Customer Ratings & Reviews

My son had been begging me for a gaming laptop so he can play more demanding games. So far we haven't found any games we can't play on max settings. It does tend to get a bit hot to the touch and the fan can get loud when pushing it for performance. These are all things I expected. Battery life is limited but considering the power demands of the processor and graphics also to be expected. If you are looking for a laptop that sits on a table, plugged in when your planning on using it for an extended time. But will play whatever game you throw at it. This will do the job.

Pros: Excellent performance, amazing sound and screen, love the RGB keyboard and spectacular wifi Cons: runs hot and the battery doesnt last that long. Also, if you use it to type a lot, the edges hurt your wrist. Also, the price fluctuates a lot and best buy isnt very friendly when it comes to open box items

The Dell G5 is high in value and low on visual appeal. The laptop itself looks like it was conceived of ten years ago. The build quality is unabashedly plastic. The situation is not helped by the color choice, which accentuates the budget laptop feel. The trade off is that you’re getting the ability to play AAA games at frames rates of at least 60fps at 1080p for only $850-$1000. Everything ran smooth, even when I put games into ultra settings. As with most gaming laptops, don’t even try to game on it without being plugged in. But while plugged in, my admittedly medium expectations were blown away. If you’re on a budget, but looking for performance while still wanting the convenience of a laptop, pick this one up.

So this laptop is awesome, the 144hz is cool, games run pretty smoothly with respectable settings, and it's super for casual use, and maintains a respectable heat during regular use. This thing gets super hot under load and I heavily recommend checking in Dell Update that you have the most recent updates (especially the latest BIOS update) and those may help your problems there, or you can look up a tutorial to turn off Ryzen Turboboost which massively reduced my temps. Otherwise, its great for the price! Just a hassle to optimize.

I did a lot of shopping around looking for a laptop that was under $1000. I was first looking at the laptops with an i5 or i7 core 9th or 10th gen and a gtx 1660 or 1660 ti. Then i stumbled on the lower end model of the dell g5 15 se with the ryzen 5 and the rx 5600m. Well after looking at the specs between the ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 model dells it was a really easy. For only a little bit more money you can get the better processor ryzen 7 which out performs the new gen i7s and has more cores. now on single core performance the i7 does beat the ryzen 7 but not by much. The screen is a 144hz panel and brighter than the ryzen 5 model. Plus double the ssd space of 512gb instead of 256gb. Also a 4 zone RGB keyboard compared to just a red back lit keyboard. Its a no brainer to spend an extra 150$ or so just to get the brighter and higher refresh rate panel. The panel with the ryzen 5 is a 60hz panel with a brightness lvl of 220nits. Pretty dim. The only issue i have had with it is the heat. It does get pretty hot where the heat sink fins are. Almost hot enough that it burns if you hold your finger on it but no one's hand will be up there any way. it will also get hot just to the right of the touchpad it doesn't bother me enough to care. I haven't popped it open to see what components. So far I've been really pleased with it. I would suggested doing all your updates when you first get it so that it runs well and all the features work. The RBG keyboard wouldn't work for me until i updated.

This is actually a terrific laptop for the price. Sadly, I had to return it because of one fatal flaw for my purposes. I was very impressed with the performance, super quick and responsive and it seems like it should be easy to upgrade with more RAM and an additional SSD. The screen is also beautiful. I ran several benchmarks and was super excited to get to work on this with Davinci Resolve. Now, many people have mentioned that it's LOUD under load, and that's true. I found that with Ryzen Controller, I could tweak the performance and temps to fix that, so good deal. But there was still a flaw, for my specific use case, that made me return this. The Smart Shift tech in this is supposed to switch automatically between the igpu and the 5600M, and it might for games and such. However, for me, in Resolve it simply couldn't figure out what to do.it took over 5minutes to load a project and would often freeze while working. Now, once it came time to render, it was a BEAST! That 5600M is no slouch. But I can't afford the instability and slow response times in that, primary for my purpose, workload. If you w ant to play high end games on the cheap, or probably any other similar task, buy it. If you want to use it for Resolve...look elsewhere.

The graphics and color are captivating. Speed is good. The power button is awkward and the fans can be a bit loud. To maximize experience, I need to leave the power cord plugged in even though the battery is fully charged. Also when unplugged, the battery doesn't last long.

Pretty good quality for the price. The manufacturer cut costs around the airflow and battery. Don't expect it to last more than 2 hours unplugged. For peak performance, raise the laptop off the table a bit to let it breathe. Looks are deceiving. When you're using it it is easy to forget the bulky ugly exterior with the sleek black inside and RGB backlight. You will be battling drivers, but that's pretty much a given with a AMD gpu. For game performance, expect a bit more than you paid for, but much less than if you spent this money on a RIG. Hard to find a game you can use the 144hz screen for these days. I get about 45 FPS in dyson sphere program, maybe 20 in borderlands 3, inconsistent, and 60ish in borderlands 2.

The G5 laptop has been exactly what I expected. It was priced competitively, at least according to what comparison shopping I did. Since purchase I have attended an online class, completed some .pdf editing for work and played 5-6 different pc games. All activities it performed quite well. My only complaint is one I have seen in a few other reviews of this laptop and that is the heat. It does get surprisingly warm right above the keyboard, around the power button. A 15-20 dollar laptop cooling pad solves this problem easily.

I don’t regret this buy at all! Super fast and strong machine. It plays almost any game on high/ultra at over 60fps (usually over 100fps). The 144hz monitor is a game changer, it’s so crisp and smooth, colors look great. It gets really hot but that’s just how laptops are since they have such restricted flow. I only have one disclaimer. Buy this along with 16 gigs of ram. 8 does not cut it in this machine, if you have more than one program open at a time it will stutter and freeze. Upgrading the ram made this issue disappear.

