This Dell XPS Gaming Laptop Cost $1500 in 2010, But How Does It Perform Today?
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Years ago this Dell XPS L701X would have cost it's original owner way over $1000. A decade later and it's a little beaten up, but it is still working flawlessly. So does it still offer a decent user experience and how well are the CPU and GPU holding up?
Let's find out!
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You had me floored for a second when you showed cyberpunk 2077 LOL
haha yeah no chance
Cyberpunk can run on a gt710, just at 1 FPS
@@Tonyx.yt. my integrated intel 4000 hd graphics will explode the second I launch CP 2077
@@notcheems2783 im too lazy to download a cracked version and not dumb enought to buy current price for cyberpunk 2077
@@Tonyx.yt. not really, zwormz gaming tested the gt710 the ddr3 version without overclock and it ran 720p 50% at 20 fps
0:02 my mom when introducing me to her friends
Nice
She make you chunk and she call you chunky..
@@Chlrintruc I made myself chunky lol
Ah! Your mom's friends must really like you since you're a Dell XPS from late 2010.
Loool
This XPS: Kill me.
Steve: *Later.*
old hardware: you wont let me live you wont let me die
Just now realised that's what his name is
Steve:You... Will persist
Omg, his name is Steve?
AND he DONT BENCHMARK MINECRAFT?
Where was I? Ah,there we go.
"In GeForce Now" That made me laugh I can't lie 🤣🤣
Hahaha, it caught me off. xd
I thought wtf cybrpnk on this old laptop?
Aye he almost had me in the 1st. Half
I thought at first that its the laptops Performance
4:05 they had us on the first half not gonna lie.
1000 of my currency - no problem. That amounts to something like 10$
That will be 0.75$ in my country
I'd buy it
The Icelandic currency isn't worth much more than that? I thought the thermal vents on Iceland would be a gold mine for export to make the economy to go through the roof.
@@TheRealFobican export to where? Vast ocean separating it from anything other than Greenland
Are you japanese?
a thousand india rupees? HA
Before : $1,500 for a complete laptop!
In 2020 : $1,500 for a single GPU!
i mean u can get a fine laptop for 1500
1995: $3000 for a brick to play solitaire
They’re literally getting cheaper performance every year
@@aidenlebel8157 If you mean that good performance just gets cheaper every year than you are definitely right. However typical tasks start to need better performance too. I mean people were taken to the moon with what like 16 KBs of RAM? My chrome tabs are constantly over a full gigabyte, that is literally thousands of times larger lol. So you have a point but it kinda cancels out in the end
@@azrubs593 nothing is cancelling out.. plain and simply price per performance is dropping every year. You can get a fully capable laptop for less than 200$ now ( chromebooks ) I don’t see in what world that’s not improvement. Just because they’re able to make more powerful overdone versions of components, doesn’t mean it’s less value. These companies have reached a point where they can produce products to appeal to a more narrow audience. Technology has become infinitely more accessible over the years. The first IBM computers were like 10k $ adjustable for inflation and such. 200$ vs 10,000$ ?
400k before the end of 2020! let's do it!
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I remember i got one of these to play fallout 1
Nice todd
Liar.
@@MisterRorschach90 r/woosh
it just works
fallout new vegas was out in 2010
4:37 Laptop's mousepad is locking up while using the keyboard to prevent aaccidental mouse movement while typing. It ıs a feature not a malfunction.
Can be fixed by going into the touch pad settings and changing the sliders. I beleive touch sensativity is one and the other is something to do with accidentally touching the touch pad while typing. Still have my L501x and it works well in older games. Upgraded the cpu, ram and hdd to an ssd. Swapped the disc drive out for a hdd. Honestly a really solid laptop better than some modern ones u could buy.
@@Trawets9215 how do you upgrade the CPU of a laptop?
That laptop had a socket g1 PGA cpu so it's just a case of taking the laptop apart and sliding the new cpu in. I beleive most modern laptop cpus are BGA which is soldered directly to the motherboard. I put a i7 640m in mine which is dual core but I believe the chipset might also be compatible with the quad core first gen mobile i7's and perhaps even the extreme quad cores.
