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today we're going to take a look at MSI gt70 3 VR laptop that features two gtx 1070 cards in sli and costs a lot of money 3400 USD or around 5300 Australian dollars and at that price you're probably wondering what can this thing do well let's take a look welcome back to tech es city this is brian coming to you guys today with the biggest laptop I have seen yet it is so huge in fact that it needs to power bricks which are rated at 330 watts apiece and connect via their own sli magic to power this thing alone then on top of that it weighs in at a solid 5 kilograms for the laptop by itself and it also features a 17.3 inch IPS display that runs at 120 Hertz at 1080p I found this monitor to be quite good in gaming and also didn't have any noticeable ghosting and it also had a very impressive levels of input lag beating out my a Tron vision 1440p Korean panel which is mediocre but still it is good to see a laptop beating this monitor in both input lag and response times it also features an Intel i7 7820 HK mobile processor which has a stock frequency of 2.9 gigahertz and features Intel's latest cabbie like a PC and comes with Windows 10 64 bit Home Edition though how did it perform in the real world well it scored 858 Center benches in Cinebench r15 and allow the CPU to boost all the way up to 4 gigahertz on all cores and hit around 91 degrees max at 25 degrees ambience which was very impressive for a laptop though the noise did get very loud near jet-like asker levels and after running out of 64 for a good 20 minutes the CPU did hover between 3.6 to 4 gigahertz meaning it was slightly throttling itself during this benchmark and will perform like this in programs like Adobe Premiere Pro final renders for memory there are two sticks of 16 gigabytes of ddr4 2400 memory and dual channel configuration for a total of 32 gigabytes this will allow you to do things like mobile video editing quite well even in 4k with the included scissor switch keyboard designed by SteelSeries it includes RGB LED backlighting that can be configured in different modes this also extends to the touchpad itself and typing on this thing was not only a breeze but there was also a numpad there which I'm personally a big fan of and it was quite responsive though how well could I type on this keyboard well let's take a look and a listen there's also quite a large touchpad which was very solid and the clicks on the button felt very firm and had good feedback though I seriously would recommend getting a mouth as I personally can't do hardly anything on touchpad with the limitations being as far as opening a movie to sending an email which if you are like me and that is all you need to do when traveling then the touchpad will work quite well also above the Escape key you have dinner audio speakers which is powered by the realtek ALC $8.99 codec which has support for up to 24 bit 192 kilohertz stereo output and features decent sound with 3 watt speakers and is quite loud and clear for a laptop though of course lacking any warmth or bass is to be expected since it doesn't have anything near the likes of a decent subwoofer though what about the audio crosstalk levels well while playing some left and right speaker test the levels showed cross talks of almost even levels meaning this was some of the worst audio I've seen on a device sighs spa audio was leaking from left to right channels and vice-versa to the other channels even when I completely muted the device I will let you guys take a listen left channel laughs channel laughs channel into the laptop and also what looks like a slot for a webcam that sits just above the screen though I couldn't get this to work indicating that there might not even be a webcam present though the mic import was quite good and clear and had a good signal with almost no noise now again I'll let you guys have a quick listen here's what the GT 73 VR laptop will sound like the mic input with AV mode of boom probe plug directly into that mic in port with a plus 20 DB gain with a volume level of 55 the laptop also includes one terabyte of backup storage on a 7200 rpm HGST Drive and four main storage you get what looks like two Intel 600 P nvme PCIe 240 GB SSDs in raid 0 and our configuration though it makes boot time soft measuring in a roughly 13 seconds from a cold boot to Windows and also general usage was super snappy as well though first lists are things like video editing and large file transfers I am NOT a fan of these drives at all as they have quite or performance in terms of consistency you can check out a review of these up here though moving on into the crux of this review the dual GTX 1070 that are in SLI this is a huge amount of CUDA cores for a laptop 4,096 to be exact placing it above even that of the latest time XP that was recently released there's also a total of 16 gigabytes of gddr5 vram clocked at 8000 megahertz effective though in