here in front of me i've got the aorus x9
the thinnest lightest most powerful and
perhaps most RGB 1070 sli laptop ever
as for whether anyone was actually asking for an RGB 1070 sli laptop
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consider the lamborghini veneno it's not everyone's favorite lamborghini
aesthetically but like it's still a lambo and the styling of
the aorus x9 is similarly polarizing
other than the muted black exterior it's one of the most gamery looking laptops
that's been through the lab in a while meaning that it'll definitely turn heads
at your next lan event but showing up to a meeting with this
would be about like showing up to a hockey game in a wetsuit some kinds of
head turning aren't necessarily positive i do have to give it points for build
quality though the aluminum around the keyboard and the chassis itself are both
extremely rigid and at 7.9 pounds it's
not the easiest thing to carry but it's not unreasonable given its power and it
makes it so that it's not going to move around accidentally on your desk plus
it's got enough io on it to make it look like the flying spaghetti monster if you
actually plug everything in that's something you can't take for granted
these days and this over-the-top build philosophy
makes its way to the internals as well
our model sports a core i7 7820 hk 32
gigs of ddr4 RAM two 512 gig NVMe ssds
not configured in raid on our model curiously and two gtx 1070 gpus
this is a really unusual graphics
configuration the disadvantage is you've
got to deal with the usual performance scaling and power issues that are
associated with sli the potential advantage is higher frame
rates than a gtx 1080 currently the best
performing single mobile GPU in supported games and then maybe the
ability to spread out your heat generating components to make it thinner
on the subject of heat generating components the i7 7820 hk CPU is
notorious for overloading the thermals of basically every laptop that we've
tested it in even that water-cooled one from ASUS
so then has Gigabyte's four-fan design been able to tame the beast
at stock clocks actually yes
i mean it's a thin and light for what it is notebook
so it wasn't particularly quiet but it also doesn't have an annoying tone to
the sound and the CPU maxed out at around 75 degrees while maintaining 3.5
gigahertz turbo on all four cores this is a great result let's move on to
gaming performance this one is a bit of a mixed bag since
the year is now 2017
and sli scaling is as inconsistent as
it's ever been at its best the arsx 9 with its two 8
gig gtx 1070s destroys a desktop with a 1080
but at its worst it actually gets beaten
by a max-q gtx 1070 in a laptop a
quarter its weight due to sli driver nonsense and yes we double checked that
result so this is kind of disappointing for
prospective buyers but it's also expected and without giving away too
much about our conclusion for this video it reinforces our belief that a single
better GPU is in the vast majority of cases
a better option than two lesser ones even at 4k resolution
though that's nothing against the x9s display
it's got a matte finish it comes with x right pantone calibration out of the box
and looks really good though with that said i would personally
have gone for the 1440p 120 hertz version which is a wva
rather than an ips display but would deliver a much smoother gaming
experience without again this is in my opinion giving up anything meaningful in
terms of image sharpness i'm really glad that Gigabyte has that option now the
keyboard has custom mechanical switches with a long travel but i can't say that
i really enjoy typing on them the tactile bump feels more like a tactile
hitch which means that unless you press pretty
hard naturally you might find yourself missing keystrokes from time to time
i personally wish that they had stuck to something more like what is on the aero
15x that one is a much better keyboard for
both typing and gaming in my opinion the good news though is that the quality of
the trackpad is similar here and you get a bonus falcon graphic on it it has
solid tracking and a tactile feel in the click even though it does seem a bit
small given the size of the rest of the laptop flipping the x9 over to open it up i
will admit that the way that they made a bird out of the vents looks pretty darn
slick whatever i might have said aesthetically earlier and then that
taking it off reveals a completely free two and a half inch drive bay two empty
sodium slots two filled m.2 slots a very
generous application or thermal compound and a very high capacity
94.2 watt hour battery that would give you great battery life
on a less power hungry machine as for the x9 well
let's just say it's a gaming laptop so those leds under the logo well you can
set them to things like fan speed or CPU
or GPU temps but you should probably use them to monitor the battery
the webcam is pretty good and it includes a feature called smart cam
which allows you to remove the background while you're streaming like
this guy from the reviewer's guide and you can tell he's really pumped on
smartcam and the speakers though this is somewhat predictable on a larger machine
sounded pretty darn good so it's not bad
it's just a little misconfigured the x9 as it is next to me here costs 3
800 us dollars and with a lower resolution and higher
refresh rate display maybe a 1080
a single SSD to save a buck and then maybe we could drop some of the RAM it
might still fall behind the ASUS g701vi
in terms of its bang for the buck but it would be thinner and much sexier
than that one with a more sensible display as it is unless you only play a
couple of games that you know are super well optimized for sli
and you value resolution over refresh
rate the ars x9 doesn't make the most
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