I noticed the same issue on my life book T731. Yep, the culprit was the driver. Has to change the setting.
Not been here for awhile - and my oh my, I am impressed as always but even more so, you vids have become very very polished, excellent - we do miss your mug (face) :-) well done Sir you deserve all the subs you have
You really got me with cyberpunk I was rethinking my specs 😂 made my day though ❤
RandomGaminginHD has kept me going all through this pandemic
Oh man takes me back to high school. One of my friends got one of things and would bring it to school. He was king whenever it was with him
I had got the L702x right when it came out before I went to military basic training. She had the 1080p 3D screen, i7 2630qm, 16gb RAM, 555m GPU, and the bigger battery. I loved that machine Went with me all over the US and got me through my down time in the military. My parents still use it as their main PC today. This was a time Dell made some really beefy and well designed laptops. Only thing that was ever replaced was the HDD to a SSD. Still runs daily word, excel, web browsing quite well. Just seeing this brings back memories of Crysis 2, Metro 2033, Far cry primal, and Halo 1 and 2 for PC.
Just gonna say this, unless you want to collect or use it as an emulation system for some sort, you can go for it, but for modern day use like video editing, today's games isn't worth it, but web browsing can be fine enough. (obviously)
These older machines are usually fine provided there is an mxm slot that isn't bios locked (hates on lenovo for doing that) and usually one is good right up to the majority of titles out there provided one doesn't need an RTX.
@@ThreeTreee just tweak a few settings
@@helenHTID I'm not answering the question I'm giving my own opinion and analysis of this laptop with no further reference to any question mentioned
I use a Dell Precision M6300 with an SSD, and it's great! I maxed it out with 8GB of DDR2 RAM, and paired with the Core 2 Duo and FX 1600M, it's really not bad. Gaming can sod off, but video editing in 1080p and 4k is surprisingly usable with ShotCut, so no complaints really. I absolutely love this machine, and windows 10 runs great!
This would probably be too weak for any emulation past PS1, might as well just get a Raspberry Pi which can do the same thing.
When you ran Cyberpunk 2077 fluently you've got us in the first half.
I just love the way you put your efforts to make the game playable by trying different settings on a low end setup. It takes great patience. Appreciate it!
Love your videos Steve!
Hey! Nice of you to actually try this one! Having the L501X, i´ve got to tell you a few things about first gen Intel with nvidia graphics on Dell PC's AND Windows 10.
WIndows 10 is a no go. Yeah, really. Besides, that hard drive isn't the OEM one.
To give some perspective:
- Minimum HDD was 500GB @ 7200RPM 16MB Cache (seagate)
- Performance was really hit by not installing some of the Dell specific drivers and utilities (specially Quick Launch).
I would like to suggest you, to try it on Windows 7 and installing Dell Audio, Dell Quick Launch, Dell Keyboard Shortcuts and what's most important: Clean it and apply new thermal compound. Why? Well... First gen Quad core i7's were extremely hot and believe me, to get into that motherboard, there are around 35 screws, so there's a fair chance no one ever cleaned it.
PS: Enjoy the audio! Still unrivalled ;)
Love this channel ❤️
Love your page bro.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another video" love these words :p
Hello everyone and welcome to another comment.
Those words has a separate fanbase
i could literally listen to you just talk for hours and hours, you give me super mega tingles thank youu
Cringe
@@youtubeaccount7544 dood listen to that tasty voice bae...just feeeeel the tingles..
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Lol this just reminded me of my old m14xr1 trying to overclock the gt555m to play Crysis 2 smoothly. Still like the look of the older laptops, they don't look like if you sneeze your going to break it. Great vid looking forward to more 😊
Cool man! I have one of those from one generation after with a 2nd gen i5 and a 540m. I might do something like this also. Thanks for the video!
I had the 2011 15” inch base model (L502X). It served me quite well during my university years. Was also my with me as I was travelling. I absolutely still love the speaker set up on it though.
