Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15.6 Inch FHD Laptop – (Ryzen 5
Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15.6 Inch FHD Laptop – (Ryzen 5 5600H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home) – Shadow Black
Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15.6 Inch FHD Laptop
A killer keyboard
The right keyboard ergonomics and performance can snatch victory away from defeat. The IdeaPad Gaming 3 Gen 6 keyboard’s 1.5mm full key travel and 100% N-key rollover helps you rack up kills while gaming against the white backlight and optional 4-zone RGB keyboard for full immersion.
| Weight: | 3.24 kg |
| Dimensions: | 35.96 x 25.19 x 2.42 cm; 3.24 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Lenovo |
| Model: | 82K200YDUK |
| Colour: | Shadow Black |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Manufacture: | Lenovo |
| Dimensions: | 35.96 x 25.19 x 2.42 cm; 3.24 Kilograms |
Very happy with the performance. Keyboard feels good and has great illuminations. The touch pad is responsive and a good size.
Screen is as good as you’d need. It can get a little noisy when hot but so does my kettle.
I like this laptop, plays the games I want, but the battery doesn’t last at all, and when you get on a train with no charging ports this laptop becomes an expensive paper weight.
Does the job brilliantly at a reasonable price. Recommend the extra RAM
Even when adding 32gb RAM (yes it does support them) and another 1tb of storage (make sure it’s M2 nvme) for which there already is space.
Please note this is the 2021 version, not 2022 (which imo looks worse and more ‘gaming laptop like’)
+rtx 3060
+ easily upgradable
+165hz screen
+170w fast charge
+rgb keyboard with effects
+very good cooling
+windows 11 and 0 bloatware out of the box
+understated design, sleek and not bulky/heavy as well
+full size gigabit ethernet port
~build is ok albeit plasticky
~speakers are average (only 2)
~usb c port doesn’t support pd so if you want 2 monitors you’ll need a usb a to hdmi adapter
~only 2 usb ports
-battery life is very poor even if though it has the 65w/h bigger size one (there are configs with smaller battery and space for sata ssd). Maybe 2-3 hours of browsing and video, definitely under 1h of gaming on quiet mode
Otherwise you will have less RAM than VRAM, because Windows is reserving 2.7-2.8gb.
This is the third Lenovo laptop I’ve bought over the years and they tend to be good value for money and quite reliable. I should mention that the wi-fi started acting a bit funny after some updates were installed so I rolled back to the previous wi-fi driver and it worked fine again. I actually ordered this directly from the Laptop Outlet as the price was a little lower.
When running Fortnite, this laptop does not get very hot but the fan does make a fair amount of noise. This is a pretty big and bulky laptop but that’s how gaming laptops are, I guess. If you want something small and light, I would chose a different model.
I found running on the “balanced” power mode was probably the best but you can of course get better fps if you change to “high performance”.
I learned from an online review that the AMD CPU will reserve 2GB of DRAM for its own graphics, even though there is an Nvidia GPU also. You can see this 2GB as “hardware reserved” using the Resource Monitor. To free up some of this memory, you need to go into the BIOS where you can lower the Frame Buffer from 2GB to 512KB. If you do this and then add 8GB more DRAM, you have to go into the BIOS and do it again because it will reset back to 2GB.
EDIT after using for a month: still working nicely. I’ve also tried it with Oculus, which is fairly demanding, and it worked well.
There is ONLY ONE niggle I have and that’s that the trackpad is a bit tacky and possibly a dust collector in the bottom corners but this is only a very minor niggle that wouldn’t stop me from purchasing this laptop. The general build of this laptop is OK, it’s plastic which is what’s expected for this price range but not horrible, treat it with respect and it will last. It is amazingly thin for a gaming laptop as well, this really surprised me.
Bloatware, NONE!!! Yes that is right NONE!!! Lenovo has not filled this laptop with tons of useless stuff you will never use and this is something other manufacturers could learn from, thank you Lenovo, this only extra included software is their own software named Lenovo Vantage which is none intrusive and reasonably useful, plus they have included 30 day trial of MacAfee Virus software which I just uninstalled because Windows Defender is quite adequate these days. Of course it comes with Windows 11 Home Edition, also adequate for most users.
Last points, as well as being quite thin for a gaming laptop it runs very cool and is quiet for what it is. What else to say, it’s a beast for the price, will play anything you throw at it as long as you have reasonable expectations and don’t expect to compare against other laptops costing 2000 and up.
MY conclusion, I’m impressed and you won’t find better at this price. BUY IT and happy gaming to ya.
UPDATE: After having this laptop for a couple of months all I say above still stands though I’d add a couple of new comments.
I’d like the speakers to be a wee bit louder but once again this wouldn’t stop me buying this laptop cos you can easily connect some Bluetooth speakers.
Oh, I took the “Steam VR” test by downloading tgrir software and letting it check my laptop, this laptop is VR ready, more than capable according to the Steam test, VR there I come!
I purchased a 1TB SSD and 32Gb RAM (2x 16Gb) and installed them with the help of a basic IFixit toolkit and a YouTube tutorial before switching on for the first time. It took about 10 minutes.
Downloading Windows 11 updates, NVIDIA software etc was a breeze.
The laptop is a pleasure to use, very responsive and excellent build quality. With the extra RAM, the device is lighting fast. Powered off to completed login takes a couple of seconds.
So far I’ve only tried a couple of games, but the 3060 card is a powerhouse. Tear Down is buttery smooth and Fortnite’s Unreal Engine 5.2 “Epic” settings showcase the laptop’s abilities with DirectX 12 (all lumen and ray tracing options turned on) – no stutters or lag at all.
Very happy so far.
Only negatives I can provide is. That’s it’s quite slimline so not at robust feeling as some others and the touchpad is way bigger than it needs to be…but I intend to use a mouse most of the time and disable the pad.