Hi Chris here back with another budget gaming laptop from China now the Tbook
X8S pro that I looked out turned out to be an absolute disaster and I really
regretted buying that one and it turns out I had ordered this one here just
before he got that notebook otherwise it probably would have canceled it now this
one is the Daysky D Book Pro so kind of similar name now the difference with
this one is it has an Nvidia 940 MX so hopefully it's not going to run into
problems or some CPU limiting or a bottleneck with the PCI lanes or the the
slot that was on here on the previous model looked at that t book x8 s Pro
that one had some issue that calls that dedicated GPU from Nvidia to be hopeless
in terms of performance it was just really slow way slower than expected but
hopefully the 940m X in this model is gonna be a lot more promising now this
thing retails for around about 350 USD so you get a Intel Apollo late the Celeron
N3450, 6 gigabytes of RAM ,64 gigabytes of storage, wireless AC there
should be a M.2 SATA 3 SSD slot within this I will take a look at the
internals in this video we'll test out some of the performance so the packaging
of the notebook you can see isn't wonderful very thin and it has received
a little bit of damage now ordered this one through a gearbest comm and I went
for the free postage so it took about 16 days to get here so a little on the slow
side but the good thing was it did not have to pay any tax it all so it's got
some of that super super bubble wrap around it which is at least something's
are hopefully no damage to that I've got the power supply in the side here oh ok
an Australian in zip/cable didn't expect to see that one I thought I would see
the typical two prong and here is our power adapter now this is rated to 12
volts 5 amps so a lot more powerful than their typical 12 volts 2 amps we
commonly see with the Apollo Lakes if you're worrying about the cable there
you can see it is one of those common typical Mickey Mouse style plugs so
it'll be really easy to source your own cable for your own country
so we can see that the frame of it and the outside here this is actually all
made out of an alloy which is good we've got that horrible day sky stupid alien
we're kind of ripoff logo now the good news is this is actually a stick head it
looks like you might not be able to take it off but if you get a really sharp
edge like a knife or something and lift up one corner you will be able to pull
that off which is good news now the lid has a tiny little bit of flex there I
mean that's kind of normal while they've got a little bit more than I'd probably
like but differently an alloy on the back so on the left-hand side were two
full-size USB 3 port we have a headphone jack SD card reader and this little slot
here is a side firing speaker we'll test these out later on in this video right
hand side another speaker so they should at least offer good stereo separation
another full-size USB 3 port mini HDMI out and then of course that DC and for
charging and powering the device so let's have a look at the way it does not
feel that bad it's around 1.3 5 kilos it's actually quite good considering it
does have a dedicated GPU the fans and the copper heatsink and everything else
have a look at how thick it is now so it comes in to be about sixteen point two
millimeters thick so there is some plastic on this laptop this is the strip
along the back here so this must be where the antennas are housed so on the
underside we've got a lot of screws there four rubber feet and this is the
intake vent there so that's where the air will come in and that's gonna be
then blowing out just above in front of the screen actually is where that exit
vent is but I'll show you in a second now wouldn't be one of my videos would
it without having a look at the internals so we have here a 10,000
milliamp hour battery or 37 watt hours which is okay that's actually not too
bad for the n30 450 which is right up here you can see they've got a tiny
little thermal copper heat transfer pipe here and the fins and a tiny little fan
my bit is that you could probably just end up unplugging this and let it run
passively and keep that passively cold but your course your we'll need active
cooling for the GPU which is right here so we've got a much thicker copper
transfer pipe here it will be relatively easy as well to
repay STIs if it didn't need a replaced if you found that the thermals weren't
good they normally use cheap zoom or paste on these anyway so the layout
looks really good now you're probably thinking well hang on West is his D well
it's using an e MMC but we do have right here this slot it's a little hard to see
with my camera angle so I'll give you a different angle here that is right here
you can see so this will take a larger 22 what if I put it in the right way
around 22 by 80 SSD is what that is designed for but they haven't included a
screw on that so I'll see if I can run that now this is only set of three this
is not going to be PCIe nvme so it's not a real super fast one now you do note
that this has a PCIe type slot here but it's a little different this is more
like in mmx3 or whatever revision it is that it's using so this graphics card
you will be able to actually replace or use even in that t book x8 s that I
reviewed had the same exact similar setup so it's good to have this here the
positive is this right here is the wireless card so it's using an Intel 31
65 which is wireless AC now that's up to about 400 megabits per second transfer
rates maximum so you could upgrade that to something like an 8 2060 from Intel
as well and that gives you rate so I think around 850 megabits per second max
if you weren't happy with this card then you can replace it it's another positive
right here's the little battery for the BIOS if you need to do a bias reset then
simply unplug this now these speakers are a little bit odd because they're
actually downwards firing speakers yet the outlet for them where the sound has
