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Reviews 4K one both have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti cards rather than the standard GTX 1050. This is a faster version of Nvidia’s lower-mid range card, and is capable of running most games very well at 1080p. On the 1050 Ti version we were sent for review, Thief ran at an average of 51.4fps at max settings, 1080p resolution, which is around 9fps more than the Dell XPS 15 manages. At 720p, minimum settings the frame rate rockets to 70fps. Alien: Isolation ran at 179fps at 720p low settings, and 60fps at 1080p high settings. For now at least you can play just about anything you like, including processorintensive titles. Nvidia’s latest cards are very capable. Typical of a gaming laptop, the Dell gets reasonably noisy under load, but the fans are not whiny or high-pitched and the welldesigned air flow stop the parts you touch from getting too hot. Battery life Laptops this powerful do not tend to last very long off a charge, even when using a battery saver mode. Around 4.5 hours of light use is to be expected, but the Inspiron 15 Gaming’s stamina is miles ahead of this slightly depressing standard. Thanks to Dell’s clever power management, this laptop lasts staggeringly long for a quad-core Intel CPU machine. Playing a 720p video on loop with the screen brightness at 120cd/m 2 , it lasted eight hours and 50 minutes. It also has reasonable speakers, with better-than-average bass thanks to a ‘subwoofer’ driver. Unlike some gaming machines, clarity isn’t thrown away as a result, and the tone is natural-sounding enough. We’d still choose to plug in some headphones for gaming, though. Verdict The Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming gets just about everything right apart from its screen. The design is fine, its performance admirable and its battery life a jaw-dropper. This makes its low screen quality all the more annoying, although at least Dell lets you upgrade this if you can afford £1,299 rather than £899. It’s something to consider carefully if £899 is your upper limit, though, as the poor colour and contrast really does not do games justice. J Andrew Williams 38 www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews <strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
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