looks like G5 has newer GPU with 6gb.

https://www.staples.ca/products/2983552 ... ws-10-home

I guess this answers my question

Personally, my laptop hierarchy of importance: GPU > Thermals > Screen = Processor > USB-C/Keyboard/Expandability. If this was your only computer I'd move screen up with thermals if you aren't intending on picking up a monitor.

If you are just comparing these two laptops, at this price, hands down the AMD G5 people are listing is the way to go. Though, there have been quite a few mentions about concerns with thermals with the G5 15 SE hitting 90C during gameplay. People hoping it's just a bios issue but I know I had to do the 99% maximum processor power plan on my 3900x to get IDLE temps 8-15c lower when I had it on the stock cooler. Not sure if that is applicable to laptop but my experience AMD has a "ya it works fine" kind of experience to it, you put up with the minor annoyances because it is literally a generational gap of technology.

But "lol intel, get ryzen" always feels like the most misguided chirp over a new generation of multi-core processor that has mostly work appeal and applaudable single/all core speed. I spent most of August looking at laptops and I skipped the 4800H for a 10750h because I didn't like the consistently higher thermals or performance dips (lower performance all around and 1% dips as a result of power starvation in high demanding games on 80% of the laptops I saw reviewed(here's one review comparing 1660ti to 5600m). Having an AMD PC at home I am fully on board with the value it brings but also because I can change out my cooling. But on a laptop there is only so much you can do and I have never worried about the speed of 7-zip or need to shave 15-20% time off of a 30 minute render.