Is a $300 Workstation From 2013 a Good Choice for Cheap PC Gaming?

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024

Комментарии • 108

  • @megasoid
    @megasoid Год назад +15

    I have two M4800s, both run like bats out of hell. Who cares how big they are? Build quality is great and you can remove and replace parts when needed. Best money I ever spent has always been on old equipment.

  • @Cyndaqueer
    @Cyndaqueer Год назад +4

    My old job gave me a bunch of these machines since they were going through a refresh. Best day ever, loaded up like 10 of them into my trunk juste before covid started. Would hand them out like candy to friends and family that needed them.

  • @woohoo2491
    @woohoo2491 Год назад +6

    Been running this laptop for years. Great machine, and it's damn near indestructible. If I may offer some of my own 2 cents for those of you looking to get one:
    --Don't go above the 47W processors, stick with the 4910MQ and below to get the most performance. I have a 4930MX I bought for it just for the meme factor, and under a consistent load, it can barely even reach base clocks let alone boost clocks without thermal throttling. Trust me, you won't be overclocking this thing unless your room's ambient temperature is sub-freezing.
    --DDR3 1866MHz is not really worth it. You'd be better off sticking with 1600MHz, but going for a full 32GB.
    --You can use the Quadro M2200 MXM Type A card in it (which I think is from a 7th gen Precision?) but the GPU die will be a little bit wider than the heatsink. It will still be fine as-is, but what I did was put some very thin 1mm thick thermal pad slices (1.5mm will be fine too) on the ends of the GPU heatsink to make it contact the small slices of GPU die that hang over the edge. Then, after thermal paste on the copper part and reassembling the machine, it seems to work fine. The Quadro M2200's horsepower in benchmarks is approximately equivalent to a GTX 1050 Max Q.
    --Related to the point above, even if you're using a Quadro GPU, always get the nVidia Game Ready Drivers if you want to game on this machine. Quadro drivers seem to auto-throttle your card at around 50-55 Celsius, whereas with the Game Ready Drivers I've seen this thing go 75C+ (which also MASSIVELY boosted game performance). To install Game Ready drivers, run the driver setup and let the program extract its files. Then, before the installer closes, copy the C:\NVIDIA\ folder to another directory, and cancel the NVIDIA installer. You do this so the temp driver files aren't deleted upon installation failure. After that go into Device Manager and manually install the GPU driver via INF, using that copied-directory you made earlier. It should be in Display.Driver, you can use the first INF in that directory.

    • @Graphomid
      @Graphomid 7 месяцев назад

      Does the keyboard had a backlight?

  • @northof-62
    @northof-62 2 месяца назад

    2024 - ordered one early this week for about 200 USD equiv.
    I used an older M6400 17" at work some years ago and was impressed.
    Only now I found a cheap Precision for myself.
    (I also have a heavy 17" Inspiron from 2008 that still works well)
    Some say Dell's laptops are junk these days. IDK, but the Precision line must be
    up there with ThinkPads IMO.

  • @blainegoodwin6365
    @blainegoodwin6365 4 года назад +3

    Have this laptop and can run a modded Minecraft pack with 270 loaded mods as 60fps on normal settings. Received this as a high school graduation gift over four years ago and still performs like it did on day one. Absolutely love it!

    • @inf0bites
      @inf0bites 3 года назад

      will it run Battlefield 1 or other games like that?

    • @blainegoodwin6365
      @blainegoodwin6365 3 года назад +1

      @@inf0bites never tried an fps game on it. Should be fine tho. Found out the other day it can run 150 frames consistently on said modded Minecraft on some high level settings

    • @SakugaAsu
      @SakugaAsu 2 года назад

      Can you upgrade the gpus on these laptops?

    • @blainegoodwin6365
      @blainegoodwin6365 2 года назад

      @@SakugaAsu not sure. I'd imagine you can

  • @verfed
    @verfed 4 года назад +7

    I'm waiting for mine to arrive from Ebay. I plan on upgrading to an SSD & the memory to 32. Maybe in the future the CPU and/or GPU.

    • @person7428
      @person7428 4 года назад +5

      SSD upgrade is a great idea and you can find msata ssd's (Msata was the predecessor to m.2 and ran at sata 3 speeds) for good prices online due to the fact that msata is an old standard now. CPU upgrade is worth it an easy enough but GPU upgrades on these machines can be expensive if you want to replace the Firepro or Quadro (depending on whether it's AMD or Nvidia) with something like a Geforce card. Could still be worth it though depending on how much you plan to use the machine.

