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so right here beside me is a laptop that I picked up 450 Australian dollars a little bit of a back story behind this laptop I've been meaning to do this video for a while as well but I got this when I traded it for a monitor that I picked up for $50 it was a 27 inch 1080p monitor and this computer came around when the people were buying a computer that I'll selling and they just said this laptop was broken they said they didn't want it anymore is it fixable and I said look I don't know what's wrong with it I can give you this monitoring exchange and they said sure and then I took a look at it and it was actually one of the hard drives so it had an SSD in it which was quite small but it also had a hard drive and that was giving it problems it was broken to the point where it wasn't even recognized and that was causing it not to boot and upon removing the drive everything else works smoothly so it still had a copy of Windows on it too and then I was looking for a drive this is actually one of the excuses why this video took so long to make I was looking for a cheap budget drive to put in so a 2.5 inch SATA one came up on gumtree except someone else snapped it up by the time I called them so then I went on ebay when they had a sale and I picked up a 7200 rpm Drive this is a 500 gigabyte Drive so in my opinion this Drive is gonna be perfect for this laptop as the 500 gigabytes that it needs to store games and also do everything else and when I go to sell it I can say hey it's got half a gig of storage as well but today we're gonna be putting this Drive in and then we're putting the games on especially for tonight because I want to see a fortnight or run on this laptop since it's very popular at the moment and we also put another couple of popular multiplayer titles on and see if it can run but with that aside let's get this drive into the laptop and then check out what the specs are so we just fitted up the laptop now absolutely no problems and a booted up lightning fast by the way it's also got a gtx 765 m installed for the graphics and then for the cpu you've got an i-5 42 10 m as well so first things first we're gonna run Cinebench and firestrike get some scores Cinebench being for the cpu firestrike being for the GPU and then we're gonna do some temperature test with the heav'n benchmark for the GPU and then i 264 for the cpu and then after all those stress tests are done we can get the games installed and see how this thing plays providing it doesn't overheat in the stress tests so let's get that done so we just finished the Cinebench run now and it's got 300 on the dots so not too impressive I mean it's actually really slow in my opinion but this is a mobile solution and mobile solutions of course they've run slower than the desktop variants especially in clock speeds you can see that two points to execute that's right there and interestingly enough the old Core 2 quad that we had in the csgo potato number two that scored around 324 I believe if I remember correctly so the old Core 2 quads they can still get up and boogie especially compared to things like this now which is a Haswell based mobile variant but let's run that firestrike score and see how the graphics solution holds up so now the GPU and CPU scores are actually pretty bad I was expecting a little bit more on both fronts but I guess really that's what you expect out of mobile solutions especially in this error I mean recently there's been this big push with the GTX 10 series cards and the max-q thing that this error you know they've really were nerfed compared to their desktop variants so I'm going to check the temperatures now just to make sure things are throttling especially on the CPU side of things is in the physics tests there was a big stutter so that is usually indicating a throttle on the CPU so let's check out this Ida 64 CPU stress test first so now I feel like the biggest idiot because I pulled up this Ida 64 stress test and that went to statistics here and it's only got two cores and then I remembered exactly what the I fives in this generation were all about they're actually dual cores with hyper-threading so what you actually got here is the desktop variant of an i3 pretty much in a mobile so the naming scheme was kind of weird with the mobile solutions and how they did that and the desktop Aaron of course the i-5 it's gonna have four cores four threads so it's gonna be a lot more powerful than there's two cores in four threads and of course there's lower clock speeds so it's going over 2.8 gigahertz on those two cores four threads but that would explain the low physics cores and of course the low Cinebench scores as the temperatures here are absolutely fine they're around hovering in I think it is low 70s no mid 70s and that's after about 5 minutes so that's absolutely fine this thing's gonna run ok and games but I'm still a bit confused as to why that physics core had that drop as soon as it was booting up it was going ok and then it had a dip to like 2 or 3 FPS so bit confused about that I mean let's see if this exhibits this behavior in games but we will we're on the heaven benchmark first just to check the GPU temperatures and make sure they're okay as well so now we're running the UniGene Heaven benchmarking this Bachelor is really good because we can tell you a lot of things and in the case of the laptop it actually is a really good benchmark since the GPU and CPU in this case are definitely sharing those heat pipes and fans and so originally I wanted to overclock both of these components but after seeing this benchmark I'm actually not going to because if I overclock the CPU and the GPU even just 10% it could actually overload that cooling system as you see here it's already hitting around 80 degrees even on the CPU side that's only hovering between 20 to 40% so imagine in a CPU intensive game if that was going to a hundred percent this thing could indeed in maybe hit some thermal throttling so really not a good thing to do on laptops in general and that's overclocking unless you've got a beast cooling solution on it and the ambient temperatures are about 27 degrees in air at the moment - so another thing as well as I put it on low settings at 1080p because I want to get a benchmark of this versus the csgo potato now you did have a GTX 275 in it and it only had 896 megabytes of dedicated v room this I believe has 