Gigabyte AORUS 17G XB in the test: Excellent case with mechanical keyboard
Source: Hardware Luxx added 18th Oct 2020Page 1: Gigabyte AORUS 15 G XB in the test: Excellent case with mechanical keyboard
With a height of 26 mm and a total weight of about 2.7 kg is the gigabyte AORUS 17 G with its 17, 3 inch screen exactly between the thin & light and desktop replacement devices , is equipped with features right up to the top. The highlights include a fast 240 Hz panel, a mechanical keyboard with RGB individual key lighting, a sturdy metal housing and of course powerful high-end Components for gaming. How the around 2. 390 Euro expensive gaming bolide performs in practice, you can find out in this Hardwareluxx article on the following pages.
Just in time for the presentation of the Comet Lake H processors and the first super graphics cards for notebooks, Gigabyte sent his in April new AORUS – 15 G- and AORUS – 17 G family into the race, which has been developed from scratch. In terms of features, it actually offers significantly more than the trendy Thin & Light devices, but is a bit thicker and larger without coming close to the dimensions of genuine desktop replacements – in terms of size, the series is located exactly between the two model classes. Overall height and total weight are around 17 mm and around 2.7 kg, which makes the gaming bolide especially suitable for one 17, 3-inch representatives prove to be quite portable.
The list of features is extremely extensive: Under the CNC-milled metal housing there is an eight-core Intel Core i7 – 10875 H, which extends to up to 32 GB DDR4 main memory with 2nd 666 or even 3rd 200 MHz and can fall back on a fast M.2 SSD with PCI Express connection. At least one NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is responsible for the 3D acceleration, whereby the higher-quality model variants also include the RTX models up to the GeForce RTX 2080 Have a great configuration. The display offers 17, 3 inches and solves with gamer-friendly 1. 920 x 1. 080 pixels, with a refresh rate of 240 Hz proves to be particularly responsive and on top of that has extremely narrow bezels. At the same time, it is X-Rite-Pantone certified and should therefore also offer high color fidelity.
For the keyboard, Gigabyte even relies on mechanical switches from Omrom with RGB individual key lighting and a glass touchpad with an integrated fingerprint sensor. Modern connections such as Thunderbolt 3, WiFi 6 or killer network chips are also part of the basic equipment of the Gigabyte AORUS 17 G. All of this is packaged in a full metal housing with a noble but gaming-heavy look, because the chassis is significantly more angular and has many thick air slots that give the device a sporty and attractive appearance.
Depending on the equipment, you pay for the Gigabyte AORUS 15 G from around 1. 900 Euro, whereby the expensive flagship models with full equipment well over 3. 000 can cost euros.
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