    • @jensharald4133
      @jensharald4133 3 года назад

      @TechNorms Those are MXM Type B Cards, but M4800 has only a Type A Socket -> Will not fit

  • @OrganicFoxes
    @OrganicFoxes 2 года назад +2

    I have the same laptop but with a quadro m1000, the 1080 display can actually overlock to 80hz, felt amazing in minecraft and csgo.

    • @leibniz4455
      @leibniz4455 2 года назад

      Do you get those times when you think you shot someone,but it doesn't though?
      That is a problem with low Refresh rates

  • @techavisfr
    @techavisfr 4 года назад +2

    I'll soon sell mine on ebay: i7, 16Gb ram 1888mhz, ssd 500gb (but i'll replace it with a HDD 320gb or 500gb probably and AMD FirePro W4170M (FireGL V). Thats still an excellent laptop even for 3d designing.

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  4 года назад

      Mobile workstations are a great value if you're looking for a used laptop. They tend to be overlooked due to their weight and poor battery life, which is understandable. They are good machines regardless.

  • @JamieTheEnby
    @JamieTheEnby 2 года назад +2

    I picked up a 7520 for about 350 after taxes and shipping but it was sold as non working. I took the risk and I found out it just took about a min of holding the power button to get it to post. It also turns out it already had 16gb of ram and the i7 6820 and quadro m1200.

    • @saadomar1101
      @saadomar1101 2 года назад

      beautiful,

    • @JamieTheEnby
      @JamieTheEnby 2 года назад +1

      @@saadomar1101 I also was able to Swap in a MXM 1050ti and mod the drivers to make that work as well.

    • @saadomar1101
      @saadomar1101 2 года назад

      @@JamieTheEnby that's some cool upgrade as well for a solid machine like that one.

  • @dragunovbushcraft152
    @dragunovbushcraft152 4 года назад +3

    You need to keep perspective in mind. This is not a 1050Ti. I have a ThinkPad W540/i7-4900mq/32gb/ram, and K2100m video. For my gaming needs, it runs most things like Skyrim:The Elder scrolls, FFXIII-2, The Long Dark, Crysis, on high settings acceptably well, but butter smooth at 900p, with rest of game settings on high. Games like Mass Effect 3, The Sims 4, run smoothly on all high settings at 1080p. Mass Effect 3 actually runs JUST as well, on my Quadro, as it does on my GT940.
    However, No Mans Sky, runs like crap. That's not a K2100m fault, it's the Quadro drivers.
    In addition, OLDER AAA titles, like The Sims 2, run far better on the K2100m, than it does on just about anything else. This has a lot to do with using Win7Pro. Win10 is a very unfriendly environment for running older games, including, The Sims 2. Also, SOME games are optimized to run on the Quadro, as well as GeForce. This is the case with Mass Effect 3, and The Sims 2/3.
    If you want a BUDGET, high end gamer for more modern AAA titles, I recommend a USED, MSI, Acer Nitro 5, or otherwise.
    I bought my W540 for rendering graphics, and AutoCaD, and was ALSO impressed with it's gaming ability.
    The only TRUE bottleneck in your system, is the spin drive. An SSD/no swapfile, would improve your gaming performance a bit.
    For what you paid, is it worth buying a budget workstation just for gaming? Well, that depends on what your expectations are for gaming. For some, Yes. For others? No. Personally, I'm fine with my W540, as gaming wasn't the first consideration when choosing it.

    • @dragunovbushcraft152
      @dragunovbushcraft152 4 года назад

      @Yahya Be No, I'm not in to those kind of games. I like "The Long Dark", The Sims 2, CoD, and Mass Effect series.

    • @dragunovbushcraft152
      @dragunovbushcraft152 4 года назад

      @Mr Burns It should run it fine, if the W540, has the K2100m graphics.

  • @Graphomid
    @Graphomid 7 месяцев назад +1

    Does the keyboard has a backlight?

  • @nasser-eddineelsory1596
    @nasser-eddineelsory1596 4 года назад +2

    thanks brooo

  • @altonkilbourn1595
    @altonkilbourn1595 Год назад +1

    Iam about upgrade my dell precision m4700 to a 15.6 4k display and a nvidia gtx 980m 4gb gpu the 4k display is from a dell precision m4800 it fits the m4700 perfectly i just ordered the nvidia gtx 980m gpu off ebay

  • @peezesneezeandgrilledcheeze
    @peezesneezeandgrilledcheeze 2 года назад

    Pretty cool video, i bought a m4600 for 100 bucks off some crackhead and got this gpu on ebay for 50 bucks and I used it for about half a year and it worked fine.

