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show off your Riggins style with the view 37 from thermal take a large curved window offers the generous view of your components with included addressable RGB fans for a fully custom interior enjoy the freedom of full-sized hardware high-end water cooling support and dust filtered ventilation for a system that performs as good as it looks click the link below to learn more what's going on guys welcome back so the other day I was thinking about gamers who are at a fork in the road trying to decide between whether they should buy a new laptop or a new desktop and there are pros and cons to each obviously with the desktop you get sort of this potential for unkept power there's an upgrade path you can connect all these cool peripherals to it for just an overall richer gaming experience but laptops have their place too if you're an on-the-go user or if you just prefer to game afk once in a while so what I want to try doing today is setting up a fully dockable battle station that sort of gets us the best of both worlds and I want to do that by taking an arsenal of premium peripherals and connecting them to this high-end laptop which is the msi ge62 5 stealth what I hope to gain from all this is is really a gaming experience that's indistinguishable from a desktop if I can do that while at the same time allowing us to undock this laptop at a moment's notice should we want to take advantage of on-the-go gaming then that'll be awesome so that's kind of what we're about today and it should be pretty exciting I'm stoked you should be stoked we're all still alright without further ado let's get things rolling and start setting things up now as mentioned the msi gs70 days setup and it packs a mighty punch with an 8th gen 6 core i7 8790 h 16 gigs of DDR 4 memory and a gtx 1070 max q it's incredible power paired with a beautiful 15.6 inch 1920 by 1080 144 hertz IPS display though we won't be staring at that much today my second favorite piece of tech from this set up is the pluggable Thunderbolt 3 docking station which is what we'll connect our peripherals and cat6 cable to before routing all of it to the laptop over a single Thunderbolt 3 cable this is a perfect way to take advantage of the Thunderbolt IOT's versatility in high bandwidth while drastically cleaning up the cable management and simplifying the docking and undocking process the one limitation here is g-sync which is not currently supported via thunderbolt 3 so we'll be using the laptops mini display port for connecting our monitor speaking of will be hooking up to the asus rog swift PG 3 for 8 q for ultra wide adaptive refresh goodness additional proofs include the Logitech G pro mechanical gaming 10 keyless keyboard the corsair m65 pro RGB and the super exclusive hyper x cloud alpha gold edition headset which matches our laptop o so beautifully oh and i guess we can't forget the highly coveted bit with super wide desk mat either like your the description just saying those my friends are the ingredients for one ultimate dockable battle station now let's fire it up and see if it works all right guys we're all set up here everything's looking pretty glorious so far I've got my PC master-race wallpaper looks beautiful all right let's talk about this for a minute the GS 64 no CG is 65 I'm already off to a great start has a gorgeous display 144 hertz IPS however it lacks g-sync support fortunately the gtx 1070 that's inside of the laptop does support g-sync and with Ag sync supported display we can still leverage adaptive refresh rate with this setup which is beautiful if you if we open up the Nvidia control panel here we can see G sync pops up it's enabled we only have three cables connected to our laptop which is power obviously the display port and the Thunderbolt three of course everything else is plugged into the pluggable docking station everything is pretty much plug and play the only things we really had to fiddle with were apart from enabling g-sync where the resolution stretching that 234 40 by 1440 and our scaling was 200% initially so everything was all large and nasty-looking swap that to 100% and we're good to go now one thing that we are losing out on actually from this setup is a bit of a bit of smoothness perhaps in our refresh rate as I mentioned the laptop supports up to 144 Hertz whereas this beastly monitor only supports 100 Hertz but that's okay because I'd much rather take that small hit in exchange for juicing support that's my personal preference you guys can probably argue about it in the comments but on that note why don't we go ahead and jump in to some Far Cry 5 and see how this thing games all right we are in the game looks like we're getting around 4050 FPS frame counter top right if you're interested things are looking really nice super smooth right now and you know what the laptop is is audible very audible but it's not super loud and even if that bothers you I mean you're gonna be wearing headphones or a headset anyway within game sound and it completely blocks out any of the white noise coming from the laptop alright I'm gonna take the headphones off throw elbows to noise canceling I can't really hear myself talk but this feels really smooth I'd be very curious to see if we could trick hardcore PC gamers into thinking that their gaming on a desktop with a setup like this maybe an apart to follow up or something like that but I don't know it might fool me I mean obviously gtx 1070 max-q with lower clocks and stuff is not going to perform quite the same as a discrete GPU equivalent but I don't know this is pretty damn convincing now of course this setup isn't without its flaws for one you still do have to dock and undock the laptop as easy as it is actually time myself it took five seconds to dock the laptop but that's still five seconds of messing around with three cables and and maybe having to do that on a daily basis which some users are not gonna want to have to deal with the other thing is that it is a laptop so there's really no easy way to upgrade the core components like the CPU or the GPU for example when this GS 65 gets slow one day maybe 2 3 4 years from now pretty much the only option is to just buy a new laptop or desktop it's not very serviceable or upgradable in that regard the only other problem I could see running into off the top of my head here is that you only have one laptop you only have one device so to speak it's it's there's no redundancy so if your laptop goes down or it's out of service for whatever reason you are Sol you don't have a backup device whereas if you had a separate laptop and desktop you would kind of have sort of a plan B should one of them kick the bucket and I'm sure that there are other pros and cons to this setup that I just haven't thought of yet in this video so if you guys have anything in mind share it with the class down below so now that the Sun has come up or in the daytime here we're getting around still around 40 to 50 fps which isn't that bad when you consider how many pixels were pushing here obviously with a lower resolution monitor I mean not everyone's gaming on 34 40 by 1440 ultra-wide you would see that start to go up and you could get you know a pretty good 144 Hertz 1080p panel for not too much changed these days and this is really more of a testament to the horsepower that's built in to the GS 65 because it is it is pretty damn smooth all right well this game is seriously making me nauseous right now so I'm gonna end things here this is a cool little experiment that I think was a huge success I feel like this whole setup seems impractical but in practice it actually works really well and I'm kind of curious to know if you guys would ever consider using a setup like this for yourselves let me know because I feel like it's it's a very sort of niche appeal here and I'm kind of curious what you would use this setup for what's your lifestyle like those of you who would actually consider putting something like this up in your house or apartment or wherever let me know in the comments below but that's all I got for now guys so other than that house like on the video if you enjoyed it get subscribed so you don't miss any more stuff like this in the near future and check us out on floatplane if you'd like to watch our videos a week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description till next time guys thank you so much for tuning in have yourselves a good one and I'll see y'all in the next video