6-year-old 4K Razer Blade Gaming Laptop: Can it still game? 

LINUS : I got a razer blade 2021 from razer to test yay. DAWID : I bought a razer blade 2014 for $400 :(

i like how youtubes actual notifications took a whole 3 minutes after the video upload to send a notification. Came here from discord but saw the youtube notification just now

Dawid calls himself a peasent gamer Me sitting there with a lego pc and a 420p display made out of paper

I dislike the fact that nvidia is kneecapping hardware that otherwise would still function.

I can’t believe a 6 year old laptop had 8gb of ram and an i7, those are still live able specs by todays standards.

I bought a clevo gaming laptop last christmas for 400 cad. It has. i7 3000 series, 24 go of ram and a gtx670m 4gb. It still can game with lower settings. i will swap gpu very soon and it will be enough to play recent games confy.

I have recently seen a certain razer laptop model from 2016 that i like because of the small and light form factor, but it still has a costs at about $800-$1000, idk why even razer's used laptop still have that crazy price

i was gaming on a 2009 samsung r560 up until 3 years ago when its hard drive broke. sure i couldnt play the latest games because the 9600m gt doesnt support directx 11, but games like counterstrike, team fortress, diablo 3 etc. run fine on it.

Dawid we need an updated video for 2023 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish Craigslist in Edmonton was as good as in Vancouver

Lol most underrated tech youtuber. No cap

I used this laptop, I played World of Warcraft on it 1 time (it ran very very well too) and the 3D melted! (YIPPIE!!!!)

When an 8 year old laptop has a higher resolution than your monitor

Craigslist is just sometimes down to luck I got a vintage IBM 5155 Worth around $450 for $50 on Craigslist a total steal

Why do they call it 4k when the resolution isn't close to that

I got a 4K Blade 2014 back in 2014, and within 3 years it was utterly unusable. Couldn't hold a charge, screws fallen out, rubber feet fell off, warping of the metal case, webcam that wouldn't work, touch screen that only sometimes worked. The original power brick also broke early on. I take good care of my electronics, so it was frustrating to watch the Blade deteriorate so rapidly anyway. Never again!

Tbf, while 600 and 700 series technically have current driver support, it kinda sucks-- AMD cards from the era have pulled a significant lead in modern games thanks to GCN drivers being much better supported.

your so cool my guy!

Thanks for making me glad I never bought a Razer Blade laptop, that is way too hot.

"It just doesn't launch" 'And you'd be all like, "get ye flask", and it'd say "You can't get ye flask", and you'd just have to sit there and imagine why on Earth you can't get ye flask! Because the game's certainly not going to tell you.'

Me watching this a year lasted just so I can say the video title is wrong and it’s actually 7 years old

"The keyboard is nice and oily" - this is why I shop here.

Dawid does Craigslist Stuff

You're a bold man my friend. You live in the most dangerous places on the internet... Wish, EBay, Craigslist and pre-builts. Cheers to you!

Today in "Dawid DOESN'T disconnect yet another laptop battery before fiddling with its insides"

“550 canadian Drachmae” ive been playing ac odyssey so that killed me

Dawid deserves more people watching him

Always interesting to me to see these older laptops do things today. I did a video myself a few months ago on the 2015 Alienware R15 with an i7 6700HQ and GTX 970m. 970m so far seems to still have current drivers. Was able to run Doom eternal quite alright actually. and as of recent. with FidelityFX CAS at 1080p low, was able to at least get 40fps targeted about 95% of the time while still looking pretty decent. Smaller screen also helps.

Damn! I remember having a gaming laptop that had two 880m cards running in SLI and it destroyed everything at the time at 1080p. It was an MSI laptop with an actual mechanical keyboard, I forget the proper name for it. It weighed a freaking ton and cost a small fortune, but at that time I felt so lucky to own it.

2014 was 6 years ago... that's mad

When Dawid follows up after saying "its always just so fun having a peek under the dress of some sexy hardware" by describing the paste as wet and then I begin to wonder if I ended up on the wrong website.

This video makes me feel better about my purchase. I picked up an early 2020 blade 15 (9750h, 16gb, rtx2060) and seeing how gracefully your 2014 has aged makes me feel so much more confident in my purchase! Awesome video m8! Glad I just stumbled onto your channel. +1

This man really just said Canadian Rand lol, love the humour

I still use a 7 year old lenovo from 2013 for music production with an i7-4700MQ, 16GB of RAM and GTX840M, i pushed the i7 even further with undervolting and now i beat the 2600K in Geekbench. Basically no fan noise, the CPU has a socket, and has 2 RAM slots. The most reliable computer that i ever used in my life for now, has a CD reader and i will replaced it with an SSD. The only weakness is battery but the wear is very minimal to none after all of these years with magical lenovo software. Anything below the GTX1050 is simply not good for modern gaming, 4700MQ is enough, the rest of the high end mobile quadcores of the Haswell Intel generation don't make sense.

Thank for being original and not one of the many cry babies... even when you were getting tasered, that crying was acceptable... because we were crying as well, in laughter... thank you for being you and not a clone that just read the tech news and whines and complains...much love...

