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what's up guys GSU sends here we're going to take a look at a new laptop now before you start saying blah blah blah is just another laptop who cares it's overpriced piece of junk I get it I get it I hear you guys I've got massive desktops myself and I've said it before these exist for a reason laptops are part of our world they're not going anywhere laptops are getting better than ever because of the efficiency and the power of the components we have today that was proven with the GT 73 VR Titan we looked at a couple months ago with a GTX 1080 in there and a quad-core i7 with hyper-threading and what was the 64 gigs of RAM something or ridiculous like that I don't remember but this is a little bit more reasonable now I've had this for the last couple of months and Nick has been using it for the last several weeks as his primary laptop you've been carrying around us well you already graduated but you were taking it like to my house to here playing games on it editing pictures you don't some photo editing on this a couple edits okay well anyway this guy right here is still a 17.3 inch laptop but look at the form factor of this look at the footprint it is extremely thin coming in at just about an inch at its thickest point but in other ways 5.9 pounds now I know that still sounds kind of heavy when you compare it to things like a MacBook Air and whatnot but when you look at what this can do and what's in there and it maintains a 17.3 inch panel if that wait that's actually pretty amazing and it is a full metal construction it's a metal body brushed aluminum to be exact unfortunately it's a fingerprint magnet so like as I do that you know it's the fingerprints get pretty bad but anyway that's minor just keep a microfiber mirror behind I guess now I'm going to run through the specs quickly I don't spend a lot of time on the specs I want to spend time with gaming on this and doing some stuff to kind of show really what it's like using this thing now this version right here is actually seventh gen Intel Core i7 so it's a 7700 HK you'll see 6700 HK as advertised but if this is a 7700 HK it's got 16 gigabytes to 8m sticks ddr4 2400 it's got a gtx 1066 gigabyte the panel as i meant 17.3 inch 1080p 120 hertz 5 millisecond 94% NTSC panel so although the color gamut is not quite as accurate or as wide as we would like it still is perfect for middle ground of content creators productivity and gaming hard drive wise it's got a 256 gigabyte SSD you can order them I believe with a 512 and it has a one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive what I've liked to have seen a 7200 rpm in there that's more or less for like mass storage 256 gigabyte SSD will fill up very quickly especially with how big games are today what's Ghost Recon like seventy-nine gigabytes yeah it's like 79 gigs so when you open it up and you look inside right here you can see we saw a brushed aluminum finish on the inside surrounding the keyboard we've got our trackpad here which is lined up with the spacebar which is kind of nice sometimes when they're in the middle it's kind of weird because that's not like where your hand is if you come straight down and you can use the trackpad that's kind of nice a keyboard is actually a SteelSeries keyboards a membrane keyboard individual LED backlighting so you can customize the lighting profile to whatever you want to be but the throw on there is really nice too it's about a three millimeter throw which gives it a very mechanical type of feel because it's very positive when you push it you got a real good feedback from the key it's not mushy and sloppy like a lot of keyboards are so it's actually a decent typing experience I personally hate typing on laptops but as you don't have a problem typing on this it's not that bad at all obviously is no optical drive I think a lot of laptop companies have done away with obstacle drives I haven't seen a laptop with an optical and a while least not ones that I've got my hands on now let's do this let's fire it up let's play some games I mean I know like when it comes to traveling professional editing and all that stuff it can do it obviously but we care about the games right do it are you coming so this is the msi dragon center and this is like a dashboard where you can control all the different things happening with your laptop when it comes pre bundled and most of the time I'm not cool with dashboard apps like this but this one's actually pretty good you've got a system monitor you can see what's happening temperatures you can see what's happening with your fan speeds how much memory you're using the LED wizard allows you to change your LED backlighting or your keyboard as we mentioned system tuner this one does not actually have unlocked overclocking for things like your CPU and your GPU however on one laptops I do support it this is where you would do it but you could change your fan profile here your shift mode that's basically like your CPU power profile now the other side true color is where you can control the color profile for your panel for different scenarios now remember this is not an IPS panel so the colors are not going to be as accurate so 94% color accuracy on this but if you see designer mode it turns a brightness way down holy crap you can turn that back up so you got designer mode you've got your srgb modes to your like your your color gamut anti blue mode keeps turning the breaks all the way down that's crazy gamer mode did you do this give me some of this a little weird anyway office mode movie mode but yeah there's s well put it in gamer mode cuz you know I don't want to be gamer looks like it'd take a lot of cut with the contrast out there that looks very flat so this is the heaven benchmark you can see were King Wow 123 ish fps right there's boosted up to nineteen hundred and eleven megahertz temperatures currently at 65 we'll let this run for a minute and see that the temps kind of equalize at 61 fps there so yeah this is 1080p right now with Ultra settings tessellation on normal and 4x msaa four times MSAA that's a lot to ask out of a GTX 1060 but yeah it looks like our temperatures are hovering just under 70 so Hitler will let this run for a minute and we'll let go and knock