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Austin last year I took a look at the

most ridiculous over-the-top gaming

laptop that I had ever seen

however fast-forward 2018 and we have

this the new most ridiculous powerful

over-the-top gaming laptop that I have

ever seen this is the suit's

ROG G 703 and let's just get the

elephant out of the room immediately

this laptop has it SPECT right now

costs $5,000 now if that doesn't

immediately put you off from spending as

much as some used cars there's actually

a ton to like with this laptop now I'll

freely admit I spend a lot of time on

the channel reviewing some very budget

laptops well that's fun this is so

ridiculously overkill in every possible

way that I kind of don't want to give it

back so when you're spending this kind

of money you should expect to get all

the bells and whistles out there and

this pretty much does deliver so to

start out with it has the awesome new

Intel Core I 9 processor now that on a

laptop is going to get you six cores and

the sisters actually overclocked it even

farther so this guy will run up to 4.8

gigahertz right out of the box now

that's not some kind of baby overclock

we're just kind of hits it every once in

a while it will hit 4.8 all the time

it's so so ridiculous for a laptop the

crazy overkill doesn't stop there either

so inside this guy is also rocking a

full desktop class GT X 1080 graphics

card with a full eight gigabytes of

gddr5 X memory yeah this is uh no joke

and because of course that's not going

to be enough things get even crazier

from there as far as memory goes this

guy has a full 64 gigs of RAM and on top

of that it has SSDs three of them in

addition to the two terabytes of puny

mere mortal sshd storage in this guy

you're also going to be getting those

three PCIe SSD s together in raid so in

total that gives you one point two

terabytes of full SSD storage and raid

which combined can run it up to eight

point seven gigabytes a second for

context a normal SSD is going to give

you around 600 mega

a second so yeah this is fast and yeah

it's probably so fast if she really

won't be able to tell the difference but

it's cool all of this adds up to what is

very possibly the smoothest nicest

windows experience that I've ever had

so of course stuff like booting up is

pretty much instant well not instant but

I mean it takes a few seconds but things

like opening up a program or just minor

little things that you can't get used to

taking a half second or a full second on

normal Windows PCs even hiring ones with

SSDs are done almost instantly with this

thing it's kind of hard to get across

some video but using this thing for a

couple days it's kind of hard to go back

to a normal PC it is just that fast of

course all this is in hardware that is

not exactly thin nor light this is

easily one of the biggest gaming laptops

you can get however is really nicely

built which it should be to be fair

because it does cost five thousand

dollars because this laptop is so

obscenely powerful a soos took a page

out of my playbook and they include dual

power supplies in the box and my friends

you're definitely going to need dual

power supplies because between the core

I 9 which is overclocked as well as the

GTX 280 which is also overclocked this

guy absolutely destroys battery I mean

for context this has been literally

sitting here in idling for 15 minutes

and right now we've burned about 13% of

the battery doing nothing besides

sitting on the Windows Start screen and

if you're the kind of person who's put

off by trying to carry a giant 17 inch

laptop which probably weighs like 10

pounds as well as dual power supplies

every day and this is probably not the

five thousand dollar laptop for you

however for the rest of us who are

ridiculously insane and want one of

these myself included there's actually a

lot of other cool stuff that's included

with the laptop of course you've got all

the ports you could ever hope for

including Thunderbolt 3 HDMI main

display port Ethernet USB you name it

this has got it this also applies to the

basic stuff like the keyboard

it's got good travel nice spacing and of

course it does have the full RGB

treatment but what's also impressive is

the trackpad not only is it giant but

this is a little generally the best

trackpad that I've ever used on Windows

it has the windows precision touchpad

drivers but importantly it has that

awesome sounding left and right click

it's really mechanical and this

legitimately feels like an expensive

laptop which of course it is as I will

remind you for the fourth time in this

video

typically below $1,000 from mere mortals

who don't have $5,000 to spend these

speakers are pretty solid here as well

though generally speaking it does get a

little loud so you'll probably want to

hook up a headset but now that do you

have two speakers that are sort of on

the bottom chassis but you also have two

front firing speakers directly at you

that being said when you're gaming it

gets loud so you know buy a headset

remove this little rubber flap as well

as a single screw underneath and you'll

have access to most of the expandability

with the laptop so you're going to find

your one two three SSDs as if that

wasn't enough you're also going to have

your two and a half inch as this HD bay

and on top of that you're going to have

access to 32 of your 64 gigs of ram now

of course with a computer that's going

to be this powerful you also have to

have a screen and match so while it's

only a 1080p display you are getting a

full 17 point three inches and it

supports not only g-sync but also a

hundred and forty-four Hertz refresh

rate and with the GTX today the power it

has no problem taking advantage of that

full frame rate so here on fortnight at

full epic settings we're getting

somewhere in the neighborhood of 130 to

140 frames per second just right in the

sweet spot of what this display can

handle but if for some reason you have

some super demanding game because you

have G sync it will kick in to sort of

smooth things out if you do go down to

say some mere mortal frame rate like 60

or 70 man poop G stands absolutely no

chance against a laptop like this

so we're easily in the hundred frame per

second range and we're running around

here on those full epic settings and of

course a big part of that is because we

do have the GTX 1080 inside but it's

also being backed up by that core I 9

considering that will easily hit 4.8

gigahertz that does sort of bring up the

general settings of pretty much any game

you throw at it but keep in mind they

actually we have different modes so

right now we're running on silent mode

and it's actually reasonably quiet

however if we want the maximum

performance and if a mere 109 frames per

second is good enough I can just switch

it over to either balance or over boost

and as you'll hear it gets a lot louder

but we're also going to start to see the

frame rates go even higher generally

speaking I actually like to use it on

quiet mode yeah you're giving up some

performance but in exchange it's going

to be a lot quieter however if you have

a good pair of headphones this actually

is not a bad way of getting a little bit

of extra performance although better

have some pretty solid headphones even

though it's a slightly older game GTA 5

can still be

taxing you crank everything up and here

running on full Ultra settings we're

getting summer in the neighborhood of

around 60 frames per second now that

actually still doesn't look too bad

especially because we do have the G sync

panel but it's crazy at this game which

start on xbox 360 looks this nice a few

years later provided you have a lot of

hardware to throw at it another game

that can be quite demanding is Middle

Earth shadow of war now here running on

full Ultra settings in 1080i can we're

actually staying somewhere in the 90 to

100 frames per second range that g-sync

panel looks super smooth and keep in

mind this is still running on the quiet

mode there's definitely a little more

performance there and some better

thermals if you don't mind letting the

fans crank to hyperspeed this thing is

absolutely ridiculous

between the massive size the dual power

supply is the terrible battery life in

the eye-watering lehigh price tag it's

just not a good idea for anyone to pick

up and yet I kind of love it this went

all out to make something awesome and

I've got to give them props for that

well at least until they make me send

the laptop back you know who won't make

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