Perfectly acceptable performance even in 2023 considering how old the hardware is, at 1080p I'd be totally happy.

5th ayy 4th like Now discord announcement notifications are perfect for this. Thank you :)

I bought this exact model half a year ago for £300. Best money spent ever. Fantastic size and still plays so many games. The screen is just gorgeous and very good from productivity standpoint because of its massive resolution. You still is decent and holds up along with a 1050. Funny thing is if you don't have crazy high expectation and you play at 1080p it will do just fine. I even use mine for be and it does admirably well in beatsaber and fallout

Dawid is the best... also i heard that he has to heart this comment so yeah

5:10 Giggity

Now I know what a Kensington lock is! Love the videos

I just stumbled upon this video. I'm still using my Lenovo X230 from around 2013 as a daily driver. It is still a really usable machine (I'm not gaming with it). Old laptops can really be used for a long time, when they are build well.

For an added bonus, you can direct swap the 2015 system board into to get 16gb of memory and a gtx 970 though minor cpu upgrade. I did that with my 2014 blade. Seems to actually run cooler or at least quieter than before. I had major issues with battery and keyboard failures early on which was a huge pain to get parts for thanks to razer's nearly complete lack of reasonable support. A nice laptop when it stays working though.

Funny enough, my old laptop had a GTX 860m in and it was based on the Maxwell architecture instead (GM107). There was a Kepler version too, but the maxwell seems to have kept getting updated, at the time of writing it had a new driver 9/11/2020.

Gamers: 100fps is nearly playable Me : 30fps is more than playable can relate?

Dawid's cat is so gorgeous, I have never seen a cat with this colouring.

Great video mate. Really had me in stitches. Now to pull my full tower out of my orifice.

The amount of sexual references in this video is almost uncomfortable.

"this is console like framerate" do this guy know that bf5 runs at 60 fps at consoles?

Weird that Doom eternal didn't launch. I have a MSI GT70 with a 880m and it works fine. Also I think there are ways of getting newer drivers to work with an 800 series card.

I have had a razor blade 15 almost since launch. Although a year younger it’s almost exactly the same. My laptop has run like a dream for studies and gaming alike. My whole setup runs off it and plays 90% of games fine. Although very price when I bought it, it’s definitely lived up to the price tag

I have a razer blade from 2018 with a 1060 do you want me to send that?

Alternative title: I won a knife battle on craigslist against a guy with a RAZOR BLADE (get it, razer, razor blade, ill see myself out now)

I have a razer blade 15, its so thin and beautiful, its got MacBook like quality and slim-ness, but it will tackle the toughest games and barely break a sweat, razer gets a lot of flack, but I personally think they make the best laptops on the market, and they’re subtle and nice looking, not horrendously bulky and tacky like most gaming laptops. Obviously a nice PC tower would demolish it, but for a laptop its very impressive....it’ll just set you back about $1900 though. Not for the faint of heart, but I like being able to game wherever!!!

what kind of cat is that? It is beautiful !

Yay new video and stream day! Love your content Dawid.

I've got an MSI GT72 with a 980M from 2014, I'm surprised how well it's held up. Gaming laptops aren't the joke they used to be.

“This is like a console level frame rate” he said whilst running battlefield 5 on 20 fps

I imagine that Nvidia stopped supporting this laptop because like you said there was no desktop equivalent card. Usually stuff that goes into laptops doesn't last long in terms of driver support. Unless its a mass produced thing like the Intel UHD graphics drivers because they've been using the same UHD 630 for 4 years.

Am I the only one here in 2024 ahaha I re watched this video so many times 😂

"suspicious stench of planned obsolescence" subscribed after hearing that

I got the 2015 Razer Blade 14 Model for £450 which included the Laptop, Razer Mouse, Razer Backpack, Charger and Laptop Stand. The Specs being: Intel Core i7-4720HQ Nvidia GeForce 970M 16GB RAM 3200*1800 Resolution So slightly better specs than in the Video but I have been having a blast with the Laptop asides from Dying Battery so it always require the Charger but I use it for Gaming on the Go, Second Display for my PC and also as my Test Machine for getting Older Games running. If you can get the Laptop for a good price then its worth it. Just a shame about the only upgrade being the SSD.

Good stuff as always man! Thanks for delivering content for people that have a wallet that is constrained by the real world.

I love laptops from 2012 to 2015. They are always fun to benchmark. Drivers truely are a huge problem.

I'd actually want one of these (with a fresh battery) for just normal laptop things. This being a former gaming flagship would probably offer a pretty neat usability experience at a hopefully better price than a modern low to midrange model.

Still using my 2014 Sager that had a 870m as well. Dropped a 970m and i7 4940 extreme from eBay in, still games really well and getting regular driver updates in geforce experience

"Death match Arena of Death" SO has to be on Merch!

Honestly, seeing my experiences with other laptops the temps on that one are high but not terrible. Considering it's 6 years old and it's super slim and sleek.

Me playing games in a normal laptop: ;-;

What program are you using to monitor the temps and clocks? I've been poking around for something like that for a while.

