Caporegime
What are your opinions of it? Do they run noticeably hotter than the Intel equivalent?
Anyone using a Ryzen 3 laptop?
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I bought my uncle the
HP Pavilion 15-cw0505sa
R3 2300u 4c4t Vega 6, 4gb ddr4 2400,128gb SSD, 1080p screen.
It doesn't run hot or noisy like his old Llano laptop which this will replace. The days of Amd hot and noisy are long gone since Carrizo and Bristol. I'm impressed by it for the price. I guess each partner will have variances (cutting costs, cutting corners).
It's just a shame where they limit them to 15w, or only come with 1 stick of memory.
I'd avoid the R3 2200u as this is a 2c4t and vega 3, the R3 2300u is 4c4t vega 6, for not a lot more money.
I bought the Hp: 15-db0996na yesterday which is R5 2500u 4c8t, 2x4gb ddr4, 1080p Vega 8. 1tb hd 5400rpm. It was £50 more than my uncles and whilst it came with 2x sticks of memory, I'm going to have to put an SSD in it, as it feels so slow and unresponsive to my uncles R3.
If you really need the Graphics performance more than anything then I'd look out for a partner that has a 25-45w board specification.
As all the R3/R5/R7 stuck at 15w throttle right back on the CPU clock and gpu clock speeds.
HP Pavilion 15-cw0505sa
R3 2300u 4c4t Vega 6, 4gb ddr4 2400,128gb SSD, 1080p screen.
It doesn't run hot or noisy like his old Llano laptop which this will replace. The days of Amd hot and noisy are long gone since Carrizo and Bristol. I'm impressed by it for the price. I guess each partner will have variances (cutting costs, cutting corners).
It's just a shame where they limit them to 15w, or only come with 1 stick of memory.
I'd avoid the R3 2200u as this is a 2c4t and vega 3, the R3 2300u is 4c4t vega 6, for not a lot more money.
I bought the Hp: 15-db0996na yesterday which is R5 2500u 4c8t, 2x4gb ddr4, 1080p Vega 8. 1tb hd 5400rpm. It was £50 more than my uncles and whilst it came with 2x sticks of memory, I'm going to have to put an SSD in it, as it feels so slow and unresponsive to my uncles R3.
If you really need the Graphics performance more than anything then I'd look out for a partner that has a 25-45w board specification.
As all the R3/R5/R7 stuck at 15w throttle right back on the CPU clock and gpu clock speeds.
Any way to find partners that use 25-45w spec?
So we ended up getting the 15-cw0597sa, it's the 2300U with Vega 6 graphics, 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD, I thought the 4GB of RAM might be a little limiting, especially as about 512mb is shared with the GPU but it seems perfectly fine.
It does have an additional empty SODIMM so I could upgrade it in the future if I choose to do so.
Overall very happy with it.
It does have an additional empty SODIMM so I could upgrade it in the future if I choose to do so.
Overall very happy with it.
Soldato
The APU will perform a bit better with a second SODIMM, especially graphics
Just for reference this is the inside of the HP 15-cw0597sa, opened it up to do a RAM upgrade.