another loop or two and then we'll see if the temps are so it seems like we've kind of equalized right around 75 see now that's not bad at all for a laptop obviously I was especially with this thing then form factor but here's what it sounds like it's a little bit on the noisier side but I mean you do have to give up something obviously when you do laptop camming I've got a shotgun mic literally out of frame right here so you can touch it there we go a lot more turning speakers up a little bit right here I want you guys to kind of hear the pitch of the fans in this so you can kind of get an idea of what they sound like so we'll do that now our original go through recon here it's a game that is definitely not as optimized as it could be but it's still a very good benchmark of how strong your hardware is so here we are in Ghost recons you can see we're sitting about 63 FPS our current settings are set to high such a high preset I don't think that's unreasonable for a game like this I feel like asking a laptop to play Ghost Recon on high setting is actually a lot to ask of any laptop I like to make wheelie oh God ah ok oh he wants to play nope yeah so that 58 right now with all this vegetation no complaints here boom yeah yeah that was very tacked to cool this game is so pretty I've heard some people say they don't think this game looks very good I think they're okay I'm out here whoo well she forgot the tree whoa spiral of death death spiral I think Ghost Recon is definitely no problem for this okay so earlier I called this in 7700 HK my bad especially at 7700 HQ we got a 725 score on the first run I'm just doing this one more time for redundancy to see if we get some pretty consistent scores in this looking for like thermal throttling or anything like that but so far the temperatures have been kept really cool now the CPU sticks right around 65 C and the graphics card never got any hotter than 70 60 when gaming so that's definitely not bad for a thin laptop like this and our second round with 706 is slowed down a little bit but take still not bad for a laptop save our score there so anyway let's go and talk about this and see what my final thoughts are I'm gonna say this first of all you've got to give them credit for the amount of hardware they've been able to put into this machine and the form factor and footprint they were able to maintain I mean yeah it's a 17.3 inch laptop but it doesn't really feel like it because a lot of the 17.3 inch screens on the on the market when you close the lid they kind of extend out like they go farther but this one's done a really good job at having the hinge be the extremity of the footprint so it's actually not that bad something else though that I really like about this laptop is I think the GTX 1060 was a perfect sweet spot in terms of discrete GPU to give you good gaming performance but while keeping costs down yeah I mean obviously we'd all love to have 10 70s and 10 80s in our laptops but then obviously heat becomes an issue and price obviously is going to go up quite a bit because as I mentioned the as it sits right now is about fifteen hundred and forty-nine dollars now you can spec it up obviously with bigger SSDs in fact if you want to even swap in your own SSD don't know what that would do to your warranty but most of you guys watching are very clever di wires and you can do that with no problems whatsoever but it's not perfect there's a couple things I want to mention one the brushed aluminum looks nice but man is it a fingerprint magnet that's why there's always a rag nearby for the laptop I swear it you're just constantly having to wipe off fingerprints and it doesn't matter where I was almost rubbing the skin off to see if I could get enough skin oils off of my hands to keep their from being any fingerprint or oil transfer not happening no matter what you look at this laptop you think about touching this laptop and fingerprints are going to appear the other thing is obviously it's noisy what I mean by that is the fans have to spend very fast because they're very thin fans and so they have to spend fast to get enough airflow to keep it cool now the temps are good and you can obviously slow the fans down by controlling the stand curve inside the software I showed you but the trade-off is going to be potentially more temperature thermal throttling of the GPU and the CPU as the temps go up so it's a trade-off just like desktops to the noise the performance my other complaint is the audio is not very good and instead of having the speakers built into like the bottom bezel here of the monitor where they can fire at you or even at the top of the keyboard or on the side of the keyboard like a lot of brands do they are actually down fire speakers on the bottom of the front right there so if you're putting this on your lap chances are you're going to kind of cork off the sound and it's going to sound extremely muffled and the sound you do get when you have it on a flat surface is bouncing off of a table which gives it a just not a very good sound so I'm assuming that's a trade-off with the form factor I don't know how easily they could have made them fire up out of the keyboard tray but nonetheless that is a complaint of mine but other than that I don't have many other things to say about this that are that are negative I know a lot of you guys hate laptops oh you just hate the idea of a laptop and you just feel like everyone should take their desktop with them everywhere they go and pack it up and wind up the cables and throw it in your trunk and take it to anywhere your going to go but the bottom line is these exist for a reason and I think this is doing a very good job at what it's meant to do give you a laptop that can kind of do it all productivity gaming and obviously portability which is some things you sacrifice with the the VR Titan anyway guys you tell me what you think about this guy right here while I wipe off the fingerprints which is just destined and doomed to have for the rest of its life I think $1,500 although not cheap but still isn't ridiculously expensive you're getting a very well-rounded laptop experience for both the traveling professional and gamer so sound off in the comments um what you guys think and as always I will see you in the next one