Top 5 Intel Gaming Laptops - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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whenever we do a show like CES we see a lot of cool stuff but of course one of
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the things that we're most passionate about is gaming PCs so we've gone ahead
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and we've created a couple of lists of the top five gaming desktops that we saw
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and the top five gaming laptops and this is the ladder our first of our top five
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Intel-based gaming laptops of CES 2016
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is the razor blade stealth and it's accompanying accessory the core so the
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stealth is actually an Ultra Book it's
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thin it's light it's compact at only about a half an inch thick and 2.75 lb
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but it doesn't have a dedicated GPU more on that in a moment it features an EXO
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display which is similar to IPS at up to a 4K resolution it's got per key RGB
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backlighting unlike many other gaming laptops that are only the entire thing
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or per Zone and the pricing starts at an impressive $9.99 for the base model with
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Chaz a core i7 and a 1440p screen and up
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to $15.99 for the 4K 512 gig model
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pricing that wouldn't be so impressive if it wasn't so wellb built okay back to
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the GPU the core accessory is an
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external GPU enclosure that connects via Thunderbolt 3 and gives any video card
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you could pretty much want to install a PCI Express 3.0 4X
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Connection in theory by the time it's released it will be plug in play and you
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will simply be able to plug it in without rebooting and go from onboard
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Graphics to up to a GTX Titan X Razer
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was in fact demoing it with both rear exhaust cards and blower style cards and
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we don't have any information about pricing but this is one impressive
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little piece of technology our second gaming laptop is the ASUS gx700 it is a
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liquid cooled laptop need I say more
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maybe not but I will it uses an external dock with connectors at the back of the
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laptop you just slide it in and use a lever on the top to lock it in place and
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start the coolant flow both the CPU and
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GPU are water cooled and the cooling components inside use copper there are 2
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90 mm radiators and heat pipes can
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actually provide conventional cooling when the laptop is not in the water
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cooling dock the current design is closed loop meaning it's not meant to be
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messed with but a more modifiable version might be coming later on the
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laptop itself features a desktop gtx980
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a 4K IPS display and 30 key rollover
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just in case you're playing with oh I don't know three people all at once
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it'll be available no sooner than March 2016 and the price is not going to be
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lower than uh over $2,000 up next is the EVGA
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sc7 yes friends EVGA made a gaming
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laptop considering that it has a sky Lake Mobile core i7 and a GTX 980m it's
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not too bulky about an inch thick and you get an option for a 4K screen at a
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size of 17.4 in it's got a 1080p front
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camera that'll be nice for you game streamers out there and evj is planning
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to bring gsync support to the main screen later on in the year they are
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also touting quiet performance while gaming as one of
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the main features of this device and it'll be available in late q1 the Lenovo
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y900 is up next now Lenovo is obviously
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more known for their busy notebooks but
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they are trying to appeal to Gamers as well and there aren't very many
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compromises with this product you can get an overclockable Sky Lake i7 a
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couple of 256 gig PCI ssds in raid zero
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and a GTX 980m is standard it's got a
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OneTouch turbo button for quick overclocking through the Lenovo nerve
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center Windows application I like that nod to the old days where you press the
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turbo button on your 386 it features an IPS display and starts at $2,000 with
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availability coming in June there will also be a razor Edition for a little
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more money very interesting the last of our top five here is the Gigabyte aorus
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X7 DT this is very similar to the
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previous aoris X 7 with the main difference being that instead of SLI
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graphics cards It Now features a single of NVIDIA's new gtx980 desktop graphics
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cards that fits in a laptop and while
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that might not be that new necessarily what I like about the X7 DT is that
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unlike other desktop gtx980 notebooks it
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features a very very slim profile
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they've also made some other updates including adding USB type c to the side
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iio making this a pretty attractive
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looking piece thanks for checking out our top five Intel-based gaming
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notebooks at CES 2016 don't miss any of
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