Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Test, Gaming Benchmark & A Look Inside For Upgrades GTAV Fortnite, DOOM By Nev's Tech Bits

Ladies and gentlemen how's it going once again, I'm never from Aztec, but today we're checking out the Lenovo ThinkPad e14 unit. This is the i5 fifth generation and uh. It's definitely somewhat for the budget conscience uh. It feels like we have aluminum here. Of course, it's that kind of plastic that just feels like aluminum, and here once I get to the desktop. This is one thing I don't really care about what other people seem to the keyboard flex.

This thing doesn't really flex much at all. It really feels like we have metal bindings between the keys. It just doesn't flex very much, which is good. Of course, we have the old school IBM knob, we have the giant, trackpad click, click, click, click just like that USB style charger, usb uh, HDMI headset, one single headset in one USB network, cable and then a lock on the other side, and that's about all. We got here, of course, we're far from the days when we used to be able to have DVD drives in all of these systems, then it seems like it's relatively easy to get into on the bottom up.

Here, of course, since we live in this day and age, we have a camera slider, so the feds can't watch you. They can still listen to. You, though, so remember if you're going to be disabling, that you might want to disable the microphone which is probably going to be one of these dots up here. As you can see here, we have for the display, driver and intel UHD graphics. That means it's going to be pulling from the ram and the ram.

We have eight gigabytes. So it's relatively good one. Two three four five: eight cores OCTA cores at 1.6, uh, gigahertz, i5, of course. So let's see what kind of power we can actually expect to pull down off this thing. Once I got grand theft autoloaded on this thing, I am going to run a benchmark with uh PC mark benchmark.

Okay and let's start off with the DirectX 9 test. We are going at 17 to about 25 frames per second cruising around next up, of course, DirectX 10. We are getting five six frames per second at 1080. Here we have the DirectX 11 test. We got uh 20 frames per second, not so bad with the space jellyfish.

Next up, of course, DirectX 12 I'm getting 11 frames per second here, so we got the final results here, and this is about on par with the ThinkPad p14s generation one or the um thanks center m75q1, all right. So, first up, let's try out some grand theft, auto you all, better get up there and bake me some chicken attendees. Ladies. I got 31 frames per second everything's feeling all right. It's looking pretty good, but uh, of course we're not using the full screen.

That's usually what happens when it comes to the intel, HD graphics. Next up, let's take a look at Fortnite okay, so our settings have been auto, set that 120 frames per second um pre-resolution at 66 and, as you can see most other things being put on low for some reason: okay, oh wow, okay! So I'm trying to play this in performance mode, but uh I'm definitely getting some issues. It looks like the frames per second are going anywhere from 25 to 30. , okay, so trying again this time, I got uh 30 frames per second max everything's set on low, except I have medium sight rain. So I can only see people at a medium difference.

Everything's. Definitely looking very choppy. I am definitely getting a lot of uh frames, loss and yeah. It's definitely not the best thing for Fortnite. It looks like it should be said that my connection definitely is hardwired, but I'm getting a lot of frame drops.

So you have to have this thing at your very minimum, and you might be able to play it without frame drops now. It should be said that playing in game seems pretty good, but I had an enemy down. My crosshairs and my I skipped a few frames and I came back dead. That's just life, my boys now the only true question that true gamers want to know is: will it play doom and heck yeah? Well, you know if you put this thing on nightmare, the guys go faster, eh man. I love the infighting in this game.

Never get old, it'll, never get old all right. So this is what this lovely lady looks like. When you take the top off, you can see at the bottom left. We have a space for a SATA drive, they have a dummy drive in there, but you can't use it of course, and then, above that we have the m.2 card, they got a heat shield over top of that to keep it nice and cool, and I'm really thinking that these are hard drives, that you have to put a heat shield or something over top of because man they get really hot. If you don't up north a bit here, of course, we get to the CPU the spot where the GPU would have been and the heat pipe that goes over to the uh, the CPU fan.

We have the wireless card, as you can see, we have a single spot for ram, and then there we got the big old battery. I can show you the sides a little more now yeah you see usb USB power and HDMI, and then we got the headset out not a lot going on. In the back on this unit over, on the right hand, side, we got that lock port. We got the Ethernet port. We got another USB look at how small and cute that speaker is.

I love how they do that so yeah. It's definitely good for office stuff for Microsoft, office. Facebook YouTube all that fun stuff, but if you're trying to get some serious gaming going, you're going to want something that has a dedicated GPU on it. This might not be what you're looking for, but will it get you through school? This thing will absolutely get you through school, and you might want to check it out anyways. Ladies and gentlemen, that's it from me Nev from nested, but it's like and subscribe.

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