  • @metalbearuk
    @metalbearuk 2 года назад

    I've just bought an M6800 with i7-4810, NVIDIA Quadro K3100M, Intel HD4600, 16gb Ram, and 480gb SSD, and it won't play a 3D game at all smoothly. Downloaded a 3D Mark demo, and it just stutters. Should it play OK on this system ?

  • @TheLordSpidi
    @TheLordSpidi 4 года назад +8

    Ive got the exact same laptop and my minecraft runs on highest with stable 60 fps, csgo also on highest and ive never had lower than 100 fps

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  4 года назад +1

      Yeah in retrospect I’m not sure why some of the games where performing as poorly as they where. I did some recording without any recording software on before and it performed almost the same. Where you using Minecraft Bedrock edition?

    • @TheLordSpidi
      @TheLordSpidi 4 года назад +1

      CGS Tech i use java :)

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  4 года назад

      That’s odd, I do too. Perhaps there was something up with the drivers I was using when I did this review.

    • @WendysFrosty
      @WendysFrosty 3 года назад

      no i

    • @wertiaaudit5746
      @wertiaaudit5746 2 года назад

      OS?

  • @fewdehcatyt7803
    @fewdehcatyt7803 4 года назад +1

    why i cant bearly hear you

  • @vahprod
    @vahprod 4 года назад +8

    Hey! Is it good enough to video editing and graphic design?

    • @Adnanofficialchannel-kk
      @Adnanofficialchannel-kk 4 года назад +2

      Yes it is a good laptop. For high end gaming and videos editing

    • @SoloHaxks
      @SoloHaxks 3 года назад

      Yea, it can even do 3d modeling

    • @vahprod
      @vahprod 3 года назад

      Thank you, I’ve bought a used Omen 2016 from Hp.. pretty good thing!

    • @ironwolfgamingyt
      @ironwolfgamingyt 3 года назад +1

      I have a Hp 8570w and a Dell m4800 and both are insane for the price

  • @bsprkes2301
    @bsprkes2301 4 года назад +2

    My parents gave me their Dell precision m4600. Is that laptop good for games?

    • @loganparker4184
      @loganparker4184 4 года назад +1

      You are so insanely lucky, that laptop would be brilliant. What specs does it have? Also consider heading over to r/lowendgaming on reddit to see what types of games you can run. Not calling your system lowend but they are by far the friendliest and most helpful subreddit.

    • @bsprkes2301
      @bsprkes2301 4 года назад

      @@loganparker4184 do you know if I could stream on my computer? I don’t know the specs. All Ik it’s a dell precision m4600

    • @TurboJuicee
      @TurboJuicee 4 года назад +1

      @@bsprkes2301 It runs pretty good with gaming. not the best ofc, but good enough. I got one aswell(few upgrades) my uncle upgraded it. I got it from him as a gift. mine has, 8gb ram, 64bit system, 256 SSD, Windows 10, because you really need it . i7-2720QM 2.2GHz (x2)

    • @TurboJuicee
      @TurboJuicee 4 года назад

      @@bsprkes2301 so yea, you are lucky aswell. you got a low price budget gaming laptop. My friend said it can run Gta V

    • @bsprkes2301
      @bsprkes2301 4 года назад

      @@TurboJuicee I tried everything and my stream lags really bad. My dad gave me his dell inspirion 15 5000 and it works great.

  • @armstrongcasey4693
    @armstrongcasey4693 3 года назад +1

    Core i7-2820QM (2.30)ghz
    8gb Ram
    Nvidia Quadro 2000m
    Any high end graphics card available or will be available?

    • @MrKillswitch88
      @MrKillswitch88 3 года назад +1

      Buy a Firepro m5100 (tad pricey for what it does) and buy the amd heatsink for this model as there are two with the other being for nvidia due some physical differences. The m4600 really doesn't have much in the way of options along with the m6600. You are better off buying a better model unless the price happens to be right for the m4600. The best deal for this era is the m6700 and m6800 that typically sell for more however you get so much more in return be it a full sized mxm slot for gpu upgrades coupled with more drive bays on top of having better cooling. Also the M6700 and some M6800s with the right display panel installed allow for much more modern gpu upgrades though often with some effort to mod the drivers as well sometimes the vbios. The M6700 is kinda the best of all of them that it allows for upgrades that are more difficult on the m6800 so long that one has an edp panel installed then it is golden.

    • @armstrongcasey4693
      @armstrongcasey4693 3 года назад

      @@MrKillswitch88 thank you very much.

