Dell XPS 9560 vs 2021 | Tales from the Scalper Pandemic
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Benchmarking a Dell XPS 15 9560 i7 7700HQ GTX 1050 in games in 2021
Looking at the hard times other CZcamsrs are having trying to get viewers interested in PC videos during the 2021 parts shortage, I decided to hold off of new builds for a while and make a video about my Dell XPS 9560 laptop. I dunno, seemed like a good idea at the time. In this video, I test out my Dell XPS 15 9560, a decidedly non-gaming 4 year old laptop with a quad core laptop i7 and GTX 1050, in a few modern games
00:00 Dell XPS 9560 in 2021
00:14 Intro: The Scalper Pandemic continues!
01:14 Background: All about my laptop
03:35 Dell XPS 9560: The Specs
05:05 Dell XPS 9560: Productivity (Photoshop & Resolve)
05:51 Dell XPS 9560 Gaming Benchmarks
05:54 Benchmarks: GTA V | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
06:28 Benchmarks: Fortnite | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
07:02 Benchmarks: Call of Duty Warzone | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
07:36 Benchmarks: Valiant | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
08:10 Benchmarks: Horizon: Zero Dawn | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
08:44 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077 | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
09:18 Benchmarks: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
09:50 Benchmarks: Rocket League | i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050
11:00 Conclusion
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Just came from watching your R9 380 video; you make some good content. I really like the series as well. Keep the up the good work!
Thanks! 😁
that music's not adding anything except annoyance
The specific track itself, or music in general?
@@IcebergTech i guess fading it out a bit more when youre talking would make the video better
Great video! I’m picking one of these up used for $300 today. Makes way more sense than going new anything
Hey, is 430 usd for a Core i7/16gb/512gb/4k touch model worth it?
My first proper laptop was the XPS 9560. It served me very well in engineering school. It came in handy, being capable when doing CAD/CAE in my Bachelor thesis, as well as a little bit of gaming and photo editing along the way. However, I felt its age starting to show a little bit in 2021. It got really hot, the battery capacity sunk dramatically, and it started to crash more and more often. But since it was in still more than capable enough for what I really needed, and a new laptop didn't seem to be a justified upgrade at all, I instead went for a prebuilt desktop on sale. (It only had a 1660 super, but the price was only $150 more than the GPU price alone was in my country.)
The idea was that the upgrade to a desktop will eek out the last few years in the XPS as a secondary machine for away from home tasks, while the primary machine does all the heavy lifting at home.
When it's a secondary machine, there's no reason to upgrade it really until it dies. Which might take many more years, especially if I replace the battery. And when that day comes, a mid range laptop with a 15/28W CPU and a much more "reasonable price" will outperform it generously. Actually, already today an i5-1135G7 will beat out the i7-7700HQ across the board. But in another 2-3 CPU generations, we're talking some proper difference.
With a little re-paste of the CPU and GPU with high quality thermal paste and a purchase of a non-original battery, your laptop can still be kicking for a couple more years in best condition. Should cost about 60 USD for both together. I own the 9360 and both upgrades have restored it to almost new behaviour. It's a beast with an eGPU and I will keep it until the day it dies. (and even then might just buy a second hand one of the same type for like 300 USD)
Thanks for this, I found this laptop on marketplace for a pretty good price. I cant seem to find any other recent videos of how this exact laptop holds up this year, so finding this video really helped. the sole reason I was looking for one of these is for video editing and photoshopping on the go and of course to do my school work since everything is online now. I will be switching from a crappy school laptop that's admin locked since its not mine, so I'm sure it will be worth it.
also, you are doing great with the quality of your videos, The edits are very good, the only thing id suggest is to fade the music out a bit while you're talking, other than that keep up what you're doing now.
did you get it? is it nice?
im planning to get it too
@@yashithlalwani4776 no not yet I'm going to try to pick it up tomorrow
@@OwlsUniqueSounds What are price are you planning to buy it at?
Thanks, I'm always trying to strike a balance audio-wise. I do tend to drop it a little lower these days!
It's a great laptop for visual work. I haven't watched the video lately, but I don't think I say enough just how good the screen is, it really is superb contrast and colour. If you end up with the version with the glossy display, you might want to invest in a matte screen protector.
@@OwlsUniqueSounds Did you get the 9560?
How is this for video editing in 2022?
Never had an issue with CPU locking at 800mhz? You got latest bios installed
Nice video. Still looking for a 9560 for office tasks. For the price I can’t find any laptop light and with an excellent screen.
I'm still using my 9560 in 2023. Pretty solid machine. I got mine in 2020 for $500. I have the 7300hq. Might be better than the more demanding i7 chip of the same generation considering the throttling issues.
I wouldn't game on this. I've played games a couple times and it's decent but not great. Desktop is much better and cheaper for that purpose.
I am an engineering student so battery life is important. I opted for the 1080p panel and upgraded the ~47whr battery to the 97whr one and I can now get 9 hours on battery pretty easily.
Laptop came with a 1TB HDD and a 32GB nvme disk. I had to remove the HDD to fit the larger battery. Swapped in a 2TB nvme disk which I can always swap to another machine when I get a new machine. Laptop came with 1x16gb DDR4 which has been sufficient but I can get it up to 32gb if I wanted to.
