Why are People Buying This $300 Gaming Laptop

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Here's yet another "Gaming Laptop" on eBay that screams "I'm not meant for gaming"... Or so we think. We are going to deep dive into this laptop to find out if we are missing something or if these sellers are truly selling old office laptops that have no intentions of ever gaming.

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[belt_snapper]

Hey, Toasty Bros. I got this laptop off of amazon for $300 flat for my birthday a week ago. I play games like fortnite, rocket league, call of duty 2019 and 2020, hot wheels unleashed, and forza. The problems you guys were having did not happen on my end, my model is flawless. Only problem I had was the cpu was going up and down in GHZ so I made a power plan and downloaded park control and it seemed to fix it. The 60FPS thing is fixable if you update to the latest drivers or play windowed fullscreen on your games. For me I been using this since I got it and I haven't used my main pc. I can make a video if you want to see how it should work. Only reason I got it because of your video so thank you.

[Rintero_Pryde]

I would have liked to see you guys pop the shell open, take a peek underneath, and see if it needed some cleaning or a component was loose-could have fixed that weird crash issue. Maybe re-installing Windows as well? And there might have also been issues with the power brick. Who knows. Would really have liked to see that laptop show out as a great budget used option

[aisle]

That "skin" is something shady sellers put on the back to conceal scratches, tiny dings, sticker residue, anything they don't want showing up when it arrives at your home. It's basically a dbrand-ish sticker that just goes right over the top.

[TheMisterQuake]

I'd 100% try undervolting, it would lower the temps along with the power draw making the overall system much more stable if the problem was resulting from either of those 2 metrics (more likely power draw than temps though if I had to guess).

[munkykng]

Undervolting could also help it from crashing, it may be trying to draw more power than psu can provide with everything else it needs to power.

[berkant_k]

The USB-C port on the laptop seems to be a Thunderbolt 3 port, so that makes it possible to connect an external eGPU to the laptop so you can run a desktop gpu with a laptop :D

[Mico]

You probably could clean it up, reapply termal paste and reseat the SSD because it gets bumped during shipping and causes errors in windows. Also these business laptops dont have a MUX switch and all the display output goes through intel iGPU which is limited to 60FPS if the screen is 60Hz. I have the same thing on an HP elitebook it has an AMD GPU but its still hard locked to 60FPS in games because display signal is sent through iGPU. If i unlock the FPS it gets horrible screen tearing

[prometheusk.]

I've had this exact same laptop for work but it came with 16gb RAM. It was a model they gave people who were going to be running beefy productivity apps (think like having 30 Excel workbooks open, with Outlook on the side, 20 Chrome tabs, and like five or six Tableau workbooks without any lag at all). Honestly, I'd be like 99% sure this was overstock from a company that contracts out pc refresh services to larger corporations that someone either walked out the door with or bought on the cheap when the client moved on to newer Dell models. It was always a solid computer for me work-wise -- never tried gaming on it, but not surprised if it could run some stuff.

[skorpers]

I bought this a year ago for like $200 from dell refurb.
I 100% recommend first getting all of the windows 10 updates and then clean installing drivers, then doing cleanups with device-cleanup and RAPR.
That will help you avoid the potential of driver related blue screens.

[voteDC]

Kind of surprised you didn't try the troubleshooting step of reseating the RAM and drive. Something could have shaken loose in transit and it was good enough to boot when under stress cut out.

[joawesome]

I feel like it needs a new battery. The cmos did get reset and on modern laptops, when you remove the internal battery, the cmos can reset. I’ve also seen where laptops shut down while gaming if it’s only relying power from the charger. So a battery replacement probably could’ve fixed it from shutting off

[garyandersontech]

Ive gotten several "refurbished" laptops for various clients and every one had a skin, usually to hide blemishes on the cover, hence "refurbished".

[__________Troll__________]

*I brought a $300 laptop a year ago and it kept powering off like this, I removed the battery and I never had that problem again. It seems the battery had difficulty charging (it only goes up to 10% then falls over time)... even while plugged in, once the battery drops to 3% or so the computer will turn off*

[roberts_lancmanis]

I own the Precision 7710, which is a generation before this. (Tho mine is the bigger 17 inch brother) Its got an i7-6920hq, 32gb ram and quadro M5000M. I got it for 300 dollars just as a short term replacement for my Acer Predator Triton 500 when I cracked the motherboard of it. It has only been 100% stable, reliable and even though i was intending to keep mine until i order a new one, its been over a year and i dont think i will need a new one any time soon. Ive used it numerous times profesionally during live events for lighting and video production, and its never let me down. Would buy again - 11/10.

[XeonProductions]

The processor in that thing looked like it was cooking and thermal throttling. Might need some new paste. It also might need a new CMOS battery. I'd also just go through checking the other hardware. Although, since you expected a fully working laptop I would just do an eBay return. I'd also make sure that power brick is the one that came with it, and not some lower wattage one.

[ChrisXD]

I wonder if it might benefit from a 280w Dell power adapter.

[giuseppenaylor]

Did you check the CMOS battery? It stated on one of your crashes that it lost the date/time....

[darko]

Probably the problem of the laptop is the internal battery, not the cmos battery but the main power battery. I had some problems in the past with other laptops that when the battery almost have died or ended up his life cycle this things use to happen, disconnecting the battery or replacing it should fix that.

[Big_Yin]

I would expect a tech channel to open it up and do some troubleshooting, but nope!

[destron]

I used to have the same Dell Precision model, but it has an I7 7700H and a 2gb VRAM Radeon Wx card and 17-inch screen. Used it for school until I built my first PC.