Is a $700 Gaming Laptop Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin when it comes to

gaming laptops when you go below $1,000

typically you have to deal with a lot of

compromises take the Acer Aspire 5 at

$600 I've been incredibly impressed with

this laptop and sure it's not going to

be the most powerful thing in the world

but it delivers a ton for the money step

up to something like the Dell Inspiron

7000 series and for $800 you are going

to be getting a ton more performance but

you're still going to be lacking the fun

toy that the higher-end laptops at $700

though the asou stuff FX 504 looks like

it could be the perfect sweet spot at

least on paper let's see how it actually

stacks up though a first glance it looks

pretty decent so they're definitely

going for the whole gamer aesthetic with

the red accents and the fake brush metal

which I will mention is entirely plastic

about something that has soos claims on

Amazon and will pretty much in all their

marketing material is that this is a

thin and light laptop weighing in at

only 5 pounds and one inch thick but I

mean it like this definitely is not

you're gonna notice this guy in your

backpack this is one of those cases

where I actually feel like the laptop

looks better on video than it does in

person now the idea of having brushed

metal is nice but honestly it feels very

plastic E and that comes across the

stuff like the screen so I mean if you

just do a little bit of flexing here it

well it doesn't really inspire a lot of

confidence especially considering that

this is going to be a $700 laptop

speaking of the screen it's exactly what

you would expect at this price point so

it's going to be a 15.6 inch 1080p panel

and it's going to be pretty much

mediocre make sure the resolution is

going to be decent when it comes to the

color and especially the contrast it's

not going to be particularly accurate or

particularly contrast d and on top of

that as soon as you get it even remotely

off access the viewing angles fall off

and even though it does get bright when

you start to crank up that brightness it

washes out even more it's going to be

fine

but at 7 under dollars it would be nice

to see a little bit of an upgrade

speaker why's this actually is going to

sound pretty decent so it does have a

pair of speakers that are going to be on

these sides so it's not going to be

quite as good as something that's going

to be on the decklid facing directly

toward you but it's a lot better than

most laptops that fire down into well

whatever it is that you're sitting on

now the keyboard is going to be backlit

in the same red that's all over the

laptop and there's some good stuff with

it so I do think it actually has a

really nice layout and is able to get up

to speed with it almost immediately

however there's a lot of key travel and

it kind of feels a little bit mushy it's

maybe not quite as precise as I would

like but cuss plating here is here for

some hundred Oh a laptop there's really

no complaints we've also got a decent

trackpad so it is using Windows

precision drivers and while it's not

going to be the biggest trackpad in the

world again totally fine what isn't so

great is the port selection we have a

pair of USB 3.0 one USB 2.0 HDMI as well

as Ethernet that's going to be fine

those are going to be the essentials but

what you are losing or things like an SD

card reader USB C Thunderbolt support

it's going to be pretty basic here now

don't let the looks fool you even though

this does look like a premium laptop the

build quality is only going to be so-so

however it is clear that a su spent the

money on the internals what really drew

me to the ethics 504 is the core i5 8300

agent sign now this is one of the new

8th gen 45-watt H series processors that

are coming out in laptops if you guys

caught my video that I did last month

where I took a look at all of the new

chips including the new I sevens and I

9s you know this is actually really

exciting this is the first time in a

long long time the gaming pcs are

getting a major update on the laptop

side where the core i7 and core I nine

are jumping up from four cores to six

cores the new core i5s are adding hyper

threading essentially giving you four

cores and eight threads very similar to

what you used to be able to get in the

last generation core i7s there that's

simple right the idea of having a

cheaper computer that's on par with a

core i7 gaming laptop from last

generation is exciting

and as you'll be able to see it is a

step up however it's not going to be

perfect take a look at the benchmarks

and you'll see if this is going to be a

step up over the last generation i5

although it's not going to be a massive

leap and while it comes close to the i7

the low 2.3 gigahertz base clock

actually does hold it back a bit here

here with the i5 is that gtx 1050

you know this is actually going to be a

pretty decent performer at 1080p as you

guys will see a little bit later in the

gaming section and if you stack it up to

some of the other competitors including

the 1050 Ti in the Dell as well as the

MX 150 in the Acer you'll see that slots

right in there as you would expect at

the price remove about 12 screws to get

at the inside of the laptop you'll see

there's actually be a fair bit of space

here so first of all you're going to see

our 8 gigs of ram you can't expand that

to 16 gigs pretty easily or 32 if you

really want to go all out and you're

also going to find an m2 Drive slots now

that is because this only has a one

terabyte hard drive mind you it is going

to be an SS HD so it is going to be

faster especially when it comes to

things like Windows however if this is

going to be my everyday system I would

definitely install a full SSD in this

guy the battery is going to be a fairly

small 48 watt hour cell so don't expect

to do hours and hours of gaming on this

guy what you can't do is well not

overheat it is going to have true

cooling fans as well as a pair of heat

pipes for the CPU and the GPU that

combined with the heat sinks on the back

should keep this fairly cool under

extended gaming sessions just remember

to bring your charger

get into some gaming and first of all we

have rocket League now here at 1080p on

high settings we're getting a pretty

impressive hundred frames per second

rocket League is not exactly a demanding

game especially with a gtx 1050 inside

is absolutely no problem next up we have

everyone's favorite pump g not like

people play any other game these days so

oh ok shot we have 1080p low settings

here and with that we're getting

somewhere between 50 to 60 frames per

second if you do want higher settings

you will sacrifice some frame rates of

here okay with 30 you can probably go up

to medium but for me I like having

something that's going to be a little

bit smoother and this is again totally

playable it's almost like when you spend

$700 on a laptop you're able to play

games at reasonable settings amazing

right

moving on to everyone's actual favorite

game we have port night now here on

1080p on medium settings we're getting

it's still very impressive 75 to 90

frames per second I think this is really

a good example of the kind of game

dinner's really meant for a system like

this I mean sure you're not running at

epic settings like 300 frames per second

but for most people I would say the vast

majority of people a medium 1080 piece

experience that's going to be running at

this high of a frame rate is going to be

more than

good enough we went to a game that's

going to be much more demanding we have

Middle Earth shadow of war now here at

1080p on low settings we're still

hovering around these 60 FPS mark again

you can bump some settings up to medium

if you want a little bit of a better

graphical experience but if you really

do want to get that 60 frames per second

you're able to get it and pretty much

any game at 1080p providing you true

things downloads this laptop is kind of

in a weird position on one hand for $700

the performance is really impressive

getting that new 8th gen Core i5

processor paired with a gtx 1050 well

that's really handle 1080p gaming very

easily but in this kind of price the

trade-offs do start to add up so stuff

like the build quality on the screen I

can mostly overlook when it comes to the

sshd that's where I start to have real

problems for $70 I don't want to deal

with a slow hard drive making windows

feel super super slow the fact that it's

an SS HD helps some but I would much

prefer to find a full SSD like you would

find in the Aspire or the Dell at the

end of the day there are options that

are going to be cheaper and better in

some ways and they're going to be

options been a little bit more expensive

and better in pretty much every way it's

an interesting laptop there's a lot that

I like with it but it's kind of hard to

recommend at this price if only if only

they had an SSD I know you guys are

really tired of me complaining about

SSDs but you need an SSD on a computer

in 2018 ok so here you're spending 7 or

8 dollars anyway let me know what you

guys think about the suits in the

comments below as always there will be a

link to this guy to check it out over on

Amazon and I will catch you in the next

one