Gordon what is in this box hey this has got the big news of the day
Intel Core i nine laptop the first one i've seen outside the control of intel
and an OEM Alienware 17 yes the big mama-jama Alienware 17 r5 we're gonna
unbox it and because people want to see the box you have to see the box I can't
take it out beforehand or you get upset this has not been open I will say for
the nitpickers these machines often come straight from the labs so it may not do
the startup stuff that a typical consumer will see but this box has not
been open I know you don't believe me anyway I'm gonna tell you it is up and
open but let's open it up alien were 17 Gordon I like 17 inch laptops are you so
your big fantasy I am oh I got it upside down sorry upside down whoop but what
are we getting here let's see whoo that is a huge laptop this is this is not
something you want to carry with you everyday but you know I gotta say for a
17 inch laptop it's not bad you look at that that's fairly thin you know some of
the a seuss msi you know high-end super powerful ones they're fairly thick
compared to this anywhere generally wants to make then things relatively
thin even though it's a big-ass screen 17 inches I think this one is a QVGA 120
hertz g-sync panel wva plus TN they call it but we can see all the cooling
because inside of here we have a core I 989 50 H K tonight and a single GT X
1080 overclocked apparently out of the gate up to 8 gigs and comes with 8 gigs
of RAM in it and the news of course is core i9 for people who don't know that
is a 6 core processor yeah you can get Core i7 with 6 cores as well but
intelligent L has reserved the core I 9 nomenclature for chips that are running
at really high clocks at you got to have a lot of cooling to run
I would imagine let's find out where the oh here's the car break well you know
take out the power world a big old power brick and then once you boot it up and
we do some benchmark let's do it let's do a quick boot up on this and you'll
get a roof and we're somewhere so I'm gonna plug it into our watt meter as
well just to see what we get so why is Cory 9 so special so Korra 9 is so
special especially because I love the core i7 these six core 8th gen parts
they are just awesome chips but quinine is special because it runs at a higher
clock it's all about the height clock speed so I've got the numbers right here
so I'm not have the 8750 so the typical the core i7 8750 H pretty much it'll
push up to 4 gigahertz 3 8 under a load down to 3 to all cores this baby in here
where the core I nine is supposed to hit four point four point eight gigahertz in
the laptop also I doubt all six courts but it also have four four eight I'm
probably you know one or two threads and of course it does actually overclock
Alienware says you can overclock this sucker up of five gigahertz I don't know
if that's all cores it up let's do a core app or camp before I fire it up
here we get USB interestingly USB that's a USB see that's you know USB 10 gig we
have what looks like a standard 10 gig USB type a on the other side another
type a and here's a this is something is gonna be somewhat controversial we get
our power we get our Gigabit Ethernet we get mini display port HDMI 2.0 looks
like might be Thunderbolt 3 and this the amplifier port of course people don't
remember guys it's been about three years when alien work came out with the
amplifier which I still have right here in fact we have one right here I'm gonna
pull it out we've got everything it's dusty
this is an alienware amplifier a lot of people said oh this is pretty
cool at the time you know there were some handers too because of course
everything is Thunderball 3 now you run external graphics why in the world would
you want to run a proprietary port for external PCI graphics Alienware said
well look at the time where we're talking three years ago almost you could
not get Thunderbolt 3 in an external exclosure
it barely worked anyway let's face it Thunderbolt 3 has been working progress
as much as a lot of people want to hate on the amplifier it had teething paints
at first but it has been rock solid for several years now the best thing about
the only were amplifier though this baby is about a hundred and fifty bucks it's
like I you can find these all day on Amazon for one hundred seventy two
dollars sometimes down to one hundred and sixteen hundred and fifty dollars
that is a really good price for an external exclosure but if you get an
enclosure if you get a full desktop ten eighty over clocked in here why would
you want this well the idea is and again if you bought a laptop when the
amplifier came out with a 970m 970m is getting a little long in the tooth you
want a little juice go to Amazon pick up the amplifier for 160 170 dollars drop
in your nine seven or whatever ten seventy or ten sixty or does the thing
Alienware says look we work with a lot more older cards and some Thunderbolt 3
like in fact our X 480 works in here fury works in there if you can get one I
guess that works okay let's check this out oh I believe this is working in to
see what come on so yeah it is a juicing panel and let's find out what the
resolution is so I'm pretty sure yes it is they you know 1440p panel so 1440p
120 hertz g-sync monitor but what I want to know though because we know we know
what a GTX 1080 does the quick the quick benchmark I want to do is Cinebench the
highest I've seen out of the new 8th gen CPUs is
about 1144 I saw that out of the MS idea 65 for pound tiny laptop but let's see
what we're gonna get out of this overclocked machine that's what I'm very
interested in seeing come on what's up with this pretty pretty smooth panel
it's a very smooth panel you're also getting Toby the latest Toby eye tracker
oh yeah yeah so you got our tracker and this of course a lot of people done
before but this is definitely better integrated you're getting the lid up
trackpad you can change the color on this anything you want you get the perky
lighting you get all the macro stuff and I am very interested this is all again
I'm gonna run this because this is gonna be a really fast benchmark if I can find
