Aorus X5 V7, X7 V7, DT X7 all estimated for June release in USA

Update: now that all of these are out, this thread seems to have to become the owner's lounge for v7 (Kaby Lake) Aorus units. If you own an Aorus v7 laptop, or want to ask a question of someone who does, feel free to post here!

X7 v7: Mid June 2017
X7 DT v7: Mid June 2017
X5 v7: Early June 2017

Source: Aorus rep on their forums

 

Do we have anything on the screens? I wish the Aorus X5 had 1080p 120Hz and 4K as its options. The 1620p display is not great.

 

There's no new info on any of the specs that I'm aware of. It makes me curious what took them so darned long if nothing has changed, they've lost sales to competitors by being so late to the game.

 

Might be difficulties in manufacturing that don't translate directly into specs, like a problem in cooling.

 

Vapor chambers? </wishful thinking>

 

Unlikely in something that thin but I can still dream.

 

Review on the x3v7 is up, seems okay except for the noise, which I think was always what people complained about. It can't hold clocks at stock, though this is no surprise.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus...-Xotic-PC-Edition-Laptop-Review.220618.0.html

 

I'll sell you mine for a great price .... and yes, the 120hz is pretty nice, even for a fallout 4/ gtav / ghost recon player like myself, it has spoiled me good

 

Pm me ur specs and offer I could be interested lol.

 

While we're all dreaming, here's my vision for a Coffee Lake/Volta x5 DT v8. Listen up, Aorus!

-Move all 4 RAM slots to the top side of the motherboard to make room on the other side of the motherboard. Sadly that means they're not accessible by removing the back cover. This is a big pain for user upgrades, but given how infrequently RAM needs to be accessed, I'd make the trade to free up space on the other side of the motherboard.

-Ditch the HDD space, move two M.2 slots to approximately where it resided.

-Move the card reader and headphone/mic ports to the front, utilizing the cavity where the HDD was previously. On the left side, move the power port to where the DP is now, then progressing down towards the front you'd go ethernet, DP, USB C, and USB C. The right side would get a VGA port where the card reader was, otherwise the right side remains unchanged from what the v7 layout appears to be. Compared to the v7, my proposed layout goes from USB A (x4) to USB A (x2), VGA (x1), but otherwise contains all the same ports. You all laugh, but I have randomly been a hero because I happened to be the only one in the room with a laptop (Lenovo Y410P currently) containing a VGA port. That leaves us with USB A (x2), USB C (x2, with TB3), ethernet (x1), HDMI (x1), DP (x1), headphone/mic, VGA (x1), and a card reader (based on v7 pictures here). Everyone will want their own layout in terms of what ports are on the left and right sides, but the overall selection is plenty generous, in my opinion. I would also readily concede the VGA port to pretty much anything else, though.

-Have the CPU/GPU/VRAM/PCH, and other heat generating parts right in the middle, with big ol' heatsinks and/or vapor chambers. Make the heatsinks big and heavy! I'll take the heft if it means better cooling, with no second thoughts whatsoever. The footprint and thickness of the laptop don't need to change to accommodate this, thanks to moving the RAM and removing the HDD. Space along the periphery would be for other miscellaneous discrete parts such as USB 3.1 controllers and wireless cards ( while such parts are still necessary, at least).

-Put five fans all along the back, and go from the current six heat pipe design up to seven heat pipes. Because the left and right fans have two vents, that's seven vents total, one for each of the seven heat pipes to terminate at individually. As with the main component heatsink area, go the heavy metal route with fins at each exhaust vent. The forward hinge design and gives you plenty of space to make those fins big. Keep the wavy look it has going in back with a slight dip between each fan.

-Point out all that cooling in the marketing, then put as much overclocked CPU/GPU power in as is thermally feasible. And include an appropriate power brick, don't make people nervous by shipping power bricks rated for less wattage than your system can draw, as some Aorus units have done. If you can fit a GTX xx80 in, great, but don't do it if it'll throttle. If you stick to a GTX xx70 with good overclocking headroom, you can still write adverts pointing out how it beats other GTX xx80 equipped laptops due to thermal throttling (see: Razer Blade Pro). High CPU overclocks practically market themselves. Put your hardware livestream engine to work in some of your benchmark examples if desired, so you can show yourselves beating other laptops while you're streaming and they're not.

