now my mama told me a lot of things growing up she said stand up straight if
you have nothing nice to say don't say nothing at all and
never kick them while they're down but uh
i don't see my mama do you and that is why today's video
is going to be about walmart's overpowered
15.6 inch gaming laptop could it
possibly be as bad as their desktop
well there's only one way to find out isn't there
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all right so my idea is we crack the box open see you know if it comes with
anything epic overpowered maybe can we do this pose
let's do this like this okay hold on hold on i gotta get serious
i'm smiling okay okay hold on
sorry what i can't do it so spec wise we're
looking at a core i7 8750h of the six core processor gtx 1060 six gigs 16 gigs
of RAM 256 gig SSD one terabyte hard
drive 144 hertz 1080p display RGB
backlit mechanical keyboard and Windows 10. i mean
on paper like specifically this paper right here this ticks
pretty much all the boxes with the only issue being the price so
we ordered this actually at around the same time that we ordered our desktop
but it didn't arrive until quite recently because they screwed up our
order and when we went to pick it up the laptop just wasn't there with our order
and it was only because we checked before we left the store we did in-store
pickup that we were able to point out that hey
the 1400 laptop we ordered ain't here
dog so it comes with an external power brick that's kind of big but also not
too thick so i guess that's nice a quick start guide
a connect ac adapter's jack into other
more different jack b the display panel can be opened to a
wide range of angles for optimal viewing
c press the power button
alright so this laptop actually arrived
in c-sprep mode and there was no bloatware installed
whatsoever same as with the desktop really so they've got their
control center but that's it that is the most hilarious animation
look at it about the game
what the hell
who thinks that's a good idea i mean it's the same kind of thing you'd have
with a normal program they just it doesn't have like an acceleration
curve it's just like for those who don't know it's called
disruptive innovation okay so you just got disrupted so in the op control
center you can turn on and off your led light bar which is right here it's RGB
you can turn on and off your keyboard backlight you can
you can turn off the internal display oh crap now what you can do a bunch of
different keyboard effects you can alter your fan settings so office mode or
gaming mode it was in gaming mode by default there's also a turbo mode whoa
you know as far as system bloat goes
this is really not bad however
as not bad as it might be this
is just a skin what is this
what are they doing there's no way that that is not
programmed in so what was what was the intent here disruptive innovation i told
you
oh um
oh peel jacketed one can say that your peel
was not too appealing one can but one
shouldn't okay what does this mean tap tap twice
hey there's a little light in the touchpad
so when you tap this corner twice it enables or disables the touchpad so
to walmart's credit here there actually are a fair number of features you know
whether you buy into the RGB hype or not
that are specifically tailored to gamers
as for the overall sort of build quality of the machine i would describe it just
from sort of a fit and finish standpoint here
as average at best but certainly not the
worst thing i've ever seen and spec wise the 144 hertz display is
not immediately disappointing to me not super
bright or anything but it's not super dim either
like no okay stop that hey stop that
so moving stuff around quickly on screen there's pretty good clarity even during
fast movements so yeah it's not a crt or anything but
for an ips panel that's not bad
what do you think of the mechanical keyboard it oh it has a mechanical keyboard
according to the specs oh
oh
uh oh that's stupid
so the op control center is not tied into the keyboard brightness adjustment
over here so if you turn it off oh man that is so cringe
to see if it's actually mechanical we actually pried one of the key caps off
here and yeah it does appear to be so we've got our
metal contact piece here that seems to be
what makes the key itself actuate so it actually does actuate before
it bottoms out but the issue is that it's almost like
they implemented this feature without a clear understanding of
why or what it is about mechanical keyboards that makes them good for
gaming because they've got kind of a very heavy
feel towards the top of the key press and then they're quite mushy after that
so there's no real clear advantage over just a short travel
scissor switch for example how do you feel about the numpad i think
it's a little too cramped so i like that they're using all the
space that they have here for keyboard like they're going almost edge to edge
keyboard which is nice like the keys are quite big
um but i i kind of questioned the wisdom actually not just to this one but of our
other contestants as well of including a numpad
on a gaming laptop like what do you plan like a counting simulator like
even line okay that's what i said
so for i o we've got usb 2 Ethernet
audio dedicated microphone jack that's kind of nice to see over here we've got
two usb 3s an sd card reader and then oh
wow that's not bad a usb type c which is
over with our display outputs HDMI and then too many display ports that i guess
is because they figure people will use it as a display out more than as
just a usb port that's sort of an interesting thought
and actually a lot of ventilation heat sinks here here here and here