most titles you'll only have a max of 8 gigabytes available and of course since it is in sli it won't scale perfectly unless the game calls for it which as we know is always hit and miss they're looking at a 3d mark 5 strike score it managed to get 31,000 122 GPU and 12,000 477 CPU for a combined score of 7500 58 coming in a comparable level to that of my main desktop gaming PC and of course playing games with the frame rates there was through the roof at 1080p this configuration would be suited for 1440p ultra white or even 4k high settings in gaming though in games itself the noise of the laptop did reach level similar to the CPU test and the GPUs did hover around 80 degrees and also stated those levels whilst gaming in for honor for quite some time so I'll let you guys have a quick listen to how loud this laptop can actually get walls gaming the base of this laptop also features three USB 3 ports on the left-hand side a headphone out line in and out and also mic imports there's also events on all sides of the laptop allowing for efficient heat dissipation and air flow on the right hand side there is a further 2 USB 3 ports and a memory card SD reader and on the rear there's a proprietary power in a thunderbolt port an rj45 jack powered by the killer a 2500 neck HDMI 2.0 and mini display 1.4 outs for wireless there is the killer end / a / AC 1535 and you also get qualcomm atheros 4.1 bluetooth support the killer software included also means that if you're on a congested network then it can prioritize packets and help with gaming which I have tested in the past and can make a difference on poor quality connections not that I recommend gaming on a congested network to begin with battery life is also a funny thing if you unplug the power brick then games will run incredibly slow and you will still then only get about one hour off the battery itself now that you want to gain like this at all though there is a feature to switch off the GPUs via a button on the right hand side and after you've restarted the computer you can get quite a good run if you do this and if you need this laptop for doing work while you're on a business trip for example then you can expect quite decent battery up life where in this mode there was just a little bit under 4 hours battery life when I was watching youtube videos so now we're finally at conclusion time and honestly a laptop like this is geared towards people who need some level of portability more than a desktop but need ridiculous amounts of power and keep in mind that you will be paying for it but the model here coming in at roughly 3400 USD or 5300 Ivy I honestly couldn't see myself personally purchasing one of these as they are much heavier and less portable than a smaller lighter sized laptop and still although very close not as powerful as a dedicated desktop PC and you are still susceptible to SLI problems versus a single 1080 TI for example the fans will also get quite noisy when performing any tasks that I would otherwise perform on my desktop on extreme load and also the crosstalk levels on audio was so bad to the point where I'd recommend getting a dedicated and solution though with that said it is an extremely nice laptop in the 120 Hertz 1080p IPS display is gorgeous and great to game on and this is a laptop that features everything that I could think of jewel 10 7 is a fast 4 core a threaded i7 a solid keyboard with RGB backlighting great utility and connectivity and also has cool apps like msas true color srgb which gives you a claimed 100% srgb accuracy with the fans and the temps as loud as they are though I would not recommend overclocking on this model and didn't dare delve into the depths of overclocking on this as much as I would have loved to since it was a lone sample and the temperatures are already quite high to begin with while gaming though the build quality is nice and if you are into needing a desktop replacement computer you can take the land event or your friend's house and then when you come home want to plug into a larger higher res monitor then you can do that of course with the GT 73 VR and that VR label is of course stating that it has the power to play anything that a VR headset would demand though just remember that it will cost you monetarily also the model I have here was a little bit of a mystery since they couldn't find an exact model with the i7 7820 HK and 120 Hertz display and jeweled GTX 10 70s and there are a lot of different models out there so it ultimately prefer one with a 120 Hertz 1080p screen and a single GPU and power brick I think that would be the way to ultimately go if you wanted to purchase one of these laptops anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's review of MSI gt70 3 VR tightened SLI gaming laptop and let me know you think of it in the comment section below would love to hear your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tag video very soon peace out for now bye