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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is a video on two laptops the ACS GL five five three and the ACS GL seven five three both have been updated with the Intel seventh generation chips so the KB Lake HQ processors as well as the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 TI video cards both of them are pretty similar this is a 15-inch model this is a 17 inch model so the design of these laptops are a mix between the older red and black devices like the five five two and seven five SKU but they've been updated with this bright orange accent so it's got the aluminum top panel brushed finish with these orange accents when it's in use the backlighting kicks in and gives a little pop their brights I mean it's basically neon orange but I personally prefer this look over the old one I was getting tired of the red and black look the rest of it is made with plastic materials even the bottom panel but it's well-made and if I remember how the 5 5 q + 7 5 2 felt this feels better everything is a tighter fit and there's just less material flex overall even the screens feel more rigid the hinge is a little stiff I can't open it with one hand but the overall build quality feels really solid the port selection is good on the 15-inch lots of USB ports including a type C but it's not done about three there's also audio Ethernet and an HDMI port the 17-inch model has an extra USB and a mini DisplayPort and then both of them have SD readers up front and if you've noticed obstacle drives on the side now optical drives obviously aren't for everyone but if you need them these laptops have them the headphone jack and the right side use B ports are both located towards the front so when you have peripherals plugged in it feels a little bit off at first like when you're playing games the mouse cord is right there and same with the headphone cord but you get used to it on the inside we have two RAM slots a two and a half inch SATA Drive and an m2 SSD the one they include is a SATA stick so speeds aren't amazing but all these are upgradable the battery as you can see is small we have the same issues we've seen in older ACS gaming laptops where by adding the optical drive yes that's nice to have a drive but you're taking up precious real estate on the inside and consequently the battery is smallest so in these particular laptops the seven model I'm getting around three hours of battery-life on the 15 inch model we're getting three and a half hours not terrible but I wish the battery was a little bit bigger the 15 and 17 inch screens are both solid tendency panels not touchscreen but they're bright and have good contrast and viewing angles so neither of my units had any kind of backlight bleeding they're not juicing panels and they're not particularly color accurate but they're great for playing games the keyboards are nice I really like the layout it's actually one of very few keyboards that have the number pad on the right while keeping the arrow keys properly spaced and without weird placement of shift keys or anything the key travel feels nice and then new for this year both of these keyboards have customizable RGB lighting it's done through software and you can adjust for zones not individually lit but it's a nice addition lighting like this is always fun to play with the trackpad is very good windows precision drivers there's no skipping around and there's good gesture recognition the surface is plastic not glass but has a nice texture and it supports handwriting recognition which is kannan II now it's not something that I'd ever used but if you have a character based language like Japanese or something then yeah it can pretty cool in terms of CPU performance the KB Lake chip is about 10% faster on benchmarks than the skylake 6700 HQ but when I'm using it at work or browsing the web I don't really notice that to be an increase it's maybe a little bit snappier but combined with the gtx 1050 or 1050 TI it's a pretty capable machine for games for the GTX 1050 we're looking at around a 20 to 25 percent increase in performance over the 960 m on benchmarks depending on the game you can either increase graphics quality or just stay at the same quality and get higher frame rates I'm always about getting higher frame rates so something like overwatch on a gtx 960m even though i averaged 70 frames per second on high graphics at 1080p when there's a ton of stuff happening it can drop to low 50s which I find difficult to play on on the GTX 1050 I'm averaging around 90 frames per second so when the flights get gnarly I'm still above 60 frames per second the 1050 Ti is even higher it's pushing over 110 second on the same settings more demanding games like Battlefield one will hover around 45 frames per second on high graphics 1080p and this is for the GTX 1050 and another 1050 Ti it's closer to around 55 frames per second the extremely demanding games like Witcher 3 are still not very playable in these cards on high settings on medium settings we're looking at 60 frames per second on the 10 50 and 70 frames per second on the 1050 Ti now if you're looking to do VR it's kind of capable but not really I'll be to a more comprehensive video on that in the near future so if you want to see that be subscribed the fans are controllable using the AC software but if you set it on automatic it's not too bad on idle but when it's under load especially on the 1050 Ti models they can get pretty loud there's no significant CPU throttling during benchmarks the fans do a respectable job cooling it down but the exhaust area gets pretty hot the speakers actually sound quite different between the two models the 17-inch ones sound better there have better bass more clarity but the 15-inch ones actually get louder none of them are amazing speakers but they're not bad alright so with the GL 5 v 3 and the 7 v 3 you're getting devices with an aluminum top panel plastic pretty much everywhere else but good build quality they both start at $1,100 with a gtx 1050 but you can configure them with a 1050 Ti and extra storage for $1,300 the screens are both 1080p panels bright and with good contrast but they don't have good color accuracy the keyboard is nice to type on and the RGB lighting that they've included this year is pretty cool the trackpad is good actually think it's one of the best trackpads of this price point inside the KB Lake i7 and the GTX 1050 are a nice bump up from the previous generation about 25% better than 960m and it's another 25% for the 1050 Ti both configurations are properly cooled the 16 gigs of ram and the to serve drives are all easy to access and up readable the 48 watt hour battery is relatively small and despite the better energy efficiency of a new cpus it still only gets you three two maybe three and a half hours of battery life but overall I like what they're doing here I definitely like these more than the 5 v 2 and the 7 v 2 from the previous generation I mean those are nice but the design language is feeling but dated this is obviously being refreshed I like the orange I like the RGB keyboard and it's kind of like a mid tier mid budget gaming laptop so that's what you're looking for take a look at these ones that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it sums that we did subs if you loved it see you guys next time