to be transmitted out is on the side so don't imagine they're going to sound
very good with the set up but I'll give you sample them later on this video so
the internals look good the battery's screwed in place we've got an
upgradeable GPU upgradeable wireless card you can add an SSD it's actually
looking very decent so far hopefully we keep with the same trend here when it
comes to the rest of the laptop so let's move on now alright so can it be open
one-handed yes just and I can see straight away that we've got an horrible
day sky are written right here in fact that is
another sticker so that's well that's good actually we'll be able to pull that
off so first impressions this keyboard that feels like I'm pressing down quite
hard here there is a little tiny bit of flex there but not a lot and it doesn't
seem to be any shortcuts for prints green on OK you have used the function
key I'll give you a close-up of the keyboard in just a second so the
touchpad reasonable-sized here hopefully it's running Windows precision drivers
and doesn't it have a little bit of a Macbook feel to it doesn't it the way
the keyboard is sunken in there in the middle and then of course we've got this
squared off edges around here but overall so far the build actually seems
pretty good it's nowhere near as cheap feeling as that T book x8s I looked at
the pro model so here's the keyboard layout just a close-up of that now the
power key location don't particularly like that where it is placed
I always like a power key away and actually separate from the keyboard but
it's something I can live with because you can see it in Windows that if you
tap it to do nothing along the top are the exit vents so that's where the whole
e is going to come out right here just here and there you can see the tiny
little grilles there that's where the hot air is going to be coming out from
and yeah overall not too bad status LEDs right there - for your caps-lock scroll
lock and power on so what about the screen here it does have a matte bezel
around the outside which is black and not silver which is good that's a good
move here webcam but I don't see actually where the microphones are which
is interesting they must be located somewhere down in the keyboard which
won't be that great I think the mic is actually this little tiny dot right down
here see that with my fingers so that's where that is so the screen is it going
to be glossy or matte let's find out under the screen protector
and it's a matte screen so this is good now before we get into Windows we don't
have a look at the BIOS and mainly this right here which is the power limits we
have for that Apollo Lake in thirty four fifty so you can see here that we do yes
have the power limits there and I'm gonna set this to disabled since it is
actively cool we want maximum performance from that CPU so I'm going
to disable that there in the BIOS now to get into that as right here in this menu
so you go to advanced CPU configuration and then find CPU power management a lot
of people ask me on the forum just how to do that and for boot I have actually
installed my own SSD that crucial I showed you there just so to be a little
bit faster but I'll not actually boot over to that just to start while the
first I'll show you the default boot configuration that we get from the
factory so you can see I have an SD card now in there and it does stick out quite
a bit so be careful you don't accidentally break those off it's
happened to me in the past but those kind of SD card readers now having a
look at the screen so it's a fourteen point one inch screen 1080p now the
hardware ID comes through as ms underscore triple zero three which in
past experiences with this particular display has always been a TN panel but
this is definitely not a TN panel so it's mac coded and i'm getting proper
IPS viewing angles that's as far as the screen will go back to so it's not
amazing now just show you a couple of demo images the other thing to know too
that it is super bright I'm running a brightness at the moment I think under
about 30% 40% and right up on maximum brightness this thing is really good so
I'm impressed with that so everyone's looking like a decent panel considering
the price of this laptop so I've got a couple of other things here to wanted to
point out so the SSD so the emmc it has in here is 5.1 spec it is a SanDisk DF
40 64 and very good speeds here so about 266 reads
104 sequential writes and the 4k is there okay of course if you want faster
then use an SSD which I have plugged in into that slot my crucial
that is running at full sata3 speeds there which is good now it's not all
good news unfortunately the touchpad so far in my experience with it is absolute
rubbish I don't like it doesn't seem to support
our scrolling up and down gestures and you can see here that it is not a
precision one it's just some sort of ps2 mouse pad PS / 2 port compatible
pointing device and yeah and the clicks left and right for your mouse buttons
way too shallow so I do not like the mouse pad at all on this so it's running
Windows 10 as you can see of course when it's in home and it is activated it was
actually already activated there was already an account set up as well so if
you're not happy with that do your own clean install of course now the camera
is another bad point of this laptop it's VGA so we've only got 480 P
resolution so it looks very pixelated at least it is 30 frames per second but not
wonderful you want to use an external 1080p Logitech webcam with this one I
feel so now that I've used the keyboard for a little bit more now to type on
it's okay but it definitely does not feel as good as the tick last if seven
or the easy book 3 Pro keyboard it just got a little bit of a sponginess to it
not the keys themselves I don't have that same solid feedback to them they
just feel a little bit cheaper but it's ok to type on it's just certainly not