  • @ShahzaibDamnCruze
    @ShahzaibDamnCruze 3 года назад

    Good

  • @Wigfrid001
    @Wigfrid001 10 месяцев назад

    This laptop is nice but super inconsistent for me it sometimes run great and other times it’s terrible might be because of mines battery health being 19% of its original life. Also ran terrible whenever it wasn’t plugged in even at a higher battery health just wish it could run guilty gear 😞

  • @altonkilbourn1595
    @altonkilbourn1595 Год назад +1

    I have a dell precision m4700 it came with a 15.6 1080p display the cpu is an intel core i7 extreme edition 3940XM cpu the ram 32gb of ddr3 ram the hard drive is an 2tb ssd also has 256gb msata drive a dvdrw drive i put windows 11pro on it by following a RUclips video my question is can i upgrade the unit to a blu-ray drive and can i play games on this workstation notebook i have xbox game pass for pc for got the gpu is a NVIDIA Quadro K2000M with 2gb of on board ram and Microsoft HD 4000 graphics thanks i traded my hp 2000 windows 8.1 notebook for it i think it was a good deal from a family member who daughter needed a lighter notebook for school

  • @jameswyma9849
    @jameswyma9849 4 года назад +1

    you really screwed up those minecraft settings

    • @person7428
      @person7428 4 года назад

      (Video creator on my other account) Looking back, yes I did.

  • @scurvofpcp
    @scurvofpcp 5 лет назад +1

    I have one of these, and your review is about the same experience I have with mine as well (although mine had Nvidia Quadro K2100m for a gpu) one quirk I've noticed with mine is that often I need to manually pick the gpu I'm using when I play a game, and the on-board integrated intel hd graphics GPU on this is fairly decent for what it is and will play some games kinda alright, although it will instantly turn the fans onto max when you do so.

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  4 года назад +2

      scurvofpcp Yeah I had the GPU issue when I played games on this as well. I believe it was due to the fact the graphics card is a workstation card and not a gaming card.

    • @scurvofpcp
      @scurvofpcp 4 года назад +2

      @@ColinSlater33 All said and done I can't complain about the machine. It is nice enough to do what I need to do while I'm traveling, decently sturdy and meh, if it breaks or gets stolen I'm out all of 400. I drive for a few disabled relations so I end up killing laptops on an almost yearly basis.

    • @scurvofpcp
      @scurvofpcp 4 года назад +1

      I picked up a cheapy docking port for it, and I've found that that little bit of elevation seems to add enough cooling bump the fps a little for gaming. Still though not a bad machine all things considered. That and mine recently survived a car incident, no one was hurt badly. But seriously these things are sturdy as hell.

    • @scurvofpcp
      @scurvofpcp 2 года назад

      @L14 I normally do it with the right click and pick the GPU to do it with via that. A few older games do occasionally play better on the intel graphics,

  • @enestarakci
    @enestarakci 3 года назад

    l want to buy like this laptop, l found Quadro 1000M version, worth to buy ? can you share your opinion ? l play moba game and use AutoCAD

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  3 года назад +1

      The 1000m is the weakest gpu the m4800 came with, however that being said it should still be good enough for moba games and CAD (as long as it's not too intensive).

    • @enestarakci
      @enestarakci 3 года назад

      @@ColinSlater33 Thanks for your reply

  • @japzone
    @japzone 5 лет назад +1

    Are you sure the CPU wasn't the bottleneck in those games giving you issues? Games like Minecraft are graphically light, but can be taxing on the CPU due to all the stuff they're simulating. Would've been interesting to see hardware usage statistics using Afterburner/RivaTuner overlay.

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  5 лет назад

      I had originally thought so while writing, but I have other computers with worse CPU's and better GPU's, but I didn't have the problem.

    • @AmuckPVP
      @AmuckPVP 5 лет назад

      @@ColinSlater33 Is this better than the $300 AMD Ryzen 3 3200U laptops?

    • @person7428
      @person7428 4 года назад +1

      @@AmuckPVP Much better, but you have to sacrifice battery life and weight often times.

  • @jensharald4133
    @jensharald4133 3 года назад

    That notebook has a rubber cover besides the trackpad, I needed to clean mine with acetone because it really feels nasty. However... Cheap long-lastig (6h+ on small loads) notebook with much compute power (4x 3,2GHz with turbo boost - my Dektop in 2011 had a i5-2500k, stock 3,7GHz, 4,6GHz OC) and some decent card if you are into solid works. Unfortunately, we can't really replace the MXM A Card with something better, due to 50W TPD. And that litte bastard is really heavy (but can have 4K Panel).
    I recommend not to buy - I would look for an old workstation with MXM Type B card, as it is possible to upgrade to nvidia 980 or 1080

    • @colinslater659
      @colinslater659 2 года назад

      yeah that'd be the m6800. They had the type B cards.

