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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers and access net and we're here still at the AMD suite or booth at CES 2016 looking at the new razor blade stuff laptop with its external GPU enclosure and that's sort of the big deal here so first of all the CES 2016 coverage is brought to you by high powers revolt two small form-factor gaming PC getting back to the laptop the big thing here is the external enclosure we've seen this before with the Silverstone I believe what's called the sgo to a couple of years ago now and that was just a case that was pretty early in the days of external GPU now we have things like the alienware setup that's that was Sean last year it's been out for a while and the thing with the alienware setup is it uses a proprietary connector so you really have to use it with their laptop with the way this is set up the razor stealth blade plus the external enclosure as we've looked at here today the enclosure is actually hot swappable so that's the big news you can just unplug or connect the GPU externally as needed and then disconnect it when you're ready to go so there's no shutdown required as has been required with some other external displays and that is done very similarly to the way that an external hard drive or USB device would be connected and disconnected just using the windows interface what we know about the specs offhand is that this is using the Thunderbolt three-point o interface which is actually a 40 gigabit per second interface the equivalent of about a PCIe x4 or so slot and just from talking to Andy we haven't personally or internally validated this ourselves but will do so in the future from speaking with Andy the external enclosure at the x4 equivalent PCIe laning performs about 6% slower than by 16 set up so it's really not a big hit considering the portability but obviously the big deal here is always priced when you're looking at is this sort of setup actually worth it versus building more portable computers and I don't know the price of the external enclosure just yet for the GPUs I know the laptop started a thousand dollars for the razor blade stealth units specifically but you should be able to just plug the enclosure into anything that's Thunder ball three point 0 enabled and run with it from there so the display system is running an r 9 nano right now the laptop is on an i7 6500 with 8 gigabytes of RAM it's a 0.5 to inch thickness so basically an ultrabook even though Intel no longer calls at that and that's all we know for this right now but check the length description below for more information that hit the previous AMD video that we just did on the Polaris GPU architecture versus the GTX 950 thanks for watching I'll see you all next time