Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7000 Screen

[BrownZeus]

Hi all, so my current laptop is on its way out the door, and I figured I should splurge and get something that'll keep me happy a long time.

 

I did some looking into the Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7000, and I love it as someone who loves tinkering, tuning, and doing his own repairs.

It appears to be easy to upgrade, and its easy to access vital components. 

 

But as we all know, the screen is literal sh*t. When I first heard about this thing I was thinking to myself , "Can't be THAT bad", and then I went I saw it person at my local Best Buy, and wow its actually shitty. But I heard you can buy a better IPS screen from Amazon or something.

 

Now the reason I'm set on this computer is because at the same price point you'd be get a 2GB graphics card paired. 7th Gen i5 and 4gb 1050, for $800 is fuckin amazing.

 

Now I know what some of you are thinking "Just factory upgrade it when you order it from Dell, scrub", thing is I don't have $850 to blow all at once, so best Buy is my only option cause their financing plan is pretty good (0% interest if paid in full within 12 months). And the screen on this 7000 is easy as all hell to replace (I had the opportunity to do exactly that as a repair for work). 

 

But I'm having trouble finding the proper IPS screen, I know its out there, cause Dell offers an IPS screen as a factory configuration option on their site.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Theguywhobea]

You can get Dell financing too, which is the same 0% if paid in 12 months

[ChuckMaurice]

2 hours ago, BrownZeus said:

Now I know what some of you are thinking "Just factory upgrade it when you order it from Dell, scrub"

You mean we as customers could actually ask Dell from a better screen upon purchase? This would be an awesome solution for many people I know who are looking for an affordable gaming laptop.

[Pendragon]

1 hour ago, BrownZeus said:

But I'm having trouble finding the proper IPS screen, I know its out there, cause Dell offers an IPS screen as a factory configuration option on their site.

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I mean, what panel do you want though? The 1080p IPS? The 4k Sharp IPS? 120hz TN???? There's so many. The most common LG 1080 IPS (the same one in last gen's 7559) is the LG LP156WF6. 

 

Also since you're financing, at least get the i5+1050ti. 1050ti is a huge bump up and it's worth it in the long run. 

[BrownZeus]

1 hour ago, Theguywhobea said:

You can get Dell financing too, which is the same 0% if paid in 12 months

 

52 minutes ago, jldjul said:

You mean you (if you had the money) could actually ask Dell from a better screen upon purchase? This would be an awesome solution for many people I know who are looking for an affordable gaming laptop.

So for Dell's Financing it doesn't explicitly say 0% APR if paid within 12 months anywhere, and with my Dell credit line my APR is variable 26-30%, so I ain't doing that even if it was 0% apr if paid in 12 months, my interest rates with Best Buy are lower at 12%.

 

I'm not sure if I can ask Best Buy to get the custom Configuration for me or ask Geek Squad to do it so my Warranty stands, but the thing is, Geek Squad is going to charge an arm and a leg for something that'll take $20 minutes and like $100 for the screen.

 

29 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I mean, what panel do you want though? The 1080p IPS? The 4k Sharp IPS? 120hz TN???? There's so many. The most common LG 1080 IPS (the same one in last gen's 7559) is the LG LP156WF6. 

 

Also since you're financing, at least get the i5+1050ti. 1050ti is a huge bump up and it's worth it in the long run. 

Its only a 1050 so the 4k screen is a bit out there imo, never gonna be able to actually game at 4k, so the LG 1080 IPS would be preferred. LG screens are beautiful. As far as 1050 vs 1050ti goes, the TI is marginally better than the non-ti, so I'd rather just save the $20

[BrownZeus]

Or if any of you know of a better Compatible TN screen would be good. Only cause if I could retain a 1ms response screen would be good, but if there isn't I can live without, not a deal breaker, 5ms (for the ips) isn't even that bad.

[Pendragon]

11 minutes ago, BrownZeus said:

As far as 1050 vs 1050ti goes, the TI is marginally better than the non-ti, so I'd rather just save the $20

um, no. 1050ti is considerably better. 

