**Review: Entry-Level Gaming Laptop Review**

I recently had the opportunity to review an entry-level gaming laptop that offered impressive performance at an affordable price point. The laptop featured a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, which I have personally found to be a reliable and efficient choice for gaming.

In terms of performance, the laptop was able to handle a variety of games with ease. At 1080p medium settings, I averaged 82 frames per second in games such as Fallout: New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. This level of performance is impressive, especially considering the price point of the laptop.

I also wanted to test the laptop's performance with some more demanding games, such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V. In both cases, I was able to achieve high frame rates, albeit at lower settings. Red Dead Redemption 2 ran at 1080p medium settings, averaging around 73 frames per second, while GTA V ran at 1080p high settings, averaging around 60 frames per second.

In addition to its gaming performance, the laptop also proved itself to be well-suited for everyday use. I was able to watch 4K video playback without any issues, and even performed some light image editing tasks without any problems. The laptop's cooling system also did a good job of keeping temperatures in check, with the CPU averaging around 84-86 degrees Celsius during gaming sessions.

One area where the laptop fell short was its internal storage. While it is easy to access the bottom of the laptop and swap out the drive, I would have preferred to see a more substantial upgrade option. However, this is a minor quibble, and the laptop's price point makes up for any shortcomings in terms of storage.

Overall, I am very impressed with this entry-level gaming laptop. Its performance at 1080p medium settings is impressive, and its ability to handle demanding games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V is a testament to its capabilities. While it may not be the most powerful laptop on the market, it offers great value for its price point.

**Specifications**

* Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

* RAM: 2666 MHz SODIMM RAM

* Storage: Dual drive setup (2.5 inch SSD and M.2 SSD)

* Display: 15.6 inch Full HD display

* Operating System: Windows 10 Home

**Hands-On Testing**

I spent several hours testing the laptop's performance, using a variety of games to push its capabilities. Here are some examples of how the laptop performed in different scenarios:

* Fallout: New Vegas (1080p medium settings): Averaged 82 frames per second

* The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (1080p medium settings): Averaged 73 frames per second

* Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p medium settings): Averaged 73 frames per second

* GTA V (1080p high settings): Averaged 60 frames per second

**Conclusion**

Overall, I am very impressed with this entry-level gaming laptop. Its performance at 1080p medium settings is impressive, and its ability to handle demanding games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V is a testament to its capabilities. While it may not be the most powerful laptop on the market, it offers great value for its price point.

**Recommendation**

If you are in the market for an entry-level gaming laptop, I highly recommend considering this option. Its performance at 1080p medium settings is impressive, and its ability to handle demanding games makes it a great choice for anyone looking to upgrade their gaming setup without breaking the bank. Additionally, its price point makes it an attractive option for those who want to get into gaming without spending a fortune.

**Additional Tips**

* The laptop's internal storage can be easily accessed by removing the bottom panel.

* Upgrading the RAM is also relatively easy, and 16 GB of RAM should be sufficient for most users.

* The laptop's cooling system does a good job of keeping temperatures in check, but may kick up during intense gaming sessions.

