Customer Ratings & Reviews

It's been a few years since my last PC purchase, last computer I picked up was a macbook which i still own and love for doing work related tasks... but for fun I like to have a gaming PC as well. Typically I buy hardware that's a few years older so I can save some cash and since I'm not typically buying games day 1 when they come out, I don't find that my needs for performance are super high. I imagine my habits are typical. So my steam library is older, most of the game I play are from a few years back... all that to say the 1660ti performs HANDSOMELY on those titles. So far I've been able to pretty much set everything to ultra without an issue. I do play overwatch and I tone it down (just a hair) for that one to squeeze out some extra frames... but overall... this is a KILLER set up! I'm sure my needs for PC gaming will be set for a while. Below is an example of games I'm playing and what settings their at and how this machine performs (all played at 1080p) The Witcher 3: Ultra - EXCELLENT performance Overwatch: Ultra - EXCELLENT performance Warframe Max settings - EXCELLENT GTA V Max settings - EXCELLENT you get the idea. Older major titles are smooth as butter and thermals are reasonable. I play with the laptop docked with an external keyboard/mouse and monitor. Also the laptop is CLOSED the entire time. I love the way the exhaust is ported out of the BACK of the machine, so when teh screen is closed the plastic doesn't get too hot or warp (YET... time will tell). Somethign I haven't seen mentioned anywhere is the fact that there is a slot for an ADDITIONAL 2.5 drive already inside. Everything included! I had a 1tb laying around so i chucked that in as soon as i got it home and open. I'm telling you... for $1000 this is a GREAT deal. I got it while on sale for $200 off and i regret NOTHING.

I bought this laptop for on the go gaming purposes as I already have a high end gaming desktop as well. That being said I primarily game on my desktop so I wasn't looking for a something high end or with outstanding performance. This laptop suits pretty well without breaking the bank for me, it can handles AAA games on medium settings at a constant 60 fps 1080p. I would consider this laptop as mid range. One con is the laptop is hot when gaming. Fans needs to be set to max to keep the laptop cool (80c-85c), thus making a lot on noise. When normal use the temps is around 48c- 55c. Another thing is I really didn't like the screen design. When open the heat exhaust collides with the screen obstructing the air way. With the screen at 90 degree angle the air blows completely into a wall, at least beyond 90 degree the air flow can go up the screen like a ramp. I'm not sure how much of an impact this have on the temperature. The dell G3 is a pretty decent laptop if you are not using the laptop as a primary gaming machine. It works for me on the go playing a few minutes at friend houses or out in public. I didn't mind the medium setting visuals. If you are looking for a laptop as a primary gaming machine with high setting, high frame rates, better visuals then this laptop is not for you. Again, I would classify this laptop as a mid range.

First of all I apologize for my bad English. I have this laptop for little over a year now and this laptop is truly wonderful laptop to have. It's can play game with little or no difficulty on high (or ultra) 1080p. Being average of 110fps on Rainbow Six and 90fps on Call of Duty Warzone. This laptop is truly wonderful to get for hardcore gamer that want a budget laptop. But, unfortunate, it have some flaws. One of the biggest flaw is that it's cover opens when you try to open/close the laptop. It will gives it a crack a few times when you open/close the laptop before it gives out (image below). While it still playable, it make the screen would not be in a proper eye view stand. The repair took around 2-3 weeks (including delivery) before I able to get it back. The crack first appeared within 4-5 month. Now, since I got it back, it have been working really well for 6-8 months before the sound of the crack comes back again. Right now I'm afraid it will eventually gives out sooner than later. One more flaws this laptop have, every time I boot it up it's always seems to send me a LOUD error message about the GPU fan not working. I not sure how it's not working but somehow there suddenly no fans for the GPU. Although, I would recommend everyone who want to buy this laptop to get a laptop cooling pad or something similar. It's really help with overall cooling and when the GPU fan goes out, the laptop can easily overheat while gaming even with the cooling pad. While this laptop is good, it's have some flaws that need be fixing and make sure this laptop is covered by good warranty as never know if this laptop might gives out.

This laptop is a really good deal if you got it on special deal around 1080 USD. It is fast, i7 9750h, 16 gb ram, ssd512 and the 1660ti it is a great team. Windows just works perfect in this machine. I have used to edit photos in lightroom and got surprised an how well this laptop handle this software with 42 megapixels raw files. However, the screen is the major flaw just 1080p, poor brightness, poor color accuracy and massive bleeding from different angles. This was the main reason to return it. Also, It is important to point that on the right side you got a single 2.0 USB A port with a max speed of 30 MB/S and the SD card slot next to it is even slowe with max speed arround 25 MB/S. The keyboard I found it nice, the trackpad Ok, the speakers ok. Fan noise ok. I also have tested the msi gs75 stealth 17.3 same configuration but with rtx 2070 and the performance of the new g3 was almost the same of this other more expensive msi. Sadly i can not upload videos to show the screen bleeding.

