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Dell G15 5515 15.6" RTX3060 130W/Ryzen 7 5800H/120hz+Mux/16GB RAM/512GB SSD/ $1,699 Shipped @ Dell eBay

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Dell G15 5515 15.6" RTX3060 130W/Ryzen 7 5800H/120hz+Mux/16GB RAM/512GB SSD/ $1,699 Shipped @ Dell eBay
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Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:22 ebay.com.au (2029 clicks)
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This popular deal for the dell g15 is back again and the same price. Felt the need to post the TGP and wattage on the title because many people seemed confused before and thought only legion is the only budget option with a mux switch-its not but its also definitely the best all rounder at an affordable price.

Before anyone askes, no I did not make a mistake, this is not the rog zephyrus g15 with only 95w TDP nor is it the Dell g15 5510 with only 80w TDP, Also, if you check some older reviews you might find the gpu is not 130w, this is because Dell rolled out vbios updates for the G15 so they now get the full 130w.

With that said, two other similiar deals are avalible right now:

  • the kraken m15 at 1499$, difference being 11800h instead of 5800h-worse battery life & performance on battery, better gaming & on walll power gains, better screen (~98 vs 56% sRGB, 240hz vs 120hz, better response times), TB4, per key RGB mech keys and pcie4.0 support, and ax201 instead of killer ax1650, however no mux switch so I would recommend getting it if it fits in your budget better or if you got/plan to get a gaming monitor at home to bypass optimus.

  • There is also the legion 5 at 1999$ on the educational store, note its the 5 not 5p so its 16:9 panel. Differences being better screen (2k vs 1k, 98 vs 56% sRGB, 165hz vs 120hz, better reponse time), and slightly better all round performance-in all jarrod's tests the g15 consistently scored just below the L5 in all categories, albeit maybe this is partly due to the 5w less TDP the g15 had at the time when jarrod was doing the tests, I would attribute it mostly to the worse cooling-fun fact: This year's G15 shares the same interior as the alienware m15r5/r6, the AW models got a different outer chasis and actually slightly worse cooling and they dont get the 130w vbios. Back to topic, the G15 actually got better battery life compared to the L5, maybe due to the worse screen? The g15 also got killer ax1650 compared to some realtek model lenovo have started using instead of intel cards. Overall the 300$ is definitely worth the upgrade, but just like the kraken vs g15, it comes down to whether it fits your budget better and/or if you already/plan to got a gaming monitor at home.

All being said, this is an surprisingly okay deal. The screen is definitely the worse part about it, but at 1.7k, with 5800h, mux and full powered 3060, it will offer you a very decent gaming experience, assuming you never used a better screen before so you cant tell the worse colour gamut and bad response times.

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  • comphelp on 21/01/2022 - 13:31
    +20

    What a great post. Thanks for all the detail.

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:41
      +8

      NP, happy to help with any queries my fellow ozbargainers may have:)

  • bt123123 on 21/01/2022 - 13:33

    is this laptop good to use lightroom and photoshop? thanks

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:41
      +11

      no because the colour gamut is very low making it wholly unsuitable for photoshop.

      The kraken or the legion mentioned in my post is better in that regard with both having near 100% sRGB.

      The best choice however at 'close' to this price category is the zephyrus g15, its much worse in games than any of the three here, but it comes with an 16:10, 2k, 100%DCI- P3 colour coverage, this is semi-pro/enthusiast grade screen. However, it is not on sale right now, and the 'best' price I found is 2079$

      • chartparker on 21/01/2022 - 13:57
        +1

        Unless you use it with a decent external monitor

        • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:59
          +2

          Indeed, unless you pair it with a decent external monitor, but 100% DCI P3 monitors arent cheap by any means.

      • robertm on 21/01/2022 - 14:39

        I think it is 16:9?

        • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:50
          +1

          My bad, it is 16:9, I must have confused it with this year's new lineup.

          Still great panel by all means, just less screen real estate

      • bt123123 on 21/01/2022 - 14:50

        very helpful reply…

        I am using an external monitor most of the time….

  • Nukkels on 21/01/2022 - 13:41
    +2

    Thanks for the great, detailed post OP! I've got this laptop and agree with everything you've said.

    It really flies. If you can stretch your budget from the usual $1300-1400 gaming laptop, this is easily worth it. Also note that it has a larger battery than the slightly cheaper models. Absolutely no regrets.

  • Lonewolf1983 on 21/01/2022 - 13:47
    +1

    I bought one on a previous deal, it's a good laptop and the battery life is very good.

    Best of the 3060 laptops I currently have for mining too if that's your bag

    • kaikor on 21/01/2022 - 13:53

      No heating issue?

      • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:02
        +1

        Please refer to the jarrod comparison vs the legion 5 I linked in the post. It is indeed worse than the legion 5, but the legion 5 does get one of the best cooling solutions for a 15' this gen and the G15 does just fine as far as gaming goes.

    • Lonewolf1983 on 21/01/2022 - 15:03

      Quiet enough to hide behind TV and partner not complain
      Mining is all gpu though, gaming stresses both

    • markh on 22/01/2022 - 08:22

      Gday Lonewolf1983,

      May i ask what sort of MH your getting if your mining ETH on your Dell G15 5515 ?

      Cheers mate, (im rocking a acer nitro 5 and a msi raider - both with 3060's in my laptop miners so far)

      • Lonewolf1983 on 23/01/2022 - 00:04

        Currently 46-47mh/s
        Reported at 80w in software

  • Dienk on 21/01/2022 - 13:51

    TN screen?

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:54
      +1

      IPS. But a very bad IPS.

      • R3XNebular on 21/01/2022 - 16:06

        Worse than a Acer nitro?

        • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 16:11

          actually worse, even lower colour gamut, 120hz vs 144hz, brightness was a little better peaking at 300 nits vs ~260 nits for the nitro 5

          • R3XNebular on 21/01/2022 - 17:02

            @Brrrrt: Jeeze well than the Harvey Norman Acer Nitro 5 for $1.2k was a good deal then.

            • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 17:11

              @R3XNebular: Yes that was one hell of a budget option but this is also not half bad. The screen is terrible, but its the only bad thing about this laptop while everything else is very solid. Its gets a full powered 130w 3060, vs 95w on the nitro 5, and the G15 have the mux switch which leads to far better framerates especially in fps games. You also get the 5800h a 8c16t chip vs the 11400h 6c12t and 16gb in dual channel vs a single stick of 8gb ram.

              If you can do without the mux switch and wanted to save some dollaroos, give the kraken m15 I linked in the post a thought, it costs 1.5k. But have 11800h (8c16t, 24mb of L3 cache), 130w 3060 and full on per key rgb.

              • CVonC on 21/01/2022 - 21:48

                @Brrrrt:

                vs 95w on the nitro 5

                There's a vbios (MSI I believe) that unlocks 130w for the 3060 in the Nitro 5. A user here has tried and reported no problems. I've yet to try it on mine but keen.

                • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 22:53

                  @CVonC: Most vbios between the same 30 series model can be flashed interchangebly, this is true. However, just because you can flash it in no ways means it is a safe and good mod.

                  For one, there is the power supply problem, notebooktech's review-and thats with the weaker 10300h-pulls a peak of 190w from the 180w charger. Thats probably about as much juice you can squeeze out of the poor little charger, and thats with the stock 95w vbios. What do you think an 130w vbios will bring? There is no telling if it mess up with dynamic boost or any other power management issues. Even if you somehow get an aftermarket larger charger for the laptop. The onboard VRMs may not be able to handle the extra power neither.

                  For two, there is the thermal problem, the nitro 5 is really just using an old chasis over and over again with marginal improvements to its cooling, and the fact acer only allocated 95w to the 3060 (or any other gpu within the same chasis) meant this is the best they could put it with without the laptop morphing into a makeshift oven, or bomb, or even both. The thermal headroom is designed for that much power only and flashing a much higher vbios is going to ask for trouble. There is a grand total of 3(!) heatpipes with the thickest one running across both cpu and gpu, the cpu is already throttling under load at 90 degrees, and while the gpu seemed 'fine' with the stock vbios, any more may be the breaking straw.

                  If you really are going to flash vbios, I would suggest flashing a slightly higher-say one from zephyrus line or the razer lineup-rather than a full powered 3060. You probably would still see a few % of gains but its much safer. Sure, vbios can be flashed easily, but if your mobo fries and you want to take it to get repair, I dont know if acer would honour the warranty if they found out you meddled with the vbios.

  • Raj09 on 21/01/2022 - 13:52

    I have the g15 with ryzen. It heats up under heavy load though the recent bios updates have fixed that. For the price this is a really good laptop. I recommend.

  • shabaka on 21/01/2022 - 13:53

    Kraken much better option

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 13:57

      I did mention the Kraken in the listing as well. Problem is the Kraken don't have the mux switch which is just a lot of fps lost especially in fps games even if the 11800h have the bigger L3 cache, and that it is intel which some people might not prefer, for something like battery life which the G15 will fair much better at.

      • shabaka on 21/01/2022 - 14:27
        +1

        I would say lack of mux is the only downside. besides that Dell forgot how to make good gaming laptops, I can't recommend their products any more.

        I went for the $1999 kraken (3070, FHD 240hz) and I don't miss the mux with a 3070 for $300 more :)

  • Deadweight751 on 21/01/2022 - 13:55

    Does anyone know if this g5 has had any issues similar to the older g7 with the 2070 in it? I know that I could play battlefield 5 for 1 minute before it would stutter at like 10fps. Essentially a gaming laptop that could not do what it was designed to do

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:00
      +1

      This is the first 'good' G series in quite a while, so no it will be wholly unlike last years model. It is still worse than the legion-see the jarrod review comparison I linked in the post, but at the same time the legion got very impressive cooling this gen.

      • TheFIREnanceGuy on 22/01/2022 - 11:33

        For anyone buying this specifically for gaming I doubt battery is a big issue unless you are lanning a lot. I doubt this is happening much nowadays. Also I like to project onto a second screen (my 27 inch monitor) when gaming or coding (especially coding, I can't deal with the lack of screen real estate) so I'm more likely to be at home anyway

  • fastnet on 21/01/2022 - 14:06
    +2

    Found a great post on reddit about the Kraken X15 (Intel NUC X15 3070). This is the RTX 3070 model.

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:10

      Nice find, for a laptop co dev'd by intel themselves the cooling seems a bit off? Wonder if its firmware/bios issue(s) thats the problem here.

      • fastnet on 21/01/2022 - 14:31

        It is a bit odd. Looking at the latest BIOS release notes they've added a BIOS based undervolting option which is great.

    • CyberMurning on 21/01/2022 - 14:46

      poster must be one of the ozb member, i think?

  • Praer on 21/01/2022 - 14:09
    +1

    thanks for the post OP. Certainly had to google a lot of things to understand what you were saying.

    Am i correct in my understanding that the lack of an MUX switch is the only thing holding back the Kraken from getting a better score from you? ie hardcore gaming on the laptop itself will be gimped, but can be bypassed if connected directly to a monitor. and that the battery will be lack lustre compared to the dell due to the more powerful cpu.

    I recently bought the dell g15 5511 3050 that was on sale recently for 1k, but the motherboard gave up, so am in the process of getting a refund on that one.

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:12

      Yes. If the lack of a mux switch is not an issue to you, and that you dont mind the worse battery life compared to Ryzen models, I would recommend the Kraken wholeheartedly. At only 1.5k there really is no competition whatsoever.

  • pizzaofpeace on 21/01/2022 - 14:16
    +1

    Great deal, but as I've mentioned before, upgrading the SSD yourself is a pain in the arse.

    Why?
    You need to order specific laptop parts - they're basically bracket and a heatsink - that you need to order from Dell, Ebay, Amazon, etc to upgrade it. You have to then crack open the laptop and put in the bracket and ssd.

    There are 2 SSD slots and the 512GB here is a 2230 sized SSD. You can install 2280 sized SSDs in both slots, but you'll need to buy at least 1 bracket.

    The laptop runs pretty hot, so recommend buying the heatsink, which is specific to this Dell laptop model.

    tl;dr get the Legion equivalent if you can…

    • Godgodgod on 21/01/2022 - 14:40

      Try the laptop in vertical orientation. Mine never go above 80c. Also I put the ssd in without the bracket just jammed it in and it works fine no issues. No screw to mount it.

  • Godgodgod on 21/01/2022 - 14:27

    I have the 3050 r5 5600 version of the G15 and it works great. Few things to note.

    There is no mechanism to wake on lane. And USB wake is not very reliable. This means you can't use a vertical stand for permeant desktop like use case.

    Dell bloatware. I recommend doing a full wipe of the drive including all the little partitions dell has created and doing a fresh install.

    The G button and performance mode is only available from internal keyboard. No soft option and can't do it from external USB keyboard. This means you will have to settle for balanced mode or loud fans permanent in G mode without accessing the internal keyboard.

    The ram mine came with was crap, immediately upgraded to better x8 dual rank sticks.

    The USB C display port is not connected to GPU so no NVIDIA Gsync if you have a compatible monitor.

    Temps on mine never exceeded 80 degrees in the aforementioned vertical closed lid position. Playing CS go and tomb raider shadow. One is CPU heavy and the other is GPU heavy.

    Plastic on the chassis is the best I have ever used. Looks great and it feels superb almost like a real marble.

    Power management in windows is super limited in settings not allowing you to tweak anything.

    Bios is barebones with not many options.

    Also reflecting on the post above. No screw hole to mount ssd. I just jammed mine in and it works fine. But a more secure mechanism would have been better

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 15:04
      +1

      The USB C display port is not connected to GPU so no NVIDIA Gsync if you have a compatible monitor.

      Yep thats just Dell cutting costs on the 3050/ti models, the 3060 model have the C port connected directly to the gpu via DP1.4

  • Jimbuscus on 21/01/2022 - 14:28
    +1

    Get the Kraken M15, its not some random brand its just an Intel NUC X15. My housemate got it and it is the cleanest build gaming PC I have ever seen, in a very slim form factor while still being full 130W RTX3060. Even has Thunderbolt 4.

    I got the Dell G15 5515 myself in November and I wish I went with the Intel NUC X15 instead, had to wait a month for the second SSD unlock screw.

    • fastnet on 21/01/2022 - 14:37
      +1

      Just adding to this some pics from a reddit post showing the Kraken X15 (Intel NUC X15)

  • asa79 on 21/01/2022 - 14:33

    can this support 2 2k monitors?

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:48

      Yes, the USB C port support DP1.4, and the HDMI port is 2.1 compliant.

  • MidnightPrince on 21/01/2022 - 14:40

    Decent deal thanks.

  • mckayver on 21/01/2022 - 14:43

    If this was lenovo I would buy it in a heartbeat. For some reason I just can't stand Dell. Working in the industry has made me allergic to Del. Lol

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:54
      +1

      Can't blame ya. Seen enough Dell prebuilt desktops to know how dodgy they can be.

      • mckayver on 21/01/2022 - 16:54

        the thought of proprietary connections make me feel sick. Lol

        Even in some of dell laptops you have to buy their brackets to install upgrade m.2 SSD.

    • DangerNoodle on 21/01/2022 - 20:48

      i agree. after having a lenovo ideapad gaming 3, i can't go back to a laptop that doesnt have a full numpad and full size arrow keys. might move up to a legion down the track.

  • CyberMurning on 21/01/2022 - 14:47

    hmm now i feel yesterday legion 7 with intel was a very good one indeed. no wonder sold out so quick/… and only $2.2k after cashback

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 14:53

      its actually ~2.3k but yes, its a very good deal.

  • kamikaze_ozbargain on 21/01/2022 - 15:02

    This or Metabox Alpha-XR NH58EP

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 15:07

      This, you can potentially get a better screen and ram etc with the metabox one but that costs 1749$ stock (2*8gb 2666mhz ram, realtek ac wifi card and no OS) without a mux switch.

      • kamikaze_ozbargain on 21/01/2022 - 15:12

        does the extra 10W make any difference at all?

        • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 15:18

          It does, but very little and much less than the mux switch.

          It's 115w+25w, while the g15 and legion 5 etc have 115w+15w, the extra 15/25w comes from dynamic boost, basically when the cpu isnt using much power, the gpu gets the excess power the cpu dont need. So most times you will see 115w +- a little bit more being drawn by the gpu, only in extreme cases where the cpu doesnt do much at all, would you be looking at a full 140w power draw from the gpu.

  • dyziplen on 21/01/2022 - 15:04
    -1

    Dell rolled out vbios updates for the G15 so they now get the full 130w.

    Did they also roll out the bio updates to increase the size of the heatsink and fan?

  • Phoebus on 21/01/2022 - 15:05

    Might be reasonably otherwise but it's too much money to pay for a laptop with a crappy display

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 15:09

      Yes the display is crap but it packs better internals than any others at this price range. There have to be an comprises somewhere at this pricetag.

  • FrugalFinder on 21/01/2022 - 15:13

    Bought one! Thanks OP for the post.

  • godfather on 21/01/2022 - 15:45

    Let me know if you start a YouTube channel. Nice.

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 16:14

      :p haha sure will

  • mooninstars on 21/01/2022 - 15:54
    +1

    I bought this during xmas and paid $1200 with student id and other coupons.

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 16:12

      nice. thats one hell of a deal!

    • CVonC on 21/01/2022 - 21:45

      And you didn't post it as a deal??

      • mooninstars on 21/01/2022 - 21:55

        No. I didint think that its a deal. It is across all on Dell website and i end up there with a ozbargain post.
        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/673628

        • CVonC on 21/01/2022 - 22:02
          +1

          lol it would've been upvoted to oblivion had you posted it!

          Just confirming exact same specs as OP for $1200??

  • Jackman117 on 21/01/2022 - 16:03

    I've already gotten my laptop months ago but wanted to login and jump on to upvote and say what an awesome level of detail given for this post, very helpful in giving people the deets needed to know what specs they are buying before they buy so they don't get burned, Great Post OP 👌

  • getit on 21/01/2022 - 16:14

    What is the difference compare to Alienware M15 except Logo?

    • Brrrrt on 21/01/2022 - 16:42
      +1

      Logo, lightbar, rgb on keyboardz Alienware have a better screen as well (1k165hz~98%sRGB).

      However M15r5 seem to have worse cooling than the G15, it get 5w less gpu wattage and from reviews the cpu seems to hit 100c easily.

  • OzMemento on 22/01/2022 - 01:12

    Any suggestion for a good laptop for heavy video editing and illustration work within 3k?

    • chartparker on 22/01/2022 - 07:41
      +1

      MacBook Pro 14 is probably your best bet unless you really can't stand using Mac

    • Brrrrt on 22/01/2022 - 08:39
      +1

      If macbook don’t interest you, grab the 3050ti/3060 Zephyrus G15, both are under 3k and are the few laptops with enthusiast/semi pro grade 100% DCI-P3 color space coverage panels(what apple have on all their pro lineups).

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