Does mobile SLI compare to a desktop-class GPU? - Aorus X7 Pro v5 Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,099 words · ~5 min read
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lately the high-end gaming laptop Arena has been getting a little crowded with
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features like desktop class gpus NVMe solid state drives and even freaking
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water cooling docks so it's not surprising that today's entrance Into
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The Fray the ORS X7 Pro V5 tries to set
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itself apart with features like mobile SLI and HDMI 2.0 but does it live up to
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the billing stay tuned to find
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out
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corsera claims unrivaled comfort and Universal compatibility on its new void
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surround headset featuring a genuine Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter click
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the link in the video description to learn more the first thing I noticed
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about the X7 was how thin it is with a height of only 2 and 1/2 CM even with
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the lid closed it's pretty damn small at 7bs however it's hard to call the X7
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light but the Slimmer profile does at least offer a little more port ility
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than some of the behemoths we've had roll through our office lately we'll
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start our physical tour with the top which features a plain black finish
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except for the orus logo which lights up when you open the lid the bottom is
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fairly understated as well with not much going on except for rubber feet and some
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ventilation slots things get more interesting when we move around to the
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sides though with the right side featuring both HDMI 2.0 and a mini
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DisplayPort for flexibility if you're attaching additional displays a USB 3.1
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type-c port a more standard USB 3.0 port
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and an SD card reader that connects via PCI Express the HDMI 2.0 support is
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especially nice if you want 4K at 60 HZ and can't use a DisplayPort cable
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moving to the left side we see a Kensington lock slot killer gigabit Lan
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port a second HDMI port that allows you to support two external monitors in
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Invidia surround a VGA port for older displays another USB 3.0 port and Jacks
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for your microphone and headphones the back features one last USB 3.0 port and
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a DC input for the included power brick as well as some additional ventilation
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for all the goodies inside when you open the lid you'll see a 17.3 in 1080P 75hz
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IPS display with g-sync support a webcam
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which we're filming this on right now a pair of unremarkable sounding speakers
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directly below the screen and a back lit orus logo power button the keyboard is
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back lit with adjustable brightness white lights that can be turned off
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completely if you so desire and features 30 key rollover the keys themselves are
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pretty standard for chicklet keys and you also get a set of programmable macro
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keys on the far left hand side the touchpad is quite glossy compared to the
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rest of the chassis and features a nice orus logo there's also tactile bumps on
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the bottom bit which make identifying the clicking area quite a bit easier
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which I liked what I didn't care for though was how the touchpad felt a taded
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too grippy to my finger which got caught on it a couple times on trying to scroll
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it just feels kind of weird under the hood you get an unlocked Skylake core i7
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6820 HK processor 32 gigs of ddr4 memory
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that's upgradeable to 64 two NVIDIA GTX
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970m gpus in SLI giving you both the
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benefits and issues that come with that 500 GB of NVMe solid state storage on
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two drives in raid zero and additional 1
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TB mechanical hard drive and Bluetooth with wireless AC adapters the battery is
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Lithium Polymer that's inside a softer package that you can't access from the
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exterior so it's not the easiest thing to replace interestingly there's also a
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dedicated Hardware encoder for a media
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that is supposed to take the load off of your CPU and GPU while streaming so you
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won't lose as much performance getting into testing we started out by running
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through cinebench Crisis 3 and Tomb Raider putting up the X7 against our
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Sager NP 9870 u2g which you can check out in more
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detail up here or O2 I don't know we
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were interested to see how a couple of 970 m in SLI would do against a
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fully-fledged desktop 980 and the answer is pretty well the X7 beat out the
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Seager in both Crisis 3 and Tomb Raider by small margins and scored well above
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the 75 HZ frame rate of our screen even
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with the settings cranked way up which is definitely ideal cinebench was a
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different story as this is a more CPU bound Benchmark and it saw the Seer win
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by about 24% with its desktop class Skylake i7
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but the X7 managed a still very respectable 704 points we were also able
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to get a stable overclock of 4.0 GHz on our CPU and a plus 100 MHz offset on our
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two gpus without playing with any voltages although the system ran a bit
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warm on our Skybox load test at stock with both the CPU and GPU getting up to
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84° overclocking only heated things up by about 1 or 2° regardless of whether
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or not we overclocked though the fans were very loud during gaming you might
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want to use a pair of headphones specifically noise cancelling headphones
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if you want to game on this thing so what's our conclusion considering it
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beat out our desktop class gtx980 based Sager and is going to cost less when it
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comes out in mid-march the value proposition looks pretty darn good
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especially when you consider the additional bells and whistles like USB
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3.1 typ C HDMI 2.0 support gsync the
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hardware encoder and I believe the Seer doesn't have an NVMe drive at between $2
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2400 and $2,700 depending on the configuration the X7 Pro V5 could be a
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pretty compelling option thanks for watching guys if this video is sucked
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