wow this is the biggest box we've had in
a while this thing is freaking massive how heavy is this thing well I can tell
you for sure it is one heck of a laptop this right here is the aorus 17x and it
has an RTX 490 and the first one we've seen here security seal is already
broken that's because Labs had a little look at it first
team up fight on oh and also this is sponsored by aoris thanks guys
let's have a look here let's go over here first
this thing is 330 Watts gallium nitride
so like you have seen Chargers that are this big before but not this dense this
thing actual weapon
okay nope
what do we have in here warranty card quick start guide
is it plug it in and turn it on yep plug it in hit the power button thank you
guys oh
this is not a late laptop that you got us here Jeff oh can you see all the
different colors that this aorus logo is changing to that's pretty cool overall
the design is very gamer it's not like
quite as over the top as some stuff that we've seen in the past they say it's
space themed and they are certainly accurate there also holy look at the
amount of copper that you can see here that right there you take that to the
scrap yard and you can get it pretty penny or two anyway let's have a look at
the i o here so we have headphone microphone combo Jack two USB type A's
around back we have Ethernet not sure if
it's 2.5 or gigabit we'll put that right here hopefully 2.5 we also have
DisplayPort out I really do appreciate Mini DisplayPort it seems kind of a
little bit like a weird one it can be very nice VR headsets HDMI 2.1 are power
n around the other side we have Thunderbolt 4 and another type A
6.5 pounds yeah that is an exceptionally heavy laptop it's pretty thin
like given like it's not bad
oh apparently the chassis been redesigned
and it's all cnc'd aluminum now and
the overall chassis rigidity here seems really good you can get some like
if I really push on it some flexing but
it's nothing that you're gonna notice unless you're really given her
the way that they've designed the chassis here is a little bit interesting
they have this sort of step down to the keyboard which is nice because you know
it doesn't smack in the display but it does leave not quite as much space as I
like to see for the trackpad to be clear still nice large trackpad and they did
put their little aorus logo on there if you can see that in the correct light but this
is a massive device they could put much bigger one on here how does it work
though well we're gonna find out after it wait
I don't have to tell you about our sponsor because it's a Gigabyte
ah same thing so there's
RGB back here where oh right there I see
it's like RGB on the RGB thing you have analog and digital RGB okay
we're in here let's see how it all feels Notepad
keyboard is really good now it's a
little bit on the soft side but it does
have a really nice actuation and it doesn't have any bad like
hook here you can push the side of the key and the key still actuates instead
of like the whole thing just sort of going or it is quite well done I
personally for typing with like something that's a little bit snappier
but this is primarily a gaming laptop so having something that's a little bit
more linear a little bit softer is nice because you're going to be just like
holding down W for a super long time or whatever those stupid games that don't
have auto run the trackpad also is fantastic again it's not quite as large
as I would have liked on something like this but when I'm using it I don't
really care I didn't even need hand lube and it already just feels great so nice
and smooth to go around on no tracking issues at all and the click feels nice
and good it's even pretty satisfying here like
good job the display also is fantastic so 1440p 240 hertz pretty much as good
as you can get on a laptop I do really wish that they had 16 by 10 just bring
her down there a little bit I would like to but you can get away with 16x9 on a
display that is just this big
240 hertz is probably going to be Wicked to Game
On and Here we have the I9 13950 HX that is 24 CPU cores at 5.5
gigahertz Maxim that is mental also 32
gigabytes of ddr5 at 5600 Mega transfers
per second one terabyte SSD made by Gigabyte makes sense and another one
terabyte SSD also made by Gigabyte for Wi-Fi we have Intel Wi-Fi 6E love to see
it and of course the NVIDIA RTX 49. this
thing goes up to 175 Watts on the GPU which is as much as
NVIDIA will let you put in your BIOS you can cool it better and they probably do
but NVIDIA won't let you have more oh also it's 16 gigabytes of GPU memory so
you should remember that the 4090 and a
laptop is not a 4090 on the desktop this right here is the same die as the 4080
but at the same time like you've seen
the size of the coolers on the 4090 there's no way that could
exist in something like this without it turning into I don't know a star or
something anyway I want to play valheim oh yeah that looks good
we've been doing so many stupid like thin and lights lately it's so nice to
have a laptop that actually can do this so we're getting 85 FPS Quad HD well
recording it so screen recording that is important to note and this thing right
here no trouble at all playing this game
now it should be noted that we are in the balance profile so you might be able
to in the future get a little bit more out of this
but for now you can't and we'll explain that later anyway for now I want to hit this deer
with some fire never mind he's running away from me I
just wise Mr deer anyway plays valheim
just fine 70 FPS when it's a little bit more stuff
around you but that's pretty good
how does plan something a bit more challenging oh we just saw that down in the corner
there and it said display mode GPU only that is because this has NVIDIA Advanced
Optimus and that allows your GPU to connect directly to the panel instead of
in some gaming laptops it will go dedicated GPU integrated GPU panel and
you can lose like 10 15 of your gaming
performance by doing it that way so love to see if they did it correctly
apparently it is very expensive to license from NVIDIA
all right so 1440p Ultra nightmare we
are currently looking at 250 240 260 FPS somewhere right around
there yeah this thing
is a good laptop to play Doom on that is
for sure 200 140 Hertz panel means that even though
I'm pretty bad I am nowhere near as bad as I would be
on my other laptops that is for sure yeah this is about as good as you can
get for something like this who would have thought 49ing a laptop
240 hertz panel it's good for gaming now
although this is about as good of a gaming experience as you can get there
is a bit of a problem now we are currently at 240 FPS let's see what
happens when I unplug the power
oh oh that's worse than I thought it
would be uh
we are now at 30 FPS
so yeah going from 250 FPS plugged in
to 30 FPS which I think NVIDIA might be
artificially limiting but yeah this is not the same gaming experience we just
yeah completely different laptop right
now not even remotely in the same league as what we
were just experiencing see if I put this back in will it come
right back oh 40 160.
