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so gigabytes enthusiast gamer brand horas has never skipped on hardware for their top-of-the-line laptops the brand-new horas x5 b7 is no exception it brings an overclockable Intel cable like CPU powerful nvidia geforce gtx 1070 graphics and even a high-resolution display to a sleek and compact chassis well it doesn't qualify as an nvidia max-q laptop the exercise that pushes that just above max q spec has ensured an uncompromised gaming experience for hardware we're looking at a quad-core intel core i7 7820 HK processor and yes this is a case series processor indicating the CPU can be overclocked GTX 1070 graphics with 8 gigabytes of gddr5 is paired with a high resolution g-sync display is a 28 80 by 1620 or in the case of motive unit here for K 16 gigabytes of ram is standard but again always kick that up for their review 'not here 32 gigabytes you find site there's also an end up to SSD and a hard drive I mentioned the exercise v7 isn't a max-q laptop but that doesn't mean it's outrageously large in fact as far as gtx 1070 laptops go this species on the smaller side with the thickness of 22.9 millimeters and a weight of 2 point 5 kilograms it's a 15.6 inch unit 2 so the overall footprint end of massive which makes it easy to carry around although keep in mind you'll need to carry around the 600 gram power brick if you want to make full use of the basically hardware inside this laptop the extra is cooling solution comprises of a lot of vents to provide enough air flow to the i7 7820 HK and gjx 1070 inside but perhaps not as many events as appear at first glance fans at the top left and right corners drawing air through vents on the top and base of the laptop which is then exhausted through the back end sides the vent that surrounds the illuminated or slow go power button as well as the side vents at the front of the laptop and used for the multi speaker setup magnesium chassis looks pretty nice and I love the lid in particular with its illuminated or logo the x5 v 7 is equipped with a fantastic array of ports the left has HDMI 2.0 2 USB 3.0 and card reader the right mini displayport 1.32 3.5 mm audio jacks Thunderbolt 3 there's USB 3.1 type C port there and the back well you see a power port Ethernet and two more USB 3.0 ports as a minor complaint it's hard to tell the difference between the Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 type-c ports without looking at the tiny logos printed next to them they're both USB type-c so they pretty much look identical the keyboard used on the x5 v 7 is gigabytes new laptop design I first saw on the arrow 15 its travel distance is good for a gaming laptop with a nice cookie response to the rubber dome keycaps the amount of force required to activate each key makes it a great option for both typing and gaming and allow is respectable as well especially the large sizes for the left modifier keys and the inclusion of both a numpad and macro keys is a welcome inclusion all this includes full RGB backlighting here with the ability to individually customize the color of every key you can achieve awesome effects through diffusion utility and you can also create profiles for each game that illuminate just the keys acquired to be game utility and customized ability isn't as well featured as razors competing offering though it's nice to see another laptop with full RGB keyboard lighting the trackpad well it's a garbage elearn unit so I'm not going to spend too much time on it because especially at high resolutions it's tracking performance is pretty poor you need to use a mouse with this laptop on the other hand the display is one of the best aspects to the x5 v 7 most gaming laptops up to use boring 1080p displays which often don't get the most out of the hardware inside them decks 5 v 7 comes in to display options and neither are 1080p you get a wqhd + display or a UHD display both with g-sync and both with IPS technology my review that was the UHD 4k model so it's no surprise to discover that it has just a maximum refresh rate of 60 Hertz but do you think he is still hugely important for a smooth gaming experience like the gigabyte aro 15 the OS X 5 v 7 is x-rite Pantone certified which means the laptop comes with an sRGB accurate display profile that can be toggled in the command and control utility most gaming laptops are poor in terms of their display accuracy but thanks to the x-rite Pantone d x5 b7 is actually quite decent in this regard not as good as the area of 15 but below a delta value of 2.0 across our color tests and with an average color temperature that's near accurate color calibration comes at the expense of brightness the x5 b7 is only capable of 265 minutes of brightness and the IPS contrast ratio of 1041 to 1 is only okay but for those who require a fully calibrated display I was able to achieve fantastic results with spectra tile Kanban by pushing a delta e average of below 0.7 across the board that's dead accurate as far as I'm concerned the us X 5 b7 includes slightly different hardware than we usually see in gaming laptops most gaming machines opt with Intel's Core i7 7700 HQ that's a locked quad core eight thread processor with a base code for 2.8 Q Hertz Bruce up to three point eight gigahertz the x5 b7 though uses a higher-end cable a quad core the core i7 7820 HK which by default is quite a 2.90 goats and boost up to 3.9 gigahertz now normally you know a hundred megahertz clock speed increase not easy to get excited about but the i7 7820 HK is AK a serious processor so it can be overclocked and out of the box the OSX 5v7 makes use of this capability pushing the clock speed up to 4.2 gigahertz for single core workloads and 3.8 gigahertz for all core work words sometimes I observe this all core clock speeds dip to 3.6 gigahertz students sustained usage that's still you know a hundreds of 300 megahertz overclock which is nothing to sneeze at in laptop form factor the GPU well NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with a gigabytes of gddr5 has always been the case the laptop gtx 1070 slightly different to the desktop part with more cuda cores and a lower peak rate of clock speed the performance though of both chips is pretty much the same my review 'not was killed out with 32 gig of g.skill ripjaws ddr4 2400 although i believe 16 gig is the norm for this laptop inside our to end up two slots although only one is occupied in this case with a Toshiba thn sn5 256gb SSD not a mouthful at all but that is a 256 gig nvm I PCIe SSD it and you can store more than just three games in it because there's also a one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive from HD SD as you'd expect system performance is a bit higher than what I've seen in the past and gaming laptops to pack that 7700 HQ the clock speed differences of up to 400 megahertz do lead to better performance in some situations particularly rendering workloads like Cinebench and the x264 benchmark here's the CPU can be up to 20 percent faster which is a decent margin that does help when it comes to games storage performance is also decent there nothing hugely outstanding as most gaming laptops these days include fast and blocked two drives with sequential performance above 1 gigabyte per second a larger drive would be nice though as I mentioned before there's a spare and up to 14 sites upgradability there's two questions to answer when it comes to the graphics performance of the x5 b7 we know the gtx 1070 is a highly capable GPU at 1080p but is the extra CPU power of the i7 7820 HK if we perform it significantly compared to more typical i7 7700 HQ laptops and secondly it's the gtx 1070 with this cpu good enough for mobile gaming at 4k after all there's a 4k display in this laptop so if the GPU is capable I'm sure you'll want to use that functionality let's answer the first question to begin with across a range of more recent games the extra CPU power no doubt has a significant impact on gaming performance looking at GTA 5 we can see an uplift in both average and minimum frame rate over the Asuza rog gol 502 vs which is the gtx 1070 laptop equipped with a weaker i7 70 782 cpu with the 1% load now pushing above 60fps it's an ideal experience with four times MSA a rise of the Tomb Raider goes from unplayable to playable a maximum saying thanks to the faster CPU which pushes minimum frame rates above 30 fps now you probably wouldn't want to play at those settings when turning off assets AAA plastically improves performance but it's good to note in any case Deus Ex mankind divided isn't massively impacted by the faster CPU the performance is marginally better in both average and middle frame rates it's a pretty GPU limited game so there's no surprise here here man gets a big bump in average framer and a booster minimums now pushing about 60fps 99% of the time it man is pretty CPU intensive so it's no surprise to see the faster 7820 HK delivering a good speed bump in this game civilization 6 is another CPU limit again the benefits significantly from the CPU speed bump in the Auris x5 p7 the game is a very playable on i7 7200 HQ considering the built-in benchmark is a bit of a stress test but more frames on average and at minimum it's always nice and thanks for the faster CPU here watchdogs - again more performers from the Auris X 5 b7 in what is a demanding game on the CPU it's nice to see the GTX 970 being capable of 1080p ultra detailed settings and there's extra few frames certainly helped the last game we'll be looking at here is Mass Effect Andromeda inside the surprisingly demanding tempest I don't have any comparison data from the GL 502 vs but it's nice to see much better performance the GTX 970 laptops in any case we have navale employments expect much better performance than these numbers show so as far as gaming at 4k is concerned the GTX 1070 isn't powerful enough for me to comfortably say 4k gaming is possible in every game there's certainly some times where the OS X 5v7 can push decent frame rates at 4k but the most intensive games in my test suite were simply too much for the GPU at decent quality levels as you can see from the table only hitman and civilization of 6 were playable at 4k Ultra quality with minimum frame rates above 30fps u.s. x5 v 7 as a decent display so the experience with these sort of performance levels in a decent although I suspect some people probably want a little bit better than unless in other tiles you need to play around with reduced quality saved hit playable performance at 4k the good news is that for the most part you don't need to reduce quality levels too far to hit a minimum frame rate above 30fps some games were very playable on high details at 4k what others required degree down to medium details instead but the great thing about having a 4k display on a laptop like this if you can choose between high resolution gaming and high performance gaming depending on the game and your if you prefer ultra quality and 60fps you can plant 1080p with that much hassle but if we want a native 4k exclus or you're playing at a game where you know the gtx density is no trouble at 4k you'll have the ability to push up the resolution for much sharper gameplay the main downside to the OS X yv7 performance are the noise levels from the cooling solution this laptops isn't quiet especially in the Lord and has a tendency to run expands at an audible level even when the workout is like headphones are a must for gaming temperatures are reasonable though not fantastic after 30 minutes of gambia watchdogs to the CPU was sitting in a toasty 88 degrees Celsius from approximately 70% usage while the GPU set at 85 degrees there is some thermal Headroom as far as the fans are concerned because they can spend up a bit higher than they were under this test though as clear OS has designed the laptop for the factory overclock they've gone with it's also worth mentioning that some moves of the laptop chassis can get pretty hot the W a s and D keys get a bit harder than I usually like and the upper parts of the magnesium body probably shouldn't be touched during like the usage but if you want a premium gaming experience there's no doubt in my mind that you'll get it with the Auris x5 b7 the collection of top-end Hardware particularly the overclockable i7 7820 HK and high-resolution g-sync display delivers a notably bennet gaming experience of a more basic gtx 1070 laptops with the core i7 7700 HQ inside to get the OS x 5v sevens premium GTX 970 gaming experience you need to pay a hefty premium though gtx 1070 laptops tend to start around the 1500 to 1700 u.s. dollar mark by the entry-level x5 v 7 costs a whopping $2,400 of course you're getting much better Hardware in every regard though some will find it hard to you know swallow as $900 margin we're not quite hitting GTX 280 laptop pricing but this laptop does come pretty close anyway that's it for this look at the x5 v 7 if you're interested in this laptop you can check us current prices in the description below also definitely head over to tech spot and take a look at the written review because I covered a few things in there that I didn't discuss in this video for time reasons clocking the CPU and GPU is one of those things anyway that's it for now and I'll catch you in the next one