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    A Short Review on P25X-V2

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by ninedragons, Dec 28, 2014.

  1. ninedragons

    ninedragons Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have brought this laptop back in September which I am very satisfied with the performance and never had a problem with it.

    P25Xv2 is all about providing a mean configuration under the hood and facilitating an enjoyable laptop gaming experience. It has to be, because in terms of design and looks, there isn’t much good going on for this 15.6in desktop replacement gaming rig.

    The P25Xv2 is helmed by a 4th generation Intel Core i7-4810MQ CPU, which runs at 2.8GHz and can process eight threads simultaneously (four cores, plus Hyper-Threading). It’s surrounded by 16GB of DDR3L 1866 SRDRAM (the maximum for this machine), a solid state RAID 0 array for the operating system (via two 128GB mSATA SSDs), an extra 1TB hard drive for your data, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M graphics adapter with its own 8GB of DDR5 memory. That’s a lot of good stuff right there, and it makes the P25X a potent machine for video editing and other power-hungry work you might have in mind, in addition to playing games.

    However, one of the annoyances of this high-end configuration is that substantial cooling is required to keep it running optimally. In our case, I noticed that the fan ran even during general operation, such as when we were viewing Web pages or streaming music. It was quite loud, to the point where other people would wander over and ask me what was going on.

    Luckily, Gigabyte does include a system configuration and monitoring utility through which the fan speed can be toggled to a lower setting. This utility can be invoked by pressing the shortcut button labelled ‘smart’, which sits next to the power button. I used ‘stealth’ mode rather than ‘auto’ mode, which made the laptop a lot more pleasant to use. However, using ‘stealth’ mode does affect the performance, as it slows down the CPU and impacts the graphics.
     
    ninedragons, Dec 28, 2014
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