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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so razor recently announced the razor blade 15 and the razor corer X so the razor blade 15 unit that I have here is kind of like an early unit I don't spend a lot of time with it so I'm not gonna do a full review on this but my early impressions of this thing are quite positive razor basically took all the issues and kind of things that people didn't like about the razor blade 14 and tweaked it adjusted it and made this it's a brand new design and I think it's a good look not that the old one was ugly or anything but I do like this design more than the old one so the screen has been upgraded to a 15.6 inch screen instead of the fortune inch screen so no more thick bezels it's got these thin side bezels and the panels now 144 Hertz you're gonna get a significantly smoother gaming experience you got upgradable SSD upgradable Ram there's just so much stuff in here that has been improved it now has a vapor chamber for a thermal solution and it's running the 8th gen 6 core Intel CPUs along with the GTX 1060 or gtx 1070 configuration the trackpad up here is also significantly bigger and they've gotten rid of the hardware buttons like these to have these dedicated buttons for the blade 14 but now looks like the buttons are located underneath the trackpad surface it's thin it's light and seriously this laptop looks ripe ok I will be doing a dedicated video on this in the relatively near future the razor corer X this is an external GPU and for the people that are unfamiliar with external GPUs they're basically devices that you can connect up to your laptop to boost graphical performance so this works with Mac and Windows it's incredibly easy to install it's toolless you open up the back slot on your card connect up the power cables and then you're done if you plug in your laptop to this box your laptop and now go ham now the performance that you get from this is obviously gonna depend on the card that you put into this device so I have a gtx 1018 here I tried a few different cards and you can expect around 75 to 80% of the performance of a desktop installed GPU and there's a lot of laptops out there right now that don't have particularly strong graphics cards like the ultrabooks and stuff like that plug up one of these things and you can play games readily now it's not just for games you're doing video editing 3d work basically anything that GPU intensive can take advantage of this connection now these benchmarks were done with the razor blade stealth but any kind of four-lane Thunderbolt 3 equipped laptop should be able to get very similar performance as long as that's cooled properly now the one other thing to keep in mind is that you want to have your external monitor plugged up to the box that's basically how you get the best performance you can use laptop screens but it's just a significant performance it when you send the signal back it's not the end of the world that's still gonna be way better than running a device without an external GPU but for Best Performance you want to use an external monitor if you can fan noise is not too bad it depends on how far we place it and what GPU you're using but it's a quiet fan in there it uses a 650 watt power supply it'll feed a full hundred watts to whatever laptop you have connected to it and then it's got 500 watts for the GPU so you can fit some really powerful stuff in there it can take Titans you can take basically any car that I've ever used in my desktops can fit in here including three slot ones that's one of the big advantages this is a big box that can have some really big and powerful GPS if you're a Macbook user keep in mind that you need to use an AMD card Mac OS only supports AMD officially right now there are workarounds for NVIDIA cards but if you want official support as a macbook user you got to go with AMD so the pricing on this thing is what's most impressive this thing goes for $2.99 the very first external GPU that I ever purchased like the first Thunderbolt 3 equipped external GPU was 500 bucks also made by Razer the original RAZR core this is $2.99 it's a much more price competitive product when you compare to their regular razor core and I think for a lot of people that using ultra books or just laptops that aren't very powerful if it has a fundable 3 port this is now a viable option for if you want to play games and stuff like that now what is missing two big things that other devices have like the razor core and other external GPUs it doesn't have RGB lighting which I think for a lot of people they don't care about that stuff it is missing that and it is also missing ports so this has no extra ports so if you have any peripherals you have to connect it to the laptop directly and that basically wraps it up the razor core X and the Razer Blade 15 obviously this wasn't a review of this device I'll be doing a full review of it very soon so stay tuned ok hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you 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