this is my gaming laptop it doesn't come with a keyboard or
trackpad or even a battery i had to bring my own
guys i'm not gonna lie i don't really get this this is how we did laptop when i was a
kid strapping a jackery to this thing doesn't make it a laptop well that's not
the way we do it now they want us to do it this way well i don't know that way
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on the surface the new igame g1 plus from colorful is an all-in-one desktop
but beating in its chest is the heart of a laptop it's got a mobile core i7
12700h an rtx 3060 six gig laptop GPU
and two 8 gig sodium memory modules all
crammed into this stealthy stand behind the display more on that later but first
i want to show you something unfortunate
this is rage mode which unlocks the fans
running them at their full 3700
RPM uh colorful wouldn't the point of using mobile
hardware to be power efficient and quiet
there we go compared to the default quiet fan
profile which allows the CPU to thermal throttle
almost immediately rage mode yielded a
whopping 35 improvement in our cinebench score
i mean i think it's pretty safe to say that most people wouldn't want to use
the machine in this state but hey at least it's an option to allow the fans
to compensate rather than just letting the system overheat take that apple
and besides the igame's true purpose is not to be a multi-threaded workstation
powerhouse it's got gaming right in the name maybe our quiet fan profile will
fare better here and it does in quiet mode not only is
the machine merely silent but we see our CPU and GPU reach around 70 and 80
degrees respectively after a one hour loop of f1 2021
not too shabby but are we giving up any performance
as it turns out the answer is no
while rage mode did have a significant impact in performance when we are maxing
out our 12th gen core CPU in gaming we saw just a 5 to 8 degree drop in
temperature which did improve our FPS a little bit but the difference was so
minimal that i would say it's definitely not worth making your machine sound like
a jet engine speaking of FPS our hardware performs as
we'd hope in our esports and mainstream gaming representatives cs go
and f1 2021 but in tiny tina's wonderlands which is
representing the demands of more current aaa titles we barely managed 60 FPS with
our settings at high and running at our native 1440p resolution that's with or
without rage mode which gives us some concerns about the
longevity of a machine like this though
maybe it can be upgraded
while we're opening it up let's talk some other speeds and feeds
the display's 1440p 165 hertz with a
measured pixel response time of about five milliseconds like a laptop it's got
wi-fi speakers
and it's powered by a single power brick god these things just make my hands
tired from having to like put so much force on
them so this is exactly why
i didn't want to tear this down ahead of time
oh that's for the wireless charging so here's the problem there's no obvious
screw holes except for the very bottom of the display once we took that off
there's a cable for the charger
and i can't there's like no other screws can i try using a hammer oh god so can
you even upgrade it we had this whole spiel about like oh
yeah you can it's got two m.2 slots and all this other stuff but i don't even
know how you get it out i don't know if we'll end up using that so i think that
you got to flex out the bottom and then it clips along the side but it's a pain
because you've got this cable attached and then you've also got the monitor to
deal with anytime you want to move it so i'm going to spin it
and rest it on the display and then the cable is
going yep okay there you go so after that's
off ah this whole thing just comes right off
all right it's not terrible but also you're really
okay and that's just on a ribbon cable let's take this off i'd rather take the
cable off instead of breaking it there we go okay
that's a lot better unlike a laptop though you can't just
tuck it under your ARM and take it on the road there's no battery and it
doesn't come with a keyboard and mouse raises some questions like who needs
this thing and why are you still waiting to check out the stealth hoodie pro on
lttstore.com considering this cable here and then how
the display is kind of just out
i don't really think they expect many people to actually open this thing as
you can see we've got two sodium slots for our memory no not force we can't
upgrade that we can maybe get bigger capacity but it's already running at the
max rated speed of 3200 megahertz and then we have an extra m.2 at least it's
a full 2280 slot for another SSD if we want to put that in there
but it looks like if you want to upgrade the
other already installed SSD you've got to take this whole thing out
so there's screws here here here here
another minor issue if you want to take the board out you got to take the cooling stuff off too i should probably
call that something better than the cooling stuff heat pipes yeah
maybe there's thermal paste that's glued to ah
you got that well because
it's a laptop it's a laptop CPU um this is actually neat though this is
kind of cool all right did you get all that yeah i i
gotta say as much as i hate taking this thing apart this is neat i like that
this just kind of like levers up and out of the way so you actually don't
have to remove uh the entire heat sink or the cooling apparatus like i was
worried about um i think our motherboard is attached to something
