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the bells and whistles out there and this pretty much does deliver so to start out with it has the awesome new Intel Core I 9 processor now that on a laptop is going to get you six cores and the scissor is actually overclocked it even farther so this guy will run up to four point eight gigahertz right out of the box now that's not some kind of baby overclock we're just kind of hits it every once in a while it will hit 4.8 all the time it's so so ridiculous for a laptop the crazy overkill doesn't stop there either so inside this guy is also rocking a full desktop class GT X 1080 graphics card with a full eight gigabytes of gddr5 X memory yeah this is uh no joke and because of course that's not going to be enough things get even crazier from there as far as memory goes this guy has a full 64 gigs of RAM and on top of that it has SSDs three of them in addition to the two terabytes of puny mere mortal sshd storage in this guy you're also going to be getting those three PCIe SSD s together in raid so in total that gives you one point two terabytes of full SSD storage and raid which combined can run it up to eight point seven gigabytes a second for context a normal SSD is going to give you around 600 mega a second so yeah this is fast and yeah it's probably so fast if she really won't be able to tell the difference but it's cool all of this adds up to what is very possibly the smoothest nicest windows experience that I've ever had so of course stuff like booting up is pretty much instant well not instant but I mean it takes a few seconds but things like opening up a program or just minor little things that you can't get used to taking a half second or a full second on normal Windows PCs even hiring ones with SSDs are done almost instantly with this thing it's kind of hard to get across some video but using this thing for a couple days it's kind of hard to go back to a normal PC it is just that fast of course all this is in hardware that is not exactly thin nor light this is easily one of the biggest gaming laptops you can get however is really nicely built which it should be to be fair because it does cost five thousand dollars because this laptop is so obscenely powerful a soos took a page out of my playbook and they include dual power supplies in the box and my friends you're definitely going to need dual power supplies because between the core I 9 which is overclocked as well as the GTX 280 which is also overclocked this guy absolutely destroys battery I mean for context this has been literally sitting here in idling for 15 minutes and right now we've burned about 13% of the battery doing nothing besides sitting on the Windows Start screen and if you're the kind of person who's put off by trying to carry a giant 17 inch laptop which probably weighs like 10 pounds as well as dual power supplies every day and this is probably not the five thousand dollar laptop for you however for the rest of us who are ridiculously insane and want one of these myself included there's actually a lot of other cool stuff that's included with the laptop of course you've got all the ports you could ever hope for including Thunderbolt 3 HDMI main display port Ethernet USB you name it this is got it this also applies to the basic stuff like the keyboard it's got good travel nice spacing and of course it does have the full RGB treatment but what's also impressive is the trackpad not only is it giant but this is a little generally the best trackpad that I've ever used on Windows it has the windows precision touchpad drivers but importantly it has that awesome sounding left and right click it's really mechanical and this legitimately feels like an expensive laptop which of course it is as I will remind you for the fourth time in this video typically below $1,000 from mere mortals who don't have $5,000 to spend these speakers are pretty solid here as well though generally speaking it does get a little loud so you'll probably want to hook up a headset but now that do you have two speakers that are sort of on the bottom chassis but you also have two front firing speakers directly at you that being said when you're gaming it gets loud so you know buy a headset remove this little rubber flap as well as a single screw underneath and you'll have access to most of the expandability with the laptop so you're going to find your one two three SSDs as if that wasn't enough you're also going to have your two and a half inch as this HD bay and on top of that you're going to have access to 32 of your 64 gigs of ram now of course with a computer that's going to be this powerful you also have to have a screen and match so while it's only a 1080p display you are getting a full 17 point three inches and it supports not only g-sync but also a hundred and forty-four Hertz refresh rate and with the GTX today the power it has no problem taking advantage of that full frame rate so here on fortnight at full epic settings we're getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 130 to 140 frames per second just right in the sweet spot of what this display can handle but if for some reason you have some super demanding game because you have G sync it will kick in to sort of smooth things out if you do go down to say some mere mortal frame rate like 60 or 70 man poop G stands absolutely no chance against a laptop like this so we're easily in the hundred frame per second range and we're running around here on those full epic settings and of course a big part of that is because we do have the GTX 1080 inside but it's also being backed up by that core I 9 considering that will easily hit 4.8 gigahertz that does sort of bring up the general settings of pretty much any game you throw at it but keep in mind they actually we have different modes so right now we're running on silent mode and it's actually reasonably quiet however if we want the maximum performance and if a mere 109 frames per second is good enough I can just switch it over to either balance or over boost and as you'll hear it's a lot louder but we're also going to start to see the frame rates go even higher generally speaking I actually like to use it on quiet mode yeah you're giving up some performance but in exchange it's going to be a lot quieter however if you have a good pair of headphones this actually is not a bad way of getting a little bit of extra performance although better have some pretty solid headphones even though it's a slightly older game GTA 5 can still be taxing you crank everything up and here running on full Ultra settings we're getting summer in the neighborhood of around 60 frames per second now that actually still doesn't look too bad especially because we do have the G sync panel but it's crazy at this game which start on xbox 360 looks this nice a few years later provided you have a lot of hardware to throw at it another game that can be quite demanding is Middle Earth shadow of war now here running on full Ultra settings in 1080i can we're actually staying somewhere in the 90 to 100 frames per second range that g-sync panel looks super smooth and keep in mind this is still running on the quiet mode there's definitely a little more performance there and some better thermals if you don't mind letting the fans crank to hyperspeed this thing is absolutely ridiculous between the massive size the dual power supply is the terrible battery life in the eye-watering lehigh price tag it's just not a good idea for anyone to pick up and yet I kind of love it this went all out to make something awesome and I've got to give them props for that well at least until they make me send the laptop back you know who won't make me send a laptop back North VPN the proud sponsor of today's video so whether you're browsing on public Wi-Fi traveling abroad or you just don't want your isp snooping on your data you should absolutely have a VPN and Nord VPN is what I've been using for quite a while so last year Ken and I went to China for an 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