What is the Gigabyte P34G v5?
With the new 10 series Nvidia Pascal chips now widely available, any gaming laptop still for sale that features the older 9 series mobile GPU is probably going to struggle unless it has been given a nice discount or offers something different. Our last laptop review, the 15.6” Aorus X5S Camo had a superb spec but at £1,800/$2,700 looked very expensive and almost obsolete compared to some of the latest offerings with the 10 series GPU. The laptop we now have for review is also from Gigabyte but features very much at the opposite end of the gaming laptop spectrum.
The Gigabyte P34G v5 available now for just £900/$1,350 comes well under that magic £1,000/$1,500 barrier, but as you would expect in the gaming laptop world, the specification has been reduced somewhat to compensate. The P34G v5 gives us a Full HD 14” LCD display with GTX960M graphics, i7-6700HQ CPU, 8GB DDR4 RAM and dual storage in the shape of a M.2 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. On paper it’s not likely to impress with its gaming power as the GTX960M is not the fastest GPU, but it could still have a lot to offer. Read on to find out how it performs in our tests.
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