Name: Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3
Brand: Lenovo
SKU: 61eb0b5690483b534efb3e6c
Rating: 4.0 (132 reviews)

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6-inch gaming laptop (about 800 Euros (~$903)) has a Core i5-10300H processor (Comet Lake) on board that provides enough computing power for all common application areas. In combination with the dedicated GeForce GTX 1650 graphics core, the CPU brings all modern computer games smoothly onto the screen. Positive: Both the CPU and the GPU can run at high speeds for prolonged periods of time. The IdeaPad Gaming 3i 15IMH05 represents a well-rounded gaming laptop in the entry-level segment that offers a good price-performance ratio

 Positive: Both the CPU and the GPU can run at high speeds for prolonged periods of time. The IdeaPad Gaming 3i 15IMH05 represents a well-rounded gaming laptop in the entry-level segment that offers a good price-performance ratio.A 512 GB NVMe SSD (M.2 2242) ensures a fast system

Verdict

Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 (2021)

 This is only my second 1650 Ti laptop, though so, not too much else in the way of direct comparison. Yet but at least it is above all, of the 1650 results.. These are the results from Far Cry 5 with ultra settings in the built in benchmark

 Balanced mode was a little cooler, probably due to the fan, speed increase, then in the highest performance mode, it’s, pretty similar, warm but not hot, and we can see the hot air exhausting onto the screen on The right. Let’s have a listen to those fans.. I could hear the fan and hard drive at idle quiet mode

. The 1TB hard drive seems to have decent speeds for a 5,400RPM spinning rust drive.. For updated prices check the links in the description, as prices will change over time

. For updated prices check the links in the description, as prices will change over time. At the time of recording in the US, it’s actually sold out too much demand for Ryzen. I guess

Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 - Budget Ryzen Laptop Review

Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this
video, more on them at the end.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 is a budget friendly
gaming laptop with a lot to offer for the

Mine has the 6 core Ryzen 5 4600H processor
with Nvidia GTX 1650 Ti graphics, but there

are other configurations available including
Intel based, you can check out those and updated

There’s definitely some flex due to the
plastic, but build quality feels better than

We’re looking at under 4.8lb or 2.2kg for
the laptop alone, then right on 6lb or about

2.7kg total with the 135 watt power brick
and cables included.

The size is decent for a 15 inch gaming laptop,
not super thin or anything, but not huge and

This smaller footprint allows for 6mm thin
screen bezels on the sides.

It’s got a 15.6” 1080p 120Hz display,
and it’s got FreeSync with a 60 to 120Hz

I’ve measured the screen's average grey-to-grey
response time at around 15ms, ideally we want

to see 8.33ms for a 120Hz panel like this.

Unfortunately I haven’t had too many other
120Hz laptops for testing, but it is at least

faster than the 120Hz screen in the ASUS G14.

I’ve tested the screen with the Spyder 5,
and got 63% of sRGB, 45% of NTSC, 47% of AdobeRGB

and 47% of DCI-P3, so colours are on the lower
side.

We’re looking at 266 nits at 100% brightness,
below the 300 or so I like to see making it

a little dim, and with an around average 880:1
contrast ratio.

Backlight bleed was fine even in this worst
case test, just some minor glow patches that

I never noticed when viewing darker content,
but this will vary between laptops.

There’s a 720p camera above the display
in the middle with a physically sliding privacy

This is what the camera and microphone look
and sound like, this is what it sounds like

to type on the keyboard, and this is what
it looks like if we close that privacy shutter.

The keyboard just has a single zone of blue
backlighting which illuminates all keys and

It’s got two levels of key brightness or
can be turned off with the function and space

Personally I preferred typing on it over the
Nitro 5, the keys were a bit more clicky with

1.5mm of key travel, here’s how it sounds
to give you an idea of what to expect.

I like that the arrow keys aren’t small
and instead are pushed down a little to make

The power button is separate from the keyboard,
it’s just above it in the middle.

The precision touchpad is a smooth plastic,
it clicks down anywhere and worked fine.

Fingerprints and dirt show up pretty easily
on the matte black finish, but as it’s smooth

it’s easy to clean with a microfiber cloth.

