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Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models
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Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models

With today’s launch of the quad-core Broadwell laptop parts, there are going to be a lot of devices making the jump over to the new CPU. Pretty much the entire lineup from Gigabyte is getting some attention today, with plenty of news in their P Series lineup.

There are a lot of products from Gigabyte moving to the Core i7-5700HQ processor, which is a 2.7-3.5 GHz quad-core 47 watt part. Here is a table of the models for reference.

Gigabyte P Series Notebooks
  P37 P35 P55
Processor Intel Core i7-5700HQ (2.7-3.5 GHz, 14nm, 47w TDP)
X Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M N/A
W Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
K Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Memory 4-8 GB DDR3 (Max 16 GB) 8 GB, 16 GB Max
Display 17.3″ 1920×1080 IPS 15.6″ 1920×1080 IPS or 2880×1620 IPS 15.6″ 1920×1080 IPS
Dimensions 417 x 287 x 22.5 mm (16.4 x 11.3 x 0.9 inches) 385 x 270 x 20.9 (15.2 x 10.6 x 0.82 inches) 380 x 269 x 26.8-34 mm (15 x 10.6 x 1.05 – 1.34 inches)
Weight 2.7 – 2.8 kg (5.95 – 6.17 lbs) 2.2-2.3 kg (4.85 – 5.07 lbs) 2.4-2.5 kg (5.3 – 5.5 lbs)

Gigabyte also has their Aorus line of gaming laptops, and they have a couple of updates here as well. The X7 line is one of the first notebooks available with NVIDIA’s G-SYNC technology. The X7 Pro-SYNC is the 17.3” model which features a 1080p IPS G-SYNC display, and is powered by the Haswell Core i7-4870HQ processor and dual GTX970M GPUs in SLI.

New to the lineup is the X5 model which is a 15.6” gaming laptop with GTX 965M in SLI and the Core i7-5700HQ Broadwell processor. It is just 0.9” thick (22.9mm) and weights 5.5 lbs, which is fairly thin and light considering it has two GPUs inside. It comes with 8 GB of DDR3L-1866 memory but has four slots and can handle up to 32 GB of RAM. The display is a 2880×1620 IPS and also support G-SYNC.

AORUS X Series Notebooks
  X7 Pro-SYNC X5
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ (2.5-3.7 GHz 22nm 47w TDP) Intel Core i7-5700HQ (2.7-3.5 GHz 14nm 47w TDP)
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965 SLI
Memory 8GB DDR3L (32 GB Max)
Display 17.3″ 1920×1080 IPS with G-SYNC 15.6″ 2880×1620 IPS with G-SYNC
Dimensions 428 x 305 x 22.9 mm (16.9 x 12.0 x 0.9 inches) 390 x 272 x 22.9 mm (15.4 x 10.7 x 0.9 inches)
Weight 3 kg (6.6 lbs) 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs)

Gigabyte is launching all of this immediately and you can currently find them on their site at www.gigabyte.com and www.aorus.com

Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models
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Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models

With today’s launch of the quad-core Broadwell laptop parts, there are going to be a lot of devices making the jump over to the new CPU. Pretty much the entire lineup from Gigabyte is getting some attention today, with plenty of news in their P Series lineup.

There are a lot of products from Gigabyte moving to the Core i7-5700HQ processor, which is a 2.7-3.5 GHz quad-core 47 watt part. Here is a table of the models for reference.

Gigabyte P Series Notebooks
  P37 P35 P55
Processor Intel Core i7-5700HQ (2.7-3.5 GHz, 14nm, 47w TDP)
X Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M N/A
W Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
K Series GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Memory 4-8 GB DDR3 (Max 16 GB) 8 GB, 16 GB Max
Display 17.3″ 1920×1080 IPS 15.6″ 1920×1080 IPS or 2880×1620 IPS 15.6″ 1920×1080 IPS
Dimensions 417 x 287 x 22.5 mm (16.4 x 11.3 x 0.9 inches) 385 x 270 x 20.9 (15.2 x 10.6 x 0.82 inches) 380 x 269 x 26.8-34 mm (15 x 10.6 x 1.05 – 1.34 inches)
Weight 2.7 – 2.8 kg (5.95 – 6.17 lbs) 2.2-2.3 kg (4.85 – 5.07 lbs) 2.4-2.5 kg (5.3 – 5.5 lbs)

Gigabyte also has their Aorus line of gaming laptops, and they have a couple of updates here as well. The X7 line is one of the first notebooks available with NVIDIA’s G-SYNC technology. The X7 Pro-SYNC is the 17.3” model which features a 1080p IPS G-SYNC display, and is powered by the Haswell Core i7-4870HQ processor and dual GTX970M GPUs in SLI.

New to the lineup is the X5 model which is a 15.6” gaming laptop with GTX 965M in SLI and the Core i7-5700HQ Broadwell processor. It is just 0.9” thick (22.9mm) and weights 5.5 lbs, which is fairly thin and light considering it has two GPUs inside. It comes with 8 GB of DDR3L-1866 memory but has four slots and can handle up to 32 GB of RAM. The display is a 2880×1620 IPS and also support G-SYNC.

AORUS X Series Notebooks
  X7 Pro-SYNC X5
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ (2.5-3.7 GHz 22nm 47w TDP) Intel Core i7-5700HQ (2.7-3.5 GHz 14nm 47w TDP)
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965 SLI
Memory 8GB DDR3L (32 GB Max)
Display 17.3″ 1920×1080 IPS with G-SYNC 15.6″ 2880×1620 IPS with G-SYNC
Dimensions 428 x 305 x 22.9 mm (16.9 x 12.0 x 0.9 inches) 390 x 272 x 22.9 mm (15.4 x 10.7 x 0.9 inches)
Weight 3 kg (6.6 lbs) 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs)

Gigabyte is launching all of this immediately and you can currently find them on their site at www.gigabyte.com and www.aorus.com

AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement
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AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement

After an earlier vague deadline of Q2’15 and more than a few teases in the interim, AMD has finally announced when they’ll be revealing their forthcoming high-end video card.

AMD will be hosting an event on June 16th at 9am PST to release the details on the card, in a presentation dubbed “AMD Presents: The New Era of PC Gaming.” The presentation will be taking place at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, CA during E3 week, and happens to be where the AMD-sponsored PC Gaming Show also takes place that evening. This event is open to the public, or can be viewed via webcast.

I would quickly note here that at no point does AMD specifically call this a launch. And for that matter, the last time they held a public event like this – the Radeon 200/Hawaii reveal – Hawaii didn’t launch until a month later. In this case AMD has already committed to a June launch for the card, but at the moment we’re not expecting to see the card go on sale on the 16th.

Update: As part of AMD’s Computex event (was was almost entirely focused on APUs), AMD CEO Dr. Lisu Su also briefly teased the 16th event, pulling out AMD’s new high-end GPU. The chip being shown is a complete package with its silicon interposer and organic substrate. The crew over at Tom’s Hardware got a good picture of it.


Image Courtesy Tom’s Hardware