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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is the ARS x7 v6 so this is their slim 17-inch gaming laptop it comes packed with Pascal and a bunch of other cool features but this particular model starts at 2700 dollars is pretty expensive let's see if it's worth it I've always liked the laptop designs from ARS it's got the smooth finish matte block and aside from that logo that lights up I feel it's something that Batman could use it's a gaming laptop that doesn't scream gamer it's nice the build quality on the x7 has always been good it's got a nice fit and finish great hinge limited screen and chassis flex and if I'm not mistaken these have a two-year warranty if I don't edit that out this has a two-year warranty it's a 17 inch laptop so there's lots of ports audio jacks Ethernet three display outputs so you can set up invidious around three USB threes and SD card slot and a USB 3.1 and type-c but unfortunately it does not have Thunderbolt three support the internals are easily accessed and inside you'll find four RAM slots so you can get up to 64 gigs of ram for drive bays a two and a half inch SATA drive and the other three are empty slots the included drive is from Toshiba with great speeds there's also an optional live stream engine that fits into one of the MT slots and that supposedly takes the burden off your CPU for recording and streaming gameplay the battery down here is 94 watt hours it gets you around three to three and a half hours of regular use there is no Nvidia Optimus on the x7 because it has a g-sync panel and that's the price of admission for g-sync but something neat that I found is that you can check the battery status when it's off using the system activity lights the keyboard has individual RGB lighting and it's easy to customize there are some dim spots on the bigger keys the overall typing experience though is great good travel good layout nice spacing my only concern is the positioning of the macro keys they're a little close and I've hit a macro switch a few times instead of the Tildy or escape button it uses an eel and trackpad the surface is nice it textured glass tracking is decent the button mechanism is okay there's nothing bad about it it's just not amazing and it doesn't feel premium in any way the x7 can be equipped with this 17-inch 1440p panel with g-sync running at 120 Hertz games look incredibly smooth on the screen it has a matte finish and it's not a touch screen color accuracy is pretty good once you calibrate it and it gets reasonably bright viewing angles are decent but with a 5 millisecond response time the screen is excellent for gaming it's actually one of the best on the market for competitive gamers the webcam up top looks and sounds like this but there's also an option to green-screen the image in case your streamers so if you paired this 120 Hertz g-sync panel with an unlocked CPU and a powerful GPU you get awesome performance like desktop awesome you can easily overclock the CPU turbo to 4 gigahertz which is the base speed of the desktop 6700 K and then the GTX 1017 here has almost identical performance to the desktop gtx 1070 so yeah this thing is a beast 1080p gaming is a breeze overwatch and ultra goes above 150 frames per second doom on Ultra is around 120 frames per second which were three hovers around 80 frames per second with hair works off closer to 60 frames per second with hair works on now if you play at the native 1440p resolution you can't really tell that much of a difference between 1440p gaming and 1080p gaming on a 17 inch screen you can tell the difference but you really have to stare at the pixels to notice it Assassin's Creed unity which is still one of the most demanding games clock sent around 50 frames per second with everything maxed out at 1440p so this laptop delivers some serious performance thermally it's properly cooled 5 heat pipes 2 fans it doesn't throttle at the base speeds or even when overclocked to 4 gigahertz they did a great job with thermal management fan noise however can be loud you can reduce fan speed with the software but if you let it do its own thing on automatic it's audible on idle and loud when under load you'll need headphones to play games comfortably but with performance like this you kind of want the laptop to be cooled aggressively there's even optional kickstands in the box that you can use to raise the laptop a bit to help with cooling there speakers are pretty good there's two that fire at the side and then there's two subs on the bottom they're not amazing because the laptop isn't very thick but to get loud and they're clear they're great for media consumption but because of how loud the fans get under load headphones are better for games so with the ARS x7 v6 you're getting a powerful gaming laptop with a really good build quality the 17-inch display is a 120 Hertz g-sync panel and games look really nice on it the keyboard has individual RGB lighting and is nice to type on the trackpad is improved from previous generations but it's still not amazing on the inside the skylake 6820 HK and the nvidia gtx 1070 deliver killer performance and are very well cooled but the fans get loud the four ram slots and the four drive bays are all easy to access and easy to upgrade and then there's a 94 watt hour battery that gets around three maybe three and a half hours of battery life so I think errors did a fantastic job on the x7 v6 I've got great performance really good expandability and a fantastic screen all in a package that is remarkably thin for the type of performance that it pushes out the thing that I don't love about it is the price tag at $2,700 this thing is very steep so it really depends on your budget but what you do get with this is literally the best performing 17-inch gaming laptop that's at an inch thick if you want that there's only this one but if you're looking for something else with better value obviously this isn't the one for you that's the end of this 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