- Hey guys, this is Austin.
This is the Walmart Gaming Laptop.
Now you might've seen some of the other videos
going around on some other gaming desktops
which are of dubious value and dubious quality.
But this one, this one actually might not be too bad.
So what makes this special is the price.
When it first went on sale only, what, like a few weeks ago?
It was $1,000, but we picked this one up for $700
and checking the walmart.com website right now
it is available for only 600 bucks.
I mean take a look at these specs:
the i5 is solid, and while the 1050
might not be all that impressive,
at $600, this has a lot going for it.
If it actually stays $600, that is.
So we get that Overpowered,
a little bit of a cliche for the brand,
but this box actually looks kinda cool,
I gotta say, it's not bad.
So first impressions are pretty decent,
it has brushed metal on the front
and the back panel, even though it is plastic,
seems very sturdy, especially considering
how many vents are here.
So while this boots up, let's take a look
at what else is inside the box,
which I assume, for $600, not gonna be a lot.
There's the power adapter, which is here 120w.
Now with a 1050 and Core i5 on board
this is not the most powerful of gaming laptops
but should still be able to play a lot
of games at pretty reasonable settings at 1080p.
So this OP brand has a really bad rap right now,
and at $1,000 this laptop does have
some pretty major issues.
At 600 or 700 bucks, though,
it's a very different story.
So take the processor, for example,
it's a Core i5 8300H, which means it's quad core,
it's 45w, this is a proper gaming CPU, no problem.
The GTX 1050, on the other hand,
isn't quite as powerful, so, realistically,
even though it does have that 144Hz display,
I'll talk about that in a second,
it's not really going to be capable of playing
a lot of games at that very high resolution,
and especially that very high frame rate,
but the thing is, it's still way better
than pretty much anything else you're finding
at this price point.
Looking round the laptop, we actually have
a pretty decent selection of ports.
So a pair of USB 3.0, SD card, a pair of mini display
as well as HDMI, we have USB C, as well as ethernet,
and one more USB 2.0.
A mechanical keyboard on a gaming laptop
is usually reserved for computers
which are much, much more expensive.
Now this is not maybe the greatest keyboard
I've ever used, it does have a little bit
of that tactile feel, but it also isn't quite
as responsive as something like some
of those higher end Razer Switches
but that being said it's totally not bad
and we have a fairly wide range of RGB options.
So, this is the really obnoxious one
but if I switch over to the OP software
(laughs) I mean, they've definitely got some
interesting options.
Now, I don't personally care too much as long I have
a backlit keyboard I'm fine,
but the keyboard situation here is really
on par with much more expensive laptops,
another point for the Walmart OP Gaming Laptop.
Of course, you can't build a laptop
for way cheaper without some sacrifices.
Now, based on those desktops there were some
actually pretty major issues, so I'm really curious
to see what's inside this guy.
I will give them this: it's easy to open up the laptop.
All you need to do is undo 16 Phillips' screws
and we should be inside in no time.
Oh, warranty seal!
Ah ha!
So, maybe there's 18 screws and I need to remove the seal.
I will say, having a warranty seal
on the bottom of the laptop, even if you want
to say add RAM or something, that's kind of ridiculous.
Yeah, that's not ok.
With our warranty voided, let's see what we've got
inside the laptop.
That's ok, so,
first of all, we've got our two and a half inch hard drive,
we've got a fairly small 46Wh battery,
there's our Intel wireless card,
underneath this little flap we have a single
8GB of RAM and under the other it is empty,
so you could theoretically upgrade this pretty easily.
We also do have our 128GB NVMe SSD,
or at least that's an M2, I doubt it,
it's probably still SATA,
but what's kind of impressive is
we actually have an entirely unused SSD slot.
So, very easily you could upgrade this
with another SSD, with some more memory,
you could even probably swap out this hard drive
without too much trouble.
So not only do we have a pair of fans,
but we have three heat pipes as well
as a heat sink on the left side, on the top,
another one on the top, and another one on the side.
Now I haven't gotten into any gaming yet,
but especially with only a GTX 1050 inside,
this looks to be more than adequate.
So if we jump into a quick game of Fortnite,
there's a few things that jump out to me.
First of all, 1080p medium,
we are getting 70 to 80 frames per second.
Sure, it's not going to be taking advantage
of that full 144Hz refresh rate, but it is a lot better
than a normal display and even on the Walmart website
they show this is the only gaming laptop
with a 144Hz screen for 999,
even though now the price is 599.
And speaking of the display, it is really nice.
So not only is it very vibrant,
the colors especially look very accurate,
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So one of the issues with only having two gigs of RAM
for that 1050 is that, for example,
here in Black Ops we're almost out of RAM,
I'm curious to see how well this actually performs.
So with the resolution turned down
to about 900p, we are getting a pretty playable frame rate.
It's actually in the 60 to 70 range,
the main issue here is that because the 1050
only does have two gigs of RAM it does limit
kind of how high we can actually crank the settings here.
Watch, it's basically limiting the GPU at 66.
I would not want it to throttle at 66.
I would be ok with this thing living at 70, 75 all day,
that's not enough to worry me, I'd much rather have
the quieter fans, I suppose.
So Overwatch is actually a pretty good game
for this system.
So we're at 1080p high, and right now we're getting
about 80 to 90 frames per second,
definitely well in the range of that 144Hz display.
Hamster dude coming in, coming in hot,
there you go, hahaha, hamster dude's fun, man.
Hamster dude's really fun.
OP are almost certainly losing money
on every single one of these they sell,
at $600, and yes, you are taking
a little bit of a risk by going
with a fairly brand new and unknown company.
But considering just what you're getting
for this kind of price, it's hard to go wrong.