[BrownZeus]

Just now, Pendragon said:

um, no. 1050ti is considerably better. 

No its not, have you looked at the benchmarks? There barely any performance improvement.

 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-Mobile-vs-GeForce-GTX-1050-Mobile

 

I've also used the Desktop editions of both cards (and they serve as accurate representations cause the mobile versions of the 10 series are underclocked versions of the desktop gpus), and the same holds true, and here the published benchmarks for the desktop cards as well.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-1050

[BrownZeus]

On the Mobile platform the 1050 and the 1050ti are more or less identical. For desktop they're differentiated by Memory Cap. 1050 (2gb) 1050 ti (4gb)

[ChuckMaurice]

1 hour ago, jldjul said:

You mean we as customers could actually ask Dell from a better screen upon purchase? This would be an awesome solution for many people I know who are looking for an affordable gaming laptop.

Providing I'd want to buy an Inspiron 15 Gaming (I don't, but I know a lot of friends who would), how can I ask Dell for a better screen? The French webside don't allow for customization like it used to in Dell's glory days. Do I need to take the 1500€ 4K screen?

[Pendragon]

2 hours ago, BrownZeus said:

No its not, have you looked at the benchmarks? There barely any performance improvement.

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I mean if you're using a shit benchmark site. It's anywhere from 10-15% better. It's definitely worth the money. The extra 50 is worth. 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.13849.0.html

 

 

2 hours ago, BrownZeus said:

On the Mobile platform the 1050 and the 1050ti are more or less identical. For desktop they're differentiated by Memory Cap. 1050 (2gb) 1050 ti (4gb)

 

No there not. And desktops mean nothing here. There are 2 and 4gbs of BOTH the 1050 and 1050ti on laptops. 

[BrownZeus]

1 hour ago, Pendragon said:

I mean if you're using a shit benchmark site. It's anywhere from 10-15% better. It's definitely worth the money. The extra 50 is worth. 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.13849.0.html

 

 

No there not. And desktops mean nothing here. There are 2 and 4gbs of BOTH the 1050 and 1050ti on laptops. 

GPUboss is one of the most common and cited benchmarking sites??

Other benchmarking sites report the same thing???

Other technology based sites are also reporting the same thing??

 

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/nvidia-gtx-1050-vs-1050-ti

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1050-Mobile-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti-Mobile/m211022vsm223242

 

As far the memory specs, read my last reply more carefully. The delta is not worth the extra cost, you'd be stupid to pay more for a such miniscule increase in performance.

[Pendragon]

1 hour ago, BrownZeus said:

GPUboss is one of the most common and cited benchmarking sites??

 

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Not for laptops. Nowhere even close. 

 

The links you provided LITERALLY proved my point. It's 10-15% faster. Your benchmark links show 20-25% faster. Laptopmag isn't good. Userbenchmark is even worse. And they both still show even higher increases in performance. Also, the reason why both those are fucking terrible for laptops is because there is a HUGE range of performance on laptops due to individual manufacturers changing TDP limits, voltage limits, clock limits, bios limitations, thermal limitations etc etc. An example would be Razer Blade's 1060 failing VR spec because it's a piece of shit tdp-throttled 1060 that can barely boost pass 1400mhz in heavy sustained games and drop to 1200mhz in benches. Whereas on the other end of the spectrum you have Prema powered Clevo 1060s running 2100mhz on benches and topping 1060 mobile bench scores. 

 

In addition, most laptop reviews are useless. When you bench on laptops its quite different on desktops where you expect performance to stay consistent. But nooo. If you run ONE bench on a laptop from a cold boot, it'll do well even if it's shit at cooling because it was booted cold. In sustained benches say after like 10 Unigine Heaven cycles and then you run the bench is how benches should be done on laptops. So you find those on NBR, laptopmedia sometimes, NBC is good for that, laptopjunkie is a decent site as well but not enough laptops. 

 

I mean if you want to believe yourself, by all means. Go for it. It's your choice and certainly not my money.