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here in front of me i've got the aorus x9

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the thinnest lightest most powerful and

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perhaps most RGB 1070 sli laptop ever

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as for whether anyone was actually asking for an RGB 1070 sli laptop

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but maybe this is one of those things that we didn't know we wanted until we

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had one or maybe it isn't

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the only thing i know for sure is that sennheiser gives you the best their pxc

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consider the lamborghini veneno it's not everyone's favorite lamborghini

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aesthetically but like it's still a lambo and the styling of

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the aorus x9 is similarly polarizing

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other than the muted black exterior it's one of the most gamery looking laptops

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that's been through the lab in a while meaning that it'll definitely turn heads

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at your next lan event but showing up to a meeting with this

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would be about like showing up to a hockey game in a wetsuit some kinds of

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head turning aren't necessarily positive i do have to give it points for build

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quality though the aluminum around the keyboard and the chassis itself are both

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extremely rigid and at 7.9 pounds it's

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not the easiest thing to carry but it's not unreasonable given its power and it

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makes it so that it's not going to move around accidentally on your desk plus

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it's got enough io on it to make it look like the flying spaghetti monster if you

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actually plug everything in that's something you can't take for granted

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these days and this over-the-top build philosophy

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makes its way to the internals as well

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our model sports a core i7 7820 hk 32

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gigs of ddr4 RAM two 512 gig NVMe ssds

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not configured in raid on our model curiously and two gtx 1070 gpus

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this is a really unusual graphics

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configuration the disadvantage is you've

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got to deal with the usual performance scaling and power issues that are

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associated with sli the potential advantage is higher frame

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rates than a gtx 1080 currently the best

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performing single mobile GPU in supported games and then maybe the

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ability to spread out your heat generating components to make it thinner

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on the subject of heat generating components the i7 7820 hk CPU is

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notorious for overloading the thermals of basically every laptop that we've

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tested it in even that water-cooled one from ASUS

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so then has Gigabyte's four-fan design been able to tame the beast

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at stock clocks actually yes

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i mean it's a thin and light for what it is notebook

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so it wasn't particularly quiet but it also doesn't have an annoying tone to

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the sound and the CPU maxed out at around 75 degrees while maintaining 3.5

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gigahertz turbo on all four cores this is a great result let's move on to

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gaming performance this one is a bit of a mixed bag since

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the year is now 2017

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and sli scaling is as inconsistent as

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it's ever been at its best the arsx 9 with its two 8

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gig gtx 1070s destroys a desktop with a 1080

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but at its worst it actually gets beaten

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by a max-q gtx 1070 in a laptop a

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quarter its weight due to sli driver nonsense and yes we double checked that

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result so this is kind of disappointing for

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prospective buyers but it's also expected and without giving away too

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much about our conclusion for this video it reinforces our belief that a single

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better GPU is in the vast majority of cases

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a better option than two lesser ones even at 4k resolution

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though that's nothing against the x9s display

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it's got a matte finish it comes with x right pantone calibration out of the box

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and looks really good though with that said i would personally

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have gone for the 1440p 120 hertz version which is a wva

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rather than an ips display but would deliver a much smoother gaming

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experience without again this is in my opinion giving up anything meaningful in

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terms of image sharpness i'm really glad that Gigabyte has that option now the

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keyboard has custom mechanical switches with a long travel but i can't say that

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i really enjoy typing on them the tactile bump feels more like a tactile

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hitch which means that unless you press pretty

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hard naturally you might find yourself missing keystrokes from time to time

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i personally wish that they had stuck to something more like what is on the aero

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15x that one is a much better keyboard for

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both typing and gaming in my opinion the good news though is that the quality of

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the trackpad is similar here and you get a bonus falcon graphic on it it has

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solid tracking and a tactile feel in the click even though it does seem a bit

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small given the size of the rest of the laptop flipping the x9 over to open it up i

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will admit that the way that they made a bird out of the vents looks pretty darn

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slick whatever i might have said aesthetically earlier and then that

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taking it off reveals a completely free two and a half inch drive bay two empty

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sodium slots two filled m.2 slots a very

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generous application or thermal compound and a very high capacity

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94.2 watt hour battery that would give you great battery life

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on a less power hungry machine as for the x9 well

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let's just say it's a gaming laptop so those leds under the logo well you can

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set them to things like fan speed or CPU

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or GPU temps but you should probably use them to monitor the battery

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the webcam is pretty good and it includes a feature called smart cam

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which allows you to remove the background while you're streaming like

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this guy from the reviewer's guide and you can tell he's really pumped on

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smartcam and the speakers though this is somewhat predictable on a larger machine

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sounded pretty darn good so it's not bad

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it's just a little misconfigured the x9 as it is next to me here costs 3

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800 us dollars and with a lower resolution and higher

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refresh rate display maybe a 1080

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a single SSD to save a buck and then maybe we could drop some of the RAM it

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might still fall behind the ASUS g701vi

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in terms of its bang for the buck but it would be thinner and much sexier

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than that one with a more sensible display as it is unless you only play a

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couple of games that you know are super well optimized for sli

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and you value resolution over refresh

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