hi guys so I have something a little different here it's a gaming laptop I
mostly focus on more budget orientated things and the occasional premium gaming
laptop but this one sells for $299 and it has a dedicated GPU and the CPU is a
quad core now it's nothing amazing spec wise as you would expect for that price
range of course so it has a sell run j34 55 I have never reviewed this Apollo
Lake chipset most commonly I'm looking at the end
3450 which is right here in the Teclast F7 now this cpu is very similar to
that one it's slightly higher clocked it has a TDP of 10 watts instead of the six
I think it is on the N3450 so it offers just a slight increase
there in performance I think it's something around 20% or 50% more it's
not amazing but what's interesting is it's paired up with the six gigabytes of
RAM that you typically see now on those budget laptops but it's got a dedicated
GPU and Nvidia 920M so I picked this one up here from geek bind comm and they
threw in some free Valentine's Day gift and actually arrived on Valentine's Day
so how's that for luck and what it was is this funny little thinking out and
what it is happy monkey but I'll give that to my four-year-old daughter noise
you'll love to play with that so as you can see the box is brother basic here
and it's not offering a lot of protection so hope it's going to be ok I
can see it hasn't taken any knocks or anything and just to point out that on
this side I won't show it we've got a Windows 10 home key now it could be the
Chinese home key but it should allow us to do a clean install as well with that
CD key which is good so in the top of the box here we've got the power supply
and cables I can see ok geek Viacom has included an adapter and there is the
cable so now this power cable actually looks like the Australian New Zealand
one so that three pong prong style one and the power supply which isn't that
big I mean we're only powering a Apollo Lake and then the 920 M from Nvidia so
this is rated to 12 volts for amps the power adapter takes that standard Mickey
Mouse plug so this is going to be very easy to
get a replacement in your own countries a local plug and then just of course
plug that straight in so no need for any adaptors then okay so the box doesn't
look that strong the packaging but it does have that phone either side and I
can see we've got silver on the bottom so far and it's protected up with this
sleeve here so no damage to that alright so before I get into the design and
build quality of it let's just check out the way - feels rather heavy as expected
so 1.69 kilos so then lettuce made out of plastic it has a little bit of a
cheap feel - it's just painted plastic it has this t Bayeux or however
pronounced that logo on the top now this you can actually remove because the
previous ones I looked at the t book from them you can actually just get like
a knife or a tool and pull that ugly looking logo there icon the name off
there which is great now on the bottom I've got two downwards firing speakers
screws there two screwing things in place the intake vent so if you use it
on your lap you'll block this now that's made out of the silver plastic again it
feels a little bit cheap here now I've got my knife there for a reason I'm just
covering up the Windows 10 home CD key that they have there I'm not going to
broadcast that out to the world I actually need to use that so on the left
hand side we've got a full size USB 3 port 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and
an SD card reader so that's good to see that on here and also a LAN port on here
now I think this Ethernet port I don't know where it's 100 megabits or a
gigabit port I doubt it's gigabit but I will test that out I've just noticed
that this plastic around here that is so cheap and tacky looking just look at it
it's got a few little rough edges the finish of this laptop as expected for
the price isn't amazing and that's just out of alignment a little bit as well
that USB 3 port right hand side we have DC end for charging then we have a type
C port this is USB 3 spec only I think I don't think it accepts charging but I
will test it many HDMI out so that'll be 4k 30 Hertz
maximum that it supports don't think it supports the 60 here as well definitely
white because that needs to be HDMI to speak of course
then another USB 3 port now you see some more imperfections here with those
plastics the plastics its use is not an amazing quality okay so first peek now
at the keyboard so no cannot be open to one-handed and there hinge sorry
something's rubbing just opening that all click noise okay that's not
wonderful it's this right here it's the plastics around it's just come undone
I'll have to try and clip that in so gaming style keyboard of course is in
red now this is not a backlit keyboard flex actually that's quite firm keys
feel a little bit clunky plastic II kind of feel a little bit cheap they do not
feel as good as the tech lasts if sevens keyboard this one feels a lot yeah that
feels a lot better just the sound of those keys and the feedback you get from
them so the touchpad looks rather large in fact it's about the same size of the
tick last if7 touchpad here clicky mouse clicks within that touchpad
and you notice this ugly looking red v symbol can't say i'm a huge fan of that
but i can probably live with that so the polymers plastics is matte it
gained not a super high quality plastic they have used here but overall so far
I'll type and use this keyboard for a little while as well before my full
review there kind of feels ok the keyboard then we do have some status
LEDs here and the power button is located probably where the Delete key
should be I'm not a big fan of that placement it just give you a close up
two of the keyboard so I mean it does look good but it's missing shortcuts
there I can't see controls therefore the volume and screen bonus I'm sorry there
they are with the arrow keys normally they're up here so I was looking in the
wrong place okay so that display is glossy as you can see let's pull off the
screen fatigue that is it Matt underneath no it's not it's glossy as
well so it's supposed to be 1080p and an IPS panel but I'll check that out in a
second okay so just powered it on and went straight into the bias you know me
