Actually Usable RBP?

[Pendragon]

@D2ultima @Dackzy @Eason85 @Droidbot 

 

Think this will actually be usable?

[Dackzy]

nope, maybe with a GTX 1070, but 1080 nah. Unless they have done something I cannot see in his video, granted that video doesn't show that much.

Slap a 1060 in it, that should have good temps

[The Sloth]

i want to see how bad the temps are. 

[Pendragon]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Can't be worse than Razer's.

You underestimate our lord and savior. The real RBP has it TDP limited so hard it performs around a 1070 to lower temps. People testing the RBP 1080 found it was barely keeping up with the 1070 on Asus GL502 series. 

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Can't be worse than Razer's.

heat off, when two poorly engineered laptops go head to head. much as i love thin laptops i hate when they try to cram something they can't cool properly. 

[ARikozuM]

I think it should perform well, to be honest. Hopefully, they don't botch the thermal paste and dust filters.

[D2ultima]

I doubt. It must be too hot, or it's severely power limited. 7700HQ can't OC, and that poor cooling for a 1080N sure as hell ain't doing it. 150W is a limiter for 1080Ns too; this thing is a farce.

 

The keyboard being a heatsink for the NVMe drives AND the battery may hurt people more than they expect in certain warm situations (like summer).

[Cyracus]

It's great...if you use it in an industrial freezer

[Droidbot]

what runs hotter? 

 

elitebook 2570p with NO thermal paste, just a pad on the CPU

 

that laptop's entire chassis

 

FIGHT

[Eason85]

I'm not sure about the GPU. I do recall that nvidia is going to be releasing *something* in june/july, and that same something is what will go in the Aorus X9 with SLI.

[D2ultima]

1 hour ago, Eason85 said:

I'm not sure about the GPU. I do recall that nvidia is going to be releasing *something* in june/july, and that same something is what will go in the Aorus X9 with SLI.

OEMs told us nVidia said not to expect anything new in 2017. If they ARE releasing something, it's lower powered, lower-clocked variants of the already-existing hardware. There is no real "optimizing" pascal any further. It's maxwell pushed to its limits. If the Aorus X9 SLI is coming out and it's retaining its thinness, it's going to probably be 1070N SLI lower-powered. Because I can tell you 100% without a shadow of a doubt, there is no method of cooling 1080N SLI in a notebook that exists today that handles them with high TDP and under full load. The closest you can get is a fully modded to the edge P870KM1, but that's about it.

[Eason85]

11 hours ago, D2ultima said:

OEMs told us nVidia said not to expect anything new in 2017. If they ARE releasing something, it's lower powered, lower-clocked variants of the already-existing hardware. There is no real "optimizing" pascal any further. It's maxwell pushed to its limits. If the Aorus X9 SLI is coming out and it's retaining its thinness, it's going to probably be 1070N SLI lower-powered. Because I can tell you 100% without a shadow of a doubt, there is no method of cooling 1080N SLI in a notebook that exists today that handles them with high TDP and under full load. The closest you can get is a fully modded to the edge P870KM1, but that's about it.

I'm not sure what's going on, just that there is an NDA that involves something from them around that time.

[Pendragon]

47 minutes ago, Eason85 said:

NDA that involves something from them around that time.

Rebranded mxm GPUs hype? Jk. Nvidia won't so that. 

 

Maybe some software tech. I don't think they can even afford to launch more high end cards after the titan x fiasco. Too much pushback even with the Titan Xp launch.