origin sponsored this video featuring the new Evo 17s it's compact like a
machine that you'd actually consider carrying around with you at just five
pounds 0.78 inches but I don't consider it a conflict with my framework share
since it's a very different class of
machine boasting the grunt of a fully fledged desktop setup thanks to its RTX
3080 Max Q GPU and 8 core core i7 11800h
or is it to find out we will be pushing
it to its absolute limits attempting to
run demanding AAA games on not just the built-in display but on one
two three external 4K displays
can it do it
let's start with a quick look at the machine for customization origin offers
hydro dipping laser etching and UV prints like what we've got featured here
they'll definitely make it harder to blend in if you want to stealthily game
in your next board meeting but you can't really put a price tag on gamer flare
can you you can it's a hundred dollars for any of the pre-designed graphics and
up to 200 if you go for a hydro dip now let's flip it open and check out the
guts our unit is absolutely tricked out
which is fortunate because we are going to need all the mustard we can get get
it Colin if you have maximum mustard your your opponents can't catch up
there it goes hey all right right here's our CPU so
that's a core i7 11800h this puppy maxes out at 4.6 gigahertz we've got 32 gigs
of Corsair Vengeance ddr4 memory running in dual Channel regrettably it's at 26
66 Mega transfers per second but my bet is that this is due to the ongoing
silicon shortage because it's out of stock our storage though is a whopping
two terabytes of mp600 pro PCI Express
Gen 4 goodness and this right here is about to be the hardest working RTX 3080
Max Q on the planet once we've got three
4K monitors hooked up to it I hope that this five heat pipe dual fan cooler is
up to the task the last notable bits in here before we close it up are of course
the second m.2 slot which you can use to expand your storage and the 73 watt hour
battery that gave this design about three hours in the modern office PC Mark
test looks like our exploratory surgery wasn't fatal so let's go ahead use the
fingerprint sensor to sign in and then talk a little bit about the keyboard and
trackpad this is a big area where gaming laptops have improved over the last few
years this trackpad remember the little tiny ones we used to get on gaming
laptops nice and big if you like the clicky left and right buttons you'll
really enjoy these if you don't then well they're still there so there's that
and as for the keyboard it has per key RGB backlighting and overall actually a
surprisingly good feel oh I have the caps lock on that won't help there's
more deck Flex than I'd like but somehow
it doesn't really seem to affect the typing experience much and when you
consider that this is a 17 inch model that is a little bit more common the
trackpad uses Windows Precision drivers which combined with the 300 Hertz
display option that we chose makes for an extremely responsive feeling
experience and the display doesn't have any kind of HDR certification or
anything like that but it does get at least reasonably bright for a pretty
solid SDR experience let's go ahead and fire up you know CS go let's turn the
sound up oh God I don't remember how many watts the included speakers are
they're adequate we're playing competitive here ladies and gentlemen oh
no one's dead yet that's your problem hey hey hey don't don't swear can you
take advantage of a 300 Hertz display on this laptop the answer is absolutely yes
we're getting like 250 to 300 FPS
no come on come on just come in here oh
no you're so mean no you know what it's
not even that loud mind you we're also not making it work that hard yet so this
is a relatively low power RTX 3080 but that makes sense given that it's in a
slim chassis and our temps maxed out at
eight degrees it looks like they hadn't quite capped out yet though so I'm gonna
play another round Hardware info looks like it's leveled out now we're getting
around 79 degrees and anywhere from 85
to 90 Watts now as we transform this bad boy from notebook to battle station
let's take a look at the i o on the left we've got two 3.5 millimeter audio jacks
and a USB 3 5 gigabit Port which currently has our Mouse dongle in it on
the right we've got one of these half height gigabit Ethernet Jacks love to
see that as well as two more USB 35 gigabit ports that we're going to use
for our gaming keyboard and a racing wheel and then where things get really
interesting it's right here there's a barrel type DC connector we can't get
away from that USB power delivery just cannot handle the same 180 Watts that
the included brick can but alongside it Thunderbolt 4 means we've got support
for daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices and with the HDMI and Mini DisplayPort
connectors gives us a total of three interfaces for high resolution monitors
so now we're ready almost since we want
