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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and computing power continues to get more powerful and powerful and the package continues to get smaller and smaller sure you get DIY anything but why do this when you could have this available in both 120 and 140 millimeter sizes the new Prisma fans from fractal design features six individually addressable hub mounted RGB LEDs that are compatible with most motherboard addressable RGB headers to learn more click the link in the description below laptops are something that I'm pretty passionate about because I've spent so much time traveling in the past I spent a lot of time traveling now and I as much as I do love my Microsoft Surface and I use it a lot you can't game on it you can't edit on it and having to carry believe it or not I carried two different laptops for a while I used to carry that to be lightweight but then I had a gaming laptop that I could set up in the hotel if I wanted to game and I thought it's just stupid to carry two laptops for that reason so that's why I taking a look today at the new Razer Blade 15 this is the advanced model in mercury white we're gonna see how well this thing can perform while gaming one of the things I love about the razor's construction as they are in my opinion the absolute benchmark that everyone should achieve to be when it comes to chassis construction because I I mean it's aluminum unibody which gives it just a a rough or iead amount of rigidity that you just don't get with other manufacturers you take it out of the bag and it just feels solid in your hand that's because it is a solid construction unibody with a cover on our aluminum with cover on the bottom we'll take a look at the inside so you could have the best Hardware sitting in a crappy chassis it's gonna take away from the entire experience of having a durable rugged mobile solution for gaming slash productivity work and the nice thing is because this is the mercury white even if it the black one it's not embarrassing this is just it's just I mean I'd hate to even say it has that Apple feel but let's face it Apple has always been very good in the aesthetics department not necessarily the best in terms of value and usability for a lot of people but that's a whole another discussion that's going to be hundred percent objectives who won't even touch that but the fact that this has the nice raw aluminum look makes me happy because if you're taking in and out of your bag if you have something that's anodized in black or scratches this is gonna hide a lot of that and I tend to be really rough on my mobile equipment because of the fact that like I said I travel a lot it gets banged it gets bumped and it's just gonna hide scuffs and scratches so that's why I opted for the mercury white so anyway here are the specs on this guy and it's kind of funny we're in this in-between kind of a generation gap right now we're eight gen 87 58 which has been like the dominant cpu platform for notebooks for about the last six months or so 6 cores 12 threads we've looked at in the past and several other laptops but this has a 20 70 max queue from Nvidia now you can start specking this up to a ninth gen 9750 h i believe is the model that was just announced so there's gonna be kind of an overlap period where you've got 8th gen and 9th jet availability I think as the 8th gen becomes no longer available then it'll just switch to 9th gen but you can get it in the advanced chassis up to a 20 80 max queue starts at 2060 which is a full board or a full-blown GPU die the 2017-2018 are the max q variants now I chose the 27 T because I felt that this is gonna be a better middle ground which will keep the cost a little bit more reasonable where you know the 20 80 max queue is going to give you the best overall performance in terms of gaming but what happens when you kind of shoot for that middle ground and we're gonna see kind of where we land there now what makes this sort of an amazing productivity and gaming laptop it's not just the hardware that's in there it does have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 so-dimm 2667 modules which are upgradable so they're not soldered in there you can switch go up to 32 gigs possibly even 64 if you find dual 32 gigs so dims I'm not sure if those exist but I'll probably end up doing that I'll probably end up upgrading this to 32 gigs of ram same thing with the storage though this only has a 512 gigabyte SSD in here I'm gonna upgrade this to Thor a 1 terabyte or a 2 terabyte just so I have to deal with having external drives with me so I can put more than a few games on here without filling it up I kind of feel like razors always sort of a little bit on the low end in terms of max compatibility with storage but at least it's upgradable but when I started to say and I cut my own self off and now I'm back guessing back to myself to digress to where I started to digress is the panel this is a 144 Hertz IPS 1080p panel so none of that 4k squished down to fifteen point six inches which would be ridiculous manufacturers do it in fact you can get this one actually in an OLED 4k panel with HDR but I feel like 4k at this form factor it does me no good I would rather have the smooth high or the low response time high refresh rate for gaming while we still have IPS color accuracy and have a hundred percent srgb so I'm actually using my trusty iFixit kit here which my wife got for me for Father's Day a couple years back I will try to remember to put my amazon link down below for this kit because people ask me all the