and then basically just wide open mesh across the
bottom but it still actually has a reasonable amount of structural rigidity
down here it's not bad should we crack it open well assuming we can put the
thing back together should be fine
uh do we have a parts tray or anything that we can kind of use as a
proxy or give a short
so i thought we were ready to go but they've got a warranty void if
removed sticker
so it uses a similar approach to the lg gram now with lg they were saving weight
by using a main board and then daughter
boards with these ribbon cables connecting them
but uh whether it was a cost or a weight savings they've ended up with a really
interesting internal layout so without increasing the thickness of the device
it makes extra room for higher profile like thicker cooling fans and heat sinks
and stuff like that because they're not fighting with the pcb for space and then
we get a similar effect over here for m.2 drive now it should be noted that
this is not an NVMe SSD so this is just
a regular SATA SSD just in an m.2 form
factor you can see though if you wanted you could put a PCIe one here or you
could put a second PCIe one here but not another SATA m.2 that's why you got to
watch out for this compatibility they could have just expanded the battery
capacity because this is pretty kinksy you know and that
is actually a perfect segue into how exactly it is that walmart best known
for good prices on you know bathroom paper i
got into the laptop manufacturing business i thought and i would have i
would have put money on it that what they had done was rebranded a laptop
unit from the company clevo who is well known for supplying other brands with
their manufactured laptops but i was wrong
so to whom do we owe the pleasure of uh
inspecting this laptop while i'm putting it back together here this is the odm
known as tongfeng tong i've never even heard of them neither have i up until
what two days ago and apparently
turkish reseller monster sells
laptops based on this exact
bare bone which is known as gamma kilo5 charlie noob 6's
xavier am i supposed to have heard of that like is that supposed to add
credibility or well monster does the fact that origin pc used the same see i
had thought that origen just used clavo like i i thought everyone just used cleveo to
be perfectly honest i wasn't aware of these guys at all like sagar
eurocom origin i thought it was just all clever
rebrands but then there's this sorry what are they called again
company that i've hardly ever heard of i say hardly because i have technically
heard of them in the last three minutes here so here's the thing this approach
of basically rebranding what someone else
has already built has advantages like
allowing a company like walmart who has no experience whatsoever designing
computers to just jump right into the market with a
product that might have some flaws like this keyboard is
very imperfect but is otherwise balancedly specked and
very functional the disadvantage is that
it's hard to differentiate yourself so ivan mentioned that origin pc also sells
this model can you spec out an identical config to this on origin and how much
does that cost us bear in mind we paid 1400 us dollars for this now
based on our previous experience were by you know dealing with the origin pc you
know the 1500 gaming system that they sent us not guess how much this conflict
would cost origin pc specked out to be pretty much same as this minus one
terabyte hard drive okay how much fourteen hundred dollars so identical to
what walmart was charging except that with origin you get to have
origins customer service which in secret shopper we have established it
was at least sample size of two i guess but was
excellent and you'll have the confidence that down the line if you need help with
your system origin pc will probably still be in the pc business whereas with
walmart i'm not sure if that's so clear
either way origin did not score well in
value which leads us to the question is origin going aggressive on their
laptop pricing or is walmart enjoying
origin like markups
yes well yeah it has to be one of them yeah
you've probably been asking yourself why do you have these other laptops on the
table you'd be asking yourself a good question so when we bought it this was
fourteen hundred dollars but in the time that it's been sitting on our shelf
walmart implemented a rollback to only 800 us dollars for this thing so
over here we've got an 800 nitro 5 from
acer rocking a core i5 8th gen and a gtx
1050 ti and then over here representing the 1400
price point we've got an ASUS rog i think this is a scar or something it's a
last gen processor but in terms of gaming performance it should be quite
similar and the GPU is a gtx 1060. so in
cinebench or whatever it won't perform as well as the current gen version of
this but in games it should be basically identical so let's go ahead and fire up
our stress test here and make sure that you know there's not any
egregious thermal throttling issues or anything like that
were you expecting this to be clocked like 300 400 megahertz lower than the
ASUS model according to what i researched in prior
this laptop does have thermal throttling
issues it runs hot but we cannot hear it at all
perhaps it's because you set it into like desktop mode and i didn't business
center oh i was on battery
well wait so that means then anyway that ASUS on battery performance profile is
much more aggressive oh i'm still on battery yeah let's take
a look how much battery is left because they they were owned for the same time
uh an hour and 14 minutes 60 remaining
38 remaining so they're both terrible oh there we go 150 165 FPS