This brings me back watching seeing that old Dell. I'll be honest that was my first ever "gaming" machine. I got it as a gift back in 10th grade from someone who bought themselves a new gaming laptop. It had a 1080p display, 8 GB DDR3, GT 555M and the i7-740qm. I was so excited as it was my first ever time I experienced windows 10 and that Roblox actually ran well.
Dam that is still a nice looking machine
yeah really heavy and well made too.
Mine gave up the ghost, impressed yours still works!
Love binging your videos, so cozy 🙂 I wonder if you like Green Ham Gaming, one of my favorites in the pc youtuber realm. You should make some videos on becoming a pc expert :0 I really enjoy computers so it would be really awesome :)
fantastic content
I just found a dell xps desktop with an I7 2600 and 16 GB of 1600mhz ram for 20$ it also has a 1 GB AMD GPU
put a rx 570 in that and you have a decent gaming pc
What a bargain
570? Thanks lol I've been trying to find a gpu for it
@@samsonsanthosh I agree I was shocked
@@rockvocalismhd9592 try getting an rx 580 8gb
Bcs older systems use DDR3
If you run out of vram
It will actually stutter bcs of the slow DDR3 memory
For the mousepad to work in games you have to disable palm rejection. It thinks that the wasd keys are used for typing and disables the trackpad.
4:23 got me laughing for a good minute lol
I used to have 1 of these but I think I purchased mine in 2012 with a GT540M, 16GB RAM and 1080p! It worked amazing over the course of my 4 year ownership. Used it a lot for video editing as well as games like Skyrim and even Crysis 2. Most of all, I loved how loud and good the stock speakers on these were.
i liked the l502x. with ram and ssd upgrades, it did a great job and its sound & display were perfect.
had one of those back when I was an university student. I played so many videogames on it that I made a hole in the S key. A fine laptop indeed.
Great video as always, the gods of old hardware will be smiling from above 🙏🏼
Man back in the day that pc was bawler. The one I had in 2010 was a hand me down from my dad. It had a phenom 2 black edition, 6 gb of ram and a Radeon 5850.
was great in 2011 (and a few years later) i had the 5850 Xtreme from Sapphire (shorter PCB and was around 100 bucks in spring 2011) and before that a Ati 4650 and used it until 2015 cause the Fan died and it was not worth to buy a new fan or even a new cooler there iam upgraded to an r9 270.
i got a old dell xps L502X with a 445m and there are massive heat issues nothing runs without ending in blue screen of death i was realy suprised to see this machine runing so well
I had his follow-up (l502x) this made me so nostalgic I spent hours on far cry 3, skyrim and fallout new Vegas.
Sat here wondering when I'm going to get a RandomCarReviewinHD
I recently repaired my XPS 15 L502X ( very similar to this one ) with cheap components from aliexpress. Doubled the ram for 8GB total, replaced the (broken) fan and the (dead) battery, power ribbon cable (damaged by me after unplugging it several times ) and added an original backlit keyboard, plus I replaced the thermal paste on the processor and gfx card (540m) with top of the line artic cooler. It runs surprising well with the latest windows update, and the 1080p screen still looks glorious after all these years. Totally usable. I love retro games and that's what I try to stick with when playing on this laptop, let's say I don't even try anything past 2010ish. Unfortunately even so, some games running on the nvidia card tend to freeze the laptop forcing me to hard reboot. Strange, as like I said, I don't throw anything crazy at it. By underclocking the card with afterburner the problem goes away, but it's a shame. Oh and it's crazy heavy compared to modern laptops, almost 3Kg, gotta think twice before taking it on vacation !
Oh and the mouse pad locks when keys are pressed is a feature, not a bug, to avoid unintended clicks. You can disable this in the Synaptic touchpad settings 😉
Hi Steve love your videos
Could you try undervolting the vega cards and compare it with stock
Also why do you still use a 1080p 75hz monitor ik your a budget tech youtuber
But don't you feel like it's time for a nice personal upgrade to 144hz or 1440p
I am still using my XPS 14 L401X from 2010 till now ❤ i did oc the GPU (2GB GT425M) though to play some more modern games.. i only upgraded my hard drive to SSD and add extra 4GB ram.. i am thinking of eGPU as well i'll be waiting for you to do it!
