Interviewing Jarrod's Tech about Laptops, Nvidia, his Channel and benchmarking games.
I had the honor to hold a full Interview with KZheads famous and most thourough Gaming Laptop Reviewer about what drives him (and more)!
00:00 Introduction
00:37 What's Jarrods favorite laptop brand?
02:32 The RTX 4000 wattage/voltage issue
06:48 Problems that occur while benchmarking Games
10:13 Most "hated" game to bench...
12:36 Does jarrod remember all the details about every tested Laptop?
13:58 Which laptop surprised him the most this year?
15:34 What is more important in gaming laptops: GPU or CPU?
18:05 Did the value of gaming laptops become better in the last years?
21:15 Should laptop companies use different "Naming Schemes"?
24:08 Is Jarrod still surprised by how popular his videos turn out to be?
26:44 Would he like to do other topics for videos aswell?
28:22 How often does he read comments?
29:51 How Many hours does Jarrod work per week on his channel?
31:28 Would he consider beeing a youtuber beeing "work" at all?
32:26 when did he decide to do this as his main job?
35:00 Does Jarrod actually use gaming handhelds?
36:33 Whats the best part about beeing a youtuber?
38:04 Did his former job in IT help him in what he does now?
39:12 is he doing all the video editing and thumbnails etc. on his own?
39:55 Has he ever been recognized in public?
41:30 Has he always been that thorough and detailed?
42:48 Which games does Jarrod play "for fun"?
45:15 How much does Jarrod actually work on a laptop vs desktop?
47:07 Whats Jarrods favorite Metal Band?
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who is this guy
Probably A.I. Generated 😱 Have you seen his videos? Nobody can be that thorough! 💁♂️
Jarrod
Such an underrated channel bro you deserve so much more subs
Late, but honestly a collab I never knew thought would happen! And here's hoping to more guests in the future!
Nor did I! But he was too kind to say no 😂
So proud of your work and content as a fellow German! Both of you guys are my favourite tech Laptop/PC Channels!
Man love the collabe thanks im gonna watch the whole video ❤
Brother I have no idea why your channel doesn't have more subs and views. Your content is better than channels with 10 times your subs and LIGHT YEARS from the likes of fake benchmarks and copypaste tech specs channels, what is the algorithm doing???
Thanks man ;) It is what it is 🙈
so true just watched like 10 of his laptop reviews 😭
best legends hubwood and jarrod¨s tech
Wow! It is gonna be interesting!
Nice collab 🎉🎉🎉.
Great video with a lot of insightful topics! One thing you didn't quite discuss was the question of what both of your opinions are on the best budget laptop. I'm looking to buy one under 1000 euros (I'm from Germany), maybe a little higher if there's a banger deal available. Any suggestions?
Yes. If you are able to upgrade ram yourself it's defenitely the Aorus 15 from my side which is only 999 in Germany and has an rtx 4060. Making it our cheapest 4060 laptop. And additional 8gb Ram are cheap right now! If not, you could get a LOQ 15 by Lenovo for 1049 with an 4050 or for 1150 with a 4060. I don't recommend The gigabyte G5 or the MSI Thin! But the Gigabyte G5 is undeniable cheap. Even in Germany. Starting at 700€ while beeing a dissapointing laptop overall in terms of build quality, speakers, Gpu wattage etc...
Proper good job m8
finally. Ask him everything.
Hi, i am looking to buy my first gaming laptop, mostly for work since I'm a Graphic Designer but also for gaming, but my budget is pretty tight. Would buying a 3050 6GB laptop be worth it for long term (4-6 years)?
Well budget is important. If it's small, you have that much options I guess. If it's mostly for work as a graphic designer I would say a 3050 6gb should be okay for a while yes. Depending on what you do and how you work a decent monitor can be important, but in my personal opinion for most designed its not THAT important to have like 100% color coverage... It helps, but you can be professional without it. Depending on what you do.
@@Hubwood Thanks for the reply. I currently work on my old dell laptop, which has a Radeon 520 2GB GPU, i5-8th gen and 16 gigs of RAM. Software like photoshop and illustrator run fine for basic editing and design stuff, but I am leaning towards learning 3D design. For gaming, I really haven't played any AA or AAA titles from 2013 onwards cuz my laptop can't handle them, I guess I still have a huge game list that needs to be played 😅. Don't really get much time to play bcoz of work.
I wish you guys talked about the elephant in the room no one seems to talk about. Obviously(including Jarrod's testing) higher core count\better specifications lead to better energy efficiency. And yet Nvidia cuts them down in 3000 and especially 4000 series. In fact making them *less* power efficient than their desktop counterpart. Limit desktop 4070 to 100 watts and it would still outperform the laptop version, simply due to having more cores. And it would absolutely destroy the 4070m in games that need more than 8GB of vRAM, as seen in Jarrod's power scaling graph in his 4070m vs 4080m comparison. The laptop 4080 needs just 65 watts to match the 100 watt 4070. Which in fact proves that Nvidia isn't cutting laptop GPUs down "because they can't cool bigger chips", but because they want to mislead their consumer and get as much money as possible while investing as little as possible. And the worst thing is like I said - nobody talks about it for whatever reason. The 4070M 100w power limit explanation also doesn't make any sense. If that were true, ALL laptop GPUs would be limited to 100w, but why do we have 175w 4080M and 4090M. Are they saying they don't care about those 2 GPUs' longevity? Why last generation 3070 and especially 3070 ti laptops reached 140 and 150w respectively and most laptops are just fine with cooling those? I'd really like to hear Nvidia's explanation to all this. Thanks for the video!
Well that's an interesting point, and we could have talked about this and much more (but the video is long as it is 😅). Though im pretty sure that 4080 and 4090 laptops with that high wattage get better cooling systems in general, while he also mentions the weirdness of 4090s beeing built into 14" slim gaming laptops... But at the end of the day I'm sure NVIDIAs "wish" of making money does have an impact on everything we see. Yes. Especially on laptops they can behave like they want due to the lack of a real competition by AMD or let alone Intel.
@@Hubwood well, same laptops, like Legion 5 pro cooled 150w 3070 ti, and now even those, with superior cooling systems are limited to 100 watts now with a 4070m. Those users who really care about longevity would either run laptops in balance mode(which keep GPUs at around 100w mark) or would undervolt them, or both. Nobody really needs this artificial 100w limit if that's exactly what gaming laptops' power modes are for where you press a couple keys and switch to any power mode you like.
Is RTX 4050 mobile laptop can still perform good when Gta 6 arrived in pc. Probably 2026 😮😢
Impossible to say... I'd assume only with FSR or DLSS. At least on higher settings or if you need 60fps+.
Scummy Nvidia with their voltage limit. Greed has limit
yep. That explanation was ridiculous. Following their logic, they don't care about last gen 3070 and 3070 ti laptops and especially this gen's 4080 and "4090" laptops' longevity. If a laptop can't cool beyond 100 watts that's what limit the laptop manufacturer would set. Not ALL manufacturers would limit it to 100w.
@@tabalugadragon3555 rtx 4k series barely have improvement on the hardware compared to last gen, so that's stupid thing to limit the watt
@@ThepursuitofHappiness-fb8iy let me disagree with you there, 4080m and 4090m are pretty big improvements even without DLSS, but they cost too much as mid range options(like desktop 4070) aren't a thing on laptops.
@@tabalugadragon3555 no matter the reason what they do is scummy