what's going on guys Matthew Mona's here
and this is the HP omen 15 the 2018
model with Intel's latest 8th gen
processors and a GTX 1060 with 6
gigabytes of vram now a lot of you guys
been asking me to review this and you
wanted me to compare it to the g7 the y5
30 and the predator Helios 300 so
throughout this review I'm gonna be
making as many comparisons as possible
first and foremost the design is a very
typical gaming design black and red with
red accents different tones of finishes
so you have a carbon fiber on the left
and right hand side and then you have
this brushed aluminum look on the top
and bottom panels I'm not a fan of it
it's not my favorite but I do like it
better than the Helios 300 portability
it's heavier than the Y 530 but it's not
as heavy as the g7 or the predator
Helios 300 so I think it's a good
compromise in terms of weight
distribution especially we can be
carrying this around campus now in terms
of construction it feels pretty solid I
don't have any typical concerns there is
a little bit of flex when you press it
from the top but overall it feels very
well made for the port layout it
definitely went the same route as Lenovo
and put most of the ports on the back of
the device but you still got a couple on
the left-hand side you have your USB 3.0
port to your audio in and mic jack and
of course a full-size SD card slot on
the right hand side you have another USB
3.0 port and your barrel connector to
connect your power now the majority of
ports are on the back of the laptop and
this is great for cable management
because it keeps your desk looking nice
and clean you have your Ethernet jack
you have another USB 3.0 port a full
size HDMI 2.0 port a mini display port a
USB type-c Thunderbolt 3 port with 4
PCIe lanes so down the road if you find
the gtx 1060 to be too slow for you you
can upgrade it to something faster so
once you're inside everything is
upgradeable except for the CPU and GPU
those are both soldered on to the
motherboard
bottom left you have your one terabyte
7200 rpm hard drive which is kind of
nice most gaming laptops are giving you
5400 rpm the other m2 nvme SSD is also
swappable
so if you want a bigger one down the
road you have that option your RAM slots
are in your middle which is also
upgradable but the cool thing about this
one is that you have a 70 watt hour
battery this is bigger than the del g7
the predator Helios 300 and the lenovo
y50
I was getting better battery life with
this compared to the other ones I was
getting around five hours to five and a
half hours of use doing standard things
like browsing the web and watching
movies the display this is where things
get very interesting this has a 15.6
inch display it's IPs and it's 60 Hertz
but HP does offer a version with 144
Hertz now I did my color correction test
or identify color accuracy test and
basically the display on this is
slightly better than the little of Y 530
and the dell g7 but it's nowhere nearly
as good as the Acer predator Helios 300
the webcam is just above the display
it's 720p is very noisy my skin looks
overexposed it's definitely not one of
the better ones on a laptop in fact it's
only slightly worse than the other
laptops that I mentioned in this video
now sound is coming out of two speakers
on the bottom of the laptop I would have
loved to have them on top of the deck
but they're on the bottom they don't get
that loud they're loud enough for a
small room I found the highs to be quite
good but they are a bit tinny if you're
gaming for long periods I definitely
recommend wearing a pair of good
headphones the keyboard is definitely my
favorite compared to the other laptops
that I've mentioned in this video it
feels very comfortable to type on and
has this like rubber plastic texture to
it so like a combination of the g7 and
the predator Helios 300 for example
great travel distance full size so you
have that numeric keypad a dedicated
button to take you to the HP omen gaming
center and four zones of RGB lighting
the fourth zone happens to be the WASD
key and all these lights can be pretty
much changed to any color you want touch
pad below is not my favorite it's not
using Windows precision drivers it's
using synaptics drivers I also don't
like the size of it it feels very
cramped very similar to the Lenovo y50
SPAD instead of having two buttons on
the bottom performance has been
fantastic with the HP omen 15 this is
i 78758 and a gtx 1060 so six cores that
means i can game and stream at the same
time comfortably something you couldn't
do on last year's model the gtx 1060 is
more than powerful enough for content
creators it's great that you want to
game at 1080p with settings set to high
so no matter what game I was playing or
throughout this thing it handled it with
no problems now some of you're probably
wondering how is heat management with
this laptop well surface temperatures
under full load are really good below 50
degrees Celsius CPU temps they do hit 9
degrees and when they do it does thermal
throttle but it's only ever so slightly
maybe 8 to 10 percent so you're not
gonna get cpu temps or CPU speeds below
the base clock speed but they kind of
clock out about 2.9 to 3 gigahertz when
you're gaming for long periods of time
and you're also not going to notice any
frame drops or poor gaming experience
while this happens it doesn't gradually
rather than quickly I notice what the
Acer predator Helios 300 for example
when it does thermal throttle it'll do
it quickly causing some lag spikes while
you're gaming so overall HP did a pretty
good job managing the temperatures sound
from the fans they do get quite loud not
as loud as the predator Helios 300 but
probably just as loud as the Dell g7
when it's under full load so here's the
bottom line that HP over 215 is a
fantastic gaming laptop overall I'm
pretty impressed with the product they
released this year compared to last year
you get great gaming performance the
thermals are a little bit on the hot
side but I want to be too concerned
about it you have future expandability
with a Thunderbolt 3 port and you also
get an SD card slot the only thing I can
say is you don't get a 144 hurt display
like you do on the Acer predator Helios
300 I think for strictly gaming this
offers a lot of value but if you want to
do content creation at the same time you
might want to look at the predator
Helios 300 instead so that pretty much
wraps up my review of the HP omen 15
I've done a comparison on the other
three laptops in a separate video which
I'll link in the description down below
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