Dell G15 Ryzen Edition Notebook REVIEW - Dell's improvements basically created a mini Alienware!

Goooooooooood after morning and welcome to another Turbo Tortoise Tech review!

The Dell G15 caught the old Wooks eye as he was doing the weekly specials round up and he immediately promoted us for a "built to spec" edition for review. The base unit comes with a very promising pairing in the Ryzen 5 5600H and Nvidia's all new RTX enabled 3050 4GB. Join the Wooks as he runs through his experience and some very interesting issues that were quickly resolved with a little magic from uncle Dell...

Machine Spec:
RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 3200mhz CL22
SSD: Intel 512GB Gen 3.0 NVMe
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600H
GPU: Nvidia RTX3050 4GB

*NOTE* All tests were done at maximum power and performance settings. Out of box it has a wattage limit so you must set that to get similar results.

As always we would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

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0:00 Intro
0:38 Chassis Close Up
1:41 Ports and Connections
2:19 Touch Pad and Keyboard
3:15 Speakers and Webcam
3:52 Networking
4:20 Monitor Specs and Performance
5:45 Power and Battery
7:07 Laptop Configuration
8:00 CPU Performance
9:30 GPU Performance
11:40 Lifestyle and Findings
14:05 Conclussions
17:36 Outro

[WRXCKMANE]

Buying one of these this week with the 64 gb ram and 1 tb SSD for gaming and music production this looks amazing

[lohanvanzyl]

Best review I could find on YouTube. Knowing it’s a local SA bruh saying all this stuff is what sold me.
Ordering mine now. Keep up the good stuff evetech.

[JustCRANEthesedays]

I love evetech, I bought the 32gb + 512gb configuration for 3d work, handles it like a champ 👌👌

[keanu_lowe]

Not to be rude in any way but it's not the brand new variant, it came out over a year ago, the newest variant is the G15 5520. I bought this laptop from you (Evetech) around end January this year and I'm really happy with it. The AMD Radeon Software was a pain in the ass since Windows' update service kept overwriting the new drivers from the software with older OEM versions but found a workaround for this. The performance is great and found it to be better in a lot of situations at 1440p to utilize the GPU more. Have spent a lot at Evetech and the service has been great everytime. Just wish they could hook me up with a monitor for my continued support. 🤣

[fanatiquefantastique]

Very nice review. I just found your channel.

I have the Ryzen 7 5800H + RTX 3060 + 165 hz screen version. Its a beast. I can play Red Dead Redemption 2 on my 4K tv plugged into this laptop and get a playable framerate. You should try to get your hands on that configuration. The screen on the 120Hz version is a bit of a let down but the 165hz version screen gets brighter has a better response time and the colours look a lot better.

You are certainly right about the laptop better than consoles thing btw, with the scalper prices being charged and all the extra features a laptop presents, it was a no-brainer for me to pick it over the PS5, sure the PS5 can do 4k60FPS without any stutters but so can this with a lot more to offer.

[shabasRS]

Bought this a month ago. It came with Windows 11, so the first thing I did is to "upgrade" to Windows 10 (lol). Words to describe it: great, fantastic, insane!

[MeticulousTechTV]

Great review! I’m leaving for a week long work trip and wanted to grab something for light gaming and such. Just found this exact model for $750 at my local desktop, think I’m going to scoop it up!

[Attiues]

I love it

I picked up this beast for $1200 AUD

16gig RAM, GTX 3050

Super happy

[Ornal]

I’m looking at X14 but in terms of value G15 beats it big time. Only disadvantage apart build quality is that you are not getting windows hello feature.

[armandvermeulen]

You are now my most favorite youtuber, giving a decent review and even saying that there was a problem that you found on the bios. You are amazing, I would have most likely struggled my butt off. so thank you very much Turbo and even Evetech too for even publishing it as well and allowing people to be what they are here to be, a review and honest tests and opinions.

[wulf]

Awesome vid. Can u plz make vid where u compare the G15 to the Legion 5.

[theoozmachine]

How do you remove the "wattage limit" that you mentioned in the description?? My gpu is always stuck on 30W by default, after restarting a couple of times it gets to 50-60W, which is way less than the actual 95W of the card.

[draconis]

I am currently using this right now this thing is a beast of a laptop rtx 3050 ti Amd ryzen 7 5800h 8 cores 125 herts 8 gigs of ram because i decided i would probably boost it up in two years to 24g but besides the low ram its great

[Rain-King]

Hi! This was a great and low-key entertaining review. Quick question: I know the laptop has an additional RAM slot, but does it have an additional SSD slot?

[kelvinbell]

Looking at getting one 9f these from you guys 8n the coming weeks . Was just wandering if the backlighting really is only white? Dells website puts the standard as an orange backlight.

[Hanging_Chad]

I have this laptop with an RTX3050TI GPU, 64 GB of ram and 1 TB WD black SN850X SSD. It's OK overall nothing great but the hinges are starting to give me issues after almost owning it for 2 years

[AlienoidGamer]

just wished you opened it up to show us upgradability

[Mo.Jo.]

It's not a thunderbolt USB-C, thats still proprietary intel tech and only on intel CPU based laptops. This one has a USB-C display port with alt mode hence the DP logo on the port.
This is also NOT an IPS panel, it is a TN panel which is inferior to IPS.
Now i'm really doubting your reviewing credibility and won't waste my time watching the rest of this video.

[gerhardduplessis]

Hello there, I'm having problems with my Nvidia control panel as it only gives me 3D settings, thus I can't increase the saturation on my system.
Is there anyway you know to fix this?

Thanks for the great review got mine early this year.

[RotluangaSailo]

Do you guys have Keyboard rollover issues? My G15 5515 does not allow pressing more than 3 keys simultaneosly 😐