-Allow G keys on the left column to work as modifer keys to fire macros. This would allow you to have the "G1" key + the "Q" key be a macro, "G2" + "Q" be a different macro, "G3" + "Q" be yet another macro, "G4" + "Q" another macro still, and "G5" + "Q" a fifth macro assigned to the "Q" key. This would give you an option to have 45 macros on available on the QAZWSXEDC keys in a single profile. That's an incredible amount of macro depth without the need to cycle profiles or move your left hand away from the WASD area. Retain the option for a G key to be a direct macro, and not a modifier key, of course. I would use this depth for tons of preloaded chat messages, spell combos, etc. The macros that I'd need the fastest would stay on my mouse buttons, personally.

-Replace the pause/break key with an insert key. Put pause/break/print screen/sys req behind home/end/pg up/pg dn, accessible via function. The keyboard is perfect other than these nitpicks, especially with the RGB lighting, so that you can give it a more subdued look or gamertastic look.

-FHD 144 Hz Gsync touchscreen and UHD 60 Hz Gsync touchsceen screen options.

-Built in webcam should be FHD, with a good microphone.

-You've got some good software, but there are holes to fill. The biggest standout to me is your overclocking software. People shouldn't be getting better GPU overclocks with MSI afterburner on your laptops, for instance. That's just embarassing. I get the need to make sure users can't damage their machines, but right now you've hobbled people too much.

-Because I am in fact that bored thanks to being a victim of air travel delays, here's an internal diagram of my imaginary beast, as if you opened its bottom panel (which is why left and right appear reversed), compared to the x5 v6. Fear my incredible art skills.



Everyone can now go ahead and tell me why my armchair understandng of thermodynamics makes my vision impossible.

 

I like it, and I think a solution for parts being less accessible and to make the system more modular would be to attach all panels to a 360° hinge. So fully unlocked you could open it like a book, the lid, C panel and D panel would open from the main chassis allowing access to both sides of the mobo. If you're already making it heavy/bulky a stronger frame to support such a hinge shouldn't be a problem.

 

I know I'll have some dead time later, I might tinker with my little fantasy design a little more for the hell of it. I'll probably bend the pipes around the fans properly instead of the unrealistic angles, and then even add two more pipes to match the fact that the side vents have two pipes routed in front of them as it is in the x5 v6. Then I'll try and get the scale better and actually take a stab at a more detailed layout for what goes under all those heatsinks. By my reckoning, the CPU, GPU, CPU VRMs, GPU VRMs, VRAM, and PCH are what all need to be accounted for under there?

 

I do a full review on the Aorus x3 V7 including repasting with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut.
Full review:
Repasting video:

Cheers
Ownordisown

 

Not sure if they've always been up or not but i just noticed today that Aorus has the v7 specs and marketing info up on their page.

The track pad eagle is red now....


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Not thrilled with the port placements on the x7. Looks like all the USB are on the left and two USB-c are on the right(one being thunderbolt 3). I'd rather have seen a Thunderbolt 3 port on the rear and another USB-A on the right. Oh well, at least they removed the covered up VGA and HDMI ports.

I'm really looking forward to getting one of these. The 4k gsync option is probably the one I'll get. Hopefully the QHD version is the same updated screen as in the AW17r4 and not the one with horizontal lines and banding like on the v6. If they fixed that issue, this could be one of the best 17" 1080 laptops available. I thought the v6 was great but that screen was a real deal breaker to me.

 

Kinda sad that it took them this long to refresh their lineup tbh. Even Gigabyte's own P series laptops received their refresh a while back. I THINK quite a few people (myself) included decided to get the V6 since they took so long to bring their V7s out.

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I think everyone who was previously using that screen has abandoned it.

 

Did you guys ever try swapping them out with something better?

 

Don't think we actually got that many of them, just on to newer models.

 

x5 v7 unboxing:
Oh, and for the record, there is exactly 0 unboxing going on in the video.... there's not even a box to be unboxed.

 

Red track pad eagle = sales will double? great review on linus tech tips oh wait he already did

 

Anyone out there have any idea when someone will actually be able to buy one of these? I feel like early June is creeping away and late June is starting to come up...

