Daysky D-Book Pro Review - $349 Nvidia 940M Budget Gaming Laptop
Hi Chris here back with another budget
gaming laptop from China now the Tbook X8S pro that I looked out turned out to
be an absolute disaster and I really regretted buying that one and it turns
out I had ordered this one here just before he got that notebook otherwise it
probably would have canceled it now this one is the Daysky D Book Pro so kind of
similar name now the difference with this one is it has an Nvidia 940 MX so
hopefully it's not going to run into problems or some CPU limiting or a
bottleneck with the PCI lanes or the the slot that was on here on the previous
model looked at that t book x8 s Pro that one had some issue that calls that
dedicated GPU from Nvidia to be hopeless in terms of performance it was just
really slow way slower than expected but hopefully the 940m X in this model is
gonna be a lot more promising now this thing retails for around about 350 USD
so you get a Intel Apollo late the Celeron N3450, 6 gigabytes of RAM ,64
gigabytes of storage, wireless AC there should be a M.2 SATA 3 SSD slot
within this I will take a look at the internals in this video we'll test out
some of the performance so the packaging of the notebook you can see isn't
wonderful very thin and it has received a little bit of damage now ordered this
one through a gearbest comm and I went for the free postage so it took about 16
days to get here so a little on the slow side but the good thing was it did not
have to pay any tax it all so it's got some of that super super bubble wrap
around it which is at least something's are hopefully no damage to that I've got
the power supply in the side here oh ok an Australian in zip/cable didn't expect
to see that one I thought I would see the typical two prong and here is our
power adapter now this is rated to 12 volts 5 amps so a lot more powerful than
their typical 12 volts 2 amps we commonly see with the Apollo Lakes if
you're worrying about the cable there you can see it is one of those common
typical Mickey Mouse style plugs so it'll be really easy to source your own
cable for your own country so we can see that the frame of it and
the outside here this is actually all made out of an alloy which is good we've
got that horrible day sky stupid alien we're kind of ripoff logo now the good
news is this is actually a stick head it looks like you might not be able to take
it off but if you get a really sharp edge like a knife or something and lift
up one corner you will be able to pull that off which is good news now the lid
has a tiny little bit of flex there I. Mean that's kind of normal while they've
got a little bit more than I'd probably like but differently an alloy on the
back so on the left-hand side were two full-size USB 3 port we have a headphone
jack SD card reader and this little slot here is a side firing speaker we'll test
these out later on in this video right hand side another speaker so they should
at least offer good stereo separation another full-size USB 3 port mini HDMI
out and then of course that DC and for charging and powering the device so
let's have a look at the way it does not feel that bad it's around 1.3 5 Kilos
it's actually quite good considering it does have a dedicated GPU the fans and
the copper heatsink and everything else have a look at how thick it is now so it
comes in to be about sixteen point two millimeters thick so there is some
plastic on this laptop this is the strip along the back here so this must be
where the antennas are housed so on the underside we've got a lot of screws
there four rubber feet and this is the intake vent there so that's where the
air will come in and that's gonna be then blowing out just above in front of
the screen actually is where that exit vent is but I'll show you in a second
now wouldn't be one of my videos would it without having a look at the
internals so we have here a 10,000 milliamp hour battery or 37 watt hours
which is okay that's actually not too bad for the n30 450 which is right up
here you can see they've got a tiny little thermal copper heat transfer pipe
here and the fins and a tiny little fan my bit is that you could probably just
end up unplugging this and let it run passively and keep that passively cold
but your course your we'll need active cooling for the GPU which is right here
so we've got a much thicker copper transfer pipe here
it will be relatively easy as well to repay STIs if it didn't need a replaced
if you found that the thermals weren't good they normally use cheap zoom or
paste on these anyway so the layout looks really good now you're probably
thinking well hang on West is his D well it's using an e MMC but we do have right
here this slot it's a little hard to see with my camera angle so I'll give you a
different angle here that is right here you can see so this will take a larger
22 what if I put it in the right way around 22 by 80 SSD is what that is
designed for but they haven't included a screw on that so I'll see if I can run
that now this is only set of three this is not going to be PCIe nvme so it's not
a real super fast one now you do note that this has a PCIe type slot here but
it's a little different this is more like in mmx3 or whatever revision it is
that it's using so this graphics card you will be able to actually replace or
use even in that t book x8 s that I. Reviewed had the same exact similar
setup so it's good to have this here the positive is this right here is the
wireless card so it's using an Intel 31 65 which is wireless AC now that's up to
about 400 megabits per second transfer rates maximum so you could upgrade that
to something like an 8 2060 from Intel as well and that gives you rate so I
