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so i am on my fourth international trip in the last like

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three and a half weeks i've been all over the place uh new york two or

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three times la and now finally

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i am in beautiful paris

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so it's night time and i was thinking to myself i could go out and i could

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see the sights enjoy the night life or

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i could show you guys something that i whipped up that i call

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the ultimate travel gaming setup

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okay so i know what you guys are thinking

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that's just a razor blade stealth with a mouse pad a mouse an

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international adapter and a power brick

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there's nothing ultimate gaming and there's nothing special about it but

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i do have a piece

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that is special and this was actually kind of inspired by my upcoming review

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of the razer blade stealth because as you guys probably know if

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you've seen any coverage of a previous blade stealth one of the big

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selling points for razer for this device is its compatibility with their razer

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core external graphics card enclosure but

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i don't think most people are going to buy that kind of thing so i wanted to review the device

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standalone but that doesn't mean that i wanted to ignore the capabilities

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however as you guys have probably noticed this

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is not a razer blade core this is the

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secret sauce that actually makes this

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travel gaming setup more possible because the core or core v2 now

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i guess is really designed to be left at home so you take your notebook around

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with you you get home you plug in your Thunderbolt cable and boom you've got a

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full desktop grade graphics experience this guy this is the aorus gtx 1080

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gaming box and it's actually available with a variety of different gpus

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pre-installed in it is so small and

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compact that you could be reasonably expected to travel around with it

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so it enables a completely

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different use case than the razer core which is actually pretty bulky not to

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mention it does not come with a handy dandy little travel case

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so razer doesn't really advertise this

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but their blade stealth and actually their blade for that matter i've tested

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them with a variety of different external Thunderbolt and external GPU

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enclosures and i've actually found that while they don't guarantee

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interoperability between their notebooks and their GPU enclosures and third-party

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accessories it's actually been pretty good so your

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mileage may vary in terms of which external box you use but

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i wouldn't necessarily feel like you have to buy the razer one and that's a

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good thing because razer i mean i love you guys and all that but

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you guys charge a freaking lot for your external GPU box

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the pricing on this one puts it closer to

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if you account for that it comes with a gtx 1080 inside and that those obviously

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have a cost this guy comes to about 200

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only compared to the razer core v2

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at about 500

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so it doesn't come with this fancy orange cable mod cable that was uh that

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was actually something that i added so on the one side you've got a really

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large fan that is completely dedicated like all the way from here to here to

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here to here to this mini gtx 1080

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graphics card on the front you've just got a

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aorus logo on this side you've got a built-in power supply a couple of

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cooling fans that are bringing fresh air in over here and then around back you

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find the business end so there's a standard PCIe 16x graphics card so

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feasibly you could actually swap this out in the future if you could find

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something that would fit then you've got some included i o so you've got a fast

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charging usb 3 three more usb 3s and then the Thunderbolt that you need in

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order to power the GPU so it doesn't have the same i o as the core and

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honestly i'll tell you guys it's been a little bit more finicky at this stage

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than the razer core has requiring a reboot sometimes in order to be detected

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but overall the experience has been pretty decent

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so we just take our Thunderbolt 3 cable

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plug that bad boy in and

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what's cool about this is that we actually don't even need

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the blade stealth's included power adapter anymore so this takes the place

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of your laptop power adapter okay so let's fire it up

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the gaming box actually turns on automatically

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once you plug in Thunderbolt and power up your machine i just need to give my

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setup a second to detect my mouse and all that good stuff

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getting a couple issues with usb connectivity this is something that i've

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seen with this particular box before

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it doesn't affect my use case right now but it is something to maybe keep an eye

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out for before you go ahead and jump on this exact setup but but overall this is

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about the direction we're heading in terms of

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mobile gaming like look how compact and

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easy to travel with this whole setup is

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okay now before i fire up the game there's one quick thing i want to check

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just i want to make sure that this hand shook properly so yes gtx 1080 shows up

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here and the NVIDIA control panel shows up so

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we should be good to go now i just want to

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configure my options here now normally playing on a laptop even a gaming laptop

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you'd be setting up like tier options but not today we're going to

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crank it to 3200 by 1800 fxaa and we're

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turning the graphics to very high with motion blur off now

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to be clear the best gaming experience on these

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external boxes is had with an external monitor because there's only so much

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bandwidth in this Thunderbolt connection there's a PCIe 4x connection and then

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some protocol overhead so when you have to communicate from the system to the

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graphics card in order to actually render the game then that's a lot of

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bandwidth and then when you have to send the graphics cards display output data

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instead of actually hooking up an HDMI or displayport connection here when you

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have to send it in i think it's called loopback mode back to the laptop's

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display then you end up hurting yourself because you're using some of your

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bandwidth up for that so you can expect to take anywhere from a 10 to a 20

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performance hit is this not incredible like yeah we're only running at

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38 to 42 FPS so it's not the smoothest

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gaming experience of all time but like i'm being pretty unfair to it like we're

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running at 3 800 by 1600 i don't have to

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do that on a 13.3 inch display so let's

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say we drop it to 1920x1080 let's have a look at what

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performance looks like there

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there it is my friends ultra

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details 65 to 70 FPS gaming

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in a reasonably demanding game on a

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laptop okay so i know that external GPU boxes

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aren't new and the razer blade stealth isn't particularly new obviously

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carrying a mouse around with you when you travel isn't new but the reason that

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i'm bringing this up now as opposed to before is just because a few things

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have all come together and made this sort of this what's been a pipe dream of

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mine for the future start to look like it's a lot closer maybe even a reality

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today so number one is that these external GPU boxes are getting both

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smaller and cheaper

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that's awesome number two is that notebooks these

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actually legitimately thin and light notebooks with great battery life i use

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this on a plane for over six hours with a couple of battery tweaks on my way

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here finally have quad-core processors

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because that was the issue a lot of modern games are finally getting to the

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point where they can actually use more than just a couple of CPU cores so even

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though razer's been talking about this use case for well since the blade

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stealth launched it never made any sense to me before but check this out so you

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can see here the CPU is turboing up as high as like 3.6 gigahertz and change to

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keep the CPU from being a bottleneck and this is pretty cool here uh back up a

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little bit i'm going to lean in with my microphone which i'm wearing

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this whole setup is quiet so in some ways this is

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actually better for my purposes than a gaming laptop

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with everything integrated because now i can upgrade my super portable notebook

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or my GPU separately as my needs change and the

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pricing is not that far off especially

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when you consider that like this graphics card is non-proprietary so it

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could just be moved to like a friend's desktop or resold when you need a new

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GPU like ah this is totally

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game changing so thanks guys for checking out my video

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on the ultimate travel gaming setup if you disliked it

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