so they've been running long enough to reach equilibrium now bottom line is
this guy clocks in anywhere from 80 to 100 megahertz slower than this one
and the performance cap reason given by GPU-z
is power for both of them but
our overpowered laptop hits this cap more frequently they're both around the
same temperature with this one coming in at around 71 degrees we had to stop it
for a second here because i had a microphone issue don't worry about it anyway 71 degrees and this one at 74
with the overpowered being about as loud maybe a touch louder
let's see how it goes in actual games though so performance wise
it is already falling behind the ASUS machine but by like
two to four FPS here and there and it is way ahead not just in terms of
FPS but also just in terms of playability like with how dark this
display is it's really hard to make out details in the shadows
and there goes the power outage that we were sure was probably coming at some
point today oh boy winds peaking at a hundred kilometers an
hour blasting trees and knocking down power lines a houseboat adrift after
being torn from its moorings bc hydro warning that some homes and businesses
may not get their power back for days
so i'm gonna make my best attempt at an ivan joke so you might say that
the laptop was so op that the power went out no i would
usually eq into like you know this laptop is so full of penis
so we had to throw out the results we were getting last time because they all
switched to battery power in the middle of the run we'll be back with you in a moment here so this is interesting our
similarly priced nitro 5 comes in at just two thirds the average frame rate
of our overpowered machine and with other significant well
disadvantages as well including a weaker CPU as well as a worse screen but then
moving up into the original pricing of our overpowered well it wasn't really
that competitive because due to the faster clock speed of our GPU over here
we still ended up with higher frame rates even though this one has an
inferior CPU um so this one is i think the
official msrp is actually 1600 but you can find it for about 1400 on amazon
just to validate what i was saying before we popped out of the game and had
a look at what core clocks were running at during the benchmark and yes in fact
the overpowered machine is running at anywhere from 50 to about 80 megahertz
slower on the GPU in actual games last
result just came in for deus ex mankind divided and this is interesting so
average frame rates again
our 800 machine like true 800 machine is
way slower than our rolled back 800 machine
and that one it falls a little bit behind ASUS's
particularly in the minimum frame rates
interesting let's do one more game so i'm sitting in the 130 140 FPS range
what are you sitting at right now 160 150 160. so when we're running into a
CPU bottleneck we can see here that our core i5 8th gen is actually not that far
behind so we're running at 1080p and
all high with 16x anisotropic filtering
so okay so only about 20 FPS difference
now let's take our two 1400 gaming laptops man that high refresh rate
display makes a big difference hey holy
crap so not only am i lower than last time but the ASUS machine is absolutely
crushing it it's well over 200 frames
per second 240 but here let me stand the same spot it's like 80 FPS higher did
you know this was gonna happen nope so there's clearly
some power management or
some kind of profile issue going on here
so here i'm not going to have uh task manager running in the background let's
make sure that you don't have extra background crap running
um how will we analyze isn't it well i just want to know what the frame rate is
because honestly task manager you think affects things not much but it's a
little bit i think it can use a couple percent yeah but not the two nor this is
like tell you what that means both have it yeah fine what's sucking up all my
memory cs goes using 1.3 only that doesn't even make any sense i know what
it is no it's not what the hell
okay well single channel you thought yeah but they're both single channel and
this one's running faster that's only 2 400 megahertz what is going on here
okay let's just go ahead and launch the game so let's make sure we're running
the same settings though okay it's all the same so let's go back
let's try again oh snowballs
so i'm back up to like 160 like we had on our first run i just i mean i also
want to just kind of feel the experience because to be clear
even if it runs at a lower frame rate than that one it's only got a 144hz display like it's
so i'm still at 130 140 150-ish 91-80
damn it i'm getting shot and you're at really okay so why don't we stand here
and uh smoke this doorway so i'm at 140
and you're at 170. honestly i think we're ready to draw the conclusion at
this point compared to another 1400 laptop with
some of the weirdness that we've encountered i wouldn't take the overpowered with the
keyboard being honestly the biggest issue for me personally because i do do
a lot of typing with that said compared
to an 800 laptop this is crazy because i am about to
recommend a walmart
op gaming device because compared to what
you get for 800 bucks this absolutely
mops the floor with it both in terms of the features like the 144 hertz display
and in terms of the performance at anywhere from nearly double to about 50
percent better so that just happened that just happened
right now but only because they rolled back the
pricing so you heard it here first folks get them while they're hot
and uh then otherwise don't don't get them
don't get them when they're not hot and on sale
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