time Jay where did you get that kit now ways forget to put the link down there but it will be my Amazon affiliate link so full disclosure I do get a little bit of support if you buy through that link so that's why I try to remember to put that down there but I've also got this guy and I said this isn't sponsored this is me I vote we paid for this we also have this guy here which has all the little tools and stuff for prying apart plastic and all that so that we don't damage anything so I started to show that because every time I use this kit people ask me where'd you get that what is it so as you can see we've got fans right here dedicated for both the GPU which I believe might be this side and the CPU which I believe is this side bring an air into the bottom and exhaust it out the back we've got our heat sinks right here and this is the direction that the air flows here's our RAM as you can see 100% serviceable it looks like these are Samsung so dims as I said eight gigabytes per stick upgradable as you can see the only problem is to upgrade this one you've sort of got a ribbon cable in the way so that would make me a little nervous if I were say experienced at working on laptops as a new person I would be concerned about that so you'd want to be very careful it does connect right here and then here is where your m2 drive is and then as you can see we've got a big old battery in fact here's the CMOS battery right here it's actually a 12:20 sized battery that way if you ever need to clear the CMOS kinda like we showed you in the past Hey look the computers on right now so the fans are turning anyway that's final all touching stuff as it's going you can pop that battery out and clear CMOS if you need - so alright it's gonna get this back back on and then let's start actually doing some gaming on this so Razer synapse is kind of like your hub we're gonna control everything going on with your computer at least the Razer functionality built in here you can see I've got the main keys here set to white and the F row set to red and the nice function to hear is that when you push the function key it actually turns off all the lighting and actually illuminates the function key independently so that's kind of neat so this is also we can go in here and disable functions - like in gaming mode you can go in here and disable the Windows key alt tab alt f4 we can also go in here performance this is where I said you can have increased graphics power a balanced or an increased processor power and then you have your factory fan curve and as you can see it brings with gaming performance the fans up way high you set the maximum refresh rate of your panel you can manually set the fans if you want so there's a lot of functionality here inside of synapse including macro control so our GPU is currently idling at 46 C which makes sense it's got that small fan on it that's very very quiet it's barely moving air at idle because the system is not hot that's a perfectly reasonable temperature at idle if we go in here and you look we can do unlock voltage control force to see if that works when we restart I don't think it will yeah so we don't get voltage control but we do get core clock as well as memory clock that we can play with which you cannot play with the fan curve so you can't overclock the graphics card just a little bit so let's go ahead and go into some battlefield 5 and the reason why we're gonna do that is this is after all an RT X GPU so we want to see how well this can handle it in a mobile edition so now sitting in the menu at battlefield 5 it is rendering that background with all this blur that's a pretty good amount of stress on the GPU you can see we're sitting at 68 C 98% utilization of the GPU in the menu we're running at 1500 and 60 megahertz now it is a max cube version so it's not going to be going to the 1900 megahertz you might be used to seeing on the desktop GPU our CPU is also showing an average of about 50% use but our temperatures and stuff in a laptop is going to get warmer and as you can tell by the acoustics those fans have their cut their work cut out for them but so far our temperatures are staying very very reasonable where I expect them to be I do not know what the actual maximum temperature of Mexico is going to be some curious as to where this sort of balance is out remember in laptop conditions you are sacrificing acoustics for sure but in terms of our settings here is where we are everything is on ultra this is maxed with the exception of ray-tracing I have a set to medium I do not have DL SS on because it looked fuzzy when we tested earlier we can play around that once we're in the map but let's go ahead and get ourselves into a game here and let's see how this looks now this isn't exactly the most reflective map in the game but what we're going to look at right now is just overall performance this is DL SS off and this is ray-tracing on medium and hearing I'm hearing like gun fires I did him aah explosions all right let's go ahead and set like the advanced stuff to like hi not a whole lot of difference that's good a metal for spawn Ian I mean this is so playable this is pretty awesome they do watch like unapologetically r-tx alright so this is Metro Exodus here the very beginning when you're in the sewer and then goes about to be a spider crawling across my face or something here everything is set to max Exodus uses ray-tracing for global illumination which is how light is bouncing and shadows and all that sort of stuff so we actually can pretty good yes right here it's like you've got to remind yourself you're on a