Dell G3-15 3590, i7-9750, Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q, 16 GB RAM. Bought this laptop for the value, gaming on the road, and the number of ports it offered. It was a good laptop, not great. Did what I needed and not much more. After a little over a year of ownership, light gaming, and one deployment keeping it cocooned in it's padded case the lid hinge snapped. The hinge itself is beefy but it is mounted to plastic inside the laptop and lid. By design, the hot air from the fans blows right onto the bottom of the screen. After so many openings and closings coupled with the heat (this laptop gets really hot btw) the mounts snapped off. Apparently several of the mounting screws were already missing, so it was only a matter of time. $1,200 laptop held together with plastic.

I like my G3 laptop but my only concern is the audio!! Whenever I pause a clip or Video the sound wont come back!!! I need to mute it from keyboard and then unmuted, so it go back to work again!!!! That so weird though! I will check with Best Buy to see how I can solve this issue! Otherwise great price and very good laptop for architecture student.

Great laptop with great graphics and can run many games. Works very well with editing as well. However the headphone jack seems to be broken, but wireless headphones do the trick. Overall great quality for the price.

Great computer. Easy setup. Fast start up and shut down. Played Rome 2 Total War with the graphic settings set to ultra with no problems.

Well I thought this was a great laptop it was speedy. However my issue is that Best Buy bundled this with a RIFT S Occulus Headset which will not work with the headset. Dell even tried to get this working with a USB C to displayport adapter. IT will not work!! I have a HDMI to Displayport adapter coming from Amazon This Friday and we will see then if the RIFT S will work. Will change my review pending results. BEST BUY - YOU OUGHT TO TEST THE CONFIG BEFORE YOU BUNDLE!!!!!! Also this laptop FAILS to run Catzilla benchmark. Will list any of the other bugs I find in another review.

Has the latest Intel 9750H 6 core processor, which can run several apps at one time. Has a 1660ti maxQ graphics card with 6 gigs of memory. It's not the full fat 1660ti, it's got a lower core clock and memory speed. The maxQ version was made to keep the heat down in thinner laptops. It performs closer to a 1060, but in the newer games it's faster. It performs well when plugged in, I am getting a average 60fps in asassains creed odyssey on high settings and146 fps average in sniper elite 3rd on ultra settings. When on battery it only can use the integrated graphics on the 9750H cpu, so forget about getting any playable frame rates, maybe in older games on 720p on the lowest settings. Only get about 1 hour 20 min on the battery when gaming, so your better of being plugged in anyway. When surfing the net, watching Netflix or YouTube I get almost 6 hours of battery. The screen is good not the best for a 1080 screen, its suppose to be a IPS screen. With the 512 solid state drive, it boots fast and I added a 1 terabyte Samsung solid state in the extra drive bay. The blue backlit keyboard and trackpads felt good. All and all a good all around laptop.

Very satisfied with my purchase so far. Alienware power and portability. Pros: Powerful, good graphics, great storage with the 512Gb SSD Cons: A little heavy, a little loud when the fan gets going. These aren’t really cons so much as the trade-offs you can expect. If you don’t want the weight and noise there are other choices but they won’t have the gaming power.

love love love this laptop! it does an awesome job playing games like the sims 4, with all expansions on ULTRA settings, and minecraft, etc. i let my kids use my computer and have not had any issues with it. honestly, dont even hesitate to buy this laptop just do it! no issues with speed, storage, or graphics. ive never had a dell and always thought they were a bit lower end but this laptop would make my next purchase a dell. you can play almost every game you can think of and for what your playing the price is not bad at all.

