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December 1st, 2021 07:00
m15 R6, poor performance out the box!
I had just received my new laptop today.
Specs:
i5-11400H
8GB DDR4 RAM 2996GHz (single channel - and although specifications on Dells own product page says the lowest is 3200GHz)
RTX 3060 6GB
500GB SSD (I think it's ssd)
Most games won't open, other games warn me I have less than 8GB of ram installed on my laptop. Most crash, some pull through and are fine but with poor poor frame rate. I'm new the the laptop gaming seen as I built my own GTX 1060 6GB build and so far outperforms this laptop by a mile even though the laptop is 4-5x the price tag? -
Old Build Specs (Desktop):
AMD FX-8370
GTX 1060 DUAL FAN 6GB OC
16GB of DDR3 @2660Ghz (dual-channel)
4TB HDD
I did a BIOS update which helped with a couple issues as well as a Game Ready Driver update from NVIDIA. I'm pretty sure I did all the necessary gaming/laptop typical setting up. Also, Alienware Command Center doesn't want to open for some reason. So that configuration is difficult still. Please help? I don't think it's fair to drop well over $1200+ on a laptop that can hardly function as a gaming laptop. If I wanted to play Minecraft I'd would've gotten a $500 laptop
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December 1st, 2021 08:00
The specifications for this system state that two modules are required for dual channel operation -- the lone single-channel configuration (1 X is what you've purchased:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/alienware-m15-r6-laptop/docs
What you have is pretty much a base model system -- and even with equivalent hardware, a desktop system will outrun a notebook system, since it's not constrained by power consumption the way a notebook system is.
Upgrading the RAM to 2x8 should solve most of the issues, but that 3060 GPU is decidedly mid-range -- it's not going to be a ball of fire even with the added RAM. You may want to check with the recommended (note: recommended, not just the required) specifications for the games you want to run.
It may be you need to consider an i7 system with 16 G (minimum) RAM and a 3070 GPU (again, minimum) -- depending on what you want to run.
And yes, there's a price delta for any notebook -- they cost twice or more what a desktop system does for equivalent performance (in other words, a $1200 gaming notebook will perform like a $600 gaming desktop).