Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a decent gaming laptop. For the value you get an i5 11400H laptop, RTX 3050Ti graphics card, 8gb of memory and a 512GB SSD. I am going to be up front for the amount of this laptop you should be getting 16gb of ram. Everything else is about what you typically receive at this price point. In addition, the reason I gave three stars is because of three things. #1) the laptop is equipped with an SD card slot. The laptop would not recognize any SD card that I inserted in and this is within 24 hours of having this laptop. I had to go onto GIGABYTE's website enter my model and download the drivers. Wow haven't had to do that since like 2010 with a new laptop. #2) I noticed when the laptop goes to sleep and I go to wake it up it remained inactive with a black (illuminated screen) this happened twice of which the only two times I let this laptop go to sleep while using it. Possibly just a bios or other software update but wow again. #3) THE KEYBOARD! It feels great and types great but to find software to control the colors and themes took me awhile to discover. I looked high and low and could not find the program (you would think it would be easy). Little did I know is that I had to click FN and click all of the keys that looked like a symbol to change the keyboard settings. After multiple times clicking around a basic program (appears to be from 2010) popped up that allowed me to change the lighted keyboard colors and other options. Now a few things here. I just wanted a white light for the keyboard and no colors, well I couldn't find that option. I just picked a blue color and messed with some other settings and called it a day... FYI I don't even remember which key activated the keyboard program. This is a gaming laptop so I played! The games I downloaded did as they should and played how they should at regular settings. The graphics card is good for this laptop and its recommend for 1080p which this laptop supports. There are laptops out there offered at this price bracket with slightly better GPUs. But this will do what it needs and would be good for a starter gamer or young gamer. Fornight and warzone ran great I had no problems what so ever. The IPS screen is sharp and bright at 1080p with a 144Hz refresh rate. However, knowing this system has 8gb stayed on mind: Gaming you will be fine but if your like me a running everything you possibly can or switching around with programs and games (while they are all up) you want more memory gigs. Although this laptop's ram can be upgraded you should remember that other laptops in this bracket do offer 16gb of ram and you wont have to go find it yourself (which can be hard in this market) and install it yourself and already messing with it. 512GB is right on par with this laptop and typical with what you will find at this bracket. This laptop has additional spot on the mother board to add an additional SSD. If you download a lot of games you will need to upgrade this. Overall, I am really not happy with this laptop. Something just feels off. I feel stuck in 2010 with its issues as discussed in my second paragraph. For the price this just doesn't seem good and I have had an review so many laptops in this range that are leagues better. I mean it looks like and feel kind of cheap and its a mid to high price point.

This laptop was perfect for our son for gaming! Great picture and sound quality. It doesn’t lag while he was gaming either

The Gigabyte G5 MD laptop feels cheap and flimsy with its plastic chassis made from a material closer to a toddler’s play toy instead of a laptop. If you don’t open the laptop directly from the center you can feel the plastic bending which is never a good thing for long term durability of a laptop. The 15” screen size means there is plenty of room for the backlit keyboard to include a number pad yet every time I sit down to type on the laptop my right-hand fingers never find the J,K,L, : keys instead they naturally settle on K, L, ; ‘ keys. As I type this I’m sitting next to 4 other laptops with 15 inch screens and 3 different external keyboards and I don’t have this problem with any of the other devices, it’s just odd that my right hand never feels comfortable typing on the Gigabyte G5 MD laptop keyboard. The included track pad includes physical left-right buttons which is nice considering how many other laptop manufacturers are not doing this but considering this is a gaming laptop I don’t envision using the included track pad for much, opting for an external mouse, and given the issues I’m having typing on it will likely always be using an external keyboard. Each side of the laptop offers external port connectivity options with most everything you would expect on a laptop: USB-A, USB-C, headphone and microphone jacks, SD-Card reader and Gigabyte’s tapered design where the front of the laptop is slimmer than the rear allows them to place the ethernet port on the rear of the laptop creating a sleeker appearance. Display-Port and HDMI ports are also on the rear as is the power connector. What frustrates me about this placement is that the HDMI, Ethernet and Power cables are your bulkiest cable types and yet the ports are so physically close together on the laptop that if you try to use all three they barely fit. If you’re going to use ethernet plug that in first which will force the power supply to shift over to the side instead of blocking the port. This unit shipped with 8GB of RAM and Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition. This means that as soon as you power it on, Microsoft is going to force you through an update to Windows 11 Home edition. If you are not aware, Windows 11 consumes every bit of that RAM it can get a hold of so after first boot with only oneDrive and the new Teams app running, the OS leaves less than 2GB of RAM available for anything else. Superfetch can be disabled to prevent this behavior but it was pretty jarring to try to fire up Age of Empires IV Definitive Edition only to be greeted with the error that there’s not enough RAM available to start the game. On the other hand Fortnite loads fine and plays quite well on this device so your gaming experience will vary. I would love to upgrade the RAM from 8GB to 32GB but the DDR4-2666 SODIMM’s are out of stock everywhere I looked online. With a Passmark score of 3,201.4 this is the slowest “gaming” laptop I’ve reviewed this year. If you’re going to get a laptop with an Nvidia GeForce GPU, the RTX 3050 TI GPU included with this laptop is one of the slowest Nvidia cards available; it performs significantly slower on both 2D and 3D tasks than the RTX 3060. Even compared to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 this laptop loses in 2D graphics performance. On the CPU side of the house there’s not much difference between this laptop’s 11th gen Intel core-i5 and the 11th gen core-i7. The SSD included with this laptop is also slower than every other gaming laptop I’ve worked with this year. Sure it beats SATA drive speeds, but it’s difficult to consider this a gaming laptop when the majority of the internal components are clearly picked for lower cost vs higher performance. Overall if you remove the expectation that this laptop is designed for gaming, it’s a pretty decent laptop, but if you are looking for an amazing gaming experience you should probably look elsewhere.

can this run forza 5 and VR because im thinking of getting this laptop

Everything is good but when you play game online on a full charged battery, it will last 45min. So you will have to keep chager on or but backup battery. But battery are small. Watching youtube or video about 2 hours. Doing power point or microsft writing and editing about 4 hours. But so far about month now it been doing great. I always charged it when i play.

HDMI cable never worked had to buy a display cable to hook up to a monitor . Has to be plugged in the outlet to game on it only keeping because on a black Friday sale half off better then PS5 Xbox x close to pc desktop rx6700

Fully charged battery does not working properly in battery mode? When you plug in it works ok! However, this defect makes the purpose of the battery driven laptop is defeated. Will certainly return this bad laptop upon my return back on January 11th, 2023.