  • @enghishamel-alfy6042
    @enghishamel-alfy6042 4 года назад +1

    Dell m4800
    Core i7 4910MQ
    Ram 16
    Nividia k2100
    Or fire pro m5100
    ،can run pubg on high seting ?
    And it or hp zbook g2

    • @ftv1974
      @ftv1974 4 года назад

      it wont at high since ur gpu i fairly weak

    • @ftv1974
      @ftv1974 4 года назад

      but try pubg lite its the same game but as a lightweight port, even old hardware should get you over 100 fps easily

    • @haziqsofian
      @haziqsofian 4 года назад

      Fire pro m5100 is 50 percent faster than k2100

  • @BullTheWorst
    @BullTheWorst 3 года назад

    I have a i7 4900mq gt 740m 16 gb of ram 2 tb hdd it can barely run anything i dont know why

  • @Lukacg04
    @Lukacg04 4 года назад

    do the drivers for the m5100 actually help?

  • @Cmdrbzrd
    @Cmdrbzrd 3 года назад

    The M67/800 are better choices, and can do even better when fully upgraded.

    • @colinslater659
      @colinslater659 2 года назад +1

      That's for sure, but they are often more expensive so its a tradeoff people would need to consider.

    • @applepoop10
      @applepoop10 2 года назад +1

      The best cards to install in these machines is the NVIDIA Quattro M2200 with 4 GB GDDR5.

    • @Cmdrbzrd
      @Cmdrbzrd 2 года назад

      @@applepoop10 Who told you that? The M67/800 can use RTX A5000 cards(With custom heatsinks) and the M47/800 can use the Quadro T1000.

  • @gagamin2
    @gagamin2 4 года назад

    Where did you buy in 300$?? I can find over 500.....

    • @ColinSlater33
      @ColinSlater33  4 года назад +1

      Prices for older machines like the m4800 rapidly fluctuate based on how many are available on sites like eBay. I remember getting a good deal on this particular machine and prices where around the $350-$400 range when I was shopping around for one. If you’re looking to buy an m4800 or a machine like it then I would just wait until the prices drop.

    • @gagamin2
      @gagamin2 4 года назад +1

      @@ColinSlater33 thanks for replying!

  • @omadbekjaloldinov4608
    @omadbekjaloldinov4608 3 года назад +2

    Hi,
    Is it good for programming?

  • @WendysFrosty
    @WendysFrosty 3 года назад

    this is cap i have the same pc and i can barely run roblox

  • @jameswyma9849
    @jameswyma9849 4 года назад

    you can cram 32 gb of ram in that thing and upgrade the gpu

    • @epicskyfly1028
      @epicskyfly1028 3 года назад

      16 is the max

    • @spirolmusicstudios2309
      @spirolmusicstudios2309 3 года назад +2

      @@epicskyfly1028 I've got 32gb in mine atm. ordered laptop off ebay. 500gb ssd and firepro m5100. wish I could upgrade graphics, but looks like a pain from any forum I read...I've played gta5 without overclocking on medium, and it seemed fine to me. m4800,

    • @applepoop10
      @applepoop10 2 года назад +1

      @@epicskyfly1028 It has 4 memory slots that can support 8 GB ram cards each.

    • @altonkilbourn1595
      @altonkilbourn1595 Год назад

      @@spirolmusicstudios2309 if you can't do it take it to computer repair shop remember you two memory slots under the keyboard and the other two slots are on the bottom of the notebook

    • @blakedmc1989RaveHD
      @blakedmc1989RaveHD Год назад

      @@epicskyfly1028 32gb is tha max on these workstation laptops

  • @worldnews9917
    @worldnews9917 4 года назад

    Is it the best or not somone tell me please

    • @markunit72
      @markunit72 4 года назад +1

      you can find a work station with a gtx card for about $300-400. i just picked up a cheap 8570w for like $130, should be ok for csgo.

  • @WendysFrosty
    @WendysFrosty 3 года назад

    how

  • @icesspices6836
    @icesspices6836 5 лет назад +2

    From reddit

  • @marcopol0117
    @marcopol0117 5 лет назад +1

    Why is Minecraft running so terible?

  • @ahri3887
    @ahri3887 5 лет назад

    Reddit gang

  • @httle2012
    @httle2012 2 года назад

    Pretty good performance