Gadgetory

what if you had a thin lightweight laptop you could take anywhere that could also transform into a powerful gaming PC when you get home this is the Razer core v2 a box that gives your laptop the power of a desktop graphics card just by plugging in a single cable you get four USB ports for your peripherals wired internet and you can add multiple external monitors to it'll even charge thin laptops without a separate power adapter you do need to provide your own graphics card though practically any GPU will fit so we decided to go all-out this here is a $1200 NVIDIA Titan XP one of the fastest graphics cards ever made I can practically feel your jealousy through the internet but before we unleash the Hulk let's see just how well this razor blade stealth can game on its own yeah those integrated Intel graphics kind of suck but if you plug in the Razer core we can crank up the resolution to 1080p and max out the settings and this game all of a sudden gets beautiful and butter smooth if you turn off the laptop display and use an external monitor it's even faster because unlike the laptop screen the monitor is directly connected to the GPU in fact the razor court works well enough to hook up a VR headset without a hitch as long as we're talking about an HTC vive instead of an oculus rift but you also don't need a $1200 Nvidia graphics card to get value out of the core when I slotted in a cheaper AMD rx 580 this puny laptop suddenly became powerful enough to play the notoriously PC unfriendly player unknowns battlegrounds at 1080p and medium levels of detail you don't necessarily need to use a Razors laptop with the core either my own personal Dell XPS 15 worked great after I installed the right drivers you just need a PC with a Thunderbolt 3 port that supports external GPUs although it's a little hard to tell which ones those are even a macbook pro can work the only certain models and with certain GPUs so what's the catch first off Razer cheaped out a bit on the Thunderbolt 3 cable it's super short which means you'll probably need to clear space for the core on your desk plus the core can get pretty noisy with all those cooling fans inside also you won't get quite the same performance from your graphics card as you would just sticking into a desk and there's price core costs $500 for the box alone add the laptop and graphics card and you could probably buy a more powerful desktop PC for the same money but tell me I want a gaming desk and do this one messenger bag all I need in my next retro Lander