think around 850 megabits per second max if you weren't happy with this card then
you can replace it it's another positive right here's the little battery for the
BIOS if you need to do a bias reset then simply unplug this now these speakers
are a little bit odd because they're actually downwards firing speakers yet
the outlet for them where the sound has to be transmitted out is on the side so
don't imagine they're going to sound very good with the set up but I'll give
you sample them later on this video so the internals look good the battery's
screwed in place we've got an upgradeable GPU upgradeable wireless
card you can add an SSD it's actually looking very decent so far hopefully we
keep with the same trend here when it comes to the rest of the laptop so let's
move on now alright so can it be open one-handed yes just and I can see
straight away that we've got an horrible day sky
are written right here in fact that is another sticker so that's well that's
good actually we'll be able to pull that off so first impressions this keyboard
that feels like I'm pressing down quite hard here there is a little tiny bit of
flex there but not a lot and it doesn't seem to be any shortcuts for prints
green on OK you have used the function key I'll give you a close-up of the
keyboard in just a second so the touchpad reasonable-sized here hopefully
it's running Windows precision drivers and doesn't it have a little bit of a
Macbook feel to it doesn't it the way the keyboard is sunken in there in the
middle and then of course we've got this squared off edges around here but
overall so far the build actually seems pretty good it's nowhere near as cheap
feeling as that T book x8s I looked at the pro model so here's the keyboard
layout just a close-up of that now the power key location don't particularly
like that where it is placed I always like a power key away and
actually separate from the keyboard but it's something I can live with because
you can see it in Windows that if you tap it to do nothing along the top are
the exit vents so that's where the whole e is going to come out right here just
here and there you can see the tiny little grilles there that's where the
hot air is going to be coming out from and yeah overall not too bad status LEDs
right there - for your caps-lock scroll lock and power on so what about the
screen here it does have a matte bezel around the outside which is black and
not silver which is good that's a good move here webcam but I don't see
actually where the microphones are which is interesting they must be located
somewhere down in the keyboard which won't be that great I think the mic is
actually this little tiny dot right down here see that with my fingers so that's
where that is so the screen is it going to be glossy or matte let's find out
under the screen protector and it's a matte screen so this is good
now before we get into Windows we don't have a look at the BIOS and mainly this
right here which is the power limits we have for that Apollo Lake in thirty four
fifty so you can see here that we do yes have the power limits there and I'm
gonna set this to disabled since it is actively cool we want maximum
performance from that CPU so I'm going to disable that there in the BIOS now to
get into that as right here in this menu so you go to advanced CPU configuration
and then find CPU power management a lot of people ask me on the forum just how
to do that and for boot I have actually installed my own SSD that crucial I
showed you there just so to be a little bit faster but I'll not actually boot
over to that just to start while the first I'll show you the default boot
configuration that we get from the factory so you can see I have an SD card
now in there and it does stick out quite a bit so be careful you don't
accidentally break those off it's happened to me in the past but those
kind of SD card readers now having a look at the screen so it's a fourteen
point one inch screen 1080p now the hardware ID comes through as ms
underscore triple zero three which in past experiences with this particular
display has always been a TN panel but this is definitely not a TN panel so
it's mac coded and i'm getting proper IPS viewing angles that's as far as the
screen will go back to so it's not amazing now just show you a couple of
demo images the other thing to know too that it is super bright I'm running a
brightness at the moment I think under about 30% 40% and right up on maximum
brightness this thing is really good so I'm impressed with that so everyone's
looking like a decent panel considering the price of this laptop so I've got a
couple of other things here to wanted to point out so the SSD so the emmc it has
in here is 5.1 Spec it is a SanDisk DF. 40 64 And very good speeds here so about
266 reads 104 sequential writes and the 4k is
there okay of course if you want faster then use an SSD which I have plugged in
into that slot my crucial that is running at full sata3 speeds
there which is good now it's not all good news unfortunately the touchpad so
far in my experience with it is absolute rubbish
I don't like it doesn't seem to support our scrolling up and down gestures and
you can see here that it is not a precision one it's just some sort of ps2
mouse pad PS / 2 port compatible pointing device and yeah and the clicks
left and right for your mouse buttons way too shallow so I do not like the
mouse pad at all on this so it's running Windows 10 as you can see of course when
it's in home and it is activated it was actually already activated there was
already an account set up as well so if you're not happy with that do your own
clean install of course now the camera is another bad point of this laptop
it's VGA so we've only got 480 P.
