this might look like a knock off alienware well because it is but
according to specs on the box like AMD processor this might just be able to
beat them at their own game but will it
um i honestly don't know but i do know it's
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what we have here today is the electronics prometheus xvi
and it's a very powerful little laptop eight
core AMD processor rtx 3080 the 16 gig
version it's quite a beast and it's thirteen hundred dollars less
than this alienware right here now judging by the box i actually
thought it was more of a striking comparison to the
alienware uh in person
it's more gray than white like i thought it was here
let's just open it up here oh so in here we have some dbrand skins now
electronics says that this is so that you can know
choose if you want to have just the complete stealth look
or if you want to have their logo on the back well i think it's almost smarter
than that it's the kind of thing where like when you're asking for someone to build
you a laptop like your electronics or even you know dell or lenovo
you aren't building that laptop yourself you're going to a bunch of suppliers and
being like in the case of this one let's say cherry
is making the keyboard and someone else like maybe pixar is making
this trackpad and so on and so forth but it's really smart to just call up dbrand
so they can put your logo on something like this this costs what like 20 bucks
instead of having to order like i don't know 500 100 000 laptops just so
you can have your logo on here that's one of the things that was funny i was
talking to the ceo and he said like he really likes this
laptop the insides are based off of i believe it's an hp
and then the factory re-skins it and
it came out kind of looking like an alienware electronics actually aren't
super stoked about that they want it to be more individual to them
but you need to just make so many laptops for it to be your own so instead
they just have exclusive rights to this chassis in the us
in person it does look less like the alienware than i was expecting
though it's kind of like the legion and the alienware just kind
of like got it on and this is what popped out me
and brandon together think we got it started in the right
spot we're gonna find out here
dbrand scanning laptops is just so smart
it's such an easy way to make it look cool which one do you take brandon
little black with the logo or RGB
RGB all day hell yeah now when you get this laptop the first
thing you want to do of course like install your drivers but then you want
to install the ryzen controller software it's like kind of janky
like look at the splash screen brandon
beautiful and like the whole program's kind of
janky this is not a first party program
but at the same time everything that you need to play around
with your computer is right here so like CPU temperature limit
boom now it's 85 degrees turn that off
want to change the TDP it's right there
all of the stuff that you would really want to do
is just available for you
now it may not look the best like this is a very simple little program
but compared to alienware's command center which like it's fancy it looks
really good but it doesn't work the best all right
enough screwing around though got the dad hat LTT Store.com and we are ready
to do some testing cinebench let's just go straight for it
now if i'm honest i don't think that this is as well
cooled as the alienware or the lenovo
but it does have an AMD processor which means that there is a good chance
that it's going to win this huh
well this isn't good um
lenovo go 5362 alienware got 53.94 that's like within
margin of error makes sense they have the exact same CPU
but the electronics has
49.06 that's not ideal uh i actually thought
it would win right now but let's see if we can make it win one
second okay so with a score of 53.94 to beat
we're hopping into the ryzen controller and
we're just going to do it the dirty way at first just every oh
and set the temperature limit to 105 degrees i don't know about that let's go
for 99. um but besides that one we're just going to
take all the sliders all the way to the right
and just see what happens with our super easy overclock we got
5132 which is a decent improvement 200 points
but we still need another 200 in order to beat this guy and i don't know if
we're gonna get it yeah we ran it again with those additional sliders all the
way over to the right and the score is about the same 5100 so we're not able to
beat either of these guys now we didn't do a bit more research while it was running
and it looks like this is about as fast as the 5900 hx gets
so i think that really speaks more so to
how well alienware and lenovo and their vapor chamber coolers
have cooled these i7 chips as opposed to this thing being slow i'm
kind of surprised though i was not expecting for Intel's 10 nanometer to be
able to beat AMD so
well that wasn't quite the center bench result i was hoping for it is still
impressive because we didn't hit 90 degrees and
that's very promising for the cooling system in games
what i am impressed with though is just the overall build quality of
this thing so the chassis is stamped aluminum and it just it feels
really good i have to say it's not the same as like the magnesium chassis of
the alienware this thing is insanely well built
but it's very much in a similar league as the lenovo
now as for the keyboard
i am personally a fan so i feel like that has a tiny bit more travel than the
legion has this is in many ways a good keyboard
but i find it's not like the key stability just isn't quite
perfect and there isn't enough travel this one right here is pretty good
this one's maybe like an a minus we call this one a
the alienware has the cherry switches that are just
the best but that's kind of in its own league
one thing i was planning on complaining about is the track pad
now you can look at it it's the size is fine it's basically the same
as the legion and the alien reaction tiny bit bigger than the alienware and i
just don't really have any complaints about it it's the kind of trackpad that
you can just use every day and be generally happy about it
but enough fooling around it's a well-built machine
but no one cares if it doesn't game well it's a gaming laptop so let's do some
games before we get into the hard gaming benchmarking i want to just find out
like the subjective how does it feel to game on this laptop we're here in
valheim and first thing this screen is so good
i said it before but quad hd on laptops
is just it's the sweet spot especially 16 by 10
it's kind of weird in games like
in games i feel like a lot of them are made for a much wider screen as opposed
to taller but you get used to it pretty fast and
it is quite nice extremely responsive
no problems at all we're now in forza horizon 4 and this is
