Dream Machines RG2070S-17EU31 Laptop Review

1. Introduction2. CPU, RAM & Storage Performance3. 3DMark & Gaming Performance4. Power, Temperatures & Battery Life5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

You’ve got almost £2000 to spend on a laptop, you want it to run like a dream, crushing all your gaming desires as well as handling some work or editing on the go… but what laptop do you choose? Polish company Dream Machines wants you to look at their latest and greatest, the RG2070S-17EU31… OK, the name isn’t great at all but does the bad naming choice reflect the laptop’s performance? With an RTX 2070S 8GB, 10^th Gen i7 and 16GB of RAM, let’s see what it’s made of!

Specifications:

• Model name: RG2070S-17EU31
• €2049.99 (approx £1855) + shipping
• 3” FHD 1920×1080 WVA 100% sRGB 240Hz
• 6 core Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.6GHz up to 5.0GHz in Turbo Boost
• NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super 8GB
• 16GB DDR4 2666 Mhz SO-DIMM
• 1TB M.2 SSD
• Super X-Fi Sound Blaster Atlas speakers
• WiFi-6
• 3x USB-A 3.2 Gen1
• 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen2
• 1x Mini Display 1.4 port
• 1x HDMI port
• 6-in-1 card reader
• 399 x 275 x 29.9 mm
• 2.9 Kg

Some great specs on paper, especially with the full-fat 2070 Super and a 240Hz panel, this is clearly going to be an absolute gaming beast but also looks like it will be excellent for productivity too with the 10^th Gen i7, 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM.

It looks like Dream Machines made some great pairings with nothing out of the ordinary that I wasn’t expecting, but If money is no object and you want to max out the RAM and storage configurations then you can do so over on the Dream Machines website configurator… but obviously this will make it even more expensive.

With the specifications listed above you can see Dream Machines are marketing this as a higher-end gaming laptop, which is more of a desktop replacement than a portable machine. Despite it being a gaming laptop it’s actually, surprisingly, understated in regards to aesthetics. With an all-black stealthy design and only aggressive angles on the base of the laptop it will certainly be able to pass as a professional workstation as well as a gaming beast.

Let’s check out some tests and results to see what this laptop is really capable of! Where possible I’ve compared the laptop to other laptops, we’ve tested in the past to see how it stacks up. All tests were done with performance mode enabled with the laptop plugged in.

Cinebench R15 and R20 are tests that measure CPU performance. Cinebench R15 and R20 shows us the i7 performs very well, scoring second place in R15, only beaten out by a Ryzen 9 and coming first in R20.

PCMark 10 results show us its capabilities across a range of tests. Our memory benchmark comes in with great results for our 16GB of RAM. CrystalDiskMark results for our 1TB SSD aren’t bad but I was expecting to see better results, in actual use I didn’t really notice any setbacks though.

Synthetic gaming benchmarks from 3DMark were of course excellent with our full size 2070 Super so it performed as expected coming first in Fire Strike, Fire Strike Ultra and Time Strike tests beating out all the other systems.

For real world gaming, I tried to push the laptop to the absolute maximum, often going above presets where possible to put everything to the highest settings. We’re testing how it performs under load but remember you can always turn down settings or use other presets for better FPS.

We will start with Call of Duty MW because I tested it with both ray tracing on and off with the same settings just to see the results. With raytracing off we gain nearly 20 FPS but honestly even with it on we still got playable frame rates!

Division 2 is always a bit of a killer but even with max everything we almost get 70FPS. Another killer is always Shadow of the Tomb Raider but I was surprised to see almost 100FPS here, and it played great.

Resident Evil 2 remake got us over the 120 mark with impressive 1% lows too and the same can be said with Doom Eternal almost reaching 150 FPS.

CPU temps were good when idle but under load it almost hit 100 degrees C, at 98, that’s pretty hot. Gaming laptops are known for their heat and the maximum operating temp for the i7 10750H is 105 degrees C so it shouldn’t be a big problem over time. The issue this kind of heat does create is degrading performance results.

Our Cinebench R20 multicore test shows a peak temperature of 98C, and during this run the CPU’s clock speed hit 4090MHz, whereas after 10 consecutive runs our clock speed dropped to 3393MHz. That’s a clock speed drop of 700MHz, and accordingly temperatures do fall over time since it’s running at a slower speed, with a steady state result of 94 degrees.

GPU temps were actually pretty good, hovering between the high 70s and mid 80s depending on the task at hand.

There's no getting around the fact that the battery life tests were poor, as we saw it last just over an hour while gaming and about 3 hours with general use. However, this is a big, powerful laptop that I see as more of a desktop replacement than a portable system. From flat our charge time with around 2 and a half hours.

Power consumption was expected with the components inside and the noise levels were done with the speakers muted. The fans do get pretty loud when they’re on maximum. Finally, our speakers performed really well too and got very loud. What I liked was the lack of rattle from the chassis when at full volume, which I think a lot of laptops struggle with.

In conclusion, the Dream Machines RG2070S-17EU31 performed well, it held its own during our testing and in real world scenarios it did great. If you want to game but also edit videos in Premiere Pro or edit photos, this will get the job done. The understated design is welcomed here, no aggressive styling and we can appreciate that here at KitGuru.

Sadly there were some downfalls, the vents next to our mouse hand got incredibly hot and after the 30 minute mark almost becomes unbearable. That's not the only thing getting hot within this machine though, seeing the Intel i7-10750H reaching almost 100 degrees is this systems greatest downfall. It is within the processor's 105 degree C rating but being almost at its limit certainly throttled our performance. Running Cinebench R20 once saw temps spike to 98 degrees and even after 10 runs it only dropped down to 94 due to the massive 700Mhz clock sleep drop.

During extended game play this hot laptop managed to keep up without dropping much FPS, with respectable scores across the board of games we tested, which is thanks to the full RTX 2070S found inside. Gaming is where this laptop excels, the 240Hz FHD screen looks amazing and gaming is certainly immersive, if you can get over the heat issues.

Everything else about the keyboard feels great and the understated look makes it clean and stylish. It may not be perfect, but it's hard to argue with the performance on offer here if you look at this machine as a gaming workhorse only.

If heat wasn't such a huge factor then we'd absolutely love what Dream Machines are offering here but that huge drop in clock speed over time makes this laptop fall short of our highest award.

You can purchase the Dream Machines RG2070S-17EU31, for €2049.99, HERE!

Pros:

• Understated, subtle design.
• 240Hz wide viewing angle 17.3” FHD screen is excellent.
• Full RTX 2070 Super 8GB breezes through games.
• Excellent component pairing.
• Keyboard is great to type and game on.
• Number pad and arrow keys.
• Adjustable RGB.
• Dream Machines Control Center 3.0 software is good.
• Easily removable battery.
• Lots of intake vents and exhausts.

Cons:

• Screen and keyboard flex.
• CPU gets close to 100 degrees Celsius.
• Side exhaust fans make your mouse hand uncomfortable.

KitGuru says: Dream Machines have created a good contender as a higher-end desktop replacement laptop; it may have a silly name but the test results speak for themselves. It's a shame the CPU temperature let it down but we still think this is suitable for gaming.

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