the best out of this class of laptop okay so I have gpu-z running here now
just to have a look at the information on this GPU now one thing to note that
it's the 940 m and not the nvidia 940 MX that give best advertise so they're
listing is incorrect so that's not good they need to correct their information
because the 940 MX is actually slightly faster slightly better even though it's
a very similar GPU now if we have a look at the link speed here on the bus
interface so PCIe times for mode I don't know whether the T book the x8 s pro I
looked at might have had this stuck on only one but there was some sort of
problem with the performance of this one but it doesn't seem to be the case here
at least not on my testing so far with us now there's the clocks down here now
I cannot seem to over the core clock you can overclock the
memory and speaking of memory so the system memory we got six gigabytes of
double data rate three RAM and it's running at 1333 megahertz and not the
typical common 1600 but it seems that the timing of that Ram seems to be at
least good enough to get scores that are on par with other laptops running it at
1600 megahertz so that's Geekbench for school right here so normally we see
anywhere from about 4,000 to 4200 maximum and about 1400 maximum school
there for single core on the end 3450 with its maximum turbo of 2.2 gigahertz
and then onto the GPU score so this is OpenCL score using the Nvidia dedicated
GPU I have it set in the settings and secular as I did with the T Book forced
it on also forced on maximum performance mode and we get 22,000 now twenty two
thousand is quite an increase over the integrated graphics which is only about
seven to eight thousand is all that the Intel 500 HD can get so that's a huge
increase but in terms of a gaming laptop well it's not really that wonderful at
all the school here because the MX 150 that's in my Amin notebook pro that gets
a score of close to 96 thousand or ninety thousand there so you can see
it's a huge difference in performance between those two chips their course the
MX 150 is a lot newer now when taking a look at the general performance so right
here now in Chrome I am streaming and 4k from YouTube and it's keeping up ok at
the beginning it dropped 60 frames you can see weren't there but the wireless
can keep up with streaming this and there's no issues there getting in
around the system isn't the fastest because of the the CPU once you start to
run a lot of applications you will notice that to bog down a little bit now
you can use editing apps here this is Photoshop you can put in huge amounts
layers and things like that but when you do that it's gonna become really
painfully slow so this really is not the type of CPU that you want to be doing
lots of image editing on I recommend for that
thing minimum you really want something like a core i3 or the core m3 7y 30s
they handle this a lot better they're about twice as fast as the apollo lake
in 3450 so for the game i'm going to test just like the t book it's going to
be Counter Strike global Offensive these are the settings I'm going to use here
so on high multi-core ending is enabled and trying to layer texture filtering so
I'm not going to set any super advanced settings on this at the moment I want to
see how it's going to handle 1080p with these settings on the dust2 map okay so
this is pistols only and I'm useless at this game apart from when people are
just standing there so tottering around 30 frames per second
dipping down to below so it does seem it as CPU limited
surprised that no one shot me yet my I spoke too soon
so that performance isn't wonderful but it seems that it's a lot better than
integrated graphics of course because that would only be running this at about
15 or 10 frames per second at 1080p with these settings so I'd have a go at
lowering the settings down and see if we can boost that framerate and even try
720p which may little B may actually be a little bit better for this GPU okay so
720p on low settings here let's see now if that is going to give us a huge
improvement or not so now 720p on the low settings
it hasn't really improved that framerate a lot as you can see it's dropped down
to about 38 then so it's up maybe on average 5 frames per second a little bit
more than that but not a huge improvement there but you can see with
this bitter flame framerate I'm able to actually get a few head shots because
normally all I do is just die a time and time after again but it's definitely
smooth and definitely playable and so much better than the integrated GPU so I
decided to step things up a little bit and test out rise of the Tomb Raider and
this is the result here from the benchmark low settings 720p this is
actually surprised me an overall score of 82 frames per second but note the GPU
temperatures getting up to 87 degrees so it's getting rather hot it might need a
repost or maybe it just can't handle the kind of heat that that 940m is producing
of course I'll give you a sample of gameplay here you can see it's just
below 30 frames per second and I think this is doing really well considering
it's only got that a polar lake in 3450 as the CPU which is pinning down that
940m big time I feel I feel it as so I'll show you a little bit of action
here you can see it's not dropping down too bad
so another demanding title this one's project cars running around about 30
frames per second and you can see this one's been limited by the CPU because
the GPU is only ready running about half 50 percent so that's not the problem
it's there to Pola Lake in 3450 that's holding things up here but otherwise
720p on the lower settings here you can see that this is label which is great so
testing out Grand Theft Auto now this is 720p and you can see that it is maxing
out the CPU again so this is the bottleneck off the system as we know the
GPU is only running at 50% here but we're getting playable frames per second
on this down to around 23 frames per second at times I've got all the
