News - Aorus X7 gaming laptop upgraded with dual GTX 860M graphics

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Refreshed, lean, mean, 17-inch gaming machine will debut at Computex 2014.

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I love my Asus ROG laptop and years back would argue is best on market but they've been lazy and now IMO Auros has taken the crown from Asus.
MSI has also improved greatly so Asus is running 3rd when it comes to gaming laptops.

I hope Auorus does a 15" and 13" version for business users, those clean lines but with Intel Iris and focus on battery life.

I'd rather have a single GPU in a laptop, I always had driver issues with my last gaming laptop with a single GPU - so I'd be more worried about SLI scaling than with desktop GPUs. I wonder how this actually fares in games.

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Originally Posted by Badbonji

I'd rather have a single GPU in a laptop, I always had driver issues with my last gaming laptop with a single GPU - so I'd be more worried about SLI scaling than with desktop GPUs. I wonder how this actually fares in games.

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I've got dual 680Ms and haven't had much in the way of trouble, the only real issues have been with games without a sli profile (in which case just force one and it works) and when the memory of one of my GPUs was overheating causing weird glitches on every other frame.

I was really worried for this laptop but that seems like good hardware if they've got the maxwell edition of the GPUs. Battery life should be going up, a single one of those GPUs can deal with most games at 1080p and there should be 80% or so scaling, now if they can sort out the input devices (apparently keyboard was a bit crummy on the first) this is quite interesting. Still not sure about a thin 17" laptop though(try transporting a 22" monitor, doesn't matter how thin it is the length/width are gonna make it difficult).