this doesn't happen very often but i've got a whole bin of gaming
laptops over here from origin pc let me tell you the story of how this came to
be origen reached out saying look we want to sponsor like a back to school
video about our laptops and i was like
okay but the thing is you guys
most students are buying a chromebook for back to school they were like
okay fair enough but what about those people
who are going back to school and who also happen to be elite gamers
who want like a samsung amoled display
built into their gaming laptop and i was like okay for those we're going to have
to check out some of your laptops
where do you want to start brandon we've got a 17-incher for like real gamers
this thing is pretty much a portable gaming desktop that's the eon 17x we've
got the eon 15x which is still a thick
boy you got lots of that hardcore copper cooling in there but
15 inches and a little bit more reasonable in terms of thickness and
weight we've got the 17 inch but like
still pretty slim that's the evo 17s and
then we've got the 15-inch version of that which happens to have a samsung
amoled display what do you want to see the smallest one i knew you were going
to i knew you were going to say that all right first thing we're going to notice when we fire this puppy up is the
ah yes individually backlit RGB keyboard
just cause it's slim and actually fits in your backpack doesn't mean it
shouldn't have gamer RGB although the rest of the aesthetics of the machine
are pretty unassuming just got a simple
origin pc logo on the back rear i o so there's your power in Thunderbolt that's
a usb type-c Thunderbolt HDMI and mini displayport you've got three more usb
type a's dedicated microphone and headphone jack micro sd and
this is a really nice one to see for me one of those little hinged Ethernet
jacks so you can actually plug into the wall with a wire if you want the utmost
in latency and speed
on the bottom we've got a ton of air intakes for the one
two three four heat sink elements that are all
around the back and sides of the machine you can actually see through so Corsair
bought origin pc a little while ago and they're using Corsair vengeance memory
naturally see how that screen feels now they went with a glossy
screen is it touched no not touch got it figured out okay this is really cool i
couldn't turn HDR on because i wasn't plugged into the wall that's obviously
going to use a lot more power when the pixels are running at a higher brightness level so because this uses
samsung's 15.6 inch amoled panel with a
peak brightness of 600 nits this is one
of the few laptops out there that has a truly HDR display
built right into it now the Windows HDR
experience honestly still is not
perfect but i still want to take it for a test
drive here this is the one HDR video that we've done let's see if this let's
see if this works we really did not do an amazing job of mastering this video
but if the question was
is HDR working and is the panel bright in the bright
areas the answer is yes overall i actually don't think this
panel is doing a fantastic job of retaining detail in areas that are
outside of its maximum brightness range either though that's something that HDR
display makers graphics manufacturers and microsoft are all going to have to
continue to work on because HDR is more of like
a concept for richer content delivery and less of just like a hard and fast
standard for how the content is actually displayed i suspect for a lot of people
leaving HDR off which does happen to be the default configuration for this
machine is going to be a pretty good bet but that doesn't mean there aren't still
benefits of an amoled display so for example you could set a desktop
wallpaper that's mostly black and anytime you're looking at the desktop
you would actually be powering up those pixels less giving you some potential
for energy savings this thing is way beefier than i actually expected so
it's got a core i7 10875h 32 gigs of RAM
all that is stuff that i did anticipate i didn't realize it comes with up to an
rtx 2080 super max q now you can argue all day about whether the 2080 super max
q versus the 2070 super max q makes much of a difference because of thermal
constraints but the bottom line is for the size of
laptop this has the most powerful GPU you can possibly install in it that
might explain why the fans get going pretty good
this is freaking sick just got some casual doom eternal
running at 1080 anywhere from 150 to 200
FPS those fans are going though
man that's smooth though and this is only a 60 hertz display this is just
running really smoothly because we're getting a ton of FPS we're going to want
to have a look at one of the higher refresh rate models right after this i
think to do so we're going to go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum
with the eon 17x so this is the more
beefcake gamery lineup and it's the big 17-inch version this puppy has two power
bricks each of which is 250 watts almost
two power inputs two mini display ports Thunderbolt
HDMI i wonder if this is uh two and a half
gig we're gonna find out we've got wired Ethernet we've got usb type a two usb
type cs one of which that has DisplayPort plugged into you got to be kidding
me there's like five display outputs on this thing you can't even use that many
at once i don't think two more type a's dedicated headphone microphone jacks and
a full sized sd card reader