to get the absolute most out of this thing check this out
you might laugh but it's pretty well established that this can have a
measurable impact on performance because it means all your intake nice and fresh
no restrictions and your exhaust is just taking that hot air away I can just
imagine showing like the prototypical Apple user my setup here oh boy these
are not in the correct order let's go ahead and set up a Spanish display
configuration here oh crap and oh I missed it
how is it that after all these years and with all the work NVIDIA puts into this
feature for their commercial solutions that it's still this janky
you can tell there's literally dozens of people running these configs hibernaclees I have no way of clicking
either confirm or deny on this window because I can't make it big enough to
actually see it hello create custom resolution why is it grayed out it's
been three days and one call with NVIDIA that had eight people on it but we've
got it nailed down surround is working all we had to do was use custom
resolution utility because for whatever reason the NVIDIA control panel wasn't
allowing us to set custom resolutions apparently they're going to be working
on that so we used Cru to make sure that we matched our timings exactly between
the HDMI and DisplayPort monitors the point is none of that matters what
matters is F1 2021 baby
and how quiet are little tent mode machine is running here it comes
so it's set to ultra high I think we should probably turn Ray tracing off we
should turn dlss on yeah quality dlss
okay oh this is for short statured
people like me normal 27 FPS in menu I
think we might have to get a little bit more reasonable here medium it still
looks pretty good in this game all right here we go boys oh okay our force
feedback kicked in real good okay
hey see you later buddy oops oh oh no no
no no no no no oh oh that's interesting the wheel
animations are just like nope this is a damn good looking game at
medium settings and it's running at 40 FPS on a laptop at triple 4K I mean you
go back to Linus Tech tips from five years ago I would have told you this is
impossible oh wow it's guiding me so much it's basically steering for me look
at this oh
my guy's like uh sorry about that GPU
utilization 99 no this is totally playable especially
with g-sync like 40 FPS in a game like
this that is absolutely playable I have
GPU temp settled in around 74. we can
thank our tent mode operation over there for that and then our GPU video clock
settled in around 900 high so just under
a thousand megahertz I mean Steve from Gamers next is all like do maternal run
on a toaster but at three by four k
significantly more CPU utilization here already so we might not see 95 watts to
the GPU the laptop might have to allocate its power a little bit differently ah so we're running at 11
520 by 2160. I'm gonna try High did I
say I was on high because I think what I meant to say was too high
it says 80 FPS but you can see how
average FPS doesn't tell the whole story because our 99 frames per second so
whenever it dips are going down as low as in the mid 30s so let's go ahead and
turn it down a little bit absolutely playable definitely struggling a little
bit more on this one ah where's my chainsaw at there it is considering that
this is a thin gaming laptop though the fact that I'm doing this at all is
insane like this is nuts yeah the render
latency is a little higher than I would prefer and the dips are lower than I
would prefer but it's not by any means unplayable
interestingly do maternal ended up delivering almost the same amount of
power to the GPU just a little bit less and maintained just about exactly the
same clock speeds foreign I think I managed to start a
game with nobody else in it so I guess I'll win this is this is going to be sad
for Rocket league players to watch here not that anyone would actually play CS
go like this but it does support the resolution properly let's give it a shot
surround the menus are terrible because no one would be dumb enough to do this
but except me except for me oh I died
come on I just want to get one killed one killed no no no come on we're
getting about 45 FPS supplement me where we going dog
let me and me we're a team let me nine percent Health let me come on buddy
that's all the proof we need that even the most legit gaming gear won't make
you an epic gamer but it gives you a
chance and the fact that this thing runs games at triple 4K at all is incredibly
impressive so thanks origen for sponsoring this wacky experiment thanks
you guys for watching check out the links to where you can find the Evo 17s
in the video description they'll also have their other laptops they've got
thicker boys with much higher power limits for their gpus if you want the
maximum performance in a portable form factor and I think that pretty much
closes it out go to ltdstar.com Let's uh try a
different game first hey and that's why we have Breakaway
cables