Razer Blade 14 (7700HQ/1060) beatdown log

This thread is meant to be a worklog of me trying to kill a Razer Blade 14 and mess with the cooling.


Temperature stress test, disassembly, close look at internals, possible cooling improvements and whatnot.


Laptop will be delivered to me about next week or so, so stay tuned.



@iunlock has the Blade Pro 1080 that is still in review process.






Ay, on the other hand, both of you guys still alive?

@Razer Customer Support @RazerCS

Maybe you want to report to overlord Ming to see if he wants to follow this thread?








@Mr. Fox @Papusan @Johnksss@iBUYPOWER @ryzeki @hmscott @LunaP @TomJGX @Raidriar @Khenglish @Prema @Phoenix @don_svetlio @pendragonfalls @PendragonInc @DackEW @Dackzy @woodzstack @zergslayer69 @DeeX @Cass-Olé @Galm @triturbo

 

Hyped.

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And now Bookmarked

 

Oh man, I want to post iunlocks review on /r/razer, now maybe urs too? This'll be great.

 

Well the machine is not here yet, so you'll need to wait.

 

That's fine a 1-2 punch.

 

Hehe... Oh man this is going to be fun....

I've been running tests all last night...

*face palm*...

Let it begin.... Muhhahahaha

::iunlock::

 

Dont bother posting this on the Razer forum itself, the goon squad will delete it as soon as you press "post".

This company needs to be exposed though for their piss poor quality for the prices they ask of its customers.

 

Why did this not appear in my Alerts???!!!

 

Nbr is all kinds of messed up lately

 

Indeed - this is the 4th time I've noticed this - I usually assume that it gets buried in notifications but I'm starting to think it might be the site just being borked.

 

Size comparison is to a Clevo or Alienware? (Can't really tell xD)

 

Thats a clevo. The Razer may not be the best machine out but it still looks sexy AF.

 

P870KM1 in my sig

Need to adjust windows first

 

I spent thousands of gaming hours over nearly three years trying to kill my 2014 blade. It didn't let me down. No throttling, decent perf. Killer keyboard add trackpad. Was a good little trooper. Nothing compares build quality wise in the windows world.

You just have to know why you're buying it, they don't "suck" unless you have an expectation that's not in line with why you're buying it.

 

The build quality is a given, in that it's a direct rip of Apple which are known for their superb build quality.

However, I can tell you that for the RBP, the actual metal quality is rubbish compared to even a cheap unibody laptop. The bottom flap is just a thin sheet of metal.

It's not all about looks....

Granted the RB14 may be built better than the RBP, but overall they are all in a different category, (razer being unibody), and it can not be compared apples to apples to other laptops.

IMO the XPS 15 is still the overall best build and most sturdy windows laptop today. This includes both internal and external attributes.... I didn't say that it doesn't have issues just to be clear...but those can be fixed, whereas sometimes can not on other laptops, which makes it a permanent defect.

@Mobius 1, will have a real review of the RB14 up soon as I'll have a real review up of the RBP as well. No sugar coating bubble fest...we'll call it like it is from an enthusiast stand point and not from a crowd majority stand point....

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razer wanna send me a cease and desist

my email is [email protected]

 

Seem like stickers above the screw? Doesn't seem warranty related since it's easy to peel without damaging anything.

 

14 vs stealth

 

Hahaha smd min-liang

 

going through the list of installed programs, seems pretty light on the bloatware side


only one you have installed is razer synapse

 

Wait until you see what that pos does to your c0% on idle

 

@Mobius 1 - tag me as well next time
@Papusan - try to remember to tag me if Mobius forgets.

The RB14 is basically a portable toaster. Looking forward to your numbers. And @iunlock - tag me in your RBP review.

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lol so true

the way I see it is the blade 14 = ultrabook

it's capable of gaming but you really can't have a high expectation of performance

 

blade crashed after installing process explorer

now keyboard doesn't work, I can't login


@hfm thoughts?

 

Hard reset? Clear CMOS? Reinstall the OS/Factory reset?

 

razer synapse was the issue

 

Expensive for an ultrabook

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It happens. Go look at every other forum with people having issues with literally every brand and model.

Process explorer works fine on my 2014 blade.

 

haha it's like on cue...

we need a new "min-lying tan" meme

 

I'd like to chime in here and say I've returned 4 Blade 7700hq's to date due to various defects. I love the minimalist design and tried to give it a chance, but defects and other issues didn't help with the buyer's remorse. My dream machine is a 14" (or less) with a dedicated GPU and this was the sexiest option, yet just isn't there in terms of quality. My search for my love will not come to an end. :'(

 

The closest thing to what you want is probably the Dell XPS 15 9560 - though that's a normal 1050, not a 1060. Asus are supposed to release a new ZenBook with a 1050 Ti soon, though can't exactly tell you what "soon" means.

 

Well, using it just as an ultrabook worked great past 2 days

I just tested the GPU on unigine heaven and it broke 77c within 3 minutes, not looking good.

 

That Zenbook sounds pretty nice. I'll look into that, thanks!

 

I didn't test with Unigine. All Blades were tested with Firestrike. Most of them maintained an average of 75-78c on CPU cores and GPU after undervolts, average score was 10300 to 11000 with GPU overclocks.

The problems were backlight bleed on most of them.

one Blade had a keyboard that didn't have uniform RGB colors across the keys (an example: F1 through F4 keys had a different shade of orange than other keys near them, even after triple checking synapse settings).

One Blade had poor performance compared to the other Blades.

One had a defective trackpad.

A real annoyance is that all Blades had random trackpad button "tightness". Not a defect, but it was upsetting.

Some of this probably wouldn't bother some people, but at this price I would call them all defects.

 

You mean the trackpad buttons have different click sensation compared to one another?

 

Blade 14 FHD LP140WF3 SPD1 calibration profile


Very bad factory calibration, after calibration the colors are alright the sRGB coverage is average (rated 72% NTSC), color accuracy is okay


Using displaycal to see the uncalibrated white point, this is very poor because it's miles away from the perfect D6500






After calibration with target D6500













@bloodhawk



calibration profile:
https://mega.nz/#!TghHFZ7C!0EvI7DulVt_uEL6byODY4o1fzvLZFy55r-fIbPlpgUY

 

Right. Some buttons felt nice, other buttons were loose.

 

Jesus. And they target this towards professionals? xD

Was there a yellowish tint before calibration?

 

more like blueish tint

 

Interesting.
Those are some poor numbers though, if it really is an 8bit panel.

 

It's native 6 bit without FRC

 

5 minutes into occt and chill



not chill after all



all welcome to follow live updates of the blade 14 and aero 15 on discord channel

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-server-through-discord.798019/#post-10382969

 

Better airflow design compared to the macbook pro, but more noisy.

Probably the same thickness, but idk really

@triturbo

Hey guys, join our NBR chat if you want live updates on this thread

https://discordapp.com/invite/015HZX8QCTMvkZWyq

 

Awesome teardown. Watching this topic and just joined Discord to see the internals.

 

I love this.

 

Teardown in a couple of days, will be on the discord voice chat if you guys want to follow.

 

Can you post an update here when you do it, I don't have discord open often