it okay so we're back I've installed Cinebench I've also installed Tomb
Raider it's the older Tomb Raider or maybe 2013 range I actually like Tomb
Raider because it's a great representation of games that still
relied bit on CPU but first let's crank up Cinebench of course this is the
world-famous very popular see a 3d rendering benchmark everybody use this
it's a great benchmark I'm gonna crank it up just hopefully we have everything
working now we have some power state issues previously the number to beat is
1350 I think that's gonna be tough because that 1350 is from an origin
laptop 17 inches huge big thick with a desktop core i7 8700 k that means if you
unplug that thing that battery will drain faster than you can plug it back
into the wall not really this one actually should give
you almost reasonable battery life unless you're gaming 1300 out of that on
the other end we have the msi GS a score of about 1100 so 87 JK in a
laptop 1300 8th gen 6 core 8750 H in an msi thin and light about 1100 what do we
get out of the anywhere remember we are not overclocked oh that's pretty good
so 1279 that's just shy of what we're getting out of that desktop 8700 k part
and I gotta tell you I haven't even overclocked it yet when I hit the
overclock by in I think we're actually gonna get better performance out of this
core i9 let me make sure I get the part number right
core i9 8950 HK so that's quite a feat but it's pretty good that is pretty good
cuz 87 JK is a good cpu I was pushing at those clocks let's quit out of here and
see if I can get Cinebench or let's see if I can actually get Tomb Raider to run
this time it is not liking me today but let's see oh here we go let's make sure
we're gonna run this 1080p I know you're saying 1080p and a three or four year
old game but this is the numbers I have for other gaming laptops an ATP ultimate
sending vsync off also mind you I've disabled g-sync for performance testing
you should disable g-sync because it can mess with the numbers a little bit it is
recommended that you turn it off so we're going to hit play I am running of
course normally you would reboot it and you would not have other things running
and should be you know disconnected from the internet but let's just see we're
just kind of messing around here we're gonna crank that baby up one thing I
didn't mention I really am a favor if you can't see it but underneath the
keyboard alien words actually reinforced the keyboard writer in the Wasat keys
there's actually an additional color and some steel I don't there make sure you
don't destroy your keyboard by mashing it yeah so there's some things that
people don't know about that the only where does in the laptops I was just
talking to Dan he's not a big fan of the looks of it I am she still like it and
what I really like it the lights you get the lights I mean the custom lights are
a custom lights and you can change these lights to whatever color you want and an
extra inch on the back you have that extra inch you know that's in Hayden's
review of the last one he said you know he couldn't really you couldn't really
use this on a plane so it was just too big yeah and if he plugged it in and
turned it on he would have made the plane shut an engine off the Tobii eye
tracker this latest version you can see there's an array of LEDs I have not seen
this I'm used to those kind of bigger LEDs and if you're not standing in front
of this thing it'll dim the screen which kind of bugs
me a little bit that's gonna be a problem for a power testing love to
disable Toby for that and what are we getting outdoors fours 170 7.9 so again
that is Tomb Raider circa 2000 13 1080p ultimate sitting vsync off
obviously and 177 you want to know how that compares a KB like gee no slouch of
a laptop I mean you know not bad 77 75 frames a second out of a Spectre x-360
15 that's what the KB leg gee that's pretty respectable we're up here at 177
this stealth the GS 65 stealth with a gtx 1066 gig that's a full-tilt
1060 g-force part 97 frames a second Oh 177 really good oh here's another one a
micro centre power spec we were seeing 139 out of a GTX 1070 so we are getting
177 out of a 1080 and what you want to know that was what we got out of that
Eon the origin PCE on again the one with the full-on 87 2k desktop part and a g6
1080 that was pushing 184 frames a second more pushing 177 hmm we're right
in the ballpark and I have an overclock this shit I think if you got you you
goose that CP a little bit you actually this one particular game you get a
little more performance so we are getting very decent scores out on this
poor i9 nice but Gordon what's the cost of this thing what are you really having
to pay so the cost of this baby I think I could be wrong here but I believe with
your 2560 by 1440 120 Hertz G's g-sync panel your GT X 1080 your core i9 cpu
512 gig nvme SSD and the one terabyte SSD I think you're looking about three
grand but I was looking at earlier nail anywhere and it looked like about 30 100
bucks I'm not sure if I have the exact same configuration you're also getting
Toby eye tracker 3,000 bucks it's pretty stiff but you know honestly gaming
laptops that is not bad just used to be to get the very tippy top of gaming
laptops you were looking at five grand so things have gotten better obviously
this is not for everybody because that's still a lot of money for a gaming laptop
but it is fairly thin - I mean we're looking at it's almost portable I
wouldn't want to carry this in a bag anywhere but you could do it you know
this will be interesting I think this will be
controversial the use of the Alienware amplifier port people everybody wants to
see Thunderbolt 3 I haven't verified with Alienware if it
will work for Thunderbolt 3 but I think they're thinking you know what we got
these amplifiers we've got a warehouse of them they go for about 160 bucks it's
a good option for when the GPU and this is no good anymore so I guess that's
reasonable I would like to see both amplifier and Thunderbolt 3 support for
the future but help not bad but performance impressive Quarry 9 1080
overclocked and I haven't even hit the overclock button yeah