Dell - G5 15.6" FHD Gaming Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 - 8GB Memory - AMD Radeon RX 5600M - 256GB Solid State Drive - Gray
Model: i5505-A685GRY-PUS
SKU: 6409419
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Customers are positive about the G5 15.6" FHD Gaming Laptop's performance, especially considering its price, and also appreciate its graphics capabilities and relatively easy upgrade options for RAM and SSD. However, customers are negative about the laptop's tendency to overheat and generate significant fan noise, along with its shorter-than-expected battery life and limited storage capacity. Some also found the laptop to be heavier than expected.
Pros: Cheap price, RAM and SSD are easy upgrades, and the 5600M runs games quite well. Cons: The Dell G5 comes with a lot of bloatware (the easiest method to get rid of it is reinstalling a fresh copy of windows), Driver updates are a nightmare, and this laptop overheats, so you are going to need a cooling pad if you plan to use this laptop for anything other than productivity and very light gaming. Although I like this laptop, I cannot recommend it to others.
Posted by Wallace
I bought these Dell G5 laptops specifically to crypto mine etherium. The Radeon 5600m 6GB gets around 34/mh while the laptop uses around 200-Watts of electricity total. A pretty decent mining setup for the price. They do work well for this purpose! 1. The laptops are definitely budget builds, but the plastic used is sturdy and doesnt easily scratch. Very thick. 2. The laptops are easy to do maintenance on. The bottom comes off easily using standard philips head screwdrivers. The cooling setup also comes off easily, which makes replacing the thermal paste and thermal pads simple. 3. Dell support has actually been easy to work with when using the laptop's 1 year warranty. Hit up their support chat, provide the product ID number, and they send you a box with paid shipping. I've received all of laptops back within a month and working normally. My biggest concern with this laptop is the cooling. 1. The Dell G5 come with a metal mesh sticker over the ventilation holes on the bottom. They absolutely restrict cooling performance. I removed the mesh stickers and now the laptop pushes a decent amount of air through the radiator. 2. I've had to replace a fan or two after 6 months of use. Not a big deal, but something to consider if youre running these 24/7. Can also send into Dell for a warranty fix. 3. You cannot manually set the fan speeds using the provided Dell software. You're stuck with the default fan curve or a 'G' performance mode with the fans cranked. 4. You cannot easily change the memory or GPU core speeds on this AMD 5600m like you can on NVIDIA based laptop GPUs. At least not on Windows 10 and using the provided vBios. Would be helpful for tuning and getting temps down. Overall, still usable for mining! Definitely needs some love to work, but the Dell G5 is capable!
Posted by Thomas
First off this computer will restart randomly (and this is a known issue with almost all of these computers)… updating drivers and all that jazz does nothing… it WILL happen to you I promise! This was horrendously worse on battery life.. we’re talking minutes! This computer has so many issue that dell actively keeps making worse and worse… Dell keeps updating the bios that makes the performance worse and worse on this computer… like look at the subreddit for this computer and there literally posts telling people to avoid certain bios updates at all costs… and literal hour long guides on how to set this Pc up to work ok and even then it’ll still randomly restart on you.. Seriously save yourself the headaches and don’t buy this computer.. even below MSRP! I also had issues updating the AMD drivers and had graphics issues in games.. I’ll post pictures!
Posted by Legs
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