**Future Updates**

I plan to release another video featuring this laptop running some additional games and applications. If you have any specific requests or suggestions, please let me know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys this eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at this 450 gaming laptop that i recently picked up on an early black friday deal from walmart and in this video we're going to test it out and see if it's really worth picking one of these up now on paper at 450 this is actually looking like a really good deal we have a 9th gen i5 cpu with the gtx 1650 and it's actually one of the cheapest gaming laptops with a dedicated gpu that i've seen in a very very long time so this was up on their early black friday sale it's still listed on their website at 450 and you can do the get in stock alert if you really want to get one of these another early sale is coming up and we also have black friday so i do expect these to go back on sale for the same price so i've had a few days to mess around with this and overall it's been a solid performance definitely not a super high-end laptop all we're working with here is that 1650 it's not even the ti but it is a four gigabyte gddr5 gtx 1650 and it's very capable of gaming it's got a 60 hertz 1080p ips display great trackpad led backlit keyboard it's not rgb it's only going to be green on you personally i kind of like the look of this color scheme here black and green goes together really well in my opinion laptop itself is all plastic here there's no metal lid there's no metal bottom but at a 450 price tag i think the build quality on this thing is top notch at that price point around the back here we do have dual exhaust vents and both of these are fully functional on the left-hand side we have a full-size hdmi port single usb 3.1 port gigabit ethernet usb type-c and a full-size sd card reader taking a look at the right hand side we have our power in headphone jack and two extra usb 3.0 ports like i mentioned the laptop is constructed of plastic and i really didn't expect any more for the price point here but we do have a dual fan setup with that dual exhaust coming out the back and i think we have plenty of ventilation here to get air into this unit to cool that gtx 1650 and the unit also comes with 150 watt power supply so this is the hp 15 dk0096w for the cpu with the i5 9300h four cores eight threads base clock 2.4 gigahertz boost up to 4.1 8 gigabytes of ddr4 ram from the factory but this can be upgraded to 16 for the gpu we have that gtx 1650 it's a four gigabyte model with gddr5 memory a pre-installed 256 gigabyte nvme this can also be upgraded it's got a 15.6 inch 1080p ips display and a 52.5 watt hour battery they're claiming 8 hours of video playback out of something like this but if you're stressing that battery out with that gtx 1650 you could expect to get as little as 2 hours of gameplay out of this thing on battery power and that's just how it is with these laptops all right so here we are i've installed a bunch of stuff to test here and overall i'm really enjoying this little laptop especially for the price as you can see we have the i5 9300h at 2.4 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.1 i personally haven't seen it boost to 4.1 but 4 gigahertz is very common with this little unit 8 gigs of ddr4 at 26.67 one slot is being used right now so getting up to 16 gigs would be pretty easy just throw another eight gig stick in here one of the main downsides to getting a laptop like this is the built-in storage most of the time it's really low and on this one it's 256 gigabytes it's really not a lot at all so this is something i would definitely upgrade down the road but it'll get you by with a few games at first and finally we have the nvidia geforce gtx 1650 and if i scroll down here you can see it's the four gig model we also have the built-in intel uhd 630 graphics and when we're using this as a basic computer this is what it's going to utilize and it does a really great job with 4k video playback web browsing and things like that and speaking of 4k video playback i usually always like to test i will be using it as a laptop so i wanted to see what we could do with it besides game and if i turn on stats for nerds we are at 4k a couple drop frames on the initial load in but overall i mean it's super steady and i expected this little chip to handle 4k video playback really well be it netflix youtube or even streaming from plex this happens to be a 5k video so we'll just take it up and i'm pretty sure it's going to also handle that just fine skip ahead a bit here so 4k 5k video streaming on this device is going to be no issue whatsoever but we only have that 1080p screen so you might just want to stick at 1080p i also ran a couple basic benchmarks first up we have geekbench 5 next up we have 3dmark firestrike and finally 3d mark time spy so taking a look at those three benchmarks is definitely not the highest that i've seen but at this price point for a decent little laptop i think it's looking pretty good now it's time to move over to some pc gaming i tested out 10 games and i got about a 20 to 24 second clip for