These Things are always interesting to take a look back, on how much closer Current Laptops are to PC's compared to back then.
I remember this PC, my roommate owned one when I was still in the university. We played Naruto on it a lot. Had great speakers too, JBL speakers I think. His had the Core i7 2620qm I think
That would likely be a L702X, then!
@@aftertheelectrike1847 It was the L502x actually, the 15 inch version.
I have an i7 3630QM and still rocks games, i still love my laptop putting an egpu in it
@@whyers4782 I had a HP Envy with that same CPU, it overheated and throttled like crazy during gaming. It had an Nvidia gt 630m.
@@israelmakinde5546 damn really need to clean that cooler, thats a newer cpu
i had a L702x it was a nice laptop back in the day the jbl speakers rocked
I had this laptop, amazing sound system
Is there an RGINHD Discord and when is the next review my rig.
I have the L502X version, which I still use as a backup laptop. I got it in 2011 for around US$1000 after discounts, with an i7-2630QM, 6 GB DDR3 (later upgraded to 8, then 16), 640 GB HDD (later upgraded to 1 TB, then 2 TB), GT 525M, and the FHD screen upgrade. It was my primary laptop until I finally got an MSI GL63 early this year.
I had this laptop as a child, it was a beast.
do you think you can upgrade it to get significant performance jump? could be very interesting
I had this laptop on i5 version. This laptop packed a beast of a speaker 🔊 👌
3:00 cam you also test with the ADT-Link parts? their not that expensive.
i just love to see old harware in this channel😁
What is the software you are using to get the GPU,Ram,CPU usage,frame rate and frame time?
Honestly I play lots of older games rather then new ones so this labtop would be great for most of my games
do you want one? i have an old one with the same config as in the video :D
@@jovanu4 yes
I had this laptop back then. Great little (chunky) unit.
Damn got this as new for 1500 euro, it was a beast and i used it for years for work and games, what a sound it had
I remember having xps l702x with gt555 and i7 2GHz in 2015 and actually loved it. It had very good sound and it was perfect for movies. Good build quality. I think that this price for movie pc is way to go.
i am sure the CPU is not performing as well as it should. did you replace the thermal paste? did it run at full speed or throttle? i dont believe its about as fast as my 15W i5 4300U from 3 years later
I had this laptop but L502x with Core i3. It was bought as a computer for IT studies. The battery was quite weak as it lasted only 2 hours, but the biggest drawback was its weight. Almost 3 kilos! But he served bravely. When I replaced my hard drive with an SSD it worked really well. JBL speakers were astonishing! Well, it's a reasonably good desktop computer, but portable it feels heavy on your back. :)
This brings me back. My first laptop was an Asus G73jh-RBXX05 (or something near that) It was a best buy special and it was the very best price/performance new high end gaming laptop at the time.
I7 720qm
6GB RAM (bought a 2GB PNY RAM stick for 13 bucks to fill empty slo)
1600x900 resolution (broke after 5 years and replaced with 1920x1080
500GB 7200RPM drive (2 2.5" slots, so I put in a 120GB SSD later)
Lastly, a 1GB AMD HD 5870m. An absolute monster laptop GPU at the time. (GTX 400 series wasn't out yet)
Bought it for $1200 and spent $300 on those upgrades over time. Loved that laptop
I had this laptop for 5 years before I got a desktop. This thing was a tank! I took it to school and during class it started to rain, A LOT. I was parked on the other side of campus and had no umbrella. So I ran across as quickly as I could, trying to keep my backpack from getting wet. When I got to the car I opened my backpack to see my brand new laptop literally had water pouring out of it. I took it apart, dried everything with paper towels, and pointed a fan on the parts for a day. When I put it back together, it booted just fine and I continued to use it for years. The last game I was able to play on it was Fallout 4. It barely ran, but it was enough for me to enjoy the game. I got 5 years out of the laptop and I would do it all over again.
