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huge laptops have never really been my

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thing as many of you know my daily driver is a Razer Blade 14 but it's not

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like I haven't noticed that as marvelous

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as a thin and light with a GTX 970m still is it thermal throttles it's loud

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and it still falls short of the True Performance of a desktop computer

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something that many people desire in a mobile system so it is for those people

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and the on who just like over-the-top Tech that I say stay tuned because the

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Seer NP 9870 u2g is the fastest laptop I

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have ever laid my hands

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on Corsair's RMI series power supplies

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feature premium components for great performance with very low noise check

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out the link in the video description to learn more let's start with a look at

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the outside of this Beast of a machine on the top of the shell is a chromed

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plastic Sager logo and some software customizable lighting accents on the

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bottom is W that is a lot of ventilation

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holes there's one spot over here for the subwoofer but most of the rest of the

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bottom of the unit and even some of the front is mesh kind of like my Halloween

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costume that one year ioe I would describe as very good with dual killery

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2400 GB land ports 3 USB 3.0 ports and

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dedicated headphone mic Optical and line out audio jacks on the left SD more USB

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3.0 Thunderbolt 3 with a type-c

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connector yeah and a couple mini display ports on the right and finally HDMI and

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yet another USB 3.0 port on the back

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opening her up we find pretty much what we'd expect on a large all the bells and

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whistles gaming laptop the wrist rest and keyboard area are plastic but

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actually very sturdy the upward firing

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speakers are loud and actually sound pretty darn good and while I wish the

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touchpad was a little closer to the front edge the included fingerprint

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scanner is a nice touch and it tracks really well finally the keyboard with

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its software customizable RGB backlighting and macro functionality

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gets a solid B there's a bit more keycap wobble than I'd personally like and the

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travel action is a little mushy but it didn't affect my typing speed and it's

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very very quiet which brings us to the

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screen what can I say he nice this is a

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17in 60 HZ IPS panel with NVIDIA g-sync

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technology for a tear-free gaming experience and with a couple minutes of

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tinkering I had it running at 100 htz on this sample unit that Sager sent to me

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though your mileage may vary but if I'm going to say something outlandish like

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this is the most powerful laptop I've ever laid my hands on then I'd better be

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backing it up so let's crack her open and find out what treasures be inside

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first things first that is a desk top LGA 1151 socket hidden away under all of

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those heat pipes and connected to one of the three heat sink fin aays at the back

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of the laptop's Chassy friends and it is full of none other than a full desktop

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core i7 6700k Skylake quad core yep and

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the Holy balls doesn't end there prying up the keyboard reveals two 16 gig

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sticks of ddr4 memory giving this laptop a maximum capacity of 64 gigs portable

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workstation anyone and while I'm not a huge fan of systems that are

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preconfigured with the boot drives in raid zero that my friends is two of

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Samsung's Fancy Pants new 256 gig nbme

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950 Pro drives that are tearing up the benchmarks all over the Internet two of

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them I mean using this thing is noticeably faster and more responsive

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than even a standard SSD something that made more sense to me when I finally ran

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Crystal dis Mark and realized that it was putting out sequential read and

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write speeds of 2 to 3 gabt per second

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holy actual flipping this puppy over things

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get even better hiding away in this corner are a couple of 2 and 1 half inch

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hard drivve slots that you can use to either configure the laptop with more

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storage directly from Seager or upgrade later and yes finally the centerpiece

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the desktop class GTX 988 gig that Luke

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showed off back at NVIDIA's event has made its way finally to us this is a

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really cool Unique Piece of hardware Ware first there's the fact that it's a

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non-standard width which precludes any possibility of shipping an SLI

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configuration in this chassi anyway even if Sager could figure out some way to

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power and cool it and second is something that's not as obvious to the

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naked eye the fact that it's really up to the individual notebook manufacturers

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to determine how to tune the GPU for performance they can limit its power or

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allow it to Thermal throttle a scenario that will still result in better

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performance than a lesser GPU or they can throw six heat pipes at it like

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Seager did in hopes of taming the Beast to the point where it runs exactly the

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same as a desktop card so I ran it side

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by side against a desktop test bench with the same Hardware to see just how

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close they got and while it might be surprising to anyone who didn't see the

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massive cooling solution inside this puppy I wasn't exactly floored to see it

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perform literally exactly the same as my

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desktop which doesn't take anything away from how impressive this kind of

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performance is in what is certainly larger and heavier than a MacBook Air

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but still a portable device but there's

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more to a laptop too than its sheer FPS and I need to talk about the experience

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as well in our standard Crisis 3 Skybox

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thermal test sitting on the table at room temperature r980 hummed along at a

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mere 70° while maintaining a rock solid boost clock of 1228 MHz I mean no wonder

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this machine scores were so darn close to the desktop ones and on top of that

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while the rear exhaust vents are quite toasty the keyboard and wrist rests stay

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cool with the keyboard being the only part that's barely noticeably warm to

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the touch sounds like a dream right I wouldn't know my ears are broken which

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is a little unfair at least it's not the same high-pitched fan noise of the blade

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14 but this is no g750 one either either

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so if you were expecting the np98 7 u2g to be quiet! when it's under a 3D

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workload then you'd be a little bit disappointed with your purchase but if

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you were expecting a few hundred watts of thermal dissipation to sound like a

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few watts of thermal dissipation and adjusted your expectations accordingly

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would you be happy with this laptop I sure think so assuming you can

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afford it as configured this machine costs well over 3,000 Us doll but even

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if it's pricey what impresses me the most is that it's possible at all it was

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only a couple of years ago that my team and I marveled at being able to take a

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mini PC from shuttle with a core i7 3960x 16 gigs of RAM and a graphics card

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with us to CES in a duffel bag with a 23in IPS monitor in someone's suitcase

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so that we could edit our videos quickly and in high quality on the road and here

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we are a mere few years later able to do the same thing or better with a laptop

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