On the left from the back there’s the power
input, gigabit ethernet, HDMI 2.0 output,

USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A port, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C
port, no Thunderbolt, 3.5mm audio combo jack

The right just has a USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A port
and air exhaust vent, so no cables getting

in the way if you’re a right handed mouse
user.

The HDMI port connects straight to the Nvidia
graphics.

The Type-C port does not offer display output,
and Type-C cannot be used to charge the machine.

The weight distribution was good, allowing
for one finger opening, and by default the

laptop will power on when you open the lid,
but you can disable this through the Vantage

There’s nothing on the back other than subtle
ideapad text, as air is instead exhausted

There’s nothing happening on the front.

Underneath has some air intake vents towards
the back above the fans.

You need to take out 10 Phillips head screws
to get inside, and the four down the front

Once inside we’ve got the battery along
the front, 2.5” drive bay above on the left,

two M.2 storage slots, WiFi 5 card in the
center, and two memory slots to the right.

This model I bought in Australia shipped with
16gb in dual channel, but the US one just

lists 8gb, so it could be single channel.

Although the SSD installed is a smaller size,
there’s room for a longer drive, but the

The two 1.5w speakers are on the left and
right sides towards the front.

They sounded ok, I’d rate them about average,
no bass and a bit tinny, better than the Nitro

They’re not super loud at maximum volume,
but loud enough, and the latencymon results

The IdeaPad is powered by a 3-cell 45Wh battery,
I’ve tested it with keyboard lighting off,

background apps disabled and screen at 50%
brightness.

The results were quite good considering the
size of the battery, lasting for more than

Beating Lenovo’s L340 from last year with
the same battery two spots below.

The Lenovo Vantage software lets you pick
between three performance modes, which from

lowest to highest are quiet, balanced and
performance, but there’s no user fan controls.

None of these modes applied any overclocks
to the GPU, and I didn’t find the Ryzen

Controller software to make any performance
improvements in the higher performance mode.

The idle temperatures were good with a 21
degree Celsius room, stress tests were done

with the Aida64 CPU stress test with stress
CPU only checked and the Heaven GPU benchmark

run at the same time, while gaming was tested
playing Watch Dogs 2.

With the stress tests running, quiet mode
is the warmest due to lower fans, then balanced

is a fair bit cooler, completely acceptable.

Performance is only a little warmer as it
performs better, but still under 90 degrees

on the processor, then the cooling pad helped
lower temps a bit more.

Interestingly when gaming in quiet mode the
temps are way down.

This was because the GPU seemed capped to
300MHz, so the game was basically not playable,

I’d write off playing in quiet mode entirely
due to this.

Otherwise best case we’re looking at almost
4GHz over all 6 cores sustained long term

We can see this in the power levels the components
are running at, quiet mode with the game running

is way down, again basically unplayable, so
not sure why the stress test workload was

Outside of that, the 1650 Ti had no problems
running at its 50 watt limit.

Here’s how CPU only performance looks in
Cinebench with the GPU now idle, so not too

big of a boost going from balanced to performance.

It’s only just slightly behind the Nitro
5 in both single and multicore score, however

the Nitro did benefit from Ryzen controller,
at stock it was around 200 points lower, so

purely out of the box the Lenovo does perform
better in multicore workloads.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE


**Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:**United States, Less than 1k. Closer to 700-800 if posssible.
**Are you open to refurbs/used?**No, want new.
**How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?**Form factor is not important. I have been looking at 2-in-1's recently but not required. I got my original laptop in 6th grade and it was built like a tank. It took a ton of abuse and mishandling. After my original laptop broke, I am using the family PC that is plastic and very delicate. So I would prefer better build quality and construction. I am heavily invested in the performance. I want something better than the family PC in terms of CPU (i-3 5020U). The family one is about 10 times better than my old one, so anything is gonna feel amazing to me if can completely power on and open chrome in less than 3  minutes. (I call it the chrome test and my old laptop averaged 10 min) Battery life isnt that important. I currently charge my current laptop while doing online classes so I really really couldn't care less. I just need it to last longer than 3-4 hours for when I take it out.
**How important is weight and thinness to you?**Weight and thickness are slightly important to me. My old laptop was a tank and a dinosaur. When putting it in my school backpack I had to remove some textbooks to make it fit. It also stretched the edges of the bag because it was too big. As long as it is portable and small, I am fine. My old one was almost 6 pounds for reference.
**Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.**14'' is about the size I want. But i use an external monitor mainly so it isnt that important.
**Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.**For school, I use premiere pro every now and then. The footage I edit is either 1080p or 4k. I use illustrator and photoshop often too. The laptop should be able to handle zoom, discord, chrome, and illustrator running at the same time. For school, I take an engineering/CAD course. I should be using inventor and fusion 360, but only 4 kids in the class had a laptop capable of handling it so we all switched to onshape. I would prefer if my new one could handle it. As for games, my laptops were never able to handle games. I used to play rocket league, league of legends, cs Go, and Minecraft. But I quit playing all of them because my laptop never broke 15fps on all low settings.
**If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?**With my new one, I would try out some of my epic games library like subnautica, league of legends, rocket league, slime rancher, the batman series and just want to break 15fps on all low settings. If the laptop seems capable of that then I would see what other games I could break into cause my old one really limited me to flash games.
**Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?**Currently I use an external keyboard, mouse, and webcam. I also have really good headphones. I do want an integrated webcam for when I cant use mine, but other than that I just need it to be able to take a little abuse when I put it in a school bag. I do need at least 2 USB type A and a hdmi port.
**Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.**For reference, I need this laptop to last me till high school graduation (current junior). I also plan to use it for college ( I will be going into engineering with cad and 3-d design being major parts of my coursework). I will probably get a desktop then for power, but for now I need a laptop to handle coursework so I'm not on the family computer. For reference I have left the model of my old laptop that broke and the family laptop. family (satellite c55t-c) old laptop (Inspiron 5537). I was considering the Lenovo flex 5 or the Asus vivobook  TM-420UA at Costco. Thanks, I really appreciate any help. EDIT - I forgot to mention that I mainly looked at Ryzen 7 cpus and 16gb memory. I am fine with something that has less memory or other cpus. EDIT2 - Just wanna mention that the main reason for the laptop is work, and gaming is just an added benefit.



<div class="md"><p><strong>LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>**Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:**United States, Less than 1k. Closer to 700-800 if posssible.</li>
<li>**Are you open to refurbs/used?**No, want new.</li>
<li>**How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?**Form factor is not important. I have been looking at 2-in-1&#39;s recently but not required. I got my original laptop in 6th grade and it was built like a tank. It took a ton of abuse and mishandling. After my original laptop broke, I am using the family PC that is plastic and very delicate. So I would prefer better build quality and construction. I am heavily invested in the performance. I want something better than the family PC in terms of CPU (i-3 5020U). The family one is about 10 times better than my old one, so anything is gonna feel amazing to me if can completely power on and open chrome in less than 3  minutes. (I call it the chrome test and my old laptop averaged 10 min) Battery life isnt that important. I currently charge my current laptop while doing online classes so I really really couldn&#39;t care less. I just need it to last longer than 3-4 hours for when I take it out.</li>
<li>**How important is weight and thinness to you?**Weight and thickness are slightly important to me. My old laptop was a tank and a dinosaur. When putting it in my school backpack I had to remove some textbooks to make it fit. It also stretched the edges of the bag because it was too big. As long as it is portable and small, I am fine. My old one was almost 6 pounds for reference.</li>
<li>**Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.**14&#39;&#39; is about the size I want. But i use an external monitor mainly so it isnt that important.</li>
<li>**Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.**For school, I use premiere pro every now and then. The footage I edit is either 1080p or 4k. I use illustrator and photoshop often too. The laptop should be able to handle zoom, discord, chrome, and illustrator running at the same time. For school, I take an engineering/CAD course. I should be using inventor and fusion 360, but only 4 kids in the class had a laptop capable of handling it so we all switched to onshape. I would prefer if my new one could handle it. As for games, my laptops were never able to handle games. I used to play rocket league, league of legends, cs Go, and Minecraft. But I quit playing all of them because my laptop never broke 15fps on all low settings.</li>
<li>**If you&#39;re gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?**With my new one, I would try out some of my epic games library like subnautica, league of legends, rocket league, slime rancher, the batman series and just want to break 15fps on all low settings. If the laptop seems capable of that then I would see what other games I could break into cause my old one really limited me to flash games.</li>
<li>**Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?**Currently I use an external keyboard, mouse, and webcam. I also have really good headphones. I do want an integrated webcam for when I cant use mine, but other than that I just need it to be able to take a little abuse when I put it in a school bag. I do need at least 2 USB type A and a hdmi port.</li>
<li>**Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.**For reference, I need this laptop to last me till high school graduation (current junior). I also plan to use it for college ( I will be going into engineering with cad and 3-d design being major parts of my coursework). I will probably get a desktop then for power, but for now I need a laptop to handle coursework so I&#39;m not on the family computer. For reference I have left the model of my old laptop that broke and the family laptop. family (satellite c55t-c) old laptop (Inspiron 5537). I was considering the Lenovo flex 5 or the Asus vivobook  TM-420UA at Costco. Thanks, I really appreciate any help. EDIT - I forgot to mention that I mainly looked at Ryzen 7 cpus and 16gb memory. I am fine with something that has less memory or other cpus. EDIT2 - Just wanna mention that the main reason for the laptop is work, and gaming is just an added benefit.</li>
</ul>
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What are your thoughts on this one? Have been planning to buy this one. Can't increase budget.

