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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is my review of the razor blade that's been updated with the GTX 1060 if you're actually interested in purchasing one I would highly recommend watching my original video that's like a full review this is more of an addendum where I talk about some of the new features as well as some long-term thoughts about the razor blade so first right now a lot of companies do light up keyboards some of them with zone lighting some of them with individually lit keys but razor does it the best it looks the cleanest the colors the most vibrant I still don't think you should buy a laptop just for cool keyboard lighting but if that's your thing this is my favorite one the other thing is the screen this is the new 10 DP screen option and I really like it now if you're a high res content creator or a touchscreen addict sure go for the quad HD screen but if the main reason you're getting a razor blade is for gaming I would strongly consider the 1080p screen it'll save you a bit of money your games will run awesome at 1080p and honestly unless your pixel peeping you can't tell the difference when you're in the middle of a game it's bright its color accurate it has a matte finish and you'll get better battery life it's a really nice screen in terms of a review everything from the 970m version still holds true it has amazing build quality good keyboard and trackpad and decent speakers I still recommend getting a skin for the top and bottom to protect the finish the matte black skin from D brand looks awesome so the big difference is the GTX 1060 that's replacing the 970m on the outgoing model it's a really good card but I've benchmarked it a lot I've even made a gaming montage I'll link that below but the short of it is this this GPU is boss for 1080p gaming almost everything runs at 60 frames per second or higher even on ultra graphics doom will comfortably get around 85 frames per second battlefield 1 clocks in around 80 frames per second this game has such incredible looking graphics but the card still pushes out crazy good frame rates on ultra 1080p Far Cry primal stresses the card a bit you'll be able to go above 60 once in a while but you'll average 55 frames per second on Ultra 1080p and of course you can connect it to a razor core for a future external graphics upgrades the fan noise is unchanged it's quiet on idle but it's loud under load quiet mode helps a bit but it's still pretty audible the thing that was most curious about was thermals I was worried there would be throttling issues the heat mapping is similar to the 970m model but I'm seeing less thermal throttling one thing I noticed is that the GTX 1060 runs cooler the GPU temperature is on the 970 m model we're around 84 or 85 degrees this time I'm seeing it closer to 80 and just for kicks I ran the stress test on the blade on a neoprene mousepad to try to get it to heat up and it's slightly warmer but there's still no heavy throttling so I wouldn't be too worried about thermal issues battery life remains the same I still get around five and a half hours of battery life with normal use on the 1080p screen and this is with the screen at around 250 nits okay the razor blade starts at $1,800 which isn't cheap there are other laptops out there with a similar kind of performance and even form-factor for a little bit less like the ARS x5 s the gigabyte p55 the msi gs70 3 there are other options out there but with the razor blade you're getting obviously great performance but you're also getting the ridiculous summer of engineering hours it took to shrink this thing down into a package like this and to build it with this kind of build quality that kind of stuff isn't cheap and it certainly isn't easy because if it was everybody would be selling razor blades but they're not is it worth it it really depends on your budget but more importantly whether or not you value build quality I mean personally I do so I think it is worth the extra two or three hundred dollars but it's really up to you that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it thumbs have you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice see you guys next time