I was able to purchase one for $622 after tax, which was a huge win. So I thought… It has an 8 Core CPU + 6GB GPU + 512GB NVME which was definitely a steal for the price. It also ran HP WINDOWS VR smoothly. HOWEVER, the description stated it has an 144hz Display, this was NOT the case for me. I spent a week googling forums, updating the bios & drivers, going on Reddit - all to no avail. The model I received was ONLY 60HZ. The hassle of contacting customer was not worth it, I have since returned the device. Being an open box item, there was some minor damages/blemishes on the display panel. About 2-3% of the display had burned through the LCD resulting in lost color/pixels (about the size of half a penny) Fans were audibly loud and were occasionally distracting, the device also had a tendency of getting hot really fast. There were forums stating if you upgraded/replaced the thermal solutions, it could result in a cooler laptop with better temps. I was too lazy and would only go as far as replacing the thermal paste on both the CPU & GPU I wished the Ram came as an 8GB single stick instead of a dual set 2x4GB. This makes upgrading the ram a little pricier because you are now forced to purchase 16GB of ram 2x8GB instead of just buying One stick of 8GB ram OVERALL/TLDR: for the price that I paid, I was happy with the hardware Included. However, the negatives still outweighed the bargain unless you’re willing to spend another $30-40 on DIY supplies and a few hours tinkering

Overall it is a very fast laptop. When playing games with the laptop plugged in the fan gets very loud. I am new to AMD products so I kept getting a blue screen when I first got it until I realized I had to upgrade the AMD graphics card (which AMD helped with support in about 5 minutes). I can have email, YouTube videos, and games playing all at the same time with ease. So if you can handle a deal of noise while playing then this a great laptop.

Got this on sale, needed a new laptop and since I am off to college next year figured why not get a gaming laptop so I dont have to bring my xbox with me to college. Little did I know what I had just done. Laptop was delivered to me same day I ordered it, and when I first opened the box I will admit I had my doubts. The plastic casing doesn't exactly look or feel premium, and very much reminded me of a 90's laptop case. I was also a little hesitant about the fact the gpu is amd and not nvidia, but the deal was too good to pass up and the risk paid off. This thing has been awesome. Absolute performance beast for a laptop, and even outperforms my friends 2000 dollar gaming laptop!!! Only drawback to this laptop is that it only comes with 8 gb ram, but if you choose to buy this laptop over a much more expensive one then you will save more than enough to cover the cost of 16 gb ram upgrade(I recommend the corsair vengeance 3200 mhz 16 gb ddr4 laptop ram, which will run you between 100 and 125 dollars). Even so, 8 gb ram is enough for most games, the 16 gb is just essential for streaming and if you want better performance while gaming. The one complaint I have is thermals, as gaming for extended periods of time make the case really hot, and I have seen my cpu and gpu temps hit above 70 celcius on more than one occasion. I do have to say though, as long as you keep it on a hard flat surface, performance is not affected hardly at all when the laptop gets really hot. Just dont do what I did and contact dell the first time I played a game on the laptop and my frame rate dropped to 20 on warzone because I had my laptop on my matress and there was nowhere for the heat to escape.

Very nice laptop. Fast processor and 6 gigs of video ram. Played Fallout 4 with the settings all set as high as they would go and it worked great. Fast FPS and smooth as silk. The RGB keyboard can be configured to a four zone look which is very cool but also quite practical. Battery life is good for web surfing and the like but if playing a game it's good for an hour at best. All in all for the price the features are very good.

I've tried many from Legion, Omen, Zephyrus to Razer Blade. Everyone has different needs.. here were mine. -Ram upgradable up to 32Gb. -Two M.2 2280 slots full lanes -144Hz -Not too pricey -Normal keyboard layout with Fn+arrow as home, end, pg up/down. -Ryzen 7 -300 nits or above display This was the only one that fit the bill. Very satisfied.

I only gave this computer two stars because it would frequently overheat while playing World of Warcraft. Are used a dual fan chill pad with the G5, and still had thermal issues. After approximately one hour of gameplay it would overheat and either freeze, or shut down, or both. Kept the computer too long to return it so I sold the G5. I bought an Alienware R3 M15 and have had no problems with overheating even after hours of playing World of Warcraft on maximum settings. I know Dell owns Alienware; however, there is a huge performance and reliability difference. Alienware is a completely different division. I can only recommend the Dell gaming laptops if you are a very casual gamer. The Dell gaming laptop would have been a keeper if not for the thermal issues. The Dell gaming laptop did not seem very well built, but it was fast until it shutdown. Best Buy frequently has sales on the Alienware laptops. I know they are expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Was great until the fan died and blue screened me after mostly office work and some kid gaming after less than a year. But mostly a pretty good laptop for the price. I was able to fix it and it does run well enough to somewhat support my son’s VR. It’s kinda glitchy tho:

I bought this computer for my daughter who likes to game. The graphics are good but the battery life is not. If she doesn’t have it charging while she plays, she gets maybe an hour of game time. Although I understand this kind of computer needs the stronger fans, they definitely are quite noisy.

It's a solid laptop, no problems ever with the Ryzen 7 4800h, but updating the graphics drivers almost always ends up with a crash and restore. Don't know if its a Dell thing or AMD thing. Otherwise once its running right, for the price, every game runs on at least High graphics settings. Battery life isnt great but its a gaming laptop soo... No regrets purchasing this product.

The speed for Photoshop is great but if i don't leave it plugged in the display doesn't register truecolors and brightness despite changing the settings so it should... It's slow on the internet.much slower than my desktop. Gets pretty warm quickly and the battery only lasts a couple hours max