Gigabyte Announces The World’s Most Powerful 17.3-Inch Laptop at CES 2017

During Gigabyte’s CES 2017 press briefing, the company outlined the importance of AORUS and their desire to mould it into a unique, powerful brand. Rather impressively, AORUS has developed a brand new laptop which is touted as the “world’s most powerful 17.3-inch laptop”. More specifically, the unit is powered by the latest Intel Core i7-7820HK running at an overclocked frequency alongside DDR4 2400MHz RAM and the GTX 1070/GTX 1080 depending on the model chosen. Not only that, the X7 DT v7 provides you with the option to purchase a 120Hz, 5ms display and supports NVIDIA’s G-Sync technology which eliminates screen tearing and limits annoying stutter.

On another note, the new flagship has Thunderbolt 3 functionality which is really handy to power an external GPU enclosure or connect multiple high-resolution displays. This is the first time AORUS has included the 40Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 protocol and I’m pleased to see it being adopted. The laptop has an extremely fast storage solution in the form of a single NVMe M.2 drive capable of read speeds up to 2000MB/s. Also, the laptop has a gorgeous keyboard with per-key RGB illumination which looks absolutely stunning from every angle. The Killer DoubleShot Pro should allow for impressive networking speeds and minimal lag during intensive games.

The Kaby Lake architecture is more suitable for 4K playback due to the support for HEVC 10b and VP9 hardware encode/decode. In theory, this can provide 3 times more battery life than Skylake-powered counterparts when dealing with 4K footage.