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lately the high-end gaming laptop arena has been getting a little crowded with features like desktop class GPUs nvme solid-state drives and even freaking water cooling docks so it's not surprising that today's entrant into the fray the Auris x7 pro v5 tries to set itself apart with features like mobile sli and hdmi 2.0 but does it live up to the billing stay tuned to find out coursera claims unrivaled comfort and universal compatibility on its new void surround headset featuring a genuine Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter click the link in the description to learn more the first thing I noticed about the x7 was how thin it is with height of only 2 and 1/2 centimeters even with the lid closed it's pretty damn small at seven pounds however it's hard to call the x7 light but the slimmer profile does at least offer a little more portability than some of the behemoths we've had the roll through our office lately well start our physical tour with the top which features a plain black finish except for the Auris logo which lights up when you open the lid the bottom is fairly understated as well with not much going on except for rubber feet and some ventilation slots things get more interesting when we move around to the sides though with the right side featuring both HDMI 2.0 and a mini DisplayPort for flexibility if you're attaching additional displays a USB 3.1 type C port a more standard USB 3.0 port and an SD card reader that connects via PCI Express the HDMI 2.0 support is especially nice if you want 4k at 60 Hertz and can't use a display port cable moving to the left side we see a Kensington lock slot killer Gigabit LAN port a second HDMI port that allows you to support two external monitors in Nvidia surround a VGA port for older displays another USB 3.0 port and jacks for your microphone and headphones the back features one last USB 3.0 port and a DC input for the included power brick as well as some additional ventilation for all the goodies inside when you open the lid you'll see a 17.3 inch 1080p 75 Hertz IPS display with g-sync support a webcam which we're filming this on right now a pair of unremarkable sounding speakers directly below the screen and a backlit horus logo power button the keyboard is backlit with adjustable brightness white lights that can be turned off completely if you so desire and features 30 key rollover the keys themselves are pretty standard for chiclet keys and you also get a set of programmable macro keys on the far left hand side the touchpad is quite glossy compared to the rest of the chassis and features a nice Oris logo there's also tactile bumps on the bottom bit which make identifying the clicking area quite a bit easier which I liked what I didn't care for though was how the touch pad felt a tad too grippy to my finger which got caught on it a couple times I was trying to scroll it just feels kind of weird under the hood you can unlock skylake core i7 6820 HK processor 32 gigs of DDR 4 memory that's upgradeable to 64 to nvidia gtx 970m GPUs in sli giving you both the benefits and issues that come with that 500 gigabytes of nvme solid state storage on two drives in raid 0 an additional one terabyte mechanical hard drive and bluetooth with wireless AC adapters the battery is lithium polymer that's inside a software package that you can't access from the exterior so it's not the easiest thing to replace interestingly there's also a dedicated hardware encoder for avermedia that is supposed to take the load off of your CPU and GPU while streaming so you won't lose as much performance getting into testing we started out by running through Cinebench Crysis 3 and tomb raider putting up the x7 against our Sager NP 9 8 7 0 u 2 G which you can check out in more detail up here or Oh - I don't know we were interested to see how a couple of 970 m's and sli would do against a fully fledged desktop 980 and the answer is pretty well the x7 beat out the Sager in both Crysis 3 and tomb raider by small margins and scored well above the 75 Hertz framerate of our screen even with the settings cranked way up which is definitely ideal Cinebench was a different story as this is a more CPU bound benchmark and it saw the Sager win by about 24% with its desktop class skylake i7 but the x7 managed a is still very respectable 704 points we were also able to get a stable overclock of 4.0 gigahertz on our CPU and A+ 100 megahertz offset on our two GPUs without playing with any voltages although the system ran a bit warm on our skybox load tests at stock with both the CPU and GPU getting up to 84 degrees overclocking only heated things up by about one or two degrees regardless of whether or not we overclocked though the fans were very loud during gaming you might want to use a pair of headphones specifically noise cancelling headphones if you want a game on this thing so what's our conclusion considering it beat out our desktop-class gtx 980 based Sager and is going to cost less when it comes out in mid-march the value proposition looks pretty darn good especially when you consider the additional bells and whistles like USB 3.1 type C HDMI 2.0 support G sync the hardware encoder and I believe the Sager doesn't have an nvme drive at between 2,400 and twenty-seven hundred dollars depending on the configuration the x7 pro v5 could be a pretty compelling option thanks for watching guys in the studio's sect you know what to do but it was awesome get subscribe hit the like button consider supporting us through the forum consider supporting us by using our amazon affiliate code or even buying a shirt check out this video which is a review on our Sager which is pretty interesting that's pretty badass laptop and so is this one check out channel super fun see you the next time bye