mobile gsync is here a shocking
development to anyone who wasn't paying attention four months ago when our Bros
over at PC perspective did an in-depth analysis of the rumored hacked g-sync
driver including a physical tear down to find out if there was secretly a g-sync
module inside making it work spoiler
alert there wasn't so then how does mobile gsync work and is it even any
good stay tuned cuz we'll be using the Sager NP 9773 gaming laptop to find out
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to learn more about it so let's start with a tour of the
laptop we checking out today the word of the day is incredible the Seager NP 9773
is incredible it's incredibly fast has an incredible amount of IO is incredibly
large and heavy and this is really incredible features a desktop processor
for incredible mobile performance that's right the NP 9773 puts the desktop in
desktop replacement with a full LGA 1150
core i7 4790k quad core hyperthreaded
processor at its heart one that impressively managed to run for me at
full 4.2 GHz turbo under a multi-threaded CPU only workload even on
a soft surface like a bed albeit at a slightly uncomfortable 90° CPU
temperature our model is equipped with 16 gigs of dual Channel RAM a 128 gig
m.2 SSD and a 1 tab drive but it can be
configured with up to 32 gigs of RAM up to two m.2 ssds and up to two 2 and 1/2
in hard drives or ssds in pretty much any capacity it's got an Intel 7265 2x2
AC wireless card and a GTX 98m 8 gig graphics card the best GPU you can get
for a laptop the rest of the specs aren't configurable so on the left
you've got gigabit Ethernet three USB 3.0 ports an SD card reader and an eSATA
Port that also doubles as a USB 2.0 Port by the way on on the right is a final
USB 3.0 Port headphone line in microphone and Optical out audio ports
then on the back is power in HDMI 1.4a and a pair of DisplayPort 1.2 ports on
the bottom is a subwoofer and a couple of air intakes to feed the rear exhaust
ports along with some easy access hatches for drive or memory upgrades and
on top of the device is a simple logo with a soft touch finish that I found
pleasing to the eye and to the hand since we find it when we we open up the
lid on the wrist rest as well also down
here we find a full-size keyboard including number pad with RGB
backlighting that supports a number of lighting modes my impressions of the
keyboard are something along the lines of it's okay nothing stood out to me as
really bad or good about it a touch stiff the right shift is a little short
but the arrow key layout is good and the breathing or color cycling effects are
cool if you're into that sort of thing there's also an off-center touchpad with
separated buttons and a fingerprint reader in the middle something I didn't
know that I cared about until I checked out the Lenovo X1 Carbon recently and
absolutely loved it I actually really liked the touchpad too and I can't quite
put my finger on why ironically but it
just felt super responsive and accurate even if it doesn't have the glass top
feel that I like so much moving up are
the speakers that don't suck something that deserves a mention even though it's
a lot less challenging on devices this size and on something like the MacBook
2015 I reviewed recently and finally the
screen this is what this laptop is really about for me not because it's
17in size or 1920 x 1080 full HD
resolution is particularly groundbreaking or even because it's
unusual anymore to see IPS monitors and gaming laptops but because it runs at 75
HZ out of the box when 60 HZ is much more typical and because it features G
g-sync at some point I'm going to get sick of rehashing g-sync and you're all
going to get sick of hearing about it but it is not this day g-sync and other
variable refresh rate Technologies improve animation smoothness in games by
refreshing the display whenever the graphics card outputs a frame instead of
at even intervals which can cause lag or
screen tearing whenever the graphics card and the monitor are out of sync
with each other so now we've got it on a notebook and all we can really do is
well talk about the gaming experience first I wanted to find out how it felt
out of the box so at 75 HZ I loaded up a couple of games that I enjoy
benchmarking Crisis 3 and Grand Theft Auto 5 to see how they did for starters
IPS gaming really is the way forward that much is very clear to me now that
I've gone that route on my desktop as well as my daily driver notebook the
slight difference in pixel response times IMO is worth the improved image
quality and for number two g-sync Is
Awesome on a laptop just like it is on a desktop at least for now NVIDIA has
already said that they can enable some additional functionality with the g-sync
module in the desktop displays which presumably on these notebook displays
that are running on embedded DisplayPort directly to the panel scaler
without an NVIDIA module won't be able to do but just like what I said in my
BenQ xl2730z video recently I don't mind a
slightly worse hand Ling of some edge
cases outside of the you know sort of optimal operation window frame rates
since this is the PC so you can just tweak your settings to get everything
perfect in 95 or 99% of cases so I'll
say the same thing here a quick hop into the game menu to balance your frame
rates in that 45 to 75 range is going to
make for a great gsync gaming experience
but it actually gets better panel refresh rate overclock is definitely a
thing on this particular IPS monitor and
I got ours up to 100 HZ with no hassle
whatsoever so now we're really flying and perhaps even getting some kind of
small benefit out of our core i7 4790k however tiny that might be since
it does actually turbo a little higher than a notebook CPU in not very threaded
workloads like games allowing us to get slightly higher maximum frame rates
which I guess just leads to the conclusion of this video how is the
Seager np97 73 well if you want great
battery life go buy a Macbook because between the desktop CPU and the fact
that mobile gsync precludes the use of Optimus onboard Graphics sharing to save
battery and light workloads battery life is pretty much a non-starter here but if
you want a mobile workstation that's quiet under light workloads reasonably
quiet still under heavy ones and is truly as powerful as your desktop top
even in heavy multi-threaded workloads it looks pretty darn good and you can
cancel your gym membership too since moving your computer around is going to be one heck of a workout speaking of
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