Resolution so it looks very pixelated at
least it is 30 frames per second but not wonderful you want to use an external
1080p Logitech webcam with this one I. Feel so now that I've used the keyboard
for a little bit more now to type on it's okay but it definitely does not
feel as good as the tick last if seven or the easy book 3 Pro keyboard it just
got a little bit of a sponginess to it not the keys themselves I don't have
that same solid feedback to them they just feel a little bit cheaper but it's
ok to type on it's just certainly not the best out of this class of laptop
okay so I have gpu-z running here now just to have a look at the information
on this GPU now one thing to note that it's the 940 m and not the nvidia 940 MX
that give best advertise so they're listing is incorrect so that's not good
they need to correct their information because the 940 MX is actually slightly
faster slightly better even though it's a very similar GPU now if we have a look
at the link speed here on the bus interface so PCIe times for mode I don't
know whether the T book the x8 s pro I. Looked at might have had this stuck on
only one but there was some sort of problem with the performance of this one
but it doesn't seem to be the case here at least not on my testing so far with
us now there's the clocks down here now I cannot seem to over
the core clock you can overclock the memory and speaking of memory so the
system memory we got six gigabytes of double data rate three RAM and it's
running at 1333 megahertz and not the typical common 1600 but it seems that
the timing of that Ram seems to be at least good enough to get scores that are
on par with other laptops running it at 1600 megahertz so that's Geekbench for
school right here so normally we see anywhere from about 4,000 to 4200
maximum and about 1400 maximum school there for single core on the end 3450
with its maximum turbo of 2.2 Gigahertz and then onto the GPU score so this is
OpenCL score using the Nvidia dedicated GPU I have it set in the settings and
secular as I did with the T Book forced it on also forced on maximum performance
mode and we get 22,000 now twenty two thousand is quite an increase over the
integrated graphics which is only about seven to eight thousand is all that the
Intel 500 HD can get so that's a huge increase but in terms of a gaming laptop
well it's not really that wonderful at all the school here because the MX 150
that's in my Amin notebook pro that gets a score of close to 96 thousand or
ninety thousand there so you can see it's a huge difference in performance
between those two chips their course the MX 150 is a lot newer now when taking a
look at the general performance so right here now in Chrome I am streaming and 4k
from YouTube and it's keeping up ok at the beginning it dropped 60 frames you
can see weren't there but the wireless can keep up with streaming this and
there's no issues there getting in around the system isn't the fastest
because of the the CPU once you start to run a lot of applications you will
notice that to bog down a little bit now you can use editing apps here this is
Photoshop you can put in huge amounts layers and things like that but when you
do that it's gonna become really painfully slow so this really is not the
type of CPU that you want to be doing lots of image editing on I recommend for
that thing minimum you really want something
like a core i3 or the core m3 7y 30s they handle this a lot better they're
about twice as fast as the apollo lake in 3450 so for the game i'm going to
test just like the t book it's going to be Counter Strike global Offensive these
are the settings I'm going to use here so on high multi-core ending is enabled
and trying to layer texture filtering so I'm not going to set any super advanced
settings on this at the moment I want to see how it's going to handle 1080p with
these settings on the dust2 map okay so this is pistols only and I'm useless at
this game apart from when people are just standing there
so tottering around 30 frames per second dipping down to below so it does seem it
as CPU limited surprised that no one shot me yet my I
spoke too soon so that performance isn't wonderful but
it seems that it's a lot better than integrated graphics of course because
that would only be running this at about 15 or 10 frames per second at 1080p with
these settings so I'd have a go at lowering the settings down and see if we
can boost that framerate and even try 720p which may little B may actually be
a little bit better for this GPU okay so 720p on low settings here let's see now
if that is going to give us a huge improvement or not so now 720p on the
low settings it hasn't really improved that framerate
a lot as you can see it's dropped down to about 38 then so it's up maybe on
average 5 frames per second a little bit more than that but not a huge
improvement there but you can see with this bitter flame framerate I'm able to
actually get a few head shots because normally all I do is just die a time and
time after again but it's definitely smooth and definitely playable and so
much better than the integrated GPU so I. Decided to step things up a little bit
and test out rise of the Tomb Raider and this is the result here from the
benchmark low settings 720p this is actually surprised me an overall score
of 82 frames per second but note the GPU.
