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150 years old Canada in 2017 which up guys good job hello everyone I'm Dimitri and the asus of ciphers gaming notebook at Computex received so much incredible attention because of a thin profile I measured my finger and it just this then as a notebook at 18 millimeters but it's not only about the senders of the notebook because gtx 980 has been placed inside how do they do that in such a thin profile so there's one keyword that's been sort of circling around this incredible machine and that is nvidia max q design so what is it here it is explained coolermaster master keys keyboard line-up is now available and three sizes to fit within your space with large medium and small boards with either beautiful RGB or pure white LED illumination a little something for everyone make it yours with the master keys probe by Coolermaster so to me Nvidia max screw design is one most exciting developments for gaming notebooks in 2017 because it acknowledges its slight performance compromise the sake of a lighter of a more power efficient quieter any thinner gaming notebook and obviously that's awesome so the actual max Q term is derived from the aerospace industry at which the aerodynamic pressure on a vehicle like a rocket or an aircraft is at its maximum so the max Q point represents the toughest conditions something can withstand so how does it apply to the PC notebook space well for the GPU horsepower try to pack as much things as possible in a notebook you have space heat acoustic and electrical constraints for example gtx 980 is a 181 GPU so how do you pack that into a gaming notebook that can only supply 90 watts of power due to thermal and electrical constraints so max Q design is both a hardware and a software optimization that find a peak efficiency point between performance and power is their relationship is nonlinear for example by reducing the power of gtx 980 by 40% so from 150 watts to 90 watts we only lose around 10% performance and this is done through custom clock curves type voltage bands and basically throttling GPU to maintain a certain power limits certain temperature limit and certain acoustic limit as well and this is important because until now for the thin light profile gaming notebooks we only have the razor blade which has a GTX 960 and maintains that 18 is non-uniform factor but now with max Q design we have gtx 1070 and a 1080 being rolled out for the same form factor and that's pretty awesome now the GPUs remain the same only the PCB has been redesigned and obviously all the driver and software optimizations go through GeForce experience and so across the board these GPUs will consume less power and operate at their peak efficiencies and custom clocks and voltages as a reasonable compromise of performance of around 10% but of course we'll have to wait and see that for ourselves now what about acoustics and this is really cool because max Q design notebooks will have a target of acoustic level at load of 40 DBA and that's like let's not even audible our resistance that's like library sounds that's pretty good my office is around like 34 36 DBA I'm pointing it at the window where I'm looking at so no book would be a little bit louder than what I'm getting from my completely isolated window that's pretty good and so specific core clocks and voltages will kick in to make sure the notebook stays quiet at blows and that's awesome because it's coming a long way my MacBook is incredibly loud once trying to render something Ebers razor blade is even louder and if you've heard that thing it's just like a jet engine so we've come a long way to make sure that acoustics are actually under control without too much of the compromise on performance plus a new whisper mode is introduced that will further reduce the acoustic level from 40 DBA upload to the 32 DBA this is only possible with a notebook is plugged in and this basically they change the settings to the game so the stress on the GPU is not as high and they also frame capped the game so if you're doing FPS 60 would be fine if you're doing something slower paced if they would set up to 40 and this is something that determined by Nvidia as your playable settings basically throttling the GPU so it doesn't consume as much and allowing these fans to slow down but if you want the full performance mode without the acoustic management all Macs keynote books was happy performance mode that basically unlocks everything that GPU has to offer and that's nice so performance wise it looks promising max you design brings those GTX 280s to a very slim profile but as we send out those machines I think the battery life will be impacted the most and we also don't know about the temperatures at least we have that target for the acoustic levels so the fans won't be spinning to like 100% both to maintain those things cool but I guess it will vary from one machine to another but still temperatures and the battery life will have to be determined we still don't have any information on the lower tier 10 series card so like 10 50 and a 1050 Ti but it would be so cool to have those GPUs which are still very powerful in the notebook sphere to be included in like very thin ultra books like the XPS 15 or the spectre x360 imagine that's such a slim profile and still have a lot of GPU horsepower for perhaps editing and gaming and that's it about max Q design I don't even want to speculate about the prices because as with any notebook improvements in the GPU space everything carries a chunky price premium but make sure to subscribe to be notified when those machines are finally in-house so we can do our full suite of testing I'm three tree with our Canucks thanks for watching we'll see you next video