I'll preface this with only having the laptop for a week or so. I'm using this as a semi-desktop replacement (i.e. still plugged in for power, but playing in bed on a lap pad to allow proper cooling). Also I turned off Intel Speed Step and manually unparked CPU cores (if you aren't familiar with this, just ignore). Pros: - Runs great (currently running Final Fantasy 14 on high laptop settings with no dipping below 60 fps) - Minor Bloatware (Office 365 Trial, McAfee Trial, misc Windows Apps, and Alienware Command Center which is used for the GameShift feature). All of this can be removed without a lot of work. Cons: - Gets hot, like hot enough to lock up for thermal issues - Keyboard is a soft tactile response - Blue backlight (not major, but a previous Dell laptop from 2018 was red) that seems a bit inconsistent with turning off (always comes back on with a key press) Other thoughts: - Screen is acceptable (obviously this is not a 4k with a high refresh rate, but it's pretty crisp) - Touchpad centered on keyboard size without numpad (I use a mouse, but seems a bit.. awkward) - Bottom of monitor bezel is placed in front of rear fans. While it doesn't fully block the exhaust, it does obstruct it a bit. I believe this is leading to the fans working harder to keep up (also causing more noise) and potentially leading into my issue below. So my big gripe thus far is that consistently after about an hour and a half of play on any demanding game, the laptop completely freezes in a thermal lock-up (i.e. the CPU hits temperature threshold for heat). I've done this consistently for the past three nights even after adjusting Alienware Command Center for full fan speed with manual 100%). Once again I use a laptop pad to allow airflow while playing in bed in a 70F degree room. The laptop pad does not get hot, so the fans are pulling air effectively through the laptop heatsink vents (bottom of the laptop) and blowing out the back. Once I reboot, I can use the Alienware Command Center application to see system heat and the CPU has hit 100C (GPU stays around 50-60C). I have yet to pull the system apart to see if there are any visual defects in the cooling pipes or heatsinks, but I may do that this weekend. The only other thing I can think of causing this issue would be subpar thermal paste on the processor (or lack thereof).

The Dell G3 with i7 9750h and 1660Ti Max-Q performs great. With 16GB of RAM, and a relatively high-end processor, this computer will blow away daily tasks and is suitable for 1080p encoding. As for gaming, it plays most games at mid - high settings at 1080p, 4k gaming, not so much. I had to replace the first one I bought within a couple days, was having BSOD's and issues with the track pad. I added a HDD to make up for the relatively small SSD, but with an SSD to store the OS, this laptop boots up quick. The bad, is that the battery life is extremely poor, even with turning off the discrete GPU. 3 hours is pushing it when doing general word processing and occasional web browsing. Kick the discrete GPU on, and you'll survive for maybe 90 minutes. Incredibly disappointed with that. I would expect general use to last at least 4 or 5 hours and the specs on Best Buy were not even remotely correct for battery life. Additionally, this laptop gets extremely hot and sometimes it's hard to tell why. During gaming, after about an hour, the laptop will be very warm and loud and you will need an additional cooling source. Sometimes it seems to be warm even when doing general browsing. For the price, it was a decent buy, but I wish I would have gotten an MSI Refurbished laptop with similar performance for less money.

THE BATTERY LAST 2 hours max unplugged. It looks like it’s from the early 2000s Feels and looks cheap. The only great thing about this laptop is the insides i7 Intel processor, 16 gig of ram and and nice graphics card. Every laptop runs smooth the first year but I feel like In 2 years this laptop will give you a hard time.

It's been more than a month since my purchase of the product. I have to say that I am quiet satisfied with what the product offers for the price range. I got my G3 configured with 16gb ram , 4gb graphics card and i7 9th gen core processor. If you want to play games like Asc,fifa19 and seige with higher fps then I would say go for this model if you don't game that much and you are satisfied with just the graphics and i5 processor go for Dell g5. The build quality is fine with compared with Asus models and the display is great.

The performance of this laptop is Ok meaning it can handle AAA game titles decently. At this price point there is a lot of competition and depending on sales you may have options with better performance in another great brands like ACER, ASUS and/or HP. However, the main I gave 3 stars to this product is because of how loud the fans are when gaming and the laptop over heats within 2 to 3 hours of gaming time which results in a bad experience for me because you can fell the heat on your finger tips while gaming. In addition the 60 fps cap is something you have to considered before even star thinking about when you are looking for a gaming laptop under $1300. Verdict: Descent performance and really good customer service makes this laptop a good contender withing the price point. However, because of other brands withing price point with a bit better performance, over heating issues and loud fans make this laptop an average product.

Great laptop overall, but it has a few issues. The battery life is extremely short, even when on power-saving settings. It is also very heavy, which is to be expected for a gaming laptop. The charger is massive as well, which is a pain. However, the laptop works very well performance wise.

one recurring issue has been with the Intel Graphics card taking over the Nvidia GPU - this slows down games. Had to disable the on board Intel Graphics to keep it from happening - but this should be an issue that never occurs. battery life has never been great, I use in place most of the time so it stays plugged in. I had to replace one of the two fans after about 6 months. Overall though, it is a high performing machine, that does everything I need.

I bought this laptop as a gift for my mother who recently went back to school. We needed to upgrade for speed and storage. This is a great laptop that surpasses what we need it for but will be great in the future to grow into. It’s basically not a family laptop that we can be confident using without frustration for the upcoming years. Storage. Speed. Graphics. All are great and even when running multiple applications, it runs seamlessly.