Temperatures getting up to 87 degrees so
it's getting rather hot it might need a repost or maybe it just can't handle the
kind of heat that that 940m is producing of course I'll give you a sample of
gameplay here you can see it's just below 30 frames per second and I think
this is doing really well considering it's only got that a polar lake in 3450
as the CPU which is pinning down that 940m big time I feel I feel it as so
I'll show you a little bit of action here you can see it's not dropping down
too bad so another demanding title this one's
project cars running around about 30 frames per second and you can see this
one's been limited by the CPU because the GPU is only ready running about half
50 percent so that's not the problem it's there to Pola Lake in 3450 that's
holding things up here but otherwise 720p on the lower settings here you can
see that this is label which is great so testing out Grand Theft Auto now this is
720p and you can see that it is maxing out the CPU again so this is the
bottleneck off the system as we know the GPU is only running at 50% here but
we're getting playable frames per second on this down to around 23 frames per
second at times I've got all the settings on low so if you were to lower
the resolution down to say 800 x 600 use one of those tweak scripts then you can
probably boost the frames per second by a further I would just estimate maybe 10
frames per second more and just make things a little smoother there now a
much lighter title that does not max out the CPU this is League of Legends it's
running in 1080p on the high setting and we're getting a very good frame rate of
way over 40 frames per second now this isn't too bad considering again that you
know this is fairly weak Hardware so it's able to handle this game just fine
I mean you could blow the settings down a little bit so if you set it to medium
then you'll probably get around 60 frames per second if you wanted it to be
a little bit smoother than this so let's take a look at thermals now after one
hour of gaming so it reaches a maximum of 82 degrees that Sun get really really
quite hot there which is not good to see so I don't know if the cooling is really
up to the job especially when you have a look at the GPU so the GPU picked out at
88 degrees right here now a little bit of thermal paste might be able to lower
temperatures a little bit perhaps add a little bit more copper there so when
you're gaming you will definitely hear the fans in fact you hear the fans when
you turn it on they will quickly spin up and then go off again and most of the
time when you're just doing a light task see why
here the fans aren't much at all they just stay on a very low rpm which is
good but right now both fans are about 100 percent so I'll give you a sample of
what you can expect in terms of fan noise so it has the two side firing speakers
as I showed you in this starts a one here then one in the exact same position
on the other side let's have a listen to them so even from that small sample that you
would have picked up that they do lack of volume and they hardly have any bass
whatsoever just a tiny bit so very disappointing speakers they're not good
at all now I haven't gone through my full batteries tests of this device yet
because I've only just had it for a day but you're looking around two and a half
hours on the dedicated in video 940m GPU. And if you're not running that GPU and
you have the switching on so the optimist graphics switching then it's
around five to six hours it's not as good as other a polar lake in thirty
four fifty laptops and good news for those that wish to run Linux on this
particular laptop that everything is working the brightness controls the
volume controls Wireless the touchpad you name it it is working in the latest
build here of Linux Manjaro okay so just to wrap up here that is the
day sky debug pro with the 940m now it didn't come with a 940 MX another that's
going to really matter because the CPU. Is what is the bottleneck in this system
here and that is seen in games like project cars and tomb raider GTA 5 as
well it's just maxed out and that is what is limiting the performance here
and our frame rate now the GPU it has a little bit of power there about three
times more powerful than the integrated Intel HD graphics which is good that
means we can do a lot more with that you can run applications like Photoshop and
once I showed you those games here to that it does boost up their performance
and a massive increase over the integrated GPU there you couldn't even
run GTA 5 well very low frames per second we've cut down really cut down
settings and you saw there at 720p on low then I managed to get at least a
playable framerate which I find is impressive considering the Apollo deck
CPU that this has on here so the build quality overall it's okay the alloy
around the outside is nice they met around the screen the screen is really
good so it's very bright it comes out to be about 360 like 65 or so which is
really good for a matte coated screen so you have no issues with that even in
bright environments in daylight good viewing angles as IPS good colors deep
blacks as well on there now the other thing to note too that the webcam
that's really poor the touchpad is also poor I don't like the left and right
mouse buttons on it they're just way too shallow and the speaker's they rattle
they lack volume they lack base so that s'n other-- bad area now the keyboard to
type on that's very important to have a nice keyboard it's average I would not
read it as good as the tick last if seven or the easy box repro no it's a
little bit behind it just doesn't have as good a feel on it although typing on
it I don't find them having any typos or anything like that it just doesn't have
a really nice feel to it it's good it does the job it just feels a little bit
flimsy and a little bit cheap other than that the package and what you've got
here should you buy it so if you're on an ultra strict budget and you want to
play a few games on the side then yes for light titles as I showed you like
Counter Strike global Offensive a lot of the settings League of Legends dota 2
games like that it's going to be fine now if you want to play fortnight it
won't run it unfortunately I don't know why I think it's something to do with
the processor the sour on 1030 450 just does not like it rejects it won't even
load the game now if you plant a game with newer titles you wanna play
something like Battlefield one or you want to play GTA 5 and 1080p then this
is not the laptop to get I recommend going for something minimum with an
Nvidia 1030 or the MX 150 those will give you much better playable frame
rates and I have reviewed a couple of laptops now with that particular GPU and
it's much better you'll also get a much faster CPU so you won't have the
bottleneck neck and limitations that the cipolla like in 34 is giving us with
this particular model here thanks a lot for watching this review and I do hope
to catch you back in the channel soon with more new and interesting videos
coming up bye for now.
