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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers and access hotnet and today we're looking at this a very big laptop this is eight pounds more than my nerd arms can handle you can see it's about two inches thick and about 17 inches wide so we'll just put this down over here this is a cyber power fan book 3h x7 - 300 it is very powerful and it is built effectively as a desktop replacement which we'll talk more about in a moment the fan book 3 was put through our extensive battery testing FPS testing and thermal testing benchmark so the processor in this thing is an Intel i7 37 10 MQ 3.5 gigahertz processor that is a mouthful and it's actually more powerful in a lot of desktop CPUs it's very good with media production like video rendering and obviously good with gaming as a result of that other than the CPU it's got a gtx 980m mobile version of Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs so the 980m very powerful for gaming and media tasks it's got 16 gigabytes of Ripjaws 1600 megahertz RAM that is ddr3 of course and then it's got a 128 gigabyte SSD alongside a 1 terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive these are this is not an m2 SSD by the way it's a proper SATA SSD and the hard drive is a standard laptop hard drive at 7200 rpm so very good specs and the performance of course you would expect is also very good now with most laptops you have a few concerns first of all they sort of die over time with thermals and that is especially because of thermal paste losing its efficacy as the laptop ages it sort of dries out and needs to be replaced and other than that the fan bearings get worn or the system is in too cramped of a space and it's generating lots of heat over its whole life which is what causes the compound to dry out so these are our concerns with laptops and a quick disclaimer I can only test these things for a few weeks at a time before we have to publish a review so I don't know what's gonna happen in a year or two but I can predict pretty well based on how the laptop is designed and how it is built and that's what we're looking at right now so inside you can see I can just remove the back panel here we have instant access to the GP or the CPD of the RAM and the hard drives or SSDs in this case so that's basically everything anyone who's ever opened a laptop before notice how big this is normally you have to remove the backplate you unscrew a bunch more screws under that flip it over remove the keyboard and then after you remove the keyboard you move the chassis you remove a protective plate that sits on top of the GPU and the CPU and then you have access to the heat sinks that we want to mess with to redo the thermal paste this one you just removed the back and you can see everything so that's pretty cool now when we look at it we can also see the thermal design and the design of this laptop is very good actually it uses a single side intake vent where the fan is so it's pulling air in from that vent from the side and then it's got a bunch of bottom layer exhaust vents now this means you can't ever lay it on a blanket or anything like that you basically got to use it on a solid service all the time but that's sort of expected with a desktop replacement the laptop uses large heat pipes and a couple of large aluminum copper heat sinks on top of the core components so it should stay pretty cool and actually does stay pretty cool in our thermal testing and as long as you've got it on a solid surface it will exhaust all that heat now this laptop is two thousand dollars two thousand eighty dollars to be exact and it is very similar to an MSI gt70 in fact uses the same chassis as the MSI gt70 if you're familiar with that one what's different though unlike the GT 70 this one ships with a gtx 980m and the SSD and a slightly better slightly better other components at two thousand $80.00 you basically have a high-end gaming computer you could build this system in desktop form for probably closer to $1500 but it's it's marginally less portable than the CyberPower notebook we're looking at today and I say marginally because this thing is big enough that you're really only going to be moving it between work and home and maybe a land event with friends you're not going to moving it around on an hour to hour basis it's really not that portable let's look at the benchmarks in terms of gameplay you can see that the gtx 980m is capable of pushing ninety FPS in some titles and basically always stays at or above say the FPS which is very playable in fact more powerful than a lot of desktop GPUs that's because the 980 M is in here with an i7 CPU in terms of battery operated gameplay the 9 ATM throttles itself very hard this is an Nvidia design not a cyber powered design the GPU will actually throttle down so that it is only powerful enough to push a constant 30 fps which is what they sort of define as a playable fps when you're on battery this helps preserve battery life by reducing the amount of power required by the GTX 980 because it was only working hard enough to push 30 fps when it is functioning on battery in our tests using pure gaming meaning you're not doing anything else by gaming for the entire life of the battery it lives about an hour and 24 minutes not too bad but also not fantastic and when you're not gaming it's only slightly longer than that pushes about three hours at the very very best using an efficient power control settings our thermal benchmark looks more like this this shows the thermals of desktop GPUs along with the mobile GP we just tested and you can see it's about four degrees warmer than the GTX and I needed reference video card you put in a desktop considering the amount of power this thing has in the cramped space it's in that's pretty solid overall because some of the Toshiba gaming laptops I've looked at pushed closer to 90 Celsius and then eventually burn out the thermal paste and then you've got overheating problems for the rest a little hop tops life so this thing theoretically will not run at that issue because of the thermal design that we looked at earlier and because the 980 M is a very efficient GPU so what's the verdict here well in terms of gaming it's very high-end gaming performance you can push this to a 1440p display and have no problem whatsoever playing games at that resolution and it's basically a desktop it is it truly a desktop replacement this thing is not a laptop in the sense we normally think of them it's not ultra portable and you probably will have to buy a new backpack for it to be honest because it doesn't fit a lot of backpacks that I have for conventions that said it is very powerful for media production it rendered 2 minute 28 megabit per second videos in about two minutes and that's pretty revolutionary for people who produce a lot of media content at 2080 dollars the value is actually very good compared to other laptops on the market MSI's and and the gaming power the performance is also very good what you lose is portability so this isn't something I can review for you you need to decide how portable does my laptop need to be and if it's not too portable and it can effectively be a desktop do I really want a laptop instead of a desktop in other words is this something you're bringing into the office orbiting into LAN events or something like that I probably wouldn't use this laptop for school if you're one of those people because it's really not portable enough for that you're not gonna want to lug it out of a backpack and put on desk whatever it's not good for that you want something skinnier and a little shorter but if you want a 17 inch screen for media production for high-end gaming and you can put it where a desktop normally goes this is very good value the frame rates are great and CyberPower has a pretty solid warranty program so that is the CyberPower fame book 3 check link to the description below for full review and the benchmark charts and I will see you all next time peace you