i'm not sure if i just missed a screw or if it's just oh there's one screw here
yeah and here's our SSD it's all the way on the back so if you want to change the
original one yeah just don't probably
yeah so just to recap if if we want to change our SSD we've got to get all the
way to the back we can add a new one and we can change the memory modules but
without any sort of major tinkering that's about it
none of which would be a deal breaker of a problem if it weren't for the price we
specced out a small form-factor pc with equivalent hardware and a better 1440p
display and even with the sff tax we
managed it for a few hundred dollars less not to mention that it not only
matches but beats the i game in just about every performance category i mean
as far as our temps go they probably would be more in line with colorful's
aio if we packed all the hardware into a case rather than testing it on an open
bench but at least we've got something upgradable
which is a major problem for the igame and it's not some kind of fear-mongering
about is your system future-proof enough
the igame can barely handle 1440p in aaa
games now let alone over the next few years as game developers pump out more
and more demanding titles that are built for the hardware of the xbox series and
ps5 era of consoles and even ignoring performance
like a laptop the screen isn't detachable or usable with a separate
input making the entire system essentially e-waste once it falls behind
the times so who is buying these things if they're
overpriced and underperforming and lack flexibility one option is cyber cafes or
land centers it's a breeze to deploy has
a dedicated Ethernet port and is going to be good enough for esports games like
cs go or league for many years to come
but a 32-inch screen is huge for a facility like that where you would
normally find 24 or at most 27 inch
panels so for most of the cafes that i've seen these would be reserved for
premium users with the majority of their seats targeting 1080p on much smaller
monitors with much more budget hardware which kind of makes it out of place in
another way because at those 32-inch premium seats i'd expect to be running
an rtx 3080. another market i can really see this in is the non-tech savvy mom
and dad you know they're out there at the best buy they want to find a
compromise between the imac that they think looks pretty and their kids desire
to game well fair enough for that i guess it's
not entirely fair of us to compare the ease of use of something like this with
a diy desktop that we cobbled together on pc part picker
but it raises the question if they really want something that's all in one
why stop here you'd probably be better off just buying a laptop which has even
more all in its one you get similar or even identical
hardware more portability a much more appropriate display an attached keyboard
and trackpad well you'll want to buy a mouse as soon as possible in either case
this unfortunately doesn't include one either and surprisingly you can get all
of that for the same price or even much cheaper like this ASUS tuff unit with a
300hz full hd display for only 1500 us
dollars that is a whopping 500 budget
remaining for a monitor a mouse and
dammit where's our desk this desk pad from lttstore.com
and if you don't need the portability Intel's nooks have become more and more
modular over the years featuring full fat desktop sockets and space for
desktop gpus expensive yes
but so is this and at least it's more versatile even if you like how it looks
with its gray blue stand off-center power button and big eye game logo on
the chin there's no denying that other all-in-ones tend to look a little
sleeker than this one from colorful take the hp envy all-in-one 34c 1070 xt not
only does it look nicer but it's got an i7 12700 desktop CPU an rtx 3060 GPU
though probably also a laptop one 16 gigs of RAM at 4 000 mega transfer per
second with two more sodium slots if you want to upgrade wi-fi six a three in one
memory card reader and more i o than colorful unit for just a few hundred
dollars more it's 34-inch display only runs at 60 hertz but it's 5k so while
the lower refresh rate is definitely an advantage for the i-game the i-game has
its own problems as well running 1440p at 32 inches diagonal is
really pushing the bounds of acceptable pixel density and hdr400 is just another
way of saying don't bother enabling HDR you're probably better off without it
and it can also be frustrating to use instead of a typical on-screen display
menu for the monitor you have to use colorful's eye game center which doesn't
actually give you any control over the brightness or color settings
for brightness you need to use the side buttons that also act as volume control
and while there are osd settings they're not so you can actually adjust the color
they're just so that you can display specs on screen not alter them
to be clear the app itself overall is fine and using it to change fan profiles
or lighting does work but for this much money it's just
missing a lot of the features found on just about any modern monitor it's kind
of like what colorful set out to do was compete with apple's imac in terms of
simplicity and price and then they failed on both counts speaking of fails
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into the stand though and
a built-in webcam did we break the budget then snatching
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