gaming laptop from China now the Tbook X8S pro that I looked out turned out to
be an absolute disaster and I really regretted buying that one and it turns
out I had ordered this one here just before he got that notebook otherwise it
probably would have canceled it now this one is the Daysky D Book Pro so kind of
similar name now the difference with this one is it has an Nvidia 940 MX so
hopefully it's not going to run into problems or some CPU limiting or a
bottleneck with the PCI lanes or the the slot that was on here on the previous
model looked at that t book x8 s Pro that one had some issue that calls that
dedicated GPU from Nvidia to be hopeless in terms of performance it was just
really slow way slower than expected but hopefully the 940m X in this model is
gonna be a lot more promising now this thing retails for around about 350 USD
so you get a Intel Apollo late the Celeron N3450, 6 gigabytes of RAM ,64
gigabytes of storage, wireless AC there should be a M.2 SATA 3 SSD slot
within this I will take a look at the internals in this video we'll test out
some of the performance so the packaging of the notebook you can see isn't
wonderful very thin and it has received a little bit of damage now ordered this
one through a gearbest comm and I went for the free postage so it took about 16
days to get here so a little on the slow side but the good thing was it did not
have to pay any tax it all so it's got some of that super super bubble wrap
around it which is at least something's are hopefully no damage to that I've got
the power supply in the side here oh ok an Australian in zip/cable didn't expect
to see that one I thought I would see the typical two prong and here is our
power adapter now this is rated to 12 volts 5 amps so a lot more powerful than
their typical 12 volts 2 amps we commonly see with the Apollo Lakes if
you're worrying about the cable there you can see it is one of those common
typical Mickey Mouse style plugs so it'll be really easy to source your own
cable for your own country so we can see that the frame of it and
the outside here this is actually all made out of an alloy which is good we've
got that horrible day sky stupid alien we're kind of ripoff logo now the good
news is this is actually a stick head it looks like you might not be able to take
it off but if you get a really sharp edge like a knife or something and lift
up one corner you will be able to pull that off which is good news now the lid
has a tiny little bit of flex there I. Mean that's kind of normal while they've
got a little bit more than I'd probably like but differently an alloy on the
back so on the left-hand side were two full-size USB 3 port we have a headphone
jack SD card reader and this little slot here is a side firing speaker we'll test
these out later on in this video right hand side another speaker so they should
at least offer good stereo separation another full-size USB 3 port mini HDMI
out and then of course that DC and for charging and powering the device so
let's have a look at the way it does not feel that bad it's around 1.3 5 Kilos
it's actually quite good considering it does have a dedicated GPU the fans and
the copper heatsink and everything else have a look at how thick it is now so it
comes in to be about sixteen point two millimeters thick so there is some
plastic on this laptop this is the strip along the back here so this must be
where the antennas are housed so on the underside we've got a lot of screws
there four rubber feet and this is the intake vent there so that's where the
air will come in and that's gonna be then blowing out just above in front of
the screen actually is where that exit vent is but I'll show you in a second
now wouldn't be one of my videos would it without having a look at the
internals so we have here a 10,000 milliamp hour battery or 37 watt hours
which is okay that's actually not too bad for the n30 450 which is right up
here you can see they've got a tiny little thermal copper heat transfer pipe
here and the fins and a tiny little fan my bit is that you could probably just
end up unplugging this and let it run passively and keep that passively cold
but your course your we'll need active cooling for the GPU which is right here
so we've got a much thicker copper transfer pipe here
it will be relatively easy as well to repay STIs if it didn't need a replaced
if you found that the thermals weren't good they normally use cheap zoom or
paste on these anyway so the layout looks really good now you're probably
thinking well hang on West is his D well it's using an e MMC but we do have right
here this slot it's a little hard to see with my camera angle so I'll give you a
different angle here that is right here you can see so this will take a larger
22 what if I put it in the right way around 22 by 80 SSD is what that is
designed for but they haven't included a screw on that so I'll see if I can run
that now this is only set of three this is not going to be PCIe nvme so it's not
a real super fast one now you do note that this has a PCIe type slot here but
it's a little different this is more like in mmx3 or whatever revision it is
that it's using so this graphics card you will be able to actually replace or
use even in that t book x8 s that I. Reviewed had the same exact similar
setup so it's good to have this here the positive is this right here is the
wireless card so it's using an Intel 31 65 which is wireless AC now that's up to
about 400 megabits per second transfer rates maximum so you could upgrade that
to something like an 8 2060 from Intel as well and that gives you rate so I
think around 850 megabits per second max if you weren't happy with this card then