each i will have afterburner running up in the top left-hand corner as long as the game allows it with some of these i may be using the built-in frame counter but overall i'm pretty impressed with this little setup first up we have cs go 1080p high settings i do have afterburner running in the background but unfortunately we can't run it on top of csgo anymore at the end of my run here i was averaging 148 fps next up we have rocket league 1080p high settings on average 197 fps overwatch 1080p high settings with the resolution scaling set to 100 on average 131 fps i was actually expecting a little more out of this game because it is a bit older but i really can't complain about the performance here and in the end we're only really working with a 60 hertz display so locking this at 60 is gonna run all day forza horizon 4 i do have the fps up in the top right hand corner i'm using the built-in frame counter on average we got 68 fps medium settings 1080p not the best performance that i've seen but it's definitely playable like this and i still think it looks great at medium settings so here's doom eternal and i've personally had really good luck with the vulcan back in on the desktop version of the 1650 so i figured we'd get good performance here and at 1080p medium settings we're averaging 82 fps i also wanted to throw fall guys in here 1080p maximum settings it's going to run at 60 all day long with gta 5 1080p i really couldn't run this game with everything set to high settings so i kind of went through and it's a mix of high and normal settings but once i got it right i was getting an average of 73 fps crisis remastered 1080p with a mix of medium low settings i still couldn't get a constant 60 fps out of it by the end i was averaging 54 fps but you'll see it dipped down to the 40s so i would personally suggest turning the game down below at 1080p and it still looks great one of my favorite games of all time this is skyrim special edition high settings 1080p you're gonna get a constant 60 out of it it is fully playable on this laptop with that gtx 1650 and the final game i have here is dauntless 1080p medium settings i will admit that i just went in here with medium settings it looks like you may be able to run this at 60 high settings or a mix of high and medium so far given the price point of this laptop i'm really impressed with the performance the only downside that i'm seeing here is the internal storage so i kind of wanted to take a look in here it's easy enough to get to there's only seven screws on the bottom the bottom will pop right off and there is a spot for a 2.5 inch drive so i could throw another ssd in here without even touching the m.2 and there is another sodim slot so upgrading to 16 gigs would be pretty easy and pretty inexpensive nowadays over on the right hand side we do have easy access to that m.2 if you want to upgrade it but we do have that spot for a 2.5 inch drive this is just a dummy drive here i would just throw in a one terabyte 2.5 inch ssd and call it a day i would leave that m.2 alone right now and maybe down the road if you ever wanted to upgrade it you can get to it pretty easily and this uses 2666 sodim ram you can pick this up pretty cheap on amazon so upgrading the storage and the ram is pretty simple on this unit and as for the cooling i think they did a pretty good job here we have that dual fan set up the highest temperatures that i saw out of the cpu was while i was playing overwatch it did spike up to 96 degrees celsius which does seem pretty hot but it started coming right back down and on average while playing games it's around 84 to 86 degrees celsius which really isn't that bad now the fans are kicked on because it's trying to cool that cpu and the gpu at the same time so it's definitely not a silent experience while you're gaming but doing everyday tasks these fans hardly kick on at all if you want to watch some 4k video playback do some light image editing some school work those fans are not going to kick up and the whole unit itself stays really cool so do i recommend this laptop at that 450 price tag i say jump on it if you don't already have a gaming laptop and you're looking for something like this at a good price 450 is really hard to beat especially given the performance we're getting out of it now it's not a super high-end 1600 laptop and going into this you got to know that you're not going to be able to run red dead redemption at 1080p ultra settings on something like this but low medium settings for most games at 1080p is perfectly possible on this laptop and i have to say this is actually one of the best deals that i've seen be it new or used on a laptop with specs like this so yeah if you're in the market for an entry-level gaming laptop it's really hard to beat a deal like this during black friday so i'd say go ahead and pick this up you won't be disappointed with it so that's pretty much it for this video i really appreciate you watching i know there's going to be a lot of questions out there people are going to want to see other things running on this and i can plan another video so just let me know in the comments what you think about this deal and what you