The only issue? The battery will explode 😂 Had one of these and even with a cooling pad the battery bloat was crazy! New gen razer blades are better in that respect!

Linus: Nvidia fk u Dawid: DAMN YOU NVIDIA! Nvidia: Making good drivers and support of gpu wasn't an option

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This guys 6yo laptop: 80+ fps at 4K mostly high settings My 5yo laptop: 6fps 720p all low and off settings

You're the Best! Around! Nothing's gonna ever keep you down

Yeah, my Dell Inspiron 3543 had a GeForce 840M GPU (a few steps down from the GTX 870M but same generation) and it used to struggle to run games with the i7-5500U CPU it was paired with (an i7 with 2 cores?! Naughty naughty, Intel! You'd might as well call it an i3) .It would just about die trying to run GTA 5 at 720p on low. It was running 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM (single SODIMM slot) and Dell's motherboard apparently wouldn't accept a 16GB SODIMM. At least I binned the hard drive for a Samsung 860 QVO SSD. I spent 5 years being unable to run Fallout 4 with that laptop as I was broke and unemployed. My take: Don't game on laptops unless you can blow $2000/£1800 on a new one every 2-3 years as they're just not worth it imo.

I get scared when my cpu goes above 70 during gaming and this guy is like “yeah 95c isn’t great”

Funny thing--the gtx 860m does still get driver updates, probably because it's based on maxwell. Well, some of them are, there was a kepler version and a maxwell version, and the maxwell version was rebadged as the 960m. Confused yet?

Respind to your title: you wasted your money !!

You can use desktop drivers . NVCleanstall is what you need. And you can change desktop drivers to mobile drivers. You do that with change the instal inf file from nvidia. This way you can update your nvidia mobile drivers.

3:08 one thing I did is up side down my phone

ugh is funny how in 2020 soon to be 2021 ppl use gta 5 a game that launched on the ps3 /xbox 360 on 2005 hardware... omg move on... potatoes can run the fm game... also "like a console level framerate in battlefield5 ... omg pc fanboy x 1000.... 25 fps.. no consoles are targeting 60 fyi....

u gotta love the alfa romep t-shirt , nice touch man

The 830m, 840m, 850m, and 860m all have current up to date driver support as they are based on the Maxwell architecture. The other 8xxm series cards are based on the Kepler architecture, which was specifically discontinued for support as it is much older.

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I bought a Acer aspire from 2014 with a i7 47 something and a 840 Nvidia GPU, 8gb ram, not soldered. For 200 €. Runs great! I ran older game's. Elder Scrolls and stuff from that times. These things are great!

I love that you recognized the "planned obsolescence" of driver support! Great video!

Wtf I got the same blade in 2015 and I had a 1080, touch screen, and i7 with 16 Gb ram and it wasn’t slow at all, still isn’t even though I upgraded

Neeko cat is so cute.

I have a Lenovo Y50-70 with a gtx 860m and I got September 24 2020 update. Idk what you’re talking about.

"Console level frame rate" straight in the face xD

Hey, great video :) May I suggest flipping your bird's eye cam for the next time? That way we can see what you're seeing

Nice content as always! I am genuinely surprised that Nvidia has ended support for their mobile GPUs. That seems extremely suspect. I'd love to see you mess around with some Liquid Metal in this laptop, to see how that affects performance and temperatures.

Yh the Temps are wayyy too high, its hitting 90 Degrees Celsius, its clear that that this Laptop shouldn't play games that came out after 2015.

This is pretty interesting. I have a Gigabyte p15 v5 (a hand me down gaming laptop from my dad) and it's got a gtx 950m which is literally one year newer than the 800m series and yet has full up to date drivers (despite being, likely, a much worse gpu).

Ur vids sick bro keep it up

I know this is strange. But you should install some linux distribution and try to play some games. bcs there you will not have the driver support problem

Back in Xmas of 2015 I got a 2015 blade. It has been the best laptop I have ever owned. Still chugging along to this day. It was my daily driver for the first 3 years of its life, I then moved homes and built a beastly desktop rig. The blade is now my travel rig. Use it for media consumption and light gaming when visiting friends\family. I have also used it as a LAN server for various games. Best laptop I have ever owned and still own. I repasted it a year ago and that helped temps. (Still warm though) To me. Buying something like this and getting a laptop that lasts you 5+ years is a better option than one of those cheapy plastic ones that burn out in 2-3 years ( my old HP laptops had that trend. $800-$1000 and it craps out in 2 years vs the then $2000 blade that still operates to this day.) If I still needed a laptop for compact gaming. I'd get a newer blade. But I have the space for a desktop rig and that is my main driver since I have moved to a larger home. If my 2015 blade ever dies, I may look into razers stealth line because it's nice to have a mobile unit that can at least play some games and watch streaming services when not at home.

Seing the comment 2014 was 6 years ago and now watching it in 2023 is crazy, 2020 is 3 years ago like what

This vid was released at a wrong time for me, I used to have that exact laptop but I spilled water on it earlier this year and I now own a Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming laptop