settings on low so if you were to lower the resolution down to say 800 x 600 use
one of those tweak scripts then you can probably boost the frames per second by
a further I would just estimate maybe 10 frames per second more and just make
things a little smoother there now a much lighter title that does not max out
the CPU this is League of Legends it's running in 1080p on the high setting and
we're getting a very good frame rate of way over 40 frames per second now this
isn't too bad considering again that you know this is fairly weak Hardware so
it's able to handle this game just fine I mean you could blow the settings down
a little bit so if you set it to medium then you'll probably get around 60
frames per second if you wanted it to be a little bit smoother than this so let's
take a look at thermals now after one hour of gaming so it reaches a maximum
of 82 degrees that Sun get really really quite hot there which is not good to see
so I don't know if the cooling is really up to the job especially when you have a
look at the GPU so the GPU picked out at 88 degrees right here now a little bit
of thermal paste might be able to lower temperatures a little bit perhaps add a
little bit more copper there so when you're gaming you will definitely hear
the fans in fact you hear the fans when you turn it on they will quickly spin up
and then go off again and most of the time when you're just doing a light task
see why here the fans aren't much at all they
just stay on a very low rpm which is good but right now both fans are about
100 percent so I'll give you a sample of what you can expect in terms of fan
noise
so it has the two side firing speakers as I showed you in this starts a one
here then one in the exact same position on the other side let's have a listen to
them
so even from that small sample that you would have picked up that they do lack
of volume and they hardly have any bass whatsoever just a tiny bit so very
disappointing speakers they're not good at all now I haven't gone through my
full batteries tests of this device yet because I've only just had it for a day
but you're looking around two and a half hours on the dedicated in video 940m GPU
and if you're not running that GPU and you have the switching on so the
optimist graphics switching then it's around five to six hours it's not as
good as other a polar lake in thirty four fifty laptops and good news for
those that wish to run Linux on this particular laptop that everything is
working the brightness controls the volume controls Wireless the touchpad
you name it it is working in the latest build here of Linux Manjaro
okay so just to wrap up here that is the day sky debug pro with the 940m now it
didn't come with a 940 MX another that's going to really matter because the CPU
is what is the bottleneck in this system here and that is seen in games like
project cars and tomb raider GTA 5 as well it's just maxed out and that is
what is limiting the performance here and our frame rate now the GPU it has a
little bit of power there about three times more powerful than the integrated
Intel HD graphics which is good that means we can do a lot more with that you
can run applications like Photoshop and once I showed you those games here to
that it does boost up their performance and a massive increase over the
integrated GPU there you couldn't even run GTA 5 well very low frames per
second we've cut down really cut down settings and you saw there at 720p on
low then I managed to get at least a playable framerate which I find is
impressive considering the Apollo deck CPU that this has on here so the build
quality overall it's okay the alloy around the outside is nice they met
around the screen the screen is really good so it's very bright it comes out to
be about 360 like 65 or so which is really good for a matte coated screen so
you have no issues with that even in bright environments in daylight good
viewing angles as IPS good colors deep blacks as well on there now the other
thing to note too that the webcam that's really poor the touchpad is also
poor I don't like the left and right mouse buttons on it they're just way too
shallow and the speaker's they rattle they lack volume they lack base so that
s'n other-- bad area now the keyboard to type on that's very important to have a
nice keyboard it's average I would not read it as good as the tick last if
seven or the easy box repro no it's a little bit behind it just doesn't have
as good a feel on it although typing on it I don't find them having any typos or
anything like that it just doesn't have a really nice feel to it it's good it
does the job it just feels a little bit flimsy and a little bit cheap other than
that the package and what you've got here should you buy it so if you're on
an ultra strict budget and you want to play a few games on the side then yes
for light titles as I showed you like Counter Strike global Offensive a lot of
the settings League of Legends dota 2 games like that it's going to be fine
now if you want to play fortnight it won't run it unfortunately I don't know
why I think it's something to do with the processor the sour on 1030 450 just
does not like it rejects it won't even load the game now if you plant a game
with newer titles you wanna play something like Battlefield one or you
want to play GTA 5 and 1080p then this is not the laptop to get I recommend
going for something minimum with an Nvidia 1030 or the MX 150 those will
give you much better playable frame rates and I have reviewed a couple of
laptops now with that particular GPU and it's much better you'll also get a much
faster CPU so you won't have the bottleneck neck and limitations that the
cipolla like in 34 is giving us with this particular model here thanks a lot
for watching this review and I do hope to catch you back in the channel soon
with more new and interesting videos coming up bye for now
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