want to see running on this laptop and i'll get another video made but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys this eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at this 450 gaming laptop that i recently picked up on an early black friday deal from walmart and in this video we're going to test it out and see if it's really worth picking one of these up now on paper at 450 this is actually looking like a really good deal we have a 9th gen i5 cpu with the gtx 1650 and it's actually one of the cheapest gaming laptops with a dedicated gpu that i've seen in a very very long time so this was up on their early black friday sale it's still listed on their website at 450 and you can do the get in stock alert if you really want to get one of these another early sale is coming up and we also have black friday so i do expect these to go back on sale for the same price so i've had a few days to mess around with this and overall it's been a solid performance definitely not a super high-end laptop all we're working with here is that 1650 it's not even the ti but it is a four gigabyte gddr5 gtx 1650 and it's very capable of gaming it's got a 60 hertz 1080p ips display great trackpad led backlit keyboard it's not rgb it's only going to be green on you personally i kind of like the look of this color scheme here black and green goes together really well in my opinion laptop itself is all plastic here there's no metal lid there's no metal bottom but at a 450 price tag i think the build quality on this thing is top notch at that price point around the back here we do have dual exhaust vents and both of these are fully functional on the left-hand side we have a full-size hdmi port single usb 3.1 port gigabit ethernet usb type-c and a full-size sd card reader taking a look at the right hand side we have our power in headphone jack and two extra usb 3.0 ports like i mentioned the laptop is constructed of plastic and i really didn't expect any more for the price point here but we do have a dual fan setup with that dual exhaust coming out the back and i think we have plenty of ventilation here to get air into this unit to cool that gtx 1650 and the unit also comes with 150 watt power supply so this is the hp 15 dk0096w for the cpu with the i5 9300h four cores eight threads base clock 2.4 gigahertz boost up to 4.1 8 gigabytes of ddr4 ram from the factory but this can be upgraded to 16 for the gpu we have that gtx 1650 it's a four gigabyte model with gddr5 memory a pre-installed 256 gigabyte nvme this can also be upgraded it's got a 15.6 inch 1080p ips display and a 52.5 watt hour battery they're claiming 8 hours of video playback out of something like this but if you're stressing that battery out with that gtx 1650 you could expect to get as little as 2 hours of gameplay out of this thing on battery power and that's just how it is with these laptops all right so here we are i've installed a bunch of stuff to test here and overall i'm really enjoying this little laptop especially for the price as you can see we have the i5 9300h at 2.4 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.1 i personally haven't seen it boost to 4.1 but 4 gigahertz is very common with this little unit 8 gigs of ddr4 at 26.67 one slot is being used right now so getting up to 16 gigs would be pretty easy just throw another eight gig stick in here one of the main downsides to getting a laptop like this is the built-in storage most of the time it's really low and on this one it's 256 gigabytes it's really not a lot at all so this is something i would definitely upgrade down the road but it'll get you by with a few games at first and finally we have the nvidia geforce gtx 1650 and if i scroll down here you can see it's the four gig model we also have the built-in intel uhd 630 graphics and when we're using this as a basic computer this is what it's going to utilize and it does a really great job with 4k video playback web browsing and things like that and speaking of 4k video playback i usually always like to test i will be using it as a laptop so i wanted to see what we could do with it besides game and if i turn on stats for nerds we are at 4k a couple drop frames on the initial load in but overall i mean it's super steady and i expected this little chip to handle 4k video playback really well be it netflix youtube or even streaming from plex this happens to be a 5k video so we'll just take it up and i'm pretty sure it's going to also handle that just fine skip ahead a bit here so 4k 5k video streaming on this device is going to be no issue whatsoever but we only have that 1080p screen so you might just want to stick at 1080p i also ran a couple basic benchmarks first up we have geekbench 5 next up we have 3dmark firestrike and finally 3d mark time spy so taking a look at those three benchmarks is definitely not the highest that i've seen but at this price point for a decent little laptop i think it's looking pretty good now it's time to move over to some pc gaming i tested out 10 games and i got about a 20 to 24 second clip for each i will have afterburner running up in the top left-hand corner as long as the game allows it with some of these i may