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I'll start by being upfront I'm not the biggest fan of gaming laptops in my opinion they're generally too big too bulky performance is lacking and they're usually all around poor value as far as a gaming rig goes but for those that really need one there's a big difference between the good and the bad options and I've got to say the gigabyte P 57 W looks pretty damn good on first impression taking it out of the box I was immediately surprised and impressed by how slim this laptop is powerful gaming laptops are dealt with in the past we're quite a bit bulkier and while the P 57 w's thickness of 24.9 millimeters was comparatively thicker than your regular ultrabook it also seemed proportionate to its 421 millimeter width and 290 millimeter depth even better was the fact that this system only weighs a total of 2.9 kilograms my next point will probably be a dividing one I like the fact that the P 57 W looks pretty much like a normal laptop and there's only a few small gaming accents the top of the lid is simple and features only the gigabyte logos small aerodynamic looking lines at the base and a slight point at the very front that might give a slight suggestion of the fact that there's gaming hardware inside popping the lid open reveals a similarly subtle interior with honestly only the slim orange lines on either side of the base white squares on the WASD keys and the NVIDIA GTX sticker giving away the laptops true identity lastly there's some orange feature on the side of the hinges to know I'm honestly a fan of the look it's not over the top with LEDs skulls or aliens and the keyboard is only backlit and white no RGB is here this gaming laptop would honestly sudor maturer adult who didn't really want to advertise the fact that they're carrying around the gaming laptop for me the absence of these features means it's simple not tacky as so many other gaming laptops can be so in summary if you're looking for something to knock your mate socks off with a wacky and jaw-dropping appearance this might not be the laptop for you having said all that the design is all around plastic and doesn't give what I call a premium feel but I think the absence of aluminium and rubberized surfaces has helped keep the cost temperatures and weight down which positives in my mind the base of the unit is firm and doesn't give any flex and the lid is relatively strong to for a plastic cover to make any hardware upgrades or adjustments you need to remove the entire bottom cover of the chassis there's two RAM slots which were filled with to 8 gigabytes sticks of ddr4 in my review unit as well as an m2 SSD slot and a two and a half inch drive bay there's also a hot swappable bay at the front of the laptop where you can have an optical drive additional storage or nothing for a slight weight reduction the p50 7w is equipped with a full sized backlit keyboard which has two lighting levels that can be adjusted with the function key and the space bar as mentioned there's no RGB ease here simple white backlighting the chiclet style keys give a little bit of feedback and features 30 key anti-ghost rollover so you shouldn't have any input problems there they're pretty quiet and the travel distance is very short which can be good or bad depending on your preference the touch pad is nice and big and works pretty well it doesn't feature any physical buttons and instead the entire thing is clickable there is a slight click noise and there is feedback when it's pressed and the essential to finger scrolling works out of the box overall I'd say the touchpad is good but I think most gamers buying this laptop will likely carry around a portable Mouse anyway the P 57w features a 17.3 inch full HD IPS display that's honestly one of the best I've seen on a laptop seemingly 3k and 4k displays are getting more and more popular but I think 1080p is perfect for a gaming laptop like this while 17.3 inches is monstrous for a laptop it's not actually large for your eyeballs many windows needs to be scaled up in my opinion even Windows 10 is pretty poor doing this consistently and well across the board and the experience can be frustrating at the least 1080p is also perfect for gaming on this system I'll come to performance later but you can probably guess that it's not going to be pumping out high quality graphics settings and anything higher than 1080p so running games that is true 1080p resolution is optimal scaling down from a higher res can look blurry and if you want to avoid this and run at the full res then you'd have to be prepared to turn down a bunch of graphical settings the coating on the screen is matte meaning it's anti-glare performance is good thanks to an excellent IPS panel the display itself is awesome IPS is fantastic for color contour some viewing angle can be 178° to look at your screen from the brightness is great too and honestly I didn't notice too much of a quality difference coming from my dell 30 inch IPS panel apart from the resolution and size obviously unfortunately Nvidia's g-sync has not supported the speakers on the laptop I found at the front underneath the palm rest this means they perform best when the laptops sitting on a flat solid surface and sound as much what you'd expect it's loud for a laptop and there isn't in the face they're fine for the occasional YouTube video or TV show when you're desperate but a good set of headphones to be much more suitable plus the whole world doesn't want to hear you running through the grass and darksouls anyway taking a tour around the edges of the laptop you'll find a wealth and variety of inputs and outputs starting on the left hand side you'll find the lock slot Ethernet port and two USB 3 ports next to these are just the SD card reader and the mic and headphone ports swinging around to the right-hand side we've got a power port VGA output mini DisplayPort HDMI 2.0 USB 3.1 type C and one more USB 3 port I thought it was