$20,000 of Gaming Laptops COMPARED
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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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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