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this here is a sirs Helios 500 it's kind of like the bigger brother to the Helios 300 and it's a device that almost replaces the predator 17 and the predator 17 ex from last year so those were really popular gaming devices this is kind of like the successor to it it looks quite different though instead of the black and red it's predominantly blue and I like the look of it the design is obviously very gamer oriented it's got angular trim pieces and the whole design language does feel appropriate further predator named tech so the build quality feels good it is plastic there's no aluminium on the top or the bottom or anywhere on the exterior but it feels well built in comparison to other gaming laptops of this caliber with like 17-inch gaming laptops that often have aluminum around it the big advantage is price obviously by using probably carbonate or just other plastic materials they're able to keep the cost down but also weight this is a lighter laptop than something like the Alienware device it's not as tanky as an alienware like if I threw both of them off the stairs this would probably crack before hey Leon where did but it's still a really solid machine in terms of the ports it's got plenty of i/o display outputs on the back and use B ports on the sides there's three use bas and then two you species both of them support the Thunderbolt 3 now to access the inside it's not super difficult there's actually a hatch on the bottom it's got two screws and that's it the rest of the back panel does come off but it's a little bit more work now inside you get access to the Wi-Fi card this one's the killer 1550 it's an intel-based card it's a fast one I like it you also have four RAM slots there's only two easily accessed you can remove everything to get to the other two but you have to easy to access ones you get three Drive bays two of them nvme one of them SATA the battery in here isn't small but it's a pretty serious laptop I'm willing getting around three hours of battery life that's what screen at 250 nits and that's not playing games that's just like regular use if you're playing games expect 45 minutes to an hour of battery life but that's just what it is that's what gaming laptops are like okay the screen is really nice this is a 144 Hertz panel made by a yuo it honestly looks really similar in image quality to the 15-inch 144 Hertz screen that we've seen a lot of the high-end gaming laptops right now but this screen also has g-sync so not only is it bigger it's a 17.3 inch screen but it also has g-sync and it looks really nice when you're playing games the unfortunate thing is that because of g-sync you don't have access to Nvidia Optimus so you don't have the power savings from that you have a really short battery life brightness is good and the color accuracy is respectable it's a very nice screen the keyboard is pretty comfortable it's a big laptop so the whole typing surface is elevated a little bit but once you get used to it it's a nice keyboard the layout is spacious the keystrokes are nice and it also has programmable macro keys up top I like the trackpad it's a glass surface windows precision drivers blue lighting on the perimeter and hardware buttons below it these buttons have quite a bit of travel when you press it but it's a good trackpad now the performance on this device is excellent we're talking just straight-up excellent now this unit has an overclockable eye 9 and that's a chip that can get pretty hot but the thermals on this device are really well done five heat pipes big fans big heat sinks and blue heat sinks for extra bonus points it's a great thermal design the fans are quiet on idle but they can get loud especially if you spin them up fast you'll want to use headphones when you're playing games the GPU is an overclocked old gtx 1070 and again pushes out really good performance this is a GPU that I think will last several years in terms of gaming life at 1080p it's just a really good combination the speakers are located on the bottom but they sound really good despite that imperfect location they get loud but still a clean sound and there's a sub on the bottom it's nothing crazy but it gives it a little bass or just some body to the audio so my overall thoughts on this bad boy it is a powerful laptop and I think that the six core CPU and the gtx 1070 are gonna last quite a while the components that they have in here are smart it's overclockable very well cooled and upgradability is good it's easy to access a little bulky and heavy I mean it's a 17-inch gaming laptop right so if frequent transportation is a thing for you then I would consider something thinner and/or lighter but if you don't need crazy portability this is a pretty cool pickup it's powerful it's well cooled overclock well GPU overclock will CPU they did a lot of stuff right on this thing now there's another variants to this that's gonna come an AMD like Rison and Vega for the CPU and GPU and that's pretty promising I'm excited for that I don't know if I'll do a full review on it because it's going to be very similar to this but I'll probably post something on Twitter or maybe Instagram to kind of compare the two but that's basically it okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time