This was my first major upgraded computer (compared to 5 year older laptops running Windows xp) and let me tell ya, this thing was a Hoss. The trackpad was probably the best non-Mac trackpad I’ve ever used, still with dedicated clicking buttons at the bottom (the only way to use a non-force touch trackpads) and The keyboard was easy to type on, abit mushy... but was even backlit! It had usb 3.0, that sata/usb combo port thing. The build quality was really nice, aluminum palm rest. Charging plug was very heavy duty, and the speakers.. oh man. Probably the best mobile sound I’ve ever gotten out of a device at the time. The original hard drive and battery died within two years, and the screen always sucked. But I will always have positive thoughts about it. I still have it! It’s still usable on the web, but video editing (which is what I used on it all the time years ago) is now impossible, it’s still way more enjoyable than a 2020 dell or chromebook :P
I had one of these! Or rather, the 15" L501X. Most reliable piece of mobile tech I ever owned, never gave me a single issue for years. Sold it and that person still uses it to this day I think. Dual core i5 and a GT 420M, played so much Crysis 3 on it.
I have *never* since owned a laptop, tablet or phone as totally problem-free as my XPS was. Wish I could.
Was about to buy one of these in 2011 but opted for an Acer Aspire 7750G instead. It performed about the same and had a 128GB SSD in it for 800€.
Was my daily driver for 3 and a half years. Still works today 👍
I have two XPS L702X which have a fairly similar chassis to this, and they're both cracked in the same spot on the screen as this one.
With a second gen i7, 8GB of memory and a newer SSD it's still a solid laptop for web browsing and day to day use though.
this is still good for general internet browsing.
my brother still has this chunky boy i remember when he bought it i was so jealous :D
i have this exact laptop. i personally ran it with a external gpu dock for about 2 years. worked great but definingly is a hell of a setup to just turn the system on.
I own one with the gtx550m and is one of the best buys I ever did. Rock solid, never let me down. I was in a budget back then, used to the extreme with oc from gaming to mining BTC and for the price I couldn't ask for more ( I paid around 600£).
I still use today everyday as my 2nd pc (battery is dead obviously)
I have one of those I like to keep around as a backup. It's specs are the i5-560M, nvidia gt-435m gpu etc.
I bought it at a pawn shop in 2015 for $50 usd. It's been good to me.
Watching this on my dell xps 15-l502x which I believe I got for around £800 in 2007...14 years on its still going strong, sure its slower than before and I cant really use high intensive programs but basic office and web browsing is great. I believe it was one of the first laptops to introduce USB3.0 and the JBL speakers are amazing on it
Will you review your ps4 if you still have it?
Good video as always but the audio in this one needs to be fixed.
Could you review old generation surface pro's?
can you make a video about amd a10 6800k that have intergrated gpu radeon hd 8670d.....can it run game? and what kind of gpu that compatible with amd a10 6800k
For all those of you who think below 30fps is unplayable, welcome to my childhood, in the 16-bit computer era. where 3D games and 7.5-12.5fps was considered playable. You can look up Amiga games like "Hunter" (The GTA of our time), "Formula One Grand Prix", "Stunt Car Racer" etc. great games! But yeah, terrible frame rates! :D
i used to have that laptop back when it was newer but it always ran hot. had to install a custom bios with undervolt for gpu
I had l502x with a quad-core 2.0 ghz, i7, 1080p, blu-ray, geforce nvidia 540m. The speakers were extraordinary!
please man i want your help.i have gtx 285 and i want to play pubg mobile but every time i enter the game i find white screen and unclear scenes even so i have installed the latest drivers from nvidea so what should i so.please help me,is there any specific stable drivers for it or what?
This is my daily lap warmer... Your cat would love it.
I have an XPS from they year after this (looks the same) and although relegated to occasional use it still works fine and plays Rome total war when the fancy takes me! Has an i7-2630QM (2ghz), GT 540M, originally 6gb RAM now 8gb, and a 1080p screen - oh yeah! Had to replace the fan when it was only a few years old, and then the hdd started failing when it was 4 years old. However that resulted in me upgrading to an ssd which really gave it new life. Upgrading the hdd in this laptop to an ssd is probably the most noticeable and best value upgrade I have ever and will ever make - absolute night and day difference.