 

They're always pretty optimistic with those projections. Hopefully not too much longer.

 

Do you guys even get an ETA or do the laptops just show up one day?

 

With all manufacturers there is heavy emphasis on the "E" part of that. We get more notice than end users, but everything depends on the manufacturing process, and delays can throw off projections.

 

So in this case, are they just repeatedly saying "in two more weeks"?

 

That's how it goes sometimes. For our part we don't put items on our site unless we know we're getting at least some.

 

I just don't get the "unboxing" video they posted if it isn't out yet. When they posed the same thing for the Aero 15 that was on the release day. It seems that they clearly have working ones especially considering that the page on their site doesn't have a "coming soon" it seems like a live product. I just don't understand the wait or why they would have all this up prematurely.

 

They have review copies and prototypes aplenty, the unboxing was to generate interest for when it launches.

 

It worked on me - I am dying for that thing! Planning on ordering from XoticPC for the first time when it comes out.

 

That's probably the upcoming model/series we've had the most interest in.

 

HIDevolution has them up for preorder - both x5 V7 and the x7 V7! I assume we are finally getting to release

 

Feeling some regret having bought a V6 waiting for the V7 cue sad music

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Don't feel bad - the V6 is a great laptop and very similar to V7. Main difference is the thunderbolt 3 and slightly newer cpu, but really you have an amazing beast and the V7 will be outdated in like 3-4 months again. I would have gone for V6 if I didn't want thunderbolt so bad cause of work and wanting a dock.

 

TB3 wasnt really the make or break it factor but the new one piece keyboard looks lovely rather than being a seperate component like on the v6.

Is the 1440p screen IPS or is it still the AUO screen that we already had?

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I guess it is a new screen: 15.6" WQHD+ 2880x1620 IPS Anti-Glare support NVIDIA® G-SYNC. I didn't realize the V6 did not have IPS.

 

Nah the 15.6" WQHD is still the same. Only the 4K option is new. They took out the 1080p 120hz display on the X5 and the 1080p IPS on the X7

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17.3 UHD 3840x2160 IPS Anti-Glare with NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ and 100% Adobe RGB (Optional)
17.3" QHD 2560x1440 120Hz / 5ms WVA Anti-Glare Display with NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ (Optional) link

I don't think it is IPS, at least AORUS arn't claiming that?

Edit:



Someone tag a staffer HIDevolution to clarify?

 

The 4k screen is ips and the qhd is tn. Those laptops are preorder BTW - not in stock yet.

 

I'm also certain that the new 2560x1440 screen is a TN panel. Here in the UK, Aorus have always pointed out an IPS display as only "IPS" but in turn list the TN panels as simply only "120Hz".

Liam.

 

You are correct on that - 17.3" specs say: "17.3" QHD 2560x1440 120Hz & 5ms Wide Viewing Angle Anti-Glare LCD support NVIDIA® G-SYNC™"

Definitely not IPS. The 15.6" is for sure IPS... not sure why Gigabyte didn't do similar tech on the screens other than cost savings for them.

 

Not only that and if I'm not mistaken, we're not that far advanced into technology yet to have 120Hz IPS laptops screen unfortunately - therefore all 120Hz screens are TN.

Liam.

 

This is how it's done generally, if a screen has a feature, it's typically mentioned inline, so if it doesn't say IPS level you can assume it's TN, and if it doesn't say the frequency you can assume 60Hz.

 

What?!?! 100% Adobe RGB only on 17"?

I'm so frustrated!!!! I thought the 15" in 4K had it all......

Is that something we can parameter ourself on x5 or is it hardcoded ? (I'm really about to order it for heavy video editing, photography, tec. mainly)

 

It's panel specific. Afaik, there's no 100% aRGB 15" in the wild.

 

Time for Asus to cough up that screen they threw on the G701VI

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Ok, does anyone have experience with some spyder calibration tool? Does it do the job?

 

I can't wait for those v7 to be available in Europe.... I just awakened from surgery a few hours ago and already looking again for availability

 

I have one. They work fine for your needs.

 

What would be the point in choosing a 100% aRGB screen over calibrating later?