I’m looking for a decent running laptop for the sims 4, preferably w nice graphics &amp; able to hold expansion packs w cc &amp; mods..
My price range is probably around $700-800 but I can spend an extra hundred or two IF NECESSARY.
Any help at all is appreciated, thank you so much.

<div class="md"><p>I’m looking for a decent running laptop for the sims 4, preferably w nice graphics &amp; able to hold expansion packs w cc &amp; mods..
My price range is probably around $700-800 but I can spend an extra hundred or two IF NECESSARY.
Any help at all is appreciated, thank you so much.</p>
</div>

Probably a commonly asked question, but a good budget laptop for sims 4?

My specs: -8GB but I would rather have 16GB of RAM
- 4 to 6 cores (would like ryzen but I don't mind Intel)
- 500SSD sdd
- Number pad on the keyboard (really important)

<div class="md"><p>My specs: -8GB but I would rather have 16GB of RAM
- 4 to 6 cores (would like ryzen but I don&#39;t mind Intel)
- 500SSD sdd
- Number pad on the keyboard (really important)</p>
</div>

Any good budget linux laptops?

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What gaming laptop have you recently bought?

The only things i REALLY care about are battery and ingame performance. The screen/resolution shouldn't be that bad either but i mean, most are good enough - got low standards anyways. Any suggestions lol?


<div class="md"><p>The only things i REALLY care about are battery and ingame performance. The screen/resolution shouldn&#39;t be that bad either but i mean, most are good enough - got low standards anyways. Any suggestions lol?</p>
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Looking for a laptop ($800 budget), mainly used for gaming

I live in the Philippines. Finding good gaming laptops for the best price is very hard here. I wanted to reach out to this subreddit in the hopes that the responses help me in making a final decision.

PS. My budget cannot go over Php 55000 (around **1,050 USD).**

What I'm looking for:

* At least a Hexa-core processor
* 2060 or above for the GPU
* If possible, a good screen with decent color accuracy
* Decent build quality and thermals

I would want to thank in advance the respondents of my outreach.

<div class="md"><p>I live in the Philippines. Finding good gaming laptops for the best price is very hard here. I wanted to reach out to this subreddit in the hopes that the responses help me in making a final decision.</p>

<p>PS. My budget cannot go over Php 55000 (around <strong>1,050 USD).</strong></p>

<p>What I&#39;m looking for:</p>

<ul>
<li>At least a Hexa-core processor</li>
<li>2060 or above for the GPU</li>
<li>If possible, a good screen with decent color accuracy</li>
<li>Decent build quality and thermals</li>
</ul>

<p>I would want to thank in advance the respondents of my outreach.</p>
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