GIGABYTE G5 KF: 15.6" FHD 1920x1080 144Hz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, Intel Core i5-12500H, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 512G SSD, Win11 Home (G5 KF-E3US333SH) Black

This is the only sub-$1000 4060 laptop on the market today. I bought it not to play games, but to do machine learning (AI, pre-trained/large language modeling) AND, yeah, to play the occasional game on the road.I can see why people are slightly disappointed if they only want to use this for gaming. I get it. I have the Gigabyte Aero 15 XD, which is a 4K OLED, RTX 3070, multiple ports, great speakers, great display, fast processor, yada yada yada.Compared to my Gigabyte Aero 15 XD, the Gigabyte G5 KF, is lacking in screen resolution (1080p), port features (for example, the USB-A do not drive external displays, can't power laptop through USB-A, HDMI not connected to GPU), speakers are tinny, display isn't as crisp, processor isn't as powerful, and so on.But we're talking a sub-$1000 machine versus a $2000 machine. The sound can be fixed with headphones, and you can plug in an external display if you need a nicer screen.For machine learning, it is perfect. The VRAM is 8GB which fits most of the distilled, small-to-medium, models on HuggingFace. I've trained small language models (several hundred thousand parameters) from scratch, and it zooms. I was curious how much faster a 4060 was compared to an old nvidia 860M. The 4060 has 3072 CUDA cores, compared to 1152 for the 860M. The test model I trained completed in 5 minutes on a 4060 versus 90 minutes for the 860M (1152 CUDA cores).But I digress, it is perfect for machine learning, and only slightly slower than my Desktop 3060 and 3070 machines for deep learning training.I did try one AAA video game: Starfield, ultra settings. It only did 30-40 fps. But it was playable. Lower settings did get >60fps.To summarize, as a portable machine learning machine, it is AWESOME with a capital "A". A good gaming machine speed wise, but only ok sound-wise and display-wise.Note: I did upgrade to 32GB ram and an extra 1TB nvme-ssd. But even with these additions, it was LESS THAN $1000!

Fantastic laptop, I’m loving it. There’s a lot of DIY work that needs to be done before you can game stress free, but I knew what I signed up for when I bought it because of the many reviews regarding high temps.1. Make sure to repaste the GPU & CPU to improve temps. I’m constantly gaming between 70-80C’, which is awesome. (idle for both after repasting is at 40C’).2. Download Throttlestop and tick Disable Turbo to prevent the CPU from overworking unnecessarily. Make sure the settings are turned on at the bottom. I’ve never needed more than 70% utilisation in games, because the CPU is quite powerful.3. Download MSI Afterburner and overclock the GPU power by 400 & memory by 800 (this helped me get an extra 3-5 FPS in demanding games).4. Make use to make use of the Control Center app that comes with the laptop to monitor usage and make adjustments accordingly (I use Performance mode for new AAA games & Quiet mode for everything else, it works just fine).5. A usb cooling pad also helped improve temps somewhat.NB NB NB, upgrade the RAM to minimum 24Gb (8+16), and add an additional SSD. But as a gamer I’m sure you already knew that…

Esta va hacer una reseña larga de lo que me pareció la laptop pero para resumir le doy un7 sobre 10La laptop cumple todo lo que dice, en los juegos actuales que piden mas requisitos va a mas de 100fps con todo en alto y el DLSS activado, pero desde q me llego he tenido algunos inconvenientes, desde la primera encendida me mando a un error de bios que no reconocia el ssd pero finalmente lo pude solucionar reiniciandolo varias veces, la calidad de la pantalla es buena, nada del otro mundo pero cumple su funcion, los parlantes de la laptop son absolutamente malos, se escuchan muy mal, el teclado retroiluiminado solo deja poner colores estaticos y el brillo del teclado es muy poco a comparacion de otras laptops gamers, en el rendimiento si o si les recomiendo que apenas que compren la laptop expandan la memoria ram ya que 8gb de ram para jugar a calidades altas o hasta solamente usando el Google Chrome ya se les va saturar la ram, yo la expandi a 32GB de ram y el cambio fue notable, aqui les dejo la que compre https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097QJ25NY?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 , pero no todo lo que brilla es oro, aunque tiene un precio espectacular por todos los componentes que ofrece al jugar por mas de una hora el cargador se calienta de una manera exagerada que ni siquiera lo puedo tocar porque me quema la mano literalmente, por el momento no he tenido muchos problemas de rendimiento por el sobrecalentamiento del cargador pero en un futuro creo que lo tendre que cambiar porque tarde o temprano se va dañar el cargador por el exceso de calor. me contacte con amazon por si me podian cambiar el cargador pero solo me podian hacer el reembolso completo del portatil y es algo que no me serviria ya que vivo en colombia y todo ese viaje hasta alla y el tiempo de espera seria eterno asi que decidi contactarme con el soporte oficial de Gigabyte y me dijeron que me contactara con otra persona para que me hicieran el cambio de la pieza pero al final nunca me volvieron a contestar. ademas tambien es recomendable hacerle un cambio de pasta termica por una de mejor calidad, ya que la que trae de stock es de mala calidad y hace que el procesador se caliente demasiado.en conclusión es una buena laptop por un buen precio pero hay que tener en cuenta los detalles que mencione, por el momento llevo casi 3 meses con ella usandola a diario y me a dado una buena experiencia, la recomiendo sabiendo lo anterior que mencione.

Read the reviews before you buy this thing. I must of have been blind sided by the deal I got when buying it. The battery life is terrible. It lasts less than 2 hours while browsing the internet even with the GPU disabled in Armory Crate. It sometimes shuts off when battery saver turns on at around 10-20%. I also experienced BSOD crashes that took 4!!!!! RMAS to finally resolve. The whole RMA process took HALF A YEAR to get my laptop fixed. I had to push back so much during the RMA process to get them to do any worth while testing. It turned out to be a bad M.2 drive. I could never recommend this to someone.