you can replace it it's another positive right here's the little battery for the
BIOS if you need to do a bias reset then simply unplug this now these speakers
are a little bit odd because they're actually downwards firing speakers yet
the outlet for them where the sound has to be transmitted out is on the side so
don't imagine they're going to sound very good with the set up but I'll give
you sample them later on this video so the internals look good the battery's
screwed in place we've got an upgradeable GPU upgradeable wireless
card you can add an SSD it's actually looking very decent so far hopefully we
keep with the same trend here when it comes to the rest of the laptop so let's
move on now alright so can it be open one-handed yes just and I can see
straight away that we've got an horrible day sky
are written right here in fact that is another sticker so that's well that's
good actually we'll be able to pull that off so first impressions this keyboard
that feels like I'm pressing down quite hard here there is a little tiny bit of
flex there but not a lot and it doesn't seem to be any shortcuts for prints
green on OK you have used the function key I'll give you a close-up of the
keyboard in just a second so the touchpad reasonable-sized here hopefully
it's running Windows precision drivers and doesn't it have a little bit of a
Macbook feel to it doesn't it the way the keyboard is sunken in there in the
middle and then of course we've got this squared off edges around here but
overall so far the build actually seems pretty good it's nowhere near as cheap
feeling as that T book x8s I looked at the pro model so here's the keyboard
layout just a close-up of that now the power key location don't particularly
like that where it is placed I always like a power key away and
actually separate from the keyboard but it's something I can live with because
you can see it in Windows that if you tap it to do nothing along the top are
the exit vents so that's where the whole e is going to come out right here just
here and there you can see the tiny little grilles there that's where the
hot air is going to be coming out from and yeah overall not too bad status LEDs
right there - for your caps-lock scroll lock and power on so what about the
screen here it does have a matte bezel around the outside which is black and
not silver which is good that's a good move here webcam but I don't see
actually where the microphones are which is interesting they must be located
somewhere down in the keyboard which won't be that great I think the mic is
actually this little tiny dot right down here see that with my fingers so that's
where that is so the screen is it going to be glossy or matte let's find out
under the screen protector and it's a matte screen so this is good
now before we get into Windows we don't have a look at the BIOS and mainly this
right here which is the power limits we have for that Apollo Lake in thirty four
fifty so you can see here that we do yes have the power limits there and I'm
gonna set this to disabled since it is actively cool we want maximum
performance from that CPU so I'm going to disable that there in the BIOS now to
get into that as right here in this menu so you go to advanced CPU configuration
and then find CPU power management a lot of people ask me on the forum just how
to do that and for boot I have actually installed my own SSD that crucial I
showed you there just so to be a little bit faster but I'll not actually boot
over to that just to start while the first I'll show you the default boot
configuration that we get from the factory so you can see I have an SD card
now in there and it does stick out quite a bit so be careful you don't
accidentally break those off it's happened to me in the past but those
kind of SD card readers now having a look at the screen so it's a fourteen
point one inch screen 1080p now the hardware ID comes through as ms
underscore triple zero three which in past experiences with this particular
display has always been a TN panel but this is definitely not a TN panel so
it's mac coded and i'm getting proper IPS viewing angles that's as far as the
screen will go back to so it's not amazing now just show you a couple of
demo images the other thing to know too that it is super bright I'm running a
brightness at the moment I think under about 30% 40% and right up on maximum
brightness this thing is really good so I'm impressed with that so everyone's
looking like a decent panel considering the price of this laptop so I've got a
couple of other things here to wanted to point out so the SSD so the emmc it has
in here is 5.1 Spec it is a SanDisk DF. 40 64 And very good speeds here so about
266 reads 104 sequential writes and the 4k is
there okay of course if you want faster then use an SSD which I have plugged in
into that slot my crucial that is running at full sata3 speeds
there which is good now it's not all good news unfortunately the touchpad so
far in my experience with it is absolute rubbish
I don't like it doesn't seem to support our scrolling up and down gestures and
you can see here that it is not a precision one it's just some sort of ps2
mouse pad PS / 2 port compatible pointing device and yeah and the clicks
left and right for your mouse buttons way too shallow so I do not like the
mouse pad at all on this so it's running Windows 10 as you can see of course when
it's in home and it is activated it was actually already activated there was
already an account set up as well so if you're not happy with that do your own
clean install of course now the camera is another bad point of this laptop
it's VGA so we've only got 480 P.
