Sager NP9773 - True Desktop Replacement G-Sync Laptop
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,641 words · ~8 min read
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mobile gsync is here a shocking
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development to anyone who wasn't paying attention four months ago when our Bros
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over at PC perspective did an in-depth analysis of the rumored hacked g-sync
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driver including a physical tear down to find out if there was secretly a g-sync
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module inside making it work spoiler
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alert there wasn't so then how does mobile gsync work and is it even any
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good stay tuned cuz we'll be using the Sager NP 9773 gaming laptop to find out
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oh and mash the Thumbs Up Button below if you'd like to see us take a closer
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look at how 128 gigs of quad Channel ddr4 affects
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performance with an 18 core
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gives you the tools to make you feel like the boss you are click on my face
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to learn more about it so let's start with a tour of the
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laptop we checking out today the word of the day is incredible the Seager NP 9773
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is incredible it's incredibly fast has an incredible amount of IO is incredibly
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large and heavy and this is really incredible features a desktop processor
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for incredible mobile performance that's right the NP 9773 puts the desktop in
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desktop replacement with a full LGA 1150
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core i7 4790k quad core hyperthreaded
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processor at its heart one that impressively managed to run for me at
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full 4.2 GHz turbo under a multi-threaded CPU only workload even on
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a soft surface like a bed albeit at a slightly uncomfortable 90° CPU
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temperature our model is equipped with 16 gigs of dual Channel RAM a 128 gig
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m.2 SSD and a 1 tab drive but it can be
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configured with up to 32 gigs of RAM up to two m.2 ssds and up to two 2 and 1/2
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in hard drives or ssds in pretty much any capacity it's got an Intel 7265 2x2
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AC wireless card and a GTX 98m 8 gig graphics card the best GPU you can get
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for a laptop the rest of the specs aren't configurable so on the left
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you've got gigabit Ethernet three USB 3.0 ports an SD card reader and an eSATA
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Port that also doubles as a USB 2.0 Port by the way on on the right is a final
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USB 3.0 Port headphone line in microphone and Optical out audio ports
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then on the back is power in HDMI 1.4a and a pair of DisplayPort 1.2 ports on
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the bottom is a subwoofer and a couple of air intakes to feed the rear exhaust
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ports along with some easy access hatches for drive or memory upgrades and
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on top of the device is a simple logo with a soft touch finish that I found
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pleasing to the eye and to the hand since we find it when we we open up the
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lid on the wrist rest as well also down
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here we find a full-size keyboard including number pad with RGB
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backlighting that supports a number of lighting modes my impressions of the
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keyboard are something along the lines of it's okay nothing stood out to me as
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really bad or good about it a touch stiff the right shift is a little short
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but the arrow key layout is good and the breathing or color cycling effects are
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cool if you're into that sort of thing there's also an off-center touchpad with
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separated buttons and a fingerprint reader in the middle something I didn't
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know that I cared about until I checked out the Lenovo X1 Carbon recently and
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absolutely loved it I actually really liked the touchpad too and I can't quite
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put my finger on why ironically but it
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just felt super responsive and accurate even if it doesn't have the glass top
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feel that I like so much moving up are
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the speakers that don't suck something that deserves a mention even though it's
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a lot less challenging on devices this size and on something like the MacBook
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2015 I reviewed recently and finally the
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screen this is what this laptop is really about for me not because it's
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17in size or 1920 x 1080 full HD
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resolution is particularly groundbreaking or even because it's
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unusual anymore to see IPS monitors and gaming laptops but because it runs at 75
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HZ out of the box when 60 HZ is much more typical and because it features G
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g-sync at some point I'm going to get sick of rehashing g-sync and you're all
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going to get sick of hearing about it but it is not this day g-sync and other
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variable refresh rate Technologies improve animation smoothness in games by
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refreshing the display whenever the graphics card outputs a frame instead of
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at even intervals which can cause lag or
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screen tearing whenever the graphics card and the monitor are out of sync
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with each other so now we've got it on a notebook and all we can really do is
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well talk about the gaming experience first I wanted to find out how it felt
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out of the box so at 75 HZ I loaded up a couple of games that I enjoy
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benchmarking Crisis 3 and Grand Theft Auto 5 to see how they did for starters
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IPS gaming really is the way forward that much is very clear to me now that
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I've gone that route on my desktop as well as my daily driver notebook the
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slight difference in pixel response times IMO is worth the improved image
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quality and for number two g-sync Is
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Awesome on a laptop just like it is on a desktop at least for now NVIDIA has
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already said that they can enable some additional functionality with the g-sync
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module in the desktop displays which presumably on these notebook displays
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that are running on embedded DisplayPort directly to the panel scaler
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without an NVIDIA module won't be able to do but just like what I said in my
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BenQ xl2730z video recently I don't mind a
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slightly worse hand Ling of some edge
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cases outside of the you know sort of optimal operation window frame rates
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since this is the PC so you can just tweak your settings to get everything
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perfect in 95 or 99% of cases so I'll
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say the same thing here a quick hop into the game menu to balance your frame
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rates in that 45 to 75 range is going to
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make for a great gsync gaming experience
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but it actually gets better panel refresh rate overclock is definitely a
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thing on this particular IPS monitor and
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I got ours up to 100 HZ with no hassle
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whatsoever so now we're really flying and perhaps even getting some kind of
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small benefit out of our core i7 4790k however tiny that might be since
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it does actually turbo a little higher than a notebook CPU in not very threaded
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workloads like games allowing us to get slightly higher maximum frame rates
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which I guess just leads to the conclusion of this video how is the
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Seager np97 73 well if you want great
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battery life go buy a Macbook because between the desktop CPU and the fact
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that mobile gsync precludes the use of Optimus onboard Graphics sharing to save
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battery and light workloads battery life is pretty much a non-starter here but if
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you want a mobile workstation that's quiet under light workloads reasonably
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quiet still under heavy ones and is truly as powerful as your desktop top
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even in heavy multi-threaded workloads it looks pretty darn good and you can
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