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what's up guys steve here from gamers nexus bringing you the hard-hitting tech content here from CES 28 what are you doing I'm sorry hey guys this is the gigabyte x9 laptop so we just took it apart this is I think this is one of the sort of handmade prototypes which makes it a bit cool because you can still see engineering marks all over the boards and there's some tape in places that obviously won't be there in the final models but we like looking at stuff like that at CES because it gives you a better idea of how the actual development went for the product before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a 360 millimeter radiator with three ring RGB LED fans you can program the fans our custom lighting through software and then of course benefit from the larger radiator size and cooling performance learn more at the link in the description below the reason we took this one apart is just because the cooling solution is kind of unique it's a four fan cooling solution they are all radial fans so therefore blower fans basically two in the opposing corners towards the back of the laptop and then two on the top of the laptop and because their blower fans anywhere obviously the fan blades are exposed that's your intake there's ventilation here on the panel as you can see there in the Eagle shape or whatever that is so there's your intake exhaust comes out in sort of narrow slats on the sides in the back and the top side has mesh for its own radial fans so for the heat sinks the reason they've got four fans on here is because this is basically a portable desktop it's not really meant to be used on battery it does have a 6,200 milliamp hour battery but it's also got two gtx 970 s and sli and a high-end i7k be like gen cpu so not gonna not gonna last very long battery but that's okay it's not meant to so for the cooling solution you got all the fans connected there are several heat pipes connected to two cold plates I think copper cold plates for the GPUs I think a copper cold plate for the CPU the PCH is under its own heat sink I think but we'll talk about that more in a second as for the heat pipes there's a couple eight mills so one eight mill for each of the radial fans on the backside and a couple of six mill pipes opposing those actually this may be the chipset over here with a pipe going to it as well so the reason I'm talking about the chipset is because technically you could maybe try to make raid work with m2 SSDs doing that in a laptop with actual high sustained reads and writes and not so sure how it does thermally but so they're not tech they're not officially recommending it but you could try for memory you'll notice that because the size of the laptop there are actually four so dim slots and I think from what I've been told you can run up to 64 gigabytes so if you wanted an insane mobile editing rig or something you could do that that covers most the core components I believe this is one of the thinnest if not the thinnest high-end gaming laptop in terms of the actual performance power output versus the form factor and I will have b-roll shots of it you can see it's it's pretty small one more thing here the keyboard has a mechanical feel I don't know who makes the switches but they've been referred to as like Browns basically it's not a cherry Brown switch but it does kind of have a feel more like a Romer G or a damped Brown like on the g7 10 as far as I'm concerned but that's all we know about the keyboard for now so that's the X 9 and this particular unit I think is $3,700 it's up there it's getting towards 4 grand the display is a 4k display they also have 1440p which they're calling 3k sometimes but it's the same thing it's a 4k panel 60 Hertz and that about covers it so thank you for watching as always you can subscribe for more CES coverage patreon.com/scishow Gary's next stop was that directly and Paul's channel will be in the description below I'll see you next time