Resolution so it looks very pixelated at
least it is 30 frames per second but not wonderful you want to use an external
1080p Logitech webcam with this one I. Feel so now that I've used the keyboard
for a little bit more now to type on it's okay but it definitely does not
feel as good as the tick last if seven or the easy book 3 Pro keyboard it just
got a little bit of a sponginess to it not the keys themselves I don't have
that same solid feedback to them they just feel a little bit cheaper but it's
ok to type on it's just certainly not the best out of this class of laptop
okay so I have gpu-z running here now just to have a look at the information
on this GPU now one thing to note that it's the 940 m and not the nvidia 940 MX
that give best advertise so they're listing is incorrect so that's not good
they need to correct their information because the 940 MX is actually slightly
faster slightly better even though it's a very similar GPU now if we have a look
at the link speed here on the bus interface so PCIe times for mode I don't
know whether the T book the x8 s pro I. Looked at might have had this stuck on
only one but there was some sort of problem with the performance of this one
but it doesn't seem to be the case here at least not on my testing so far with
us now there's the clocks down here now I cannot seem to over
the core clock you can overclock the memory and speaking of memory so the
system memory we got six gigabytes of double data rate three RAM and it's
running at 1333 megahertz and not the typical common 1600 but it seems that
the timing of that Ram seems to be at least good enough to get scores that are
on par with other laptops running it at 1600 megahertz so that's Geekbench for
school right here so normally we see anywhere from about 4,000 to 4200
maximum and about 1400 maximum school there for single core on the end 3450
with its maximum turbo of 2.2 Gigahertz and then onto the GPU score so this is
OpenCL score using the Nvidia dedicated GPU I have it set in the settings and
secular as I did with the T Book forced it on also forced on maximum performance
mode and we get 22,000 now twenty two thousand is quite an increase over the
integrated graphics which is only about seven to eight thousand is all that the
Intel 500 HD can get so that's a huge increase but in terms of a gaming laptop
well it's not really that wonderful at all the school here because the MX 150
that's in my Amin notebook pro that gets a score of close to 96 thousand or
ninety thousand there so you can see it's a huge difference in performance
between those two chips their course the MX 150 is a lot newer now when taking a
look at the general performance so right here now in Chrome I am streaming and 4k
from YouTube and it's keeping up ok at the beginning it dropped 60 frames you
can see weren't there but the wireless can keep up with streaming this and
there's no issues there getting in around the system isn't the fastest
because of the the CPU once you start to run a lot of applications you will
notice that to bog down a little bit now you can use editing apps here this is
Photoshop you can put in huge amounts layers and things like that but when you
do that it's gonna become really painfully slow so this really is not the
type of CPU that you want to be doing lots of image editing on I recommend for
that thing minimum you really want something
like a core i3 or the core m3 7y 30s they handle this a lot better they're
about twice as fast as the apollo lake in 3450 so for the game i'm going to
test just like the t book it's going to be Counter Strike global Offensive these
are the settings I'm going to use here so on high multi-core ending is enabled
and trying to layer texture filtering so I'm not going to set any super advanced
settings on this at the moment I want to see how it's going to handle 1080p with
these settings on the dust2 map okay so this is pistols only and I'm useless at
this game apart from when people are just standing there
so tottering around 30 frames per second dipping down to below so it does seem it
as CPU limited surprised that no one shot me yet my I
spoke too soon so that performance isn't wonderful but
it seems that it's a lot better than integrated graphics of course because
that would only be running this at about 15 or 10 frames per second at 1080p with
these settings so I'd have a go at lowering the settings down and see if we
can boost that framerate and even try 720p which may little B may actually be
a little bit better for this GPU okay so 720p on low settings here let's see now
if that is going to give us a huge improvement or not so now 720p on the
low settings it hasn't really improved that framerate
a lot as you can see it's dropped down to about 38 then so it's up maybe on
average 5 frames per second a little bit more than that but not a huge
improvement there but you can see with this bitter flame framerate I'm able to
actually get a few head shots because normally all I do is just die a time and
time after again but it's definitely smooth and definitely playable and so
much better than the integrated GPU so I. Decided to step things up a little bit
and test out rise of the Tomb Raider and this is the result here from the
benchmark low settings 720p this is actually surprised me an overall score
of 82 frames per second but note the GPU.
