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beautiful next to me here I have a
gaming notebook not just any gaming notebook a 17inch class gaming notebook
not just any 17inch class gaming notebook one with a gorgeous aluminum
construction but okay hold on a second glus all of this stuff is kind of stuff
that's out there what about this special
this is the first ever gaming notebook
from EVGA something that I didn't
realize until I heard about the announcement but it surprised me that
they had never done before they're the
only company I can think of with the motherboard and BIOS programming
experience that they have who has never taken that and turned it into a notebook
so let's run through what this puppy's got going for her we've got a 4K IPS
display up here like I said before just
a beautiful aluminum ID with a one
finger hinge despite the fact that this is quite a large model we've got
top-of-the-line specs we've got a core i7 Skylake processor 16 gigs of ddr4 RAM
it's got uh USB 3.1 type c it features a
256 gig SSD Bluetooth 4.2 all of that
good stuff but of course because EVGA
knows Gamers they were able to come in and do a notebook that doesn't make many
of the mistakes that companies that are new to this stuff make for example the
keyboard has a really nice and Incredibly solid feel to it the speakers
are tuned to deliver Great Sound and from closer to the gamer than you would
normally encounter and this is cool yes
but wait there's more EVGA has implemented many of the same features
that you'd find in their Enthusiast motherboard bioses for example you can
move the mouse around in the BIOS you can overclock from within the BIOS that
is pretty cool so they've actually got like a superclock profile where you can
turn the CPU up to I think it's 3.8 GHz or something along those lines and they
do all of this without it getting too loud that's the thing that they're most
proud of is how quiet they're able to keep this machine under a gaming load in
terms of IO you got your power in you've got your gigabit Ethernet you've got
HDMI and two mini display ports and then
moving around over to the other side we've got you USB type-c very nice to
see that type-c connector finally getting popular here another USB 3 port
a headphone SL microphone Jack and a Kensington lock along with another usb3
Port now the one thing that I think EVGA
missed the mark with on this one a little bit is that the GTX 980m graphics
card that's in here is not hooked up to a g-sync
display however EVGA says they are looking into release reling a follow-up
model with a g-sync display later on
this year so let us know in the comments on this one guys is there a place for
EVGA in the gaming notebook Market or is it too crowded how excited are you about
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