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 entrance Into
The Fray the ORS 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
corsera 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 video description to learn more the first thing I noticed
about the X7 was how thin it is with a height of only 2 and 1/2 CM even with
the lid closed it's pretty damn small at 7bs however it's hard to call the X7
light but the Slimmer profile does at least offer a little more port ility
than some of the behemoths we've had roll through our office lately we'll
start our physical tour with the top which features a plain black finish
except for the orus 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 HZ and can't use a DisplayPort 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
Invidia 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 in 1080P 75hz
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 back lit orus logo power button the keyboard is
back lit 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 chicklet 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 orus 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 touchpad felt a taded
too grippy to my finger which got caught on it a couple times on trying to scroll
it just feels kind of weird under the hood you get an unlocked Skylake core i7
6820 HK processor 32 gigs of ddr4 memory
that's upgradeable to 64 two NVIDIA GTX
970m gpus in SLI giving you both the
benefits and issues that come with that 500 GB of NVMe solid state storage on
two drives in raid zero and additional 1
TB mechanical hard drive and Bluetooth with wireless AC adapters the battery is
Lithium Polymer that's inside a softer 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 a media
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 Crisis 3 and Tomb Raider putting up the X7 against our
Sager NP 9870 u2g which you can check out in more
detail up here or O2 I don't know we
were interested to see how a couple of 970 m in SLI would do against a
fully-fledged desktop 980 and the answer is pretty well the X7 beat out the
Seager in both Crisis 3 and Tomb Raider by small margins and scored well above
the 75 HZ frame rate 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 Seer win
by about 24% with its desktop class Skylake i7
but the X7 managed a still very respectable 704 points we were also able
to get a stable overclock of 4.0 GHz on our CPU and a plus 100 MHz offset on our
two gpus without playing with any voltages although the system ran a bit
warm on our Skybox load test at stock with both the CPU and GPU getting up to
84° overclocking only heated things up by about 1 or 2° 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 to game on this thing so what's our conclusion considering it
beat out our desktop class gtx980 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 typ C HDMI 2.0 support gsync the
hardware encoder and I believe the Seer doesn't have an NVMe drive at between $2
2400 and $2,700 depending on the configuration the X7 Pro V5 could be a
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