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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is a video on the ACS GL 7:02 so this is their 17 inch thin and light gaming laptop they have a brother to this it's the ACS GL 5:02 I've done a couple of videos on that but this is their bigger one it still has a relatively small footprint I mean there's 15-inch laptops that have a pretty similar size to this one it has an aluminum top panel with orange accents but it has polycarbonate almost everywhere else and it's a 17 inch laptop so it's bigger the screen and the chassis have a little flex but overall the build quality is solid the orange accents I think they grow on you without being too obnoxious but it's definitely not for everyone the interior is easy to access there's two RAM slots upgrade the stock configuration has 16 gigs of ram on one 6 so it's single channel drive speeds on the one terabyte hard drive are pretty average you can easily upgrade that or you can add your own MT Drive over here the drive that you see in the slot right now is an upgrade from Asus it's a SATA Drive so it's slow and I wouldn't recommend getting this upgrade the port selection is good it has Ethernet display outputs including an HDMI 2.0 which is nice it has Thunderbolt 3 combo audio jack three USB 3s and an SD slot now the Thunderbolt 3 port might not seem that useful right now but in the future let's say a couple years from now if you want to upgrade the graphics card you could do it using an external GPU the display is a 1080p panel with g-sync running at 75 Hertz color accuracy is pretty good and it's a bright screen with the matte finish so you won't have any issues using it in bright environments overall it's a great looking screen for a gaming the webcam up top is 720p it doesn't look great but this is what it looks like the keyboard the trackpad and the speakers are all really solid the trackpad in particular I like a lot its plastic but it uses the native Windows drivers and that's the key to a good Windows trackpad keyboard has red backlighting and thirty key roll over speakers are decent they fire upwards which is nice but they still lack bass gaming performance is awesome the GTX 10 series cards are a huge jump in performance from the previous generation this uses the gtx 1060 so it handles 1080p gaming really easily even moderate games like overwatch will break 100 frames per second on ultra now something heavier like fallout 4 will get you around 60 maybe 65 frames per second on Ultra and with g-sync enabled this looks and feels really smooth this game really showcased how buttery g-sync panels can look something really heavy like Ark will run at 40 frames per second on epic settings you can get it to 50 frames per second but you need to drop the viewing distance and the models to medium everything else can stay on epic so this g-sync panel runs at 75 Hertz and I think that's a great match for the GTX 1060 with current generation games but you do have the issue of not having Optimus and that was the technology that kind of saved battery life by switching over to the integrated graphics chip it doesn't have that and since this laptop is a big and bright 17 inch screen it goes through batteries really quickly and I'm just hitting three hours of battery life with normal use fan noise is relatively quiet I found this to be the case on the smaller GL phaser too as well the downside to this is heat production the keyboard area is still comfortable to use and there's no CPU throttling at least not anything really aggressive but the machine runs hot it has three fans and most laptops only have two so the third fan is nice but I think this third fan is not well designed it uses these inserts to try to make a seal for airflow but it doesn't really do a good job and I feel like it's recirculating a big portion of that hot air now whether or not you should be concerned about this heat really depends on how you use your computer if you live in a really hot country and you use your computer Full Tilt all day long then yeah I would look for a laptop that has better thermal management but if you're just a normal user and you play games regularly you don't just use it all day long I wouldn't be too worried about it just don't let too much of dust the fan and the grill okay the ACS GL 7:02 starts at $1,400 the exterior is a mix of aluminum and plastic materials with good build quality the screen is reasonably color accurate and bright with g-sync support the backlit keyboard is comfortable to type on the trackpad is surprisingly good it's running a 6,700 HQ and a GTX 1060 which push out awesome performance but the system gets quite hot despite having three fans the 16 gigs of ram and the drive bays are all easily accessed and upgradable the 76 watt hour battery will last you around three hours of regular use so if you're looking for a 17-inch gaming laptop that's thin and light and has a Pascal based graphics chip there aren't that many options out there this one is a pretty good value at $1,400 it has great performance has a g-sync panel but keep in mind that it gets hot at the end of this video hope you guys liked it thumbs we did subs if you loved it it's been nice and I'll see you guys next time