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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital Welcome to our best gaming notebooks of CES 2014 Adventure we're

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kicking things off here at the Intel Booth where I've been given a challenge

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or a quest or whatever you might want to call it either way I hope you guys will

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join us for the adventure to find my personal favorite gaming notebooks here

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at the show now there's no particular criteria it doesn't have to be the best

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performance it doesn't have to be the thinnest or the lightest or a particular

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color it's just the ones that really stood out to us as we journeyed Las

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Vegas going into all the sweets and all over the show floor trying to find our

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favorite gaming notebooks well this was unexpected it looks like we're going to

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be one of the only ones able to bring you this news oh wait no this this is

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one of MSI's workstation notebooks this is gaming systems best gaming

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systems of CES ah yes this guy right

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here I can't tell you guys the model I actually covered it as well in the video

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of MSI Suite so you can go check that out for a few more details but the core

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i7 quad core processor in here is paired with an undisclosed Graphics solution in

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a completely unreal enclosure it is

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phenomenally slim it feels faster than the gs7 in real world gaming and unlike

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the gs70 about which I had one complaint and that was that it was dense it was

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Heavy I mean the thing was made of metal so what were we going to expect this one

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feels more like it's made of plastic but I know for a fact just from touching it

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and looking at it it is definitely made of metal unfortunately I can't tell you

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guys too much about this not even its name but it is definitely one of our

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highlights of the show gaming notebooks just don't look like what they used to

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look like anymore this is the orus X7 it is an extremely slim gaming notebook and

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you might go okay well I've heard a lot of things called extremely slim gaming notebooks and usually they're just not

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that powerful but this one is it has a core i7 quad core and it also has

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GeForce GTX 765m Graphics not one but

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two of them it has two graphics cards running in SLI to which you might reply

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okay lonus well it probably runs really hot then the answer is no actually it

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does not the keyboard does not get more than slightly warmed to the touch you're

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not going to get sweaty hand syndrome or as I call it shs from using this

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particular notebook and if you are curious about what the power of dual GTX

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765m is like they've got a couple of demos running here one is Batman Arkham

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Origins running at about normal settings and you can see that we're looking at

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about 60 FPS average so since we have vsync on that actually only tells us

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that we are able to run the game butter smooth at 60 FPS with only mild dips to

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44 frames per second they also have it running a 4K gaming demo over in the

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other corner so whether you are gaming on the display that's built in which is

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a 1080p display not a TN panel just like

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thumbs up or whether you want to plug in up to three external displays or one

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high resolution one you will be pretty much good to go continuing our quest for

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the hottest gaming notebooks here at CES we're in the ASUS Suite where we're

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checking out the g750 JZ at features an upcoming NVIDIA

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GeForce presumably GTX high-end graphics

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card of some sort we can't even tell you what it is that's how new and exciting

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it is as an Intel Core i7 quad core processor it features Thunderbolt

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technology as well as four USB 3 ports but more importantly than any of that is

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what's here in the back massive massive

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heat sinks with dual fans for ventilation so no matter what you are

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throwing at this sexy but a little bit

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heavy which should give you some kind of clue as to what kind of powerful

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Hardware is inside no matter what you throw at this sexy gaming Beast it will

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stay cool and look good doing it now we're at the NVIDIA Booth we found

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another awesome gaming notebook here at CES 2014 this is the Razer Blade 14 it's

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actually one that we've looked at before but that doesn't really make it any less

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exceptional you can see we're running Assassin's Creed 4 here this particular

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notebook has a 14-in display it's got a gorgeous green LED back lit display it

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has did I say display cuz I meant keyboard don't worry about it you guys I

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got this i got this I'm pretty tired we're on like day three of the show here

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it's in an extremely slim form factor and the most exceptional thing about it

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has got to be the build quality in spite

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of the core i7 quad core processor and GTX

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765m uh graphics card in here it's got this super super slim beautiful aluminum

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design that is as portable as it is

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deadly so just cuz we've seen it before and just cuz it's not the newest thing

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ever doesn't make it any less exceptional now I think it's somewhat

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safe to say that if you're gamer particularly one who's been shopping for

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a notebook in the last little while and you've been on the internet then you've

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probably heard of the y500 series from Lenovo well this my friends is the Y 500

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series evolved in pretty much every possible way that I can think of this is

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the y50 this is a sort of a an example

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unit it's going to be available in a variety of configurations all lenovo's

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really said so far is that between this one and the 14-in model it's going to be

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sort of starting at $9.99 but uh this is one very very

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impressive notebook guys the first thing you might be thinking is well okay lonus

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you're saying the y50 is better than the y500 that doesn't actually make much

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sense no no it does because it's not about some kind of reduction in the

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hardware spec it's about a reduction in the overall size this is one Sleek slim

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beautiful gaming notebook it's actually it doesn't really look like a high

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performance gaming notebook and while unfortunately we can't tell you exactly

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what Gra graphics card is in this particular one suffice it to say there

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will be some options coming in the future and there will be some more information and that will give you some

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some great you know perspective on how impressive the feed is later on down the

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line it also contains a quadcore Intel Core i7 processor it's got a red back

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lit keyboard it's got a beautiful soft touch finish here on the uh on the

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surface of the notebook but I kind of saved the best for last here a little

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bit guys this display right here in addition to having great viewing angles

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vibrant colors without looking oversaturated to be perfectly honest is

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a 4K display now unfortunately they don't

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all ship with 4K displays at $9.99 or anything like that but the fact that

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it's even available as an option is unreal and to go along with you know

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just just again to demonstrate that it's got the power to back it up we are

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running two 4K videos this one's on the upcoming Dell 24in 4k monitor this one's

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on the notebook itself and they are both running off the notebook right

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now the end of our Quest is actually in the Intel Booth but it didn't really

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have to be it's just that this particular demo with the alien Weare 18

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is particularly impressive because it's one thing to have the Alienware 18 with

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its quad core core i7 processor and dual GTX 780m running games on its own

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display it is quite another to fire up a

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60hz 4K display from pan Sonic and be

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running Batman Arkham Origins in silky

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smooth gorgeous detail so you guys can probably actually see that in spite of

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Batman being dropping around and swinging around places it is running at

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an incredibly smooth playable frame rate considering the fact that this is still

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a portable machine while it might not have the same you know slim form factor

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as some of the other ones we're looking at if it's raw horsepower you're after

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well those options are still available as well thanks so much for checking out

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our favorite gaming notebooks of CES 2014 guys like this video if you liked

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it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment and let me know which one was

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your favorite gaming notebook and more importantly why and then last but not

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least as always guys don't forget to subscribe