It can be charged over USB C which is pretty cool. I have a wall charger and a USB C charger that I use.
Build quality has a few issues. The laptop frame is susceptible to warping. Trackpad clicking often requires a lot of force (no my batt is not expanding).
Dual boot configuration with Linux is pretty good. I haven't had any issues with driver support.
What camera/lens are you using for your B-Roll? The production quality on your videos really shows. Great video
Thanks for the comment! I use my Fuji XT3, 23mm f2 and 56mm F1.2, a couple of cheap bicolour LED panels and a buttload of stabilization in post!
Keep it up, it's just a matter of time since the quality is very high!
By the way, what kind of modifications (thermal pads, thermal paste etc) have you done on the laptop? Mine seems to overheat a lot after the undervolting gate...
Thanks! I have indeed repasted the CPU and GPU with some Arctic MX4, but nothing else so far.
@@IcebergTech I'm trying to figure out the precise spots that need thermal pads. I've also repasted but it doesn't seem to make such a difference rather than undervolting unfortunately. It also has some weak points that developed during the two years of ownership, such as whining hinges and freezing after relogging. I'll try to solve some things up in the next days
Thank you so much for this! I'm sitting here contemplating purchasing a secondhand 9560. I'm not a gamer, just a Linux user :) A little worried about what you said at the end about the CPU getting stuck at 800MHz... Hmmmm.... May have to look at one of the Precision 7000 series models instead....
In fairness, I haven't had that happen since replacing the battery, though I also haven't been using it as heavily as I was previously.
No don't. It throttles like crazy and to keep it stable u'll have to disable intel turbo boost, which capped ur cpu clock at 2.8Ghz and not to mention it doesn't have mux switch + that shit ass Intel HD630 graphic that is strapped to the display made horrible lag in the ui experience. Photoshop, premiere, AI, is a nightmare.
Is this base specs, or did you change the gpu or something, I can't seem to run basically anything above 30fps
Nope, base specs, in fact I couldn't even tweak the voltage or turbo duration. I was plugged in and using the Performance power profile, but that was about it!
Im planning to buy a second hand of this version just to play valorant.. is it okay or i shouldnt go for it. Just a little worried cause you said its run like celeron aha.
My particular laptop has a tendency to power throttle from time to time, though it hasn’t done so in a while. It is apparently a known issue with XPS 15s and the only fix I found was disconnecting and reconnecting the battery. If your primary use is Valorant, it will normally do the job pretty well.
undervolting this laptop produces incredible results in gaming, might be worth looking into
I used to undervolt, but XTU now seems to offer zero control of anything. All the sliders are greyed out. I read somewhere that Dell had locked them down with a BIOS update, which I suppose might be reversible?
@@IcebergTech You can downgrade but I found it not worth it. However repasting mine with Arctic MX-4 did gave me noticeable results; I realized original thermal paste inside when I first got it was all dried up as I opened the laptop. I am plannng to add some thermal pads for VRMs soon also.
I have mine still but I am having a BSOD of Video_dxgkml_fatal_error as of lately. I dont want to downgrade my video drivers because I only game on my Dell with a PS2 emulator and I dont play many games because the battery swelled up last time and had it replaced. I had this Dell laptop since February of 2017. I had to hack the Windows 11 installer to install on my machine since the 7th gen Kaybelake is too old and the BSOD still isnt resolved. I have to really do a full clean reinstall soon its annoying BSOD since it comes randomly when I least expect it.
From what little I’ve seen online, this error seems to be related to the GPU driver. Maybe run DDU in safe mode, then install drivers downloaded direct from nVidia?
I like how you incorporate clips of other channels that we might watch, and not all of them are necessarily big channels.
Though we know about them.
Ok so I came back to this video after the latest at the time one came out about him saying goodbye to it.
I must say he sounds a lot less happy in this video, but we were all in the same boat.
The one audio track used, was annoying.
Lol, I’d mostly forgotten this video. I was still finding my feet with CZcams when I made this- I just checked, I had 29 subscribers on the day this went live!
I don’t think I’d quite got my head around how to incorporate music, and my voice back then is much more like how I normally speak IRL. I’m pushing 41, these days I can only maintain youthful exuberance for 15-20 minutes max…
I bought this laptop second hand and its a massive regret.
Laptop cant even use the browser without throttling i hate it
Is this 4gb or 2gb gtx 1050?
2GB.
0:28 he has a point if you watched the video u would understand
great review but the gameplay for valorant and fortnite is… interesting ahaha
If you're still looking for GPU and PC repair, hit me up. I'll sort you something out that wont break the bank.
Unbelievable result. My xps 9560 has termal/power throttle after 5 minutes of gaming and nothing can help. Try using speedshift, turbo off, vrm thermal plate, some other tricks with throttle stop software...
For me, a temporary fix was to disconnect the battery for a while to reset the CMOS. I haven't had a power throttle issue since I replaced the battery altogether, however.
Mine was throttling after a few minutes. After cleaning the dust out, undervolting with throttlestop (-0.1V) and re-pasting. got to consistent 75C max while gaming. I keep the rear of the laptop raised by a few cm, seems to help with airflow too.