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zypherion
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Feb 20, 2018
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bigshel
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Feb 21, 2018
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zypherion Sigh, this checks a lot of boxes for what I'm looking for but not sure about the cooling/sound... heard this thing turns into a mini-jet when under load. Don't really care for a 4K display running on a 1070 but can work around that.
other than the warranty issues, what's been you experience? Is the cooling still function with the lid closed and using an external display/keyboard?
other than the warranty issues, what's been you experience? Is the cooling still function with the lid closed and using an external display/keyboard?
zypherion
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Feb 21, 2018
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bigshelActually, yes.
You picked one thing I was worried about that turned out okay. The model I have has two 965m in SLI and it managed to keep them reasonably cool when the laptop was closed on my desk connected to an external display/mouse/keyboard. In fact, I had to use it that way most of the time, due to an issue running the laptop on battery power.
Most of my issues, aside from poor screen/trackpad fitment, stem from incredibly poor firmware/software support from gigabyte. Beginning with massively outdated Nvidia driver support (using the latest caused blue-screens/crashing on battery) all the way to them revoking support for windows 10 for my model, just because they refuse to fix a supposed driver compatibility issue..
Then when I first tried asking for warranty service they "couldn't find my warranty registration".... That was the beginning of the end of my Gigabyte patronage.
You picked one thing I was worried about that turned out okay. The model I have has two 965m in SLI and it managed to keep them reasonably cool when the laptop was closed on my desk connected to an external display/mouse/keyboard. In fact, I had to use it that way most of the time, due to an issue running the laptop on battery power.
Most of my issues, aside from poor screen/trackpad fitment, stem from incredibly poor firmware/software support from gigabyte. Beginning with massively outdated Nvidia driver support (using the latest caused blue-screens/crashing on battery) all the way to them revoking support for windows 10 for my model, just because they refuse to fix a supposed driver compatibility issue..
Then when I first tried asking for warranty service they "couldn't find my warranty registration".... That was the beginning of the end of my Gigabyte patronage.
zypherion
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Feb 21, 2018
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zypherionOh, and sound was moderate, not the loudest I've heard nor the quietest. Wish I could give an objective measurement, but I don't really have a good one. I can say the microsoft surface 3 I had before the x5 would sometimes produce a much more annoying (higher pitched) fan noise.
bigshel
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Feb 21, 2018
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zypherionCool, thanks. Sorry to hear about your issues with Gigabyte. I may end up waiting and checking out the MD version when it is finally available... uses the Max-Q version of the 1080 but been debating on this and the MSI Stealth
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