probably our best display benchmark that we have it's also a pretty good
benchmark benchmark we're getting like 120 FPS you're not going to be
complaining about that in this game now this really shows you how much just
color and brightness you have like you don't really get to see because you're
watching on whatever monitor you have but to my eyeballs
i would quite enjoy just not doing work for the rest of the day and playing
forza on this thing now we can get into the actual hardcore
game testing of this guy right here so we're connecting to an external display
for two reasons first of all all the testing for the alienware x17 was done
at 4k and this is not a 4k panel also
inside of this there is a mux switch which can give you something like a 5 to
10 performance uplift but unfortunately it isn't yet enabled in the BIOS of this
thing so you know connected to an external
display you get that performance uplift and it's more representative of what you
can expect when you actually have hands on with this thing and it's been updated
based off of my numbers i don't think this is going to be as fast as the
alienware or the lenovo hot damn
so i was expecting this to be something
like 90 FPS but we ended up getting a hundred and three so that's two more
than the lenovo legion and
i honestly don't know how it did it um
i'm very impressed you little guy okay yeah we ran it again and it did drop a
bit so we now have 96 FPS and the reason is just simply that our
CPU it's overheating now we do still have it
in everything to the right go insane mode
so i don't really blame it but i do think that this is a much more
reasonable kind of mid-90s
maybe 90 FPS is what you're actually going to be getting
i wonder if having this thing not on a desk pad would help improve performance
it does seem like we have intakes on the bottom that might be slightly choked by
something like this now we're testing the rise of the tomb raider anything
above about 45 is a win that's what the m17 did
anything above 66 which is what the x-17
did is an ultra win i'm guessing we'll be somewhere in the middle there damn
again i'm quite impressed so 57 FPS
that's one less than the lenovo legion which is well within our margin of error
of these tests final benchmark is dirt we're looking
for 100 FPS we're currently getting 90. so
not a bad start now the fans
they're a bit loud in this thing if i'm honest
they're not super annoying like it doesn't have a whole lot of high pitched
wine but it certainly doesn't compare to like
this guy like the x-17 is very quiet while gaming like
for a gaming laptop of course
but you're not paying alienware money so
dirt was a tiny bit of a disappointment 92fps instead of 100 i was hoping for
but at the same time going into this these are the results that i was
expecting before it kind of blew me away with the other
ones let's take it apart and see how they're doing such a good job
disassembly i believe is pretty easy so you just got a couple of screws the
ones in the front are shorter than the ones in the back if you put a long boy
in the front you're gonna have a real bad time
but fortunately a lot of the problems that you will run into have already been
covered by them so they hired bob of all trades to go and just make disassembly
videos so you know things like these little fan grills are kind of easy
to screw up and now i'm going to note what's on the go
and not break them
exactly like this i'm slightly concerned i'm going to break a couple clips so i'm
going to re-watch that video i was afraid that if i just pulled on this
yep i was going to break it now i can go
in here that didn't feel great but she's all good
awesome thank you bob that is
quite the cooling system i do have to say it's clearly well designed so we have
one heat pipe that runs under here sneaky like to get your vrm's cooled on
what is presumably the GPU over here
we have these massive radiators on the
back and the sides one thing i was a bit curious about was
that a lot of electronics laptops you know they come with liquid metal as an
option whereas sky does not turns out there's a good reason they
tested it and there weren't massive performance gains by you know putting
liquid metal on the CPU and GPU what they did find though is that if you
upgrade the thermal pads on the vrm
to k5 pro paste you are able to push them harder and
see a real performance gain so they're considering having that as an option
although liquid metal it's
it's nice that they tested it and aren't going to just charge you extra for something that
won't have a performance benefit as for upgradability
we've got our RAM right here oh yes
so this makes so much sense the RAM that we have here eight gigabytes one our x8
this is the faster old RAM so
i did a video on this a little while ago where new higher density modules will
give you less performance this is almost definitely why i was surprised at the
performance of this laptop and why it had the extra like 10 performance that i
wasn't expecting it to have it's because someone
like electronics can go in ask for these faster RAM modules and
they can get them someone like lenovo or alienware aren't able to do that because
they have to order such large quantities that they've probably run out of fast
stuff by now yeah super easy upgradability two sodium
slots two SSD slots
got a wi-fi card one thing that isn't so
incredible is the battery so we got 64 watt hours compared to the legion's 80.
now they do make up for it by having an AMD CPU it's just more efficient than
the Intel variants but if they had the larger battery they'd be
able to beat instead of just match the battery life of their competitors well
although at the start of this video i thought this was going to be a brutal
alienware knockoff it turns out it's much closer to a legion seven knockoff
and quite a good one at that now if we take a look at the legion that comes with the
rtx 3080 you're looking at 2759
now this guy right here if you get the 16 Gigabyte 3080 version
you're looking at 2500
so do you really want to go for electronics for
you know 200 less and a smaller capacity
SSD i'm not entirely sure but what is really
compelling that there's an eight Gigabyte rtx 3080 version of this guy
right here for 2300
and i think that makes a lot more sense there's no 8 gig version of the 3080 in
this guy and you probably just don't need 16
gigabytes of vram you might as well just save yourself the 200
in which case electronics is quite a compelling little
buy so yeah overall i'm pretty impressed with this
guy the cooling's good the screen is great keyboard's good i'm
actually kind of surprised about that one only real complaint is i wish the
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reviewing it if you're looking for something else uh the alienware x17
video you probably want to go watch that now so have a good day bye