Review on 15.6" HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec2010ur 1920x1080, AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 3.3 GHz, RAM 16 GB, SSD 512 GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, DOS, 3C8N3EA, Black by Micha ukasiewicz

Although common for this size and price range, the case creaks a little. It's adequate for home use, but if you must carry it around with you all the time, you'll need to allocate an entirely different budget to ensure the laptop's long-term durability. If you care about looks and need to open and close the lid frequently, this can be unpleasant because the top panel is easily soiled with fingertips. I'm not going to wear it, though. There are no discernible prints inside the plastic, which is slightly odd. When not in use, the temperature hovers between 40 and 50 degrees, occasionally rustling to slow down. It warms up quickly during games, reaching an average temperature of roughly 75 degrees with highs of 95. Even though the game ran perfectly without any glitches after two hours of play, I chose to end the session because I started to worry about something (the keyboard on the right side started to warm up substantially). The coolers might probably perform better, as they buzzed while being healthy during the BIOS boot up but did not even come close to overclocking throughout the game. The coolers are still off, and I didn't notice any changes, even though I located the Fan Always On setting in the BIOS and put it on. My attempt to use SpeedFan to manage the speed was unsuccessful because his controller makes all of its own decisions and won't let me take it over. For Linux, there is no support. After some tambourine dancing, we were able to install Ubuntu 20.04.1 in Safe Graphics mode; however, most current distributions are still running on 5.4 kernels, which do not enable the visual switch on the Ryzen 4000 series. Of course, you can arrange the required distribution with the desired kernel, but it can be a little frightening to experiment with unproven assemblies in case the computer overheats or something goes wrong. After experimenting with it for a few days, I went back to Windows and made the decision to wait for better circumstances. Furthermore, no amount of voodoo could make the touchpad function on Linux; instead, you had to wait for firewood under ELAN0718.