**Review: The VR Titan 17.3 Laptop**

The VR Titan 17.3 laptop is a well-rounded device that excels at providing both productivity and gaming experiences on-the-go. With its slim design and compact footprint, this laptop is an excellent choice for those who need to balance work and play without sacrificing portability.

**Design and Form Factor**

One of the standout features of the VR Titan 17.3 laptop is its impressive form factor. The device's 17.3-inch screen is not as bulky as one might expect, thanks to a cleverly designed hinge that extends outward from the center of the device. This design allows for maximum flexibility and mobility, making it easy to use the laptop in a variety of settings. While some may bemoan the lack of size, we found that this was actually a plus, allowing us to comfortably type away or watch movies without feeling overwhelmed by the screen's presence.

**Hardware Performance**

The VR Titan 17.3 laptop is powered by a GTX 1060 discrete GPU, which strikes an excellent balance between performance and power consumption. While not as powerful as the more expensive 1070 or 1080 options available on the market, this mid-range GPU provides more than enough oomph for smooth gaming and everyday tasks. We were impressed with the laptop's ability to handle demanding games at high resolutions without overheating, making it an excellent choice for those who need a balance between performance and portability.

**Temperature Performance**

One of the most impressive aspects of the VR Titan 17.3 laptop is its ability to keep temperatures in check, even during extended gaming sessions or CPU-intensive tasks. During our tests, we found that the laptop's temperature never exceeded 76°C (169°F), which is well below the threshold for serious overheating issues. This makes it an excellent choice for those who plan to use the laptop for extended periods without worrying about heat-related throttling.

**Battery Life**

We were pleased with the VR Titan 17.3 laptop's battery life, which exceeded our expectations in several tests. With the screen brightness set to a moderate level and the power-saving features engaged, we found that the laptop lasted around 4-5 hours on a single charge. While this may not be as long-lasting as some of its competitors, it's still respectable for a device of its size and power consumption.

**Audio Quality**

Unfortunately, our testing revealed some disappointing audio issues with the VR Titan 17.3 laptop. The speakers are downfiring, which means they face inward toward the user, rather than outward like traditional laptop speakers. This results in a muffled sound quality that's not ideal for watching movies or listening to music on the go.

**Fingerprint Magnets**

Another minor complaint we have is with the laptop's brushed aluminum finish, which has a tendency to attract fingerprints and smudges. While this may not be a major issue for everyone, it's certainly something to keep in mind if you're particularly particular about maintaining your device's appearance.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the VR Titan 17.3 laptop is an excellent choice for those who need a well-rounded device that balances productivity, gaming, and portability without sacrificing too much in terms of performance or size. While it may not be perfect – and we did encounter some minor issues with temperature throttling, audio quality, and fingerprint retention – our testing revealed a strong performance profile and a design that's both functional and attractive.

At $1,549, the VR Titan 17.3 laptop is certainly not cheap, but it's also clear that this device was designed to offer value for money. With its impressive form factor, robust hardware, and solid battery life, we can confidently recommend this laptop to those who need a reliable companion for work, play, or everything in between.

**Sound Off!**

As always, we'd love to hear from our readers – do you have any thoughts on the VR Titan 17.3 laptop? Are there any features or designs that you particularly like or dislike? Share your feedback and opinions with us in the comments below!

While wiping off those fingerprints, let's talk about one of the device's major design decisions – its decision to prioritize portability over traditional audio functionality. We're not sure how much more we could have done without sacrificing form factor, but it would have been nice to see some more innovative approaches to audio design.

One potential solution might be to incorporate more advanced noise-cancellation technology or even move the speakers to a more optimal location – perhaps even a hybrid of both. These are just speculative suggestions, and we're curious to hear from our readers on how they'd approach this problem in their own designs.

Whatever your thoughts may be, we hope you'll join us next time as we explore more innovative devices and technologies that shape the world of personal computing!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys JSU sense here we're going to be taking a look at a new laptop now before you start saying blah blah blah it's just another laptop who cares it's overpriced piece of junk uh I get it I get it I I hear you guys I've got massive desktops myself and I've said it before these exist for a reason laptops are a part of our world and they're not going anywhere laptops are getting better than ever because of the efficiency and the power of the components we have today that was proven with the gt73 VR Titan we looked at a couple months ago with a GTX 1080 in there and a quad core i7 with hyperthreading and what was it 64 gigs of RAM something or ridiculous like that I don't even remember but this is a little bit more reasonable now I've had this for the last couple of months and Nick has been using it for the last several weeks as his primary uh laptop you've been carrying it around just well you already graduated but you were taking it like to my house to here you're playing games on it editing pictures you done some photo editing on this edit yeah a couple edits okay well anyway this guy right here it's still a 17.3in laptop but look at the form factor of this look at the footprint it is extremely thin coming in at just about an inch at its thickest point but it only weighs 5.9 lb now I know that still sounds kind of heavy when you compare it to things like a MacBook Air and whatnot but when you look at what this can do and what's in there and it maintains a 17.3in panel at that weight that's actually pretty amazing and it is a full metal construction it's a metal body uh brush aluminum to be exact unfortunately it's a fingerprint magnet so like as I do that you know it's the fingerprints get pretty bad but anyway that's minor just keep a microfiber nearby I guess now I'm going to run through the specs quickly I don't want to spend a lot of time on the specs I want to spend time with gaming on this and doing some stuff to kind of show really what it's like using this thing now this version right here is actually 7th gen Intel uh core i7 so it's a 7700 HK you'll see 6700 HK is advertised but it this is a 7700 HK it's got 16 GB two 8 8 dim sticks of ddr4 2400 it's got a GTX 1060 6 GB the panel as I mentioned is a 17.3 in 1080p 120 HZ 5 millisecond 94% uh ntsc panel so although the color gamut is not quite as accurate or as wide as we would like it still is perfect for Middle Ground of content creators protot ity and gaming hard drive wise it's got a 256 GB SSD you can order them I believe with a 512 and it has a 1 terb 5400 RPM hard drive would have liked to have seen a 7200 RPM in there that's more or less for like mass storage 256 GB SSD will fill up very quickly especially with how big games are today what's Ghost Recon like 79 GB sounds about right yeah it's like 79 gigs so when you open it up and you look inside right here uh you can see we still have brushed aluminum finish on the inside surrounding the keyboard we've got our trackpad here which is lined up with the space bar which is kind of nice sometimes when they're in the middle it's kind of weird cuz that's not like where your hand is if you come straight down then you can use the trackpad that's kind of nice the keyboard is actually a steel series keyboard it's a membrane keyboard individual LED back lighting so you can customize the lighting profile to whatever you want it to be but the throw on there is really nice too it's about a 3mm throw