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whenever we do a show like CES we see a lot of cool stuff but of course one of the things that we're most passionate about is gaming PC's so we've gone ahead and we've created a couple of lists of the top 5 gaming desktops that we saw and the top 5 gaming laptops and this is the latter our first of our top 5 Intel based gaming laptops of CES 2016 is the razor blade stealth and its accompanying accessory the core so the stealth is actually an ultrabook it's thin it's light its compact at only about a half an inch thick and 2.75 pounds but it doesn't have a dedicated GPU more on that in a moment it features an exile a which is similar to IPS at up to a 4k resolution it's got perky RGB backlighting unlike many other gaming laptops that are only the entire thing or pers own and the pricing starts at an impressive $9.99 for the base model with Chazz a core i7 and a 1440p screen and up to 50 99 for the 4k 512 gig model pricing that wouldn't be so impressive if it wasn't so well built okay back to the GPU the core accessory is an external GPU enclosure that connects via Thunderbolt 3 and gives any video card you could pretty much want to install a PCI Express 3.0 4x connection in theory by the time it's released it will be plug and play and you will simply be able to plug it in without rebooting and go from onboard graphics to up to a GTX Titan X razor was in fact demoing it with both your exhaust cards and blower style cards and we don't have any information about pricing but this is one impressive little piece of technology our second gaming laptop is the Asus GX 700 it is a liquid-cooled laptop need i say more maybe not but I will it uses an external dock with connectors at the back of the laptop you just slide it in and use a lever on the top to lock it in place and start the coolant flow both the CPU and GPU are water-cooled and the cooling components inside use copper there are two 90 millimeter radiators and heat pipes can actually provide conventional cooling when the laptop is not in the water cooling dock the current design is closed-loop meaning it's not meant to be messed with but a more modifiable version might be coming later on the laptop itself features a desktop gtx 980 a 4k IPS display and 30 ki rollover just in case you're playing with oh I don't know three people all at once it'll be available no sooner than march 2016 in the price is not going to be lower than over two thousand dollars up next is the EVGA SC 17 yes friends EVGA made a gaming laptop considering that it has a skylake mobile core i7 and a gtx 980m it's not too bulky about an inch thick and you get an option for a 4k screen at a size of seventeen point four inches it's got a 1080p front camera that'll be nice for you game streamers out there and EVGA is planning to bring g-sync support to the main screen later on in the year they are also touting quiet performance while gaming as one of the main features of this device and will be available in late q1 the lenovo y 900 is up next now lenovo is obviously more known for their business nino books but they are trying to appeal to gamers as well and there aren't very many compromises with this product you can get an overclockable skylake i7 a couple of 256 gig PCIe SSD s and raid 0 and a gtx 980m is standard it's got a OneTouch turbo button for quick overclocking through the lenovo nerve center windows application I like that nod to the old days where you'd press the turbo button on your 386 it features an IPS display and starts at $2,000 with availability coming in June there will also be a razer edition for a little more money very interesting the last of our top five here is the gigabyte ARS x7 DT this is very similar to the previous ARS x7 with the main difference being that instead of SLI graphics cards it now features a single oven videos new gtx 980 desktop graphics cards that fits in a laptop and while that might not be that new necessarily what I like about the x7 dt is that unlike other desktop gtx 980 notebooks it features a very very slim profile they've also made some other updates including adding USB type-c to the side i/o making this a pretty attractive looking piece thanks for checking out our top 5 Intel based gaming notebooks at CES 2016 don't miss any of our show content by checking out the playlist that we've hopefully by now created of all of it and don't miss any of our videos in general by subscribing to Linus tech tips who we'll see you again on the flipside