Temperatures getting up to 87 degrees so
it's getting rather hot it might need a repost or maybe it just can't handle the
kind of heat that that 940m is producing of course I'll give you a sample of
gameplay here you can see it's just below 30 frames per second and I think
this is doing really well considering it's only got that a polar lake in 3450
as the CPU which is pinning down that 940m big time I feel I feel it as so
I'll show you a little bit of action here you can see it's not dropping down
too bad so another demanding title this one's
project cars running around about 30 frames per second and you can see this
one's been limited by the CPU because the GPU is only ready running about half
50 percent so that's not the problem it's there to Pola Lake in 3450 that's
holding things up here but otherwise 720p on the lower settings here you can
see that this is label which is great so testing out Grand Theft Auto now this is
720p and you can see that it is maxing out the CPU again so this is the
bottleneck off the system as we know the GPU is only running at 50% here but
we're getting playable frames per second on this down to around 23 frames per
second at times I've got all the settings on low so if you were to lower
the resolution down to say 800 x 600 use one of those tweak scripts then you can
probably boost the frames per second by a further I would just estimate maybe 10
frames per second more and just make things a little smoother there now a
much lighter title that does not max out the CPU this is League of Legends it's
running in 1080p on the high setting and we're getting a very good frame rate of
way over 40 frames per second now this isn't too bad considering again that you
know this is fairly weak Hardware so it's able to handle this game just fine
I mean you could blow the settings down a little bit so if you set it to medium
then you'll probably get around 60 frames per second if you wanted it to be
a little bit smoother than this so let's take a look at thermals now after one
hour of gaming so it reaches a maximum of 82 degrees that Sun get really really
quite hot there which is not good to see so I don't know if the cooling is really
up to the job especially when you have a look at the GPU so the GPU picked out at
88 degrees right here now a little bit of thermal paste might be able to lower
temperatures a little bit perhaps add a little bit more copper there so when
you're gaming you will definitely hear the fans in fact you hear the fans when
you turn it on they will quickly spin up and then go off again and most of the
time when you're just doing a light task see why
here the fans aren't much at all they just stay on a very low rpm which is
good but right now both fans are about 100 percent so I'll give you a sample of
what you can expect in terms of fan noise so it has the two side firing speakers
as I showed you in this starts a one here then one in the exact same position
on the other side let's have a listen to them so even from that small sample that you
would have picked up that they do lack of volume and they hardly have any bass
whatsoever just a tiny bit so very disappointing speakers they're not good
at all now I haven't gone through my full batteries tests of this device yet
because I've only just had it for a day but you're looking around two and a half
hours on the dedicated in video 940m GPU. And if you're not running that GPU and
you have the switching on so the optimist graphics switching then it's
around five to six hours it's not as good as other a polar lake in thirty
four fifty laptops and good news for those that wish to run Linux on this
particular laptop that everything is working the brightness controls the
volume controls Wireless the touchpad you name it it is working in the latest
build here of Linux Manjaro okay so just to wrap up here that is the
day sky debug pro with the 940m now it didn't come with a 940 MX another that's
going to really matter because the CPU. Is what is the bottleneck in this system
here and that is seen in games like project cars and tomb raider GTA 5 as
well it's just maxed out and that is what is limiting the performance here
and our frame rate now the GPU it has a little bit of power there about three
times more powerful than the integrated Intel HD graphics which is good that
means we can do a lot more with that you can run applications like Photoshop and
once I showed you those games here to that it does boost up their performance
and a massive increase over the integrated GPU there you couldn't even
run GTA 5 well very low frames per second we've cut down really cut down
settings and you saw there at 720p on low then I managed to get at least a
playable framerate which I find is impressive considering the Apollo deck
CPU that this has on here so the build quality overall it's okay the alloy
around the outside is nice they met around the screen the screen is really
good so it's very bright it comes out to be about 360 like 65 or so which is
really good for a matte coated screen so you have no issues with that even in
bright environments in daylight good viewing angles as IPS good colors deep
blacks as well on there now the other thing to note too that the webcam
that's really poor the touchpad is also poor I don't like the left and right
mouse buttons on it they're just way too shallow and the speaker's they rattle
they lack volume they lack base so that s'n other-- bad area now the keyboard to
type on that's very important to have a nice keyboard it's average I would not
read it as good as the tick last if seven or the easy box repro no it's a
little bit behind it just doesn't have as good a feel on it although typing on
it I don't find them having any typos or anything like that it just doesn't have
a really nice feel to it it's good it does the job it just feels a little bit
flimsy and a little bit cheap other than that the package and what you've got
here should you buy it so if you're on an ultra strict budget and you want to
play a few games on the side then yes for light titles as I showed you like
Counter Strike global Offensive a lot of the settings League of Legends dota 2
games like that it's going to be fine now if you want to play fortnight it
won't run it unfortunately I don't know why I think it's something to do with
the processor the sour on 1030 450 just does not like it rejects it won't even
load the game now if you plant a game with newer titles you wanna play
something like Battlefield one or you want to play GTA 5 and 1080p then this
is not the laptop to get I recommend going for something minimum with an
Nvidia 1030 or the MX 150 those will give you much better playable frame
rates and I have reviewed a couple of laptops now with that particular GPU and
it's much better you'll also get a much faster CPU so you won't have the
bottleneck neck and limitations that the cipolla like in 34 is giving us with
this particular model here thanks a lot for watching this review and I do hope
to catch you back in the channel soon with more new and interesting videos
coming up bye for now.
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