great to see the variety of display output types as well as 3 USB 3 ports and the inclusion of USB type-c finally it's time to get to the good stuff let's check out the specs and performance there's a full specs list in the video description so I'll just go over the important bits here powering the gaming this bad boy is invidious gtx 970m equipped with 3 gigabytes of vram and should be just about perfect for pushing most of today's games at 1080p the CPU and the p50 7w is an absolute weapon for a notebook it features intel skylake core i7 6700 HQ processor boasting 4 cores with hyper-threading with a base clock of 2.6 gigahertz and a turbo boost speed of three and a half yards you have onboard an impressively powerful CPU for all kinds of purposes and an almost excessive amount of power for gaming as mentioned there's two RAM slots allowing a maximum of 32 gigabytes by two 16 gigabyte sticks the P 57 W comes standard with 2 8 gigabyte ddr4 2133 sticks for a total of 16 gigabytes which is plenty for just about anything you'll likely be doing on this laptop especially gaming storage wise the P 57 W comes standard with the 256 gigabyte light on M to PCIe SSD which should support massive transfer speeds the secondary drives of one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive aside from this there's wireless AC Bluetooth and a 720p webcam integrated now let's get to the really interesting part how does this thing perform I've run a few benchmarks and some of the latest games give you guys an idea of how it stacks up unfortunately I don't have a lot of gaming laptops to compare it to but you can get a good idea by how performs relative to our desktop GPU results all tests will run of course at 1080p with the maximum in-game quality settings first up I three call of duty black ops 3 at this portable gaming machine and as expected performance was basically exactly on par with the GTX 960 averaged over three tests like a 61 FPS on average compared to 60 from the GTX 960 in my standard test system next up was the quite demanding rise of the Tomb Raider title and here again the performance was very very similar to the GTX 960 the p50 7w managed to produce 56 FPS on average with a minimum of 36 the last game and the testing block is the division where once again performance was on par with the desktop gtx 960 here the P 57 W is good for 35 FPS at max settings with a minimum of 28 to test the battery's overall performance I use future max power Mac software this automatically runs the system through an intense combination of multi media gaming simulation and general use such as web browsing to see what kind of battery performance you can expect at the very least my P 57 W lasted 4 hours and 11 minutes in this test I haven't personally tested other gaming laptops but my research around the web tells me that this is a really good score eclipsing the likes of Lenovo IdeaPad Y 700 and the Acer Aspire v15 nitro to run the battery further through its paces I charged it to full unplug the cord and got stuck in an ark survival evolved to see how long it would last I was playing with the medium quality preset with anti-aliasing dialed down from epic to medium and getting around 45 FPS on average the battery lasted here for one hour 19 minutes so no surprises here if you want a game you want to be plugged in but it is still possible to eke out a little playing time if you are desperate it's winter here in Melbourne and honestly the p57 w was a great little lap eater but of course like all powerful laptops or any laptop really a lot of heat comes out of the bottom this is aided by two rear facing vents that allow the fans to pump heat out there too though I found the fan spun audibly at all times though there definitely aren't intrusively loud give you about smart managers software allows you to control the fan speeds a little with four different profiles but it didn't bother messing with these much the normal profile seemed to do the job the power adapter and cable totals a little over three meters long and it's big but not ridiculously big and is rated for 180 watts and you go into this review and have to put my dislike of gaming laptops aside now I was worried it would be pretty tough to do so but the p50 7w actually made it quite easy I was perhaps most impressed by its form factor when I read the specs I was expecting a chunky mother of a system but was pleasantly surprised at how thin and light the overall chassis was then opening up the lid the screen really impressed me the 17.3 inch 1080p IPS panel felt bigger than it actually was and of course the IPS quality was better than anything I'd seen on a laptop before the keyboard and touchpad a fine nothing mind-blowing but they do the job the hardware inside the p50 7w is also very impressive and very suitable for is 1080p panel the 6700 HQ CPU is almost overpowered for this application and the 970 M is great for 1080p gaming too some users might be disappointed by having only two RAM slots however I think being able to squeeze 32 gigabytes in there is realistically plenty you held the standard 16 gigabytes is plenty lastly the little extras like the hot swappable 2 and a half inch drive bay and decent speakers make this a very nice overall package the only thing I really see as lacking was the exception of invidious juicing support however I can definitely forgive gigabyte here based on the quality of the display otherwise coming in at 16 99 USD or available in Australia for around 2050 Australian dollars the p50 7w is fairly priced well I still wouldn't ever recommend a gaming laptop over a desktop for anyone that doesn't truly need the portability as far as they go the p50 7w from gigabyte is an excellent option what do you think of the p50 7w is the gaming laptop you'll be considering let me know in the comments i'm--you're her - always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel 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