Review Dell Inspiron 15 3585: Locked-In Office Ryzen

[Redaktion]

Dell's entry-level Inspiron series is also available with AMD processors. Unfortunately, the Ryzen 3 2300U's CPU was badly restricted and unable to unleash its full potential, and Dell's cooling solution was running almost at its limit. Nevertheless, even a severely limited Ryzen can have its upsides, as our test shows.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Inspiron-15-3585-Locked-In-Office-Ryzen.424262.0.html

[LHPSU]

How does a laptop heavily and mostly criticized for its thermals get a 90% on the Temperature rating?

[Dan11]

This huge amount of throttling makes me suspect bad contact of the cooler with the CPU. Did you check if the cooler was properly attached to the CPU? Maybe you should try to re-paste it and check the performance again.

[M2018]

What a junk machine! The score is super low, but 41dB???

[Dylan Ch'ng]

So I wonder whether the limitation is embedded into the BIOS. Like what if I buy this computer and jerry rig a Noctua big cooler onto it. Would the BIOS then limit potenial?

[william blake]

relax guys, in my place(moscow) the prices starts at 424euro. more in dollars but i assume we are closer to eu region than to us.
1080/8/256ssd/ryzen5(yes 5)/linux for only 424euro. this thing is really cheap.

[tam nguyen]

so we can attach 2.5 sata on this laptop ?

[005AGIMA]

These are going very cheap in Australia right now. What's the max ram upgrade the MB can take? I'm thinking of grabbing one and just throwing 2x 8GB sticks in it for 16GB, given the Vega graphics used shared memory.

[005AGIMA]

Answered my own question.

Max mem 16GB (2x 8GB).

Tempted to be honest.

[Jay-cox]

My 3585 runs the Ryzen 5 2500U with Vega 8 graphics with no heating issues as stated as a potential issue in this article.