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Dell G7 17" 144hz Gaming Laptop, i7-10750H, 16GB, 512GB SSD, RTX 2070 MaxP - $1799 Delivered @ Dell eBay

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Dell G7 17" 144hz Gaming Laptop, i7-10750H, 16GB, 512GB SSD, RTX 2070 MaxP - $1799 Delivered @ Dell eBay
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theantipop on 23/02/2021 - 12:01 ebay.com.au (491 clicks)
Last edited 23/02/2021 - 12:25 by 1 other user
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Decent enough laptop for the price. It's rare to find a 17" 144hz, 6 core gaming laptop with rtx 2070 (or better) for sub $2k. So not a bad deal. It's in stock and ready to ship too. The RTX 2070 in this laptop is approximately the same performance as the RTX 3060 arriving in laptops.

17-inch gaming laptop with thin, sleek design, 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, discrete graphics, Game Shift technology and 4-zone RGB keyboard.

Processor
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home English
Video Card
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB GDDR6
Memory
16GB DDR4-2933MHz, 2x8G
Hard Drive
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
Display
17.3 inch FHD (1920 x 1080) 300 nits 144Hz 9ms 72% color gamut with Eyesafe® technology
Warranty
1yr Ltd Hardware Warranty InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
Keyboard
US International 4 Zone RGB Backlit Keyboard
Wireless
Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.1
Colour
Mineral Black

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  • morediscount on 23/02/2021 - 12:03

    where's the guy who asks about the screen nits ?

  • PowerPC on 23/02/2021 - 12:06
    +9

    From my experience having this laptop for a very short period of time I would avoid it.

    The temps are out of control even with a re-paste and doing script tweaks to the bios.

    Save yourself the headache and get something else.

    • Qjuf on 23/02/2021 - 12:35

      I don't get why people complain about temps
      Yes it is a perfomance video card installed, yes it will produce heat.
      But it is not a specialized laptop like alienware or similar.
      CPU 90C and GPU 86C on max settings in COD for example.
      Cyberpunk 2077 a bit less with all RTX on.
      Yes it is noisy, but I use headphones.

      If it delivers perfomance with a bit of heat I do not mind. Why I should worry about 10C difference playing games?
      1000$ difference compare to specialised gaming laptops, no thanks.
      Plus it is real 17 inch display. All throttle problems were fixed with new bios.

      I can only recommend.

      • PowerPC on 23/02/2021 - 12:39
        +6

        Because it thermal throttles hard causing the clocks to dip down consistently..

        Much better off spending similar money for a new 3060 system, even with one that has a lower TDP.

        • Qjuf on 23/02/2021 - 13:40

          I own this G7 and never have those dips you were experienced. New bios fixes those issues. Probably you had one of the first revisions.
          Good luck to find similar spec and perfomance laptop. Especially with tricky 30xx series GPU marking.

      • muwu on 23/02/2021 - 13:27

        My MSI i7/2060 lappy (conventional form-factor) throttles the CPU hard in any game of reasonable demands. I'll consistently have CPU 90s temps (GPU is better at 70s) on a 120Hz 1080p display playing at High settings, manually setting my fans to max and placed on a desk. I usually set a limit of 60Hz (and tried lower), and even sometimes concede the settings to Medium, as well as trying a laptop stand with a fan, but it only makes marginal differences to CPU temps.

        The only thing that brings CPU temps down to <60-70 is taking it off the AC adapter, which I presume triggers it's settings to greatly reduce clock speeds. A demanding modern game will trudge down to 20-40fps with stuttering.

        Should I be looking at ways of manually setting lower clock speeds to try to cool that CPU? Can that be done with Afterburner, or through BIOS?

        • [Deactivated] on 23/02/2021 - 17:57

          Disable turbo boost in regedit, when playing fortnite on Acer nitro would get about 60-70c after disabling it sitting on about 40c with fans just under 4000rpm.

    • lomie on 23/02/2021 - 12:49

      How long ago was that?

      • PowerPC on 23/02/2021 - 13:04
        +1

        2 months ago.

        Just buy something at a similar price that is a better product overall out of the box.

        • mella060 on 28/02/2021 - 22:28

          Hi there, can you give me some examples? I'm pretty keen to get the G7 but now im not so sure.

