Razer Blade Pro 17" (1080 GPU/late 2016) Owner's Lounge

Seeing as razer has never made a high performance laptop with a proper cooling solution, I wouldn't bet the farm on it not sucking.

 

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Hooray!!!!
Does this mean I can pay 3699$ and enjoy cooking my meals everyday before the Pro totally dies out from heat? Awesome!

 

Who the hell could even justify spending $3699 on a laptop? I mean if you have the money to burn, whatever, but are those people who they are targeting for this laptop? $2000 for a Razer Blade, $400 for the Core, and another $600 for a GTX 1080...$3000. Who the **** in their right mind would pay $700 ON TOP of that? Who absolutely NEEDS a GTX 1080 to travel with? My friend has a MSI GS43VR and the GTX 1060 in there kicks ass.

The GTX 1060 is more than powerful enough to max out just about every game available at 1080p. The chances of the 6700HQ and GTX 1080 being able to max out every game at 60FPS at 4K seems slim to me especially if there are cooling problems. So what will they suggest, turn down the resolution? Then what the hell is the point of the super glossy, G-Sync, 4K, touchscreen? I'm absolutely baffled by this...the only thing I can think of is that they designed it knowing some people will buy it.

 

The system should have been priced at $3000 or $3100. And if they couldn't price the system at that range they should have gotten rid of parts to make that happen, even if they had to downgrade the GPU to a 1070 I still think it's worth it. From both a cost savings and a usability perspective.

But hey... I could be wrong about the whole thing... I mean Hypothetically if this were an Apple Product it probably would be priced right there at $3700. So maybe that's just what we need to come to expect. But I think overall it's very inconsistent. I say that because the way the Stealth and the Standard Pro are Priced the Blade doesn't make any sense to be priced at 3700, if the standard Blade with 512gb were priced at 2700, then everything would be consistent. And thank god it's not, so I guess what I'm saying at the end of the day is that if the 1060, Blade Standard runs well that system is priced extremely well.

 

That's one of the included features, hence the price. You'll have to buy the seasonings separately though.

That's the only thing holding me back, because this is such a great deal I wish I could pay more for it.


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Right? First Razer completely bites Apples design of the Macbook's (no originality and blantely poor copy cats) then they try to price it like they have an Apple following? (100% idiotic.)

Apple used to get away with this highway robbery a lot more in the past, but although the fan base is still strong, it's dying down a lot with their recent lack of innovation. However, there will still be those paying a premium for the next Apple product.

To each his own and I'm not knocking ones ability to do what they want, but dang... even if one has money to burn, I wouldn't touch it with and 10 foot pole.

I'm curious if that GTX 1080 is toned down or not? Anyone know what the wattage is? I doubt it's 180w...could be wrong and I'll stand correct if I am, but wow...if it's running at full specs I'm curious to see those temps!

Heck I almost want one to tackle the challenge lol...semi joking...

If the GTX is tuned down than what a stupid decision to go with a 1080 in the first place when they could have gone with a 1070 instead....

Looking forward to hearing more news....



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I second every sentence from this reply.
A sane me would spend an amount of 1000$ AT MAX for a laptop. There have been exceptions from the Pascal refresh which entirely changed my mind. I'd totally pay 1499$ for a GT62VR with a 6700HQ and a GTX1060. But anything higher for a better 1080p experience is a waste of cash.

 

Thing with apple is that , they always something new/somewhat innovative for a certain demographic. And then they price it ridiculously, well knowing that those people make the laptop sound way cooler than it is.

This however will bite whoever buys it , in the ass.

 

True, it's just like Starbucks. It ain't about the coffee yet they smash the market with selling over priced coffee to those who will buy it.

Apple is absolutely over priced, however, the quality is there and for the intended purpose that it was design for it does what it does very well. Nothing can touch the macbooks design and quality. No not even copy cat Razer. The XPS is close, but it's still a race to play catch up, especially with the newly released MBP.

Adobe Premier runs better on AMD with Open CL so for content creators the Mac is very practical, expecially for portability.


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I'll take my Asus Zenbook any day

 

Wow you guys are savage... no wonder I generally stick to the clevo board. I for one already have a blade on order... just a 14 inch one. Mostly because I have the clevo. My current blade has been the best portable gaming solution I've ever had. I'm over heavy and thick designs unless it's a desktop replacement and staying at home. Anyway there is a market for this and there always will be, as long as it doesn't overheat of course .


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That's the thing. It will over heat. I'd be glad to be proven wrong. Because at that price it better not.

 

In your case with a DTR, it's very practical and makes sense to go with a thinner laptop for everything else. That's why I have what I have as well. They all serve a purpose.