tons of mesh along the bottom removable
battery wow nor do you see a dedicated subwoofer
on a laptop very often inside we're going to find GeForce rtx graphics we're
going to find a high-powered core i9 CPU we've got a g-sync panel this is the
kind of machine that when your parents go wow why is that so expensive for back
to school you go well hey look at least it's cheaper than a macbook pro
assuming you like spec it out anyway well this one's available with up to a
240 hertz g-sync display that runs at
1920x1080 but origin actually sent me
the 4k 60hz version
guys i had really wanted to experience the
high refresh rateness look at this thing it's turboing over five gigahertz right
now yes my friends not only has a core i9
processor in it it has a core i9 desktop
processor this is a 10 900k which means yes it will actually
turbo in lightly threaded workloads over five gigahertz and we've got a full fat
rtx 2080 super no max q this is a max p skew and i am
expecting some pretty spectacular performance from it
and well yeah i haven't even talked about the uh the underglow RGB at the back look at
this it's like hey origen how's that Corsair acquisition going for you
there's your answer right there okay so if you guys were wondering what kind of
a difference you can expect from a max q versus a max p variant with uh really
great cooling on it we're hitting almost
250 FPS right now i mean of course we
would have to use the we'd have to select the other display option in order
to get the full benefit of that but at least it's an option
wow i'm seeing spikes over 300 FPS i
guess that's what that 10900k is doing for us
so nightmare 4k we are still
running in the neighborhood of a hundred frames per second and while a lot of
people might look at a machine like this and go well that size is ridiculous what
year is it i thought this is 20 20. the difference in the quality of the fan
noise is really big compared to a thin
laptop with powerful hardware where the fans have to spin at much higher RPM so
it's more of a whoosh and less of a
of course for some people looks and
back that's not sore are more important than acoustics so for them there's the
evo 17 s which is the big brother of the
first one that we looked at so the biggest difference here is of course a
17 inch display instead of a 15 15-inch display and
it's not OLED because at this time samsung is only making their amoled
notebook display in a 15.6 inch variant
going back to a skinny boy does mean that we end up with a max q GPU as well
as an actual mobile CPU but if you had
some intense work to do on the road you can see i'm actually rendering in
blender with this puppy right now and the CPU is still managing around 2.9
gigahertz on all eight cores and 16 threads pretty darn respectable for
something you can slip into a notebook bag there is a performance hit moving
down to the thin and light optimized hardware for the internals but there are
also quality of life improvements with this one like the built-in fingerprint sensor on the touch pad one thing i
gotta give credit for is that while the top of the machine appears
quite toasty the keys themselves very usable and same goes for the wrist
rest actually down below about here still
cool to the touch for their last trick origen sent over one of their eon 15x
units so this is a 15 inch but thick boy gaming laptop
with uh what's this a custom print on the back cover that's
like LTT themed and stuff so you can basically get any graphics that you want
printed on the back of your laptop if you're into that sort of thing they
offer hd uv printing precision laser etching or complete custom paint jobs to
spruce up your origin pc you got your power in mini displayport HDMI and then
that's a type c that also has displayport out no Thunderbolt on this
puppy then you've got a usb 2 over on the right along with dedicated
headphone and microphone jacks two usb threes on the left microsd and a full
sized Ethernet jack this one also has the fingerprint
scanner for password free sign in
and in terms of hardware i'm expecting to find maybe a max p GPU and a mobile
CPU guess we'll find out no
this is something entirely different here i am going well this can't have
nearly as beefy a cooling system as the 17-inch so it must have a mobile chip no
uh no this has got a 3950x
16 core ryzen processor in it and an rtx 2070
and that would be a max p variant so this right here is going to be your
mobile workstation powerhouse but look at that turbo
3.2 gigahertz look at it go
fortunately this is the one machine out of the four that origin provided with a
high refresh rate display it's 144 hertz
and the one machine out of the four that uh
doesn't have new maternal pre-installed on it for me so we're going to play some
rocket league get high frame rate oh no these people are much better than me no
okay well then they got us yep hey the
good news is we're getting 250 frames per second we got it we got it locked in
pretty spinny fans but just like it's big brother at least
it's a whoosh and not a wine wow really wants to cool that CPU and GPU down even
when you're not playing the game anymore get them down to a reasonable temperature that's
pretty much it if you guys want any more information on origen's notebook lineup
for back to school or i mean hey heck they're desktops for that matter you can
check them out at the link in the video description