laptop because it's kind of crazy in terms of the fps and stuff this is this is good sit down we're now not a bullets so here's what the actual thermal print looks like of the laptop itself the hottest point on here which looks like it's going to be obviously right where the monitor meets the chassis is about 46 C you can tell they obviously have the you can see what the fans are on the sides because that's where its coolest you've got heat sort of being channeled through the middle because where the heat pipes are as well but you can see where you put your palms it's about 35 C the trackpad is 34 C and then this side over here is about 35 and a half to 36 C so that's kind of crazy you can see how a little bit of the heat seems to be escaping the side right there though you can kind of see what the laptops been sitting on the table if we take a look at the back as well you can see it's the very same sort of a heat print on there where it's the very center that's the hottest and look at the hottest point back here is about 50 degrees right in the very center of the chassis so yeah if you're kind of wondering where the heat is directed on this you can see that where you put your hands although warm I mean that's certainly warm it's not unbearable I got experienced in the past like the pro got really really really hot right here so if you're wondering whether or not the razor blade 15 is any decent at gaming as you can see it does a really good job of it I'm a bit prai's that how well the 27 he actually stacks up versus the 2080 mxq in games we were seeing over 60fps and pretty much every scenario with high and ultra settings and even DXR turned on both in Exodus and battlefield 5 and the reason why we show you those is these are kind of like what the worst-case scenarios are going to be so you know that if you turn off some of those features to reduce some of those settings the temperature is gonna go up even more now the acoustics well it's gaming we kind of talked about for a second I've had heaven just kind of going on a loop right here it's sitting at the 74c 97% utilized on the GPU GPU dropped about a hundred megahertz as we reach those temperatures so it's bouncing between 1400 and 1500 depending on the scene I mean I have desktops I'd built that can't come anywhere near this level of performance by remember it is an Intel six core 12 thread CPU that has 16 gigabytes of memory as well as a 20 70 max Q so this definitely is higher than a lot of laptop specs now the downside here I'm gonna go ahead and exit this we can let this thing quiet down a little bit here the downside is that it's definitely pricey if you go to the website and take a look at the various configurations your price can range about $15.99 and up that definitely is a bit of a premium kind of a boutique price but at the very least at the end of the day what you're getting with it is a fully unibody aluminum chassis that does a pretty good job at rejecting heaps and you get a very decent screen with it and you can configure it which you could also do technically if you wanted is you could configure it with some lesser hardware and then it is upgradable in the future so by lesser Hardware I mean storage options as well as your memory so you can kind of configure that in the in the future if you want to but the sound is also surprisingly good one of my biggest complaints with laptops is and and I've said this a million times I'm gonna say it again ever since buying my surface my Microsoft Surface it has the best speakers I have ever heard in a laptop I'm not I'm talking big form-factor and tiny thin like MacBook Air level a form factor which is kind of what the surface is once I heard the sound that comes out of that and it's a rear firing which means it bounces off of the screen and back at you after hearing how good that sounds I have told manufacturers of laptops over and over you have no excuse for bad sound so at least with the price point that this is coming in at you are getting direct fire speakers that fire right up at you and they are full you don't feel like you're just getting this tin cans sound like you're listening to it through an aluminum can held up to your ear it actually has full rich sound which is good to see I wish it was a little bit louder though but for most people I think you might end up just wearing headphones anyway I don't I'd actually don't wear headphones very often so that's one of those things that I would notice I would want louder speakers to kind of overpower some of the ambient noise that comes from the chassis and the fans once you are gaming on this and putting it under any sort of load but that's it you guys tell me what you think of the Razer Blade 15 Razer is definitely one of those companies that puts a lot into their R&D their bid on the price of your side but at least I feel like you get something for that price and if you're anyone that has traveled as much as I have in the past you could certainly appreciate the amount of robust durable quality that this chassis has so guys tell me what you think in the comments down below if there's another laptop you think we should take a look at in the future I'd be more than willing to do it and yeah so you can tell me that down below or head on over to Twitter but this is like the worst outro ever what I'm trying to say is thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one uh the sound goes through that still but if I double it up like that no no alright we got a video to make better GP performance when it comes to not muting your damn phone because you're an amateur Jay