be using the built-in frame counter but overall i'm pretty impressed with this little setup first up we have cs go 1080p high settings i do have afterburner running in the background but unfortunately we can't run it on top of csgo anymore at the end of my run here i was averaging 148 fps next up we have rocket league 1080p high settings on average 197 fps overwatch 1080p high settings with the resolution scaling set to 100 on average 131 fps i was actually expecting a little more out of this game because it is a bit older but i really can't complain about the performance here and in the end we're only really working with a 60 hertz display so locking this at 60 is gonna run all day forza horizon 4 i do have the fps up in the top right hand corner i'm using the built-in frame counter on average we got 68 fps medium settings 1080p not the best performance that i've seen but it's definitely playable like this and i still think it looks great at medium settings so here's doom eternal and i've personally had really good luck with the vulcan back in on the desktop version of the 1650 so i figured we'd get good performance here and at 1080p medium settings we're averaging 82 fps i also wanted to throw fall guys in here 1080p maximum settings it's going to run at 60 all day long with gta 5 1080p i really couldn't run this game with everything set to high settings so i kind of went through and it's a mix of high and normal settings but once i got it right i was getting an average of 73 fps crisis remastered 1080p with a mix of medium low settings i still couldn't get a constant 60 fps out of it by the end i was averaging 54 fps but you'll see it dipped down to the 40s so i would personally suggest turning the game down below at 1080p and it still looks great one of my favorite games of all time this is skyrim special edition high settings 1080p you're gonna get a constant 60 out of it it is fully playable on this laptop with that gtx 1650 and the final game i have here is dauntless 1080p medium settings i will admit that i just went in here with medium settings it looks like you may be able to run this at 60 high settings or a mix of high and medium so far given the price point of this laptop i'm really impressed with the performance the only downside that i'm seeing here is the internal storage so i kind of wanted to take a look in here it's easy enough to get to there's only seven screws on the bottom the bottom will pop right off and there is a spot for a 2.5 inch drive so i could throw another ssd in here without even touching the m.2 and there is another sodim slot so upgrading to 16 gigs would be pretty easy and pretty inexpensive nowadays over on the right hand side we do have easy access to that m.2 if you want to upgrade it but we do have that spot for a 2.5 inch drive this is just a dummy drive here i would just throw in a one terabyte 2.5 inch ssd and call it a day i would leave that m.2 alone right now and maybe down the road if you ever wanted to upgrade it you can get to it pretty easily and this uses 2666 sodim ram you can pick this up pretty cheap on amazon so upgrading the storage and the ram is pretty simple on this unit and as for the cooling i think they did a pretty good job here we have that dual fan set up the highest temperatures that i saw out of the cpu was while i was playing overwatch it did spike up to 96 degrees celsius which does seem pretty hot but it started coming right back down and on average while playing games it's around 84 to 86 degrees celsius which really isn't that bad now the fans are kicked on because it's trying to cool that cpu and the gpu at the same time so it's definitely not a silent experience while you're gaming but doing everyday tasks these fans hardly kick on at all if you want to watch some 4k video playback do some light image editing some school work those fans are not going to kick up and the whole unit itself stays really cool so do i recommend this laptop at that 450 price tag i say jump on it if you don't already have a gaming laptop and you're looking for something like this at a good price 450 is really hard to beat especially given the performance we're getting out of it now it's not a super high-end 1600 laptop and going into this you got to know that you're not going to be able to run red dead redemption at 1080p ultra settings on something like this but low medium settings for most games at 1080p is perfectly possible on this laptop and i have to say this is actually one of the best deals that i've seen be it new or used on a laptop with specs like this so yeah if you're in the market for an entry-level gaming laptop it's really hard to beat a deal like this during black friday so i'd say go ahead and pick this up you won't be disappointed with it so that's pretty much it for this video i really appreciate you watching i know there's going to be a lot of questions out there people are going to want to see other things running on this and i can plan another video so just let me know in the comments what you think about this deal and what you want to see running on this laptop and i'll get another video made but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"