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two gtx 1080 graphics cards and a single

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laptop who would be crazy enough to do that

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ASUS sagar acer and MSI

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that's right my friends the laptops in our gaming roundup today are not for the

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faint of heart or the faint of wallet

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between them they have a total of eight gtx 1080s in them and they cost over 20

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000

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the white dark bass pro 900 from be quiet! features a modular design to

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support a variety of layouts and configurations check it out at the link

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below let's meet the contestant starting with

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the np9873 from sagar the og of mobile sli

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it's rocking a core i7 6700k CPU making

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it the only machine with a sixth generation core processor but

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it's also the only one using a desktop

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CPU so that might end up being an advantage

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next is the MSI gt83 titan sli whose

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cherry mx mechanical keyboard and 18.4

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inch display make it suitable for use as a weapon

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moving on we've got the ASUS gx800 whose

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highlights include a 4k g-sync display

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and yes an outboard water cooling unit which

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might give it an edge when we overclock these suckers later and finally coming

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in at a whopping nine thousand dollars

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the most bonkerdoodles laptop that we have ever laid our hands on with a

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curved ultra wide 120hz g-sync display

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a full mechanical keyboard and an included pelican case for transport the

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acer predator 21x the test environment for this showdown

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was our conference room held at 21 degrees and for all of the tests we set

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all factory overclocking modes and fan speeds to max

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loud yes unpleasantly loud

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also yes but the goal of this video to use a car

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analogy is to watch them drag race not

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to discuss the resolution of their backup cameras

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so for our first test we wanted to see which of these beasts could sustain the

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highest CPU clock speed under a full load so we ran an id 64 stress test for

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15 minutes then took the average temperature clock speed and power draw

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in watts for the next five

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after an ear shattering quarter of an hour a winter emerged and if you guessed

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that the laptop with water cooling had the best cooling results you would be

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totally incorrect actually believe it or not the laptop that best tamed its

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quad-core CPU was the sagar

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np9873 coming in at just under four gigahertz average

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now you might remember from our review that the gx800 was able to operate at

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4.1 gigahertz but remember we were using

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their overclocking software to overclock and that required some undervolting ASUS

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factory overclock is a little bit too generous with the voltage

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perhaps even more surprising than the clock speed winner is the fact that in

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spite of their size none of these devices ran at a

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comfortable temperature at these clock speeds with the predator 21x being the

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most frequent throttler with occasional trips down to 800 megahertz

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time for a cinebench speed run where thanks to the quick duration of the test

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the gx800 pulled out a convincing victory with a score of 946

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just ahead of the predator 21x single threaded results were a similar

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story but of course if you've got this much

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money to spend on a gaming laptop you've probably got a separate workstation for

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all of that kind of stuff so let's get to the gaming results all tests were

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done at 1080p ultra details and with fxaa enabled for an apples to apples

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comparison in rise of the tomb raider directx 12

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the gx800 pulled off a clear win and the

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predator 21x showed the value of tweaking factory settings

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by disabling acer's predator software and slowing our overclock down to turbo

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we actually managed to solve some fairly unpleasant stuttering issues so we'll

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use these settings for the rest of our tests in directx 11 we see a different story

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the segger np9873 stomped all over the other

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laptops putting up similar numbers to directx 12 while the rest took a big hit

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the story remained the same in deus ex as well with the water cooled gx800

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proving that once again it's the king of directx 12 and with the segger taking

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the crown in directx 11. there must be something about directx 11 that favors

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its desktop CPU while the mobile chips

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are being more effectively used in the newer API a hypothesis that was

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strengthened when the cs go scores favored the sagger once again

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our last gaming test is for honor where the overall trend of the video continues

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to not be a thing weird

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so the predator 21x takes home its first victory here leading us to conclude then

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that if you're shopping for the fastest bestest laptop out there

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there isn't going to be a clear winner in every possible category on to battery

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life then it was well what did you guys really expect it

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was a poop show they're gaming laptops not thin and lights

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leading us then to conclusion time the only laptop that didn't bring home a

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single metal was the MSI gt83 titan but

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it was also the most consistent performer across the board thanks to its

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lower clock speeds and less frequent thermal throttling maybe MSI's engineers

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figured the extra performance wouldn't matter anyway because of its 1080p 60hz

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display so as usual

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it's not as simple as which one is the fastest the gx800 might look like an

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obvious choice but if you want to use the external dock

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to get an estimated 10 performance boost

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it literally requires you to carry around a luggage to keep it in

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and the sagger might look compelling on paper but it is probably the most

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obnoxious sounding of all of them while gaming

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for all of these laptops the factors i just listed and so many more ultimately

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impact the gaming experience so the beauty of any one of them is

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really in the eye of the beholder meaning that the only way for us to

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declare a clear winner here is to ignore

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subjective factors and focus entirely on

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objective ones bringing us to our final recommendation

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a gaming desktop and a more portable laptop

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