 

I'm up to tackle the heat challenge, but I can't justify dropping that much cash on it...who knows...I'll wait until I see some reports and go from there, because I'm all about them temps.

 

Physics seem to dictate, that there's no way you can cool a full fat GTX 1080 in such a chassis. Early reviews will be interesting.

I honestly thing the Blade Pro would be a much larger success, if they drop the gimmick touchpad for a traditionally placed one.

 

I agree and that's the thing though in that...for the majority of the time (10 for 10 as we've seen so far) these laptops are not at their maximum cooling potential due to the crappy thermal paste that they use along other possible variables such as the heat sink, thermal pads etc...

The challenge that I'm interested in would be to see what it can do with the given chassis when put to the test of it being at its maximum potential with a proper repaste etc...

I'm opposed to the GTX1080 being in these thin profile chassis, it's just that from the under the hood pictures so far, they could have done better with the use of more heat sinks.

 

I find the cooling very interesting. Gpu and cpu are located in the middle and heat is dynamically distributed by the vapor chamber. I am very interested in first reviews. Because the vapor chamber is relatively compact, there should be no warping clevo problem. CLU might do wonders to cpu and gpu in this thing and even no nees for delidding. I am totally with you bro!

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Yes indeed. I think the vapor chamber route is necessary for the thin profile. It shall be very interesting to see some temp data....we'll know soon enough!

Ohh and yes...I'm craving to LM this thing

 

Not too long ago we would have been saying that physics dictates you cant have a full desktop GPU in a laptop

 

That was more or less, NVIDIA being the puppet master.

The assumptions about the 1080 Desktop being in the Blade and causing heating issues are coming after seeing the results from other laptops.

 

After seeing a 1060 perform in a .77" chassis against a desktop 1060, I'm not to optimistic about how this 1080 will perform.

 

I predict this will be like 15% on average faster than a 1070... Not enough to justify that price.. Especially with 6700HQ. They should have put a 6700T in it for the 3.4ghz across 4 cores.. And it only needs 35 watts (less than the 47 watts required by 6700HQ). Lol. This system is banking on Razer notebook fanboi's and that's purely it.

 

I'm still very curious to see what the battery life is on this thing. Can someone please tell me or give me an update on 4k gaming on a laptop. My questions are like how major is 4k gaming? Is it a fad that will come go and pass, similar to that of 3d gaming? As we move into VR, I'm wondering if mobile 4k gaming is really a thing and people really want to do it and if we'll see it running mainstream in the near future.

When I see systems such as these will people actually purchase the system to just that 4k gaming?

 

What is release date for the rbp? Is it coming out soon? It still doesn't allow to purchase online. Thanks

 

Do we know yet if the GTX1080 is tuned down? Or will it be at least 180W?

 

Any info on release date?

 

Mine arrived today. I'll be putting up unboxing and initial thoughts this evening!

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Please measure CPU/GPU thermals under load! We're all dying to know

 

After the unboxing I'm Dling Heaven and or games and looping like Crazy

 

Man but how? I thought it was coming out december...

 

Me too! I was lucky to get a preorder in (sold out in seconds). Then last week got an email that it would ship early which was pretty surprising as the GTX 1080 laptops have been in short supply (Alienware Aorus still havent released theirs). even more surprised that shipping only took 2 days.

Cant confirm anything until after this long day of work But shipping confirmation says The New Razer Blade Pro - 512GB so I'm hopeful.

 

Test this beast with Polandball! Download Witcher 3!

 

Might try Witcher 3 but will most likely start with Deus Ex MD and Battlefield 1

 

More to come!!!!

 

Unboxing:

 

Nice! Thanks for sharing mate.

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disassemble the laptop

 

Doubt ill do that at first

 

at some point?

 

Can you please check the GPU wattage? Curious if it's 180W's or toned down to 150W or less...

Thanks!

 

Watching with great interest

 

Sweet Video! You the Man!

Please more videos n thoughts on your amazing looking laptop.

 

How can I get this info easily? Gpu-z?

 

Run Firestrike with HWInfo open and check afterwards

 

Dont have Firestrike tried the Deus Ex Mankind Divided got little over 155w any free option?

 

Awesome. Yes, there should be a free version at futuremark.com. You can also use the heaven benchmarks. Basically anything to load the Gpu. Given that Deus Ex is supposed to be demanding, I think you answered the question though. Thanks a lot!


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162w on heaven with a max temp of 75c

 

That definitely sounds like the 180W version with an aggressive VF/Fan curve.
Were you able to check what the max clock speed was ?