200 240. okay and now it's back so yeah
it will very quickly return to its
normal Power limits when you plug in the charger but that is pretty disappointing
that it just completely poops itself when you take the charger out which
I feel like is going to get fixed in the
future and I say that because uh a lot of this laptop currently seems
like it's a little bit broken now for the most part that isn't going to matter
because for the time being you're going to go to the power mode here in Windows
make sure it is on balanced this is
crucial because for whatever reason better performance gigabytes turbo
profiles so on yeah they're broken
so if we look at the Labs testing Dave that we have here first of all we can
confirm very fast laptop exceptionally
fast turns out 490 in here does a good
job problem is so if we have it in best
performance mode we'll just use Forza Horizon as our example but it's
consistent across Modern Warfare 2 and cyberpunk 2077 as well so best
performance mode the one that you would think it would perform the best in we
got 94 FPS balanced mode 109.
and then we use gigabytes AI Auto overclocking boost and it's a hundred
and two game boost even worse 94 FPS so strangely balanced
mode is by far the best mode to have
this in and I think it's just simple firmware problems this right here very
early so many people are always like oh you guys get the Press samples those are
the best ones no those are the very first ones to come off the production
line and they're normally broken so so that's what I think is going on here
that said this is a very easy firmware update to fix and with any luck Gigabyte
will have a firmware update here down there in the description I don't know
hopefully it's there we'll see what I also want to see is how good the
speakers are
especially much on the draw
well everyone back there is dancing but uh I don't know that's what like a B
minus maybe whatever it's a laptop just get other speakers you could afford this
thing you can afford a hundred dollar Bluetooth speaker to go with it what
else do we have here oh webcam oh we've got here looks a little bit on
the grainy side that is for sure this right here is what
720p I am guessing no no
1080p could have fooled me it seems like it's struggling a bit I am
very grainy but at the same time I look fairly natural so does it improve
if I kind of this is a pretty challenging Scene It is
exposing well for my face it is just exceptionally grainy that
said I am incredibly happy that they were able to get Windows hello facial
recognition and on this thing not something you normally see on gaming
laptops and love to see it on here
all right let's take it apart
a bunch of T6 screws later and we are in
now do note there are different size screws in here so make sure to put them
on like a tray or something like this to keep track of where they go because if
you put one that's too long in the hole of one that's too small you will go
through your laptop ask me how I know wow
that is a cooling system right there big
old Vapor chamber all the way right along here and then some heat pipes to
get that heat extra far down four fans
two big boys two little ones and just so
much copper heatsink going all the way down here and along up there we do
fortunately have upgradable memory so in the past 4 800 Mega transfers per second
was as fast as you could get unless you soldered it down now with new 13th gen
processors you can get 5600 Mega transfers per second and you can just
put it right in your palm like
come on okay there's a thermal pad on the bottom that was a little bit
difficult but you can have it in the palm of your hand
just like that also in here we have easy access to our two ssds and is this a 99
watt hour battery yep 99 Watt hours right there perfect
that is as large of a battery as you can put in the laptop and legally take it on
a plane so love to see that I'm guessing
there's a lot of performance in this machine so what do they claim the
battery life is well I wasn't able to find any claims of
battery life on their website which means it's probably terrible but the
good news is with that massive charger you can get 50 battery in just 30
minutes by plugging it in so you are good off there so just look at how much
mesh there is on this bottom lots and lots of air can go through here
to their wind Force Infinity stuff I like it I really like the raw copper
anyway Jeff hit me with the price 40 90 13th gen I know these things are
just ridiculous how how much damage will this do to your
wallet generational debt
okay 3500 USD honestly better than I was
expecting given some of the prices that I've seen it's still a lot of money to
spend on a gaming laptop I'm not going to comment on the value because well for
one it's a sponsored video and also this is the first 4090 laptop we've properly
tested but it is one heck of a gaming
Beast that is for sure and huge thanks to aorus for sponsoring this video so if
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