Oh yeah and got a new battery when it was a few years old too, but both the old and new battery last for about 5 minutes if you're lucky these days.
Is the “tearing” in the gameplay more about the performance specs of the display panel? Always wondered about games that have “decent” frame rates, but shows tearing nonetheless.
Also , please make the egpu video for this laptop, i beg you!
can u do one on the l502x?
That i7 740qm was a beast of a laptop cpu. As powerful as a Core 2 Quad. I bought a 15.6in Acer with an i5 520m, 4GB DDR3, and a 1GB ATI 5650 as a powerful but not-too-expensive laptop new back in 2010. Well my desktop died shortly after (motherboard and GPU both died) so I I upgraded the little Acer that could by maxing it out to the i7 740qm, 8GB DDR1333, and 2x 120GB Intel SSD in raid0! Used it as my main machine for about 5 years until 2016. I took that laptop to many LAN parties in the 2010-2016 era. My particular laptop has VGA and HDMI with the ability to drive both ports and the laptop screen all at the same time! That machine although not used much now (I have a newer 11 inch Thinkpad that is far smaller to take everywhere) is still quite capable as a backup machine today.
Nice to see your commitment to Dell stuff :P
Anyway, i have 2nd gen i7 2630qm version of it as L702X
Got it with all the best bells and whistles .... for 150€
at the time i bought it - it came with features like:
17.3" Full HD 3d 120Hz screen
6GB ram (2+4)
Blu-ray drive
i7 2630qm
2x500GB sata 2 drives
and finally
3gb GT 555M
I immediately changed 6gb ram into 2x8gb g.skill ddr3 sticks and hard drives i took out and installed single 240gb kingston ssd
What a difference!!!
BTW: Why didn´t you test GTA V? :O
It should be mandatory XD LOL
4:07 he had us in the first half ngl
Still have a XPS L702X Full HD with 2760QM, 16GB and GT 555M. Runs great.
Can you do a review of XPS studio 1640
I would like to see halo Mcc on your tests :^) I think halo reach, 4 and 2 remaster are good for testing
I'd love to see a video on the 960m. Apartment it can run cyberpunk 2077 at 30 fps on the lowest settings at 720p. I think a lot of people are still using those laptops
why is part of the HUD blurred
Around that time, when screens were going 16:9 aspect ratio, it was very rare to find full HD laptops. Apple had a chunky full HD Macbook Pro before their retinas made an appearance, but Sony were one of the first for some years with their sleek 13" carbon fibre Vaio Z2, which I bought fully loaded in 2012... not much change from about 3 grand for i7 2620M with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD (2x256GB in RAID0). GPU was AMD Radeon HD 6650M 1GB RAM in an external Blu Ray enclosure connected by LightPeak, the optical version of Thunderbolt, so yes, an external GPU. As a laptop it was probably the first true lightweight ultrabook style, weighing in at a still competitive 1.17kg. Looks wise, only the thicc screen bezels give the game away.
Before that I ran a maxed out Dell D820 from 2006 with a full HD screen in 16:10 for many years, and no, it wouldn't play full HD video! I held onto it for so long precisely because of the screen resolution and there was nothing to replace it. As a dev, screen resolution helps you get more code, context and information on the screen.
Nowadays for laptops I run a maxed out XPS 13 7390 2 in 1 i7 1065G7 with UHD & 32GB RAM & 1TB SSD, an HP Studio G5 X360 i7-8750H UHD 64GB RAM & 4TB SSD RAID0, or an LG Gram 17 2560x1600 i7 1065G7 with 40GB RAM & 2TB SSD. Much of my work now is infrastructure design and prototyping, so I tend to run many VMs, hence the large RAM & Disk: CPU tends not to be quite the bottleneck it once was in my line of work.
I still have the D820 and the Sony Z2, and keep the Z2 patched up to date on Windows 10. The D820 is little more than a nostalgia piece.
The reson the mousepad locks up is because palm detection is enabled, when you type on the keyboard it will automatically disable the touchpad. Turn the slider way up do it can detect to palm and not just you finger then the issue is gone.
You should add temps and clocks speed to your msi afterbruner settings