GIGABYTE - GAMING A16 - 16" 165Hz 1920x1200 WUXGA Intel Core i7-13620H - 1TB SSD - 32GB DDR5 RAM - GeForce RTX 5060 - Black Steel

I’ve had this laptop for months now and I thought I’d finally give it a review. Overall for the price point the specs are pretty good, it gets the job done with most games and only begins to hiccup a bit on the extremely intensive games but it’s nothing bad, if you understand the specs then you know what you’re getting yourself into. The keyboard is nice and clicky and the trackpad is sturdy. I like that it has a lot of ports on the sides of the laptop, however I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that I wish it had a little more. It charges extremely quickly so if it’s ever getting low as long as you have its charger, you should be good. The Gigabyte software is pretty flexible which I appreciate since I didn’t know much about this brand going into this laptop. The screen is nice and bright too. It has 32GB of RAM with I’m pretty sure 7-8GB of V-RAM so it can manage a lot of things at once, and it hasn't had an issue where it’s gotten completely full. The intel chip is also pretty decent, nothing all that noteworthy about it. The 5060 graphics card from NVIDIA is also quite solid and makes a lot of games look and run well if you tune things appropriately. The amount of storage is nice too given it’s 1TB. Alright time for the not so good stuff I’ve noticed: The laptop gets quite hot when running a lot of games. It isn’t anything too unmanageable and so far it hasn’t overheated but the body sometimes gets painfully hot when you touch the part near the bottom of the screen and the keyboard itself can get a bit warm. The fans can also get extremely loud when running intensive games so unless you're wearing headphones or something, you better crank up that volume to drown out the sound since it’s very noticeable and fairly annoying. The screen itself has got a lot of tiny little scratches on it and it’s really bugged me. It’s happened both times I’ve ordered this laptop since yes I had to send it back and get a replacement at first since I saw the scratches and I don’t know why. I don’t think it has to do with me but maybe the way I wiped the screen to clean it might’ve caused it, I don’t know exactly (I used a microfiber cloth so I don’t think it’s me?), just something to keep in mind. Maybe get a screen protector or something lol. While I did say the software of the computer is pretty flexible, the way it integrates with NIVIDIA and Windows is pretty tedious, sometimes the settings of each of them clash with each other and either makes things not save when I change something or it slows down my computer until I’m made sure everything is fully updated and stable. Sometimes just in general when I want to make a change to something software-wise it just doesn’t work at first or is buggy for a second. When I had to initially boot the computer up, I spent a couple hours getting Windows up to speed with updates and whatnot, it was pretty time-consuming. The built-in speakers of the laptop are just fine (like a 6/10), it isn’t anything bad but they aren’t all that remarkable, I’ve definitely heard better laptop speakers than this. The webcam quality is also just okay, nothing bad but nothing great either. And lastly what I want to mention in this section is the battery life: this laptop’s battery is kinda mid. I’ve already configured it in some ways so it lasts a bit longer but the battery drains fairly fast in my opinion when unplugged. If you’re not doing anything intensive then it does last a decent bit but the second it has to start chugging, the battery goes down faster. Now when it is plugged in, the battery really isn’t an issue at all but since this is a laptop I feel like the experience of using it unplugged should be smoother. Alright I know the cons section was way longer than the pros section but overall the laptop is good. It’s my first real powerful computer and I’ve been able to do a lot with it so far which I like. It obviously isn’t reinventing the wheel but if you’re looking for a good gaming laptop for its price, this one is something you could go for. Although I’d maybe wait till it’s on sale since that’s when I got it. And as a word of advice: if you’re contemplating whether to get a gaming desktop or a gaming laptop, ask yourself if you really care about the portability. For me personally I think portability is something I want as of this moment but I could definitely see a scenario where I’d get a desktop computer with similar specs to this. Getting a desktop would probably eliminate a bunch of my criticisms too like the screen, battery, and fan noise, but if you do want that ease of use then it works. You could even go with a dual set up where you have a super powerful gaming desktop and a not so powerful work related laptop, just food for thought. I do wonder how long this thing is gonna last me but for now it’s getting the job done and I’d recommend it to those who are fine giving it a go even with all that I said!

I got this for my wife, she has been enjoying the laptop thus far. We havent seen much issues with it. Its capable of doing photoshop and playing the games that she likes. There is one downside, but it may not affect other people. The laptops on board networking card appears to have issues connecting to a network that uses a cellular network. I have starlink and t mobile 5g home internet. The laptops onboard card works well with starlink, but refused to work on the 5g home internet. I believe maybe this could be something to do with ipv6 potentially. I did troubleshooting and narrowed it down to the onboard card because we were able to buy a netgear usb wifi, and it was able to access the network without issues on both networks. It was relatively easy to fix, not a super big deal especially since everything else is flawless. But i figured i would mention it.

I frankly don't know much about computers, laptops or specs, but after asking regarding specs... I was recommended this laptop thanks to an employee. I did not seek a laptop like this for the sole purpose of gaming, but it was definitely an option and while I do play only one videogame on the PC what I was looking forward too most with a laptop like this was whether or not it would be capable of handling Blender, Modeling, Photoshop, Photopea etc. And it does actually handle them just fine! In fact playing games videogames on the laptop feels great to do so too! So much so I can even enjoy writing again! So in general this laptop is just great. Alongside the cooling. I played for hours at a time and did not feel the laptop get hot. Though that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider getting a laptop cooler! Which I may for the future.

This is a great deal, ran gta 5 enhanced, Fortnite, warzone and rocket league on all max settings and no stuttering and it’s very smooth. There’s absolutely no issues with it so far I’ve been using it for 2 weeks now.

I bought this laptop specifically to play Borderlands 4, and it runs amazingly at >200 fps on high settings! This was a great buy for the price and specs. Can’t wait to play other games on this laptop.