    • assarabbiya on 23/02/2021 - 12:58

      so still an issue after the numerous firmware upgrades huh.. I was hoping the thermal issue would've been fixed by now

      • Neggy-Z on 23/02/2021 - 14:19
        +3

        It will always be an issue due to the poor cooling design, there's only 2 heatpipes that h share cooling for both the cpu and gpu connected to 2 small heatsinks, there is a 3rd heatpipe/heatsink for vrms, this isn't enough for the hardware power that comes in this laptop especially when you have a 6c12t intel cpu that tries boosting up to 5ghz at times with desktop levels of vcore, I've seen mine go over 1.3v.
        Repasting was useless even with thermal grizzlys kryonaut extreme.
        Disabling turbo boost helped a little but now you're stuck with the cpu running at 2.6ghz

        • assarabbiya on 23/02/2021 - 14:29

          makes sense, you could only do so much with soft/firmware undervolt/clocking when the hardware is limited..
          I wonder if the 'make gaming laptop thin' craze has gone too far - personally I've been totally happy with my 17" Alienware which is as thick as an engineering text book :D

        • clokeyyy on 27/02/2021 - 15:06

          I had this exact same laptop, undervolting made little difference, disabling turbo boost was the only way to keep it from constantly hitting 95c on CPU, i was also dealing with the RTX2070's core clock dropping to 300mhz within five minutes of playing any game which drove me up the wall, i ended up returning my unit and being refunded

          • mella060 on 28/02/2021 - 22:32

            @clokeyyy: What did you get instead? Should I just spend a bit more and get the Alienware version?

            https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/dell-laptops/alienware-m17-r…

            • clokeyyy on 13/03/2021 - 14:29

              @mella060: I purchased a MSI GS66 Stealth, a big mistake mind you, its plagued with a weak build quality and a painfully obvious creaking sound coming from the hinges when you open the lid, I'm currently returning that turd of a laptop at the moment haha

              • mella060 on 13/03/2021 - 23:12

                @clokeyyy: What do you plan on replacing it with? I'm thinking of getting an Asus rog strix g17 or a gigabyte aorus 7 17inch. Both look pretty good. What are the good brands when it comes to gaming laptops?

    • 70c on 24/02/2021 - 02:14

      For 17" gaming laptop, Dell G7 would still be a better value compared to other laptops. As I own it, I can say that the temps are now fixed with the recent bios update barely reaching 90°C (In this regard I believe Gigabite is no exception). The 115w 2070 Gpu needs to be both undervolted and overclocked to reach a peak performance(can reach stock mobile 2070S) and ideal temps. I still disable turbo for gaming as for a 6core cpu I can only see 0-5fps difference when turbo enabled, so much cooler temps when turbo disabled while gaming.
      Here is a sample of my G7 gameplay and temps in Gears 5 with turbo disabled
      https://youtu.be/yYAGqVtP1Uc
      Also the battery life(97wh), display, build quality are great.

  • magic8ballgag on 23/02/2021 - 12:19
    +1

    Apart from being ~20% off, why is this good OP?

    • theantipop on 23/02/2021 - 12:23

      Rare to find a 17" 144hz, 6 core gaming laptop with a rtx 2070+ for sub $2k. Usually they're the 15" models.

  • congo on 23/02/2021 - 12:23
    +2

    RTX3060 here is better deal?
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/605757

    • theantipop on 23/02/2021 - 12:26

      Yeah that's a good deal, but only 15" screen. As soon as that Gigabyte jumps to 17" price skyrockets to over $2k. 3060 = 2070 GPU and this CPU is the i7, not i5. So comparable.

      • congo on 23/02/2021 - 12:53

        So you are saying that the 90W RTX 3060 is about the same as this RTX 2070 Max P?
        If so, then this Dell is a better buy since it is 17" and i7 ?

      • assarabbiya on 23/02/2021 - 12:57

        I agree, not many choices with 17" gaming laptops

    • 70c on 24/02/2021 - 02:11

      For 17" gaming laptop, Dell G7 would still be a better value compared to other laptops. As I own it, I can say that the temps are now fixed with the recent bios update barely reaching 90°C (In this regard I believe Gigabite is no exception). The 115w 2070 Gpu needs to be both undervolted and overclocked to reach a peak performance(can reach stock mobile 2070S) and ideal temps. I still disable turbo for gaming as for a 6core cpu I can only see 0-5fps difference when turbo enabled, so much cooler temps when turbo disabled while gaming.
      Here is a sample of my G7 gameplay and temps in Gears 5 with turbo disabled
      https://youtu.be/yYAGqVtP1Uc
      Also the battery life(97wh), display, build quality are great.

  • denischto on 23/02/2021 - 14:04

    Seems to be Max Q and not Max P despite Ebay listing saying so: https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/help-me-choose/cp/hmc-g-seri…
    Also needs new BIOS, throttlestop and undervolting for the laptop to be within reasonable temps: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/576416

    If this is indeed the Max P then temperature would be even higher.

    • 70c on 24/02/2021 - 02:11

      Its max P

  • scottb721 on 23/02/2021 - 14:43

    Man, it's almost impossible to pick a laptop that seems a 'good' buy 😩

  • congo on 23/02/2021 - 17:02

    I still think this is a better buy
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/605757

  • [Deactivated] on 26/02/2021 - 16:24

    Should i go for gigabyte g7 or dell g7, i dont play games but i need gpu for heavy data processing?

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