huge laptops have never really been my
thing as many of you know my daily driver is a Razer Blade 14 but it's not
like I haven't noticed that as marvelous
as a thin and light with a GTX 970m still is it thermal throttles it's loud
and it still falls short of the True Performance of a desktop computer
something that many people desire in a mobile system so it is for those people
and the on who just like over-the-top Tech that I say stay tuned because the
Seer NP 9870 u2g is the fastest laptop I
have ever laid my hands
on Corsair's RMI series power supplies
feature premium components for great performance with very low noise check
out the link in the video description to learn more let's start with a look at
the outside of this Beast of a machine on the top of the shell is a chromed
plastic Sager logo and some software customizable lighting accents on the
bottom is W that is a lot of ventilation
holes there's one spot over here for the subwoofer but most of the rest of the
bottom of the unit and even some of the front is mesh kind of like my Halloween
costume that one year ioe I would describe as very good with dual killery
2400 GB land ports 3 USB 3.0 ports and
dedicated headphone mic Optical and line out audio jacks on the left SD more USB
3.0 Thunderbolt 3 with a type-c
connector yeah and a couple mini display ports on the right and finally HDMI and
yet another USB 3.0 port on the back
opening her up we find pretty much what we'd expect on a large all the bells and
whistles gaming laptop the wrist rest and keyboard area are plastic but
actually very sturdy the upward firing
speakers are loud and actually sound pretty darn good and while I wish the
touchpad was a little closer to the front edge the included fingerprint
scanner is a nice touch and it tracks really well finally the keyboard with
its software customizable RGB backlighting and macro functionality
gets a solid B there's a bit more keycap wobble than I'd personally like and the
travel action is a little mushy but it didn't affect my typing speed and it's
very very quiet which brings us to the
screen what can I say he nice this is a
17in 60 HZ IPS panel with NVIDIA g-sync
technology for a tear-free gaming experience and with a couple minutes of
tinkering I had it running at 100 htz on this sample unit that Sager sent to me
though your mileage may vary but if I'm going to say something outlandish like
this is the most powerful laptop I've ever laid my hands on then I'd better be
backing it up so let's crack her open and find out what treasures be inside
first things first that is a desk top LGA 1151 socket hidden away under all of
those heat pipes and connected to one of the three heat sink fin aays at the back
of the laptop's Chassy friends and it is full of none other than a full desktop
core i7 6700k Skylake quad core yep and
the Holy balls doesn't end there prying up the keyboard reveals two 16 gig
sticks of ddr4 memory giving this laptop a maximum capacity of 64 gigs portable
workstation anyone and while I'm not a huge fan of systems that are
preconfigured with the boot drives in raid zero that my friends is two of
Samsung's Fancy Pants new 256 gig nbme
950 Pro drives that are tearing up the benchmarks all over the Internet two of
them I mean using this thing is noticeably faster and more responsive
than even a standard SSD something that made more sense to me when I finally ran
Crystal dis Mark and realized that it was putting out sequential read and
write speeds of 2 to 3 gabt per second
holy actual flipping this puppy over things
get even better hiding away in this corner are a couple of 2 and 1 half inch
hard drivve slots that you can use to either configure the laptop with more
storage directly from Seager or upgrade later and yes finally the centerpiece
the desktop class GTX 988 gig that Luke
showed off back at NVIDIA's event has made its way finally to us this is a
really cool Unique Piece of hardware Ware first there's the fact that it's a
non-standard width which precludes any possibility of shipping an SLI
configuration in this chassi anyway even if Sager could figure out some way to
power and cool it and second is something that's not as obvious to the
naked eye the fact that it's really up to the individual notebook manufacturers
to determine how to tune the GPU for performance they can limit its power or
allow it to Thermal throttle a scenario that will still result in better
performance than a lesser GPU or they can throw six heat pipes at it like
Seager did in hopes of taming the Beast to the point where it runs exactly the
same as a desktop card so I ran it side
by side against a desktop test bench with the same Hardware to see just how
close they got and while it might be surprising to anyone who didn't see the
massive cooling solution inside this puppy I wasn't exactly floored to see it
perform literally exactly the same as my
desktop which doesn't take anything away from how impressive this kind of
performance is in what is certainly larger and heavier than a MacBook Air
but still a portable device but there's
more to a laptop too than its sheer FPS and I need to talk about the experience
as well in our standard Crisis 3 Skybox
thermal test sitting on the table at room temperature r980 hummed along at a
mere 70° while maintaining a rock solid boost clock of 1228 MHz I mean no wonder
this machine scores were so darn close to the desktop ones and on top of that
while the rear exhaust vents are quite toasty the keyboard and wrist rests stay
cool with the keyboard being the only part that's barely noticeably warm to
the touch sounds like a dream right I wouldn't know my ears are broken which
is a little unfair at least it's not the same high-pitched fan noise of the blade
14 but this is no g750 one either either
so if you were expecting the np98 7 u2g to be quiet! when it's under a 3D
workload then you'd be a little bit disappointed with your purchase but if
you were expecting a few hundred watts of thermal dissipation to sound like a
few watts of thermal dissipation and adjusted your expectations accordingly
would you be happy with this laptop I sure think so assuming you can
afford it as configured this machine costs well over 3,000 Us doll but even
if it's pricey what impresses me the most is that it's possible at all it was
only a couple of years ago that my team and I marveled at being able to take a
mini PC from shuttle with a core i7 3960x 16 gigs of RAM and a graphics card
with us to CES in a duffel bag with a 23in IPS monitor in someone's suitcase
so that we could edit our videos quickly and in high quality on the road and here
we are a mere few years later able to do the same thing or better with a laptop
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