I want to check out and see if this has the Advanced Settings open to us and it
actually looks like it does the one after is our power limit and that's
under CPU power management right here and yes the power limit is in fact
disabled out of the factory so that's good sign there that means it can use up
to about 15 watts it's normally the maximum I see out of these chipset but
that's when it's using the integrated graphics now I'm not too sure if it's
going to have in videos optimist so that set graphics switching technology used
to integrated and then swap over to the dedicated when it actually needs it so
let's just get out of here now we'll take a look at that screen but I can see
already that yes it is an IPS panel because it's not shifting the colors
they're now viewing angles aren't amazing I think it's to do with the see
that how works we're flicking a lot because it's not a matte screen I would
have preferred this to have been a matte scream it anyway let's just get out of
this and get into desktop here and see if it's running Windows 10 in English
okay so it looks like it is now I haven't commented yet but look at those
bezels they're actually not too bad so we have rather slim bezels top and
bottom and the screens not looking too bad really for a 15.6 inch display okay
so straight away I found a con with this touchpad it does not seem to be
supporting any gestures so the double tap that doesn't work swiping none of
those windows 10 gestures are working it's definitely not a precision touch
better just check the drivers so quite annoying you'd have to right-click using
that clunky button there no I don't like this little so okay it's a gaming laptop
so you probably be using a mouse anyway but even so if this had a precision
touchpad that would just be so much better
so touchpad is crap so just to check out and run through a few things here to do
with the hardware first so we can see that the maximum toolbar here is 2.3
gigahertz instead of the 2.2 on the N 3450 the base clock is 1.5 gigahertz
inside a 1.1 so this should give us a little bit of a boost there so that's
not really gonna really be super-powerful anything like that but it
should be sufficient for light tasks at least now if I have a look at the
monitor just have a look at the it says it's a flat panel it's
definitely not 768 P this is a 1080p panel so it's not reading that correctly
it's saying it's an MS underscore triple zero 3 no that is not the case here so
the memory is not actually running at the higher supported speeds I was just
having a look at that before because we have a look here under memory in Windows
and the task manager you can see it's running at one point 3 gigahertz and it
should be actually one point one what I typically see on the the other sale run
so the entity 450 series of laptops that I commonly review those budget laptops
with itself for around two hundred and thirty fifty at us so hopefully I can
change that in the bias I probably won't mess about with it right now in case I
end up just breaking this completely so the hardware the device manager as well
I just wanted to have a quick look at a couple of things so network we have
right here a Broadcom while it says she got listed twice but that's not the case
here it's the Intel dual band wireless AC 31 65 so very common here I don't
know why this has been listed in here twice if I look at the device manager
it's only in here once here so that's the one it is so it's the Intel dual
band I want to say see that's not too bad I mean it's recently facets wireless
AC of course so a better than wireless in that we were seeing last year and the
Ethernet port that's only 100 megabits per second so not a gigabit one there so
it's not the fastest and you can see that the drive so we've got an NT 128
gigabyte Drive that has approximate I think was 90 something just bring that
up for you 90 something gigabytes free okay here we go
so you 97 point for free and the speeds of the drive and see right here so these
aren't actually too bad now why we're seeing full right speed
set of three right speeds on this is because it's actually a 22 by 80 so the
longer MDOT to SATA 3 SSD that this has within there which is another positive
here this is good see if you can upgrade you can put an even larger SSD on this
this is the size I'm talking about so my crucial 22 by 80 this one's 290
gigabytes you could put this in there I'll show you the internal zone where
you can upgrade what is available to us to upgrade so the wireless card and the
SSD now the battery capacity is being reported as 40 watt hours which I guess
that's actually okay considering just a touch on that screen again it's really
not a bad display considering the price of this I must say I'm impressed with
the displays probly the best part so yeah that the build quality overall is
pretty plasticky and cheap II kind of feeling at least I put a decent panel on
here now this isn't even the full brightness I have at the moment so I'll
just increase that at full brightness now just looking at the information of
this dedicated GPU we've got on here it supports DirectX 12 so that as good the
driver version doesn't seem no that's not the latest I have to update that
we've got dedicated memory we've got two gigabytes of double data rate 3 so not
the fastest time I think it's the 940 m or the 940 MX that has the double data
rate 5 spec so it's a little bit faster but I mean for the price you can't
expect much here there are the clocks there so it's 900 megahertz on the
graphics clock the RAM is 1800 megahertz and we have 192 CUDA cores so as I
showed you at the start we've got the 2 speakers that are down with firing I
don't particularly like that location because if you use it on your lap
beginner block 2 speakers but I'll give you the sample of them now
hmm okay they're not very loud at all they've got a tiny hint of bass in there
mostly medicine trebles but they are seriously lacking volume they need to be
way louder than that maybe that can be tweaked via software hopefully we can
boost it up a little bit so if you need a good web cam I think you can forget
about it with this one so the location is like the Dell XPS is next to be a 13
I started with that that we've got the location right down here at the bottom
so it's kind of looking up your nose and I can see already that it's like VGA
resolution the quality is pretty rubbish there so I wouldn't be using this webcam
I would use an external one now Linux Manjaro just tested out seventeen point
one point four build and everything is working so wireless screen adjustment
controls battery everything so this is good news if you want to run Linux on it
it should run perfectly fine as long as you've got a new distro that has the
latest kernels checking out the internals now what we're looking at is
that 22 by 80 SSD its king spec so you can put your own one in there if you
wanted to I've got a crucial as I showed you before that I could fit in here so
that will fit you can upgrade the SSD you can put up to 2 terabytes I think it
is in this size but just make sure it's set of three spec it will not support
PCIe times two or four drives no not at all so this is the cooler here with the
thermal transfer pipe going to defense along here pushing air out so it's
sucking it in from below and hopefully that's going to do a good job of cooling
now we can go along Andry paste this if you wanted to do that now the battery
cell that's 10,000 milliamp hours in total and it's screwed in place we've
also got this metal backing you can see here now that of course is keeping that
keyboard quite firm so that's why it doesn't have a lot of flex this is good
to see here is a shot of the CPU cooler now I've heard this on most of the time
very low so it's only around about 15 20 percent you can hardly hear it's just
the light buzz keeping things cool but when it wraps up to 80 percent or a
hundred you definitely hear it come on now you see that of course we could reap
a stun as well they use poor quality thermal paste normally the factory so I
do recommend doing that if you're gonna open it and get this far you probably
just reap a with a quality paste and that'll be a
lot better now I can't see the RAM but definitely not upgradeable it will be
part of the motherboard on the other side there those Samsung low-power
double data rate threes is two three gigabyte chips on there shot of the
wireless card here too so if you weren't happy with the spec of the Intel way si
si si 165 then just pull it out and put something better in like the 82 60 80 to
65 and here are those tiny little speakers that aren't loud enough and
they do have a tiny tiny little bit of bass but they're pretty hopeless really
so as far as build quality goes for the internals it's you know average it's not
too bad it's good to see that they've got things screwed in place we have the
middle backing behind the keyboard just to make it a little bit more firm so it
doesn't have any flex and over all the wiring and things like that everything
looks fine we've got proper plugs nothing's you know just glued in place
so it doesn't look too bad to me again considering the price I can see one of
the antennas is right here so that's for the widest AC so they put one in the
base and I believe the other one is up in here or probably up in the lid there
alright so have a look at benchmarks here just very quickly so this is not
any faster than the SEL run in 3450 disappointing I expected it to be about
a hundred points more at least or something it's the same speeds as the
tick last f7 maybe it's down to the fact that the Rams only running at that 1333
and stead of 1600 megahertz that could have something to do with it so a
statistic out so Geekbench fours OpenCL GPU benchmark so this is the integrated
graphics here it's almost nine thousand now okay we know that Nvidia 920 M I've
never tested it before is very very low-end lacks Rambam 'lets yadda yadda
yeah it's not powerful at all but wait for it
bump bowl this is so low I did not expect 9429 that's just you know okay
that just shows how weak it is so what I decided to do alright I'll boost it up I
did a slight overclock so added 150 to the core 150 to the memory with MSI's
afterburner and it's gone up about 10% now 11,000 I mean
I expected 15 or 20,000 OpenCL score from this dedicated GPU I had no idea
the Nvidia 920 M is so weak super weak but let's test out a game and see if we
can at least get better results in gaming because benchmarks are one thing
than the integrated Intel 500 HD GPU so here we go the only game I'm going to
test is Counter Strike global Offensive now I'm going to try running 720p on
very low settings this is an old game but as we just saw before that it's a
super weak GPU so let's see how it handles it ok so not very good at all
look at their 720p running about 20 frames per second yeah that's really
slow very slow I mean it's marginally better than the Intel HD 500 with the
power limits removed so let's see if I can lower that resolution down at least
get something that's it's got playable framerate
okay so 1024 by 768 this really isn't much better at all look at that 19
frames per second a high of about 30 this is just not working
at all why is this hardware configuration even exist
it's denier it's just useless this GPU all right I'm gonna just wrap up this
video here I will not be doing a full review of this hardware because after
testing out some games on this so-called ultra budget gaming laptop you can see
that it's no faster than having the integrated graphics of for example the
tick last if7 without a power limit on it which is in the background there so
there was absolutely no point to this hardware configuration I didn't actually
know I was under we're completely unaware that the Nvidia 920 M was so
weak and absolutely hopeless that an Intel 500 integrated GPU is almost as
fast so that is it for this video here now if you want to know about the fan
noise yes it comes on and off and you do hear it at 100% volume the keyboard is
okay to type on the screens alright but just go for something like the tick last
f7 I'll be having a full review of that one coming out
shortly and don't waste your time with this one here thanks so much for
watching this video and making it this far do subscribe if you like these kind
of videos and I'll be covering more interesting texts something a little bit
better than this they may possibly check out a 940 MX version similar to this
it's a little smaller from day sky that GPU should be a lot more powerful than
this piece of rubbish that is the Nvidia 920M
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