2 gigabytes of dedicated vir amps so it does have more vram but i do want to check that score out and just compare it directly against the csgo potato since heaven is a generally a GPU intensive benchmark and we've already see the score that 2233 I thought the csgo potatoes scored around the 1500s so this GPU is about 50% more powerful and so with that extra frame buffer as well it should be able to play for tonight and pop G a lot better than the csgo potato number 2 did so this will be an awesome to see these results in these two games now since they are sort of very modern and they are more of the to more demanding popular multiplayer titles out there as well so if they can play those two games generally they'll play csgo and dota 2 with ease but of course let's get on with those games so the first of the games here is fortnight and even with the recommended graphical settings which I find it generally a little bit too aggressive it's getting around 40 to 50 FPS for tuning this thing down to low settings at 7 6 8 P this is the native resolution of the monitor we're getting incredible frame rates this is really smooth you can see it going over a hundred fps a lot of the times this is actually a really good experience on this little laptop now let's move over to pub G though now we're in pub G and it is running a lot worse than a fortnight was so this is the same resolution as well with the lower settings so very low settings 7 6 8 P I think it is and you need to see here it's subbed 30 fps this is out in the open goes anywhere from this fps up to 50 mid 50s inside buildings so this is a pretty bad experience I mean the CPU and the GPU are pegged well the GP is pegged at 100% these CPUs actually got a little bit of room to spare so what we might do is drop the resolution down and see if we can fix this fps up but it might need to calm down considerably I'd say because the vram is not a problem that's 1.4 gigs so it's still got an extra 600 megabytes in the tank so what we're gonna do is drop the resolution down because the GPU processor itself is getting overwhelmed so we got a bit of an FPS boost just by doing that from 24 now 234 but the lowest resolution you can put this game is 720p so it's not that far off the actual resolution of this monitor and then we dropped the screen scale down to 70 so we did give it this is the best this game can run on this laptop essentially so let's just run around and see if we can get rekt so there we have it the $70 laptop because I had to put a $20 hard drive in it if you're looking at USD terms you'll be looking around 55 USD that's what I paid for this laptop now keep in mind as well you're generally not gonna get a laptop this cheap and this is one thing that I recommend on the channel if you guys can find a PC that people think the whole thing is broken but really it's only one component then you're going to get a really good bargain a lot of the bargains in the past that I've got on the channel have been just that the best bargains that I've got right beside me is the csgo potato number two I'll put a link in the description below for that if you want to see it but it's got it's a busy that we've built just off all a lot of junk parts and we got this for around 32 USD so it is coming in a lot cheaper than this in percentage terms but what surprised me was this beat the laptop in the Cinebench scores we've got 324 Cinebench I think this got 300 yet in games this laptop absolutely hammered this csgo potato another two so what I'll put that down to mainly was probably the memory configuration this only had like five gigabytes of real offset memory and I don't even think that's running in dual channel because I had one gigabyte and then a three a two gigabyte stick and I don't believe that a run in dual channel run in single channel but keep in mind we did need that extra memory to run those games so we kind of had to do the five gigabyte offset configuration this on the other end had eight gigabytes in dual channel configuration so was running a lot better in terms of ground-up specs and tuning but it also had a better graphics solution installed the gtx 765 m and this had a to you by a dedicated vm buffer this only had 896 megabytes so that difference did play a role in fortnight especially dota 2 was okay both these games play dota 2 ok and with dota 2 the interesting thing was I really dislike playing on a small screen I think if you're playing dota 2 24 inches I think is the sweet spot 27 is pretty good but playing on small screens is just really hard I found that out first hand with this laptop so that was a pretty cool thing pop G I didn't even bother running pub G on this and I know it definitely won't run on the after trying to run it on this we did get a playable experience it was around about I'd say 40 to 50 FPS average but keep in mind we did have it on the lowest setting 720p which is lower than the 76 8p on the laptops monitor and we still had to lower the screen scale so it was the absolute minimum settings you can lock in for the game and it just ran it it was okay so end of the day this laptop does beat the csgo potato two by a longshot because it does have a screen and is a smaller package but what it comes down to at the end of day is getting those deals finding those bargains and this was an absolute bargain keep in mind the problem could have been a lot worse than it was it was probably the easiest fix but at the end of the day the people who got rid of it thought that it was a pretty bad problem it wouldn't boot at all so taking a look at it we took the hard drive out swapped it around and it booted perfectly now here in mind I may have had to change the thermal paste but when I check in thermals they're absolutely fine for a laptop had no overclocking Headroom as well which is typical of just a run-of-the-mill laptop and that's about it really this is the bargain here this one here is just the junk parts built PC but of course the one that's considered broken and doesn't work is always going to be a cheaper bargain for to be had anyway guys hope you enjoyed this video on the yeah $70 laptop and if you did the be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below what you think of both these pcs and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye at how well it ran in games especially fortnight to and for not - there is no fortnight to yet probably will be in the future though