15" Nova R5 3600 + RTX2070M

[maxff9]

Hi all,
This is my first gaming laptop and very first purchase on PCS.

First I'd like to say that the website proposes very good prices and a wide range of products. The information provided by PCS are good and usually more than somewhere else.

I got this 15" NOVA with a Ryzen 5 3600 Desktop and a RTX 2070 Mobile, with 2x8 Go 2666 MHz and 1 TB intel SSD for 1330€. The laptop was well protected inside the package and the booklet explains well the first steps to do. The chassis is entirely made a plastic but doesn't look cheap. The laptop is thick and heavy but I knew it, it was well indicated.
I updated all the drivers and I am having the expected performances of my parts: the assembling was good.
I still have to look into the temperatures and the control of the fans to reduce temp/noise but I am confident I will make it. By the way, you guys on the forum are very helpful, thank you !

Overall I am already recommending PCS to my friends and will probably order here again in the future. Thanks !

Find the benchmark and comparison here: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/real-users-benchmarks-rank-of-pcs-laptops.76665/

Chassis and Spec​	Firestrike 3DMark​	Graphics​	Physics​	Avg. GPU Temps​	URL	User​
* Nova 15" / R5 3600 / RTX 2070	18185​	20436​	19222​	69°​	Link	@maxff9

 

[Stephen M]

Glad you like it. Had mine almost two weeks and really impressed, hopefully get a proper review up soon.

Was surprised about the weight, seemed very light but do have an Octane which is, as we would say in the West Country, a gert big thing.

 

[FerrariVie]

Glad you like it. Had mine almost two weeks and really impressed, hopefully get a proper review up soon.

Was surprised about the weight, seemed very light but do have an Octane which is, as we would say in the West Country, a gert big thing.

I came from a 15" Dell Gaming 7559 and even though that was not a DTR, it had the same weight as the Nova, while also being bigger due to thicker bezels (it was just a bit thinner). So I'm quite happy with size and weight on the Nova as well.

Regarding temps, even though my Dell was an i5 6300HQ with a GTX960m (quite bad, I know), I can now get my Nova to have around the same temperatures as I had on that (low 60s on GPU and low-mid 70s on CPU) and the noise is about the same as well. 🥳 It has a bit of performance impact to reduce noise, but it's not huge and it allows me overclock the CPU and still play pretty much anything on ultra settings (1080p). It took me around 4 months of trial and error using a lot of different tools, but I've finally made it perform and sound the way I wanted it to

Congratulations @maxff9 , you're probably the last lucky one to get a 2070 on the Nova, as it's been out of stock for a while now. Even though it might be refreshed with the RTX 30 series sometime around May/June, I'm not quite sure that DTRs are going to be the best way forward with the new dynamic boost 2 on the 30 series (it gives 10-15W extra to the GPU, but the CPU must be using less than 35W), since DTR CPUs use 65W (AMD) or 95W (Intel) and there's no feasible way to limit them to those 35W when gaming.

 

[maxff9]

Thanks for your comments. My friend and I ordered the exact same build, we plan to take the most of it. I took months looking for good deals to finally be decided!
As mine was delayed, I really hesitated to go for the new ones with the rtx3060. At the end I stuck with the Nova. I hope I made the right choice. What you say comfort me in some way!

@FeVieira Next week I'll come to annoy you to know what settings you had and how to apply them !

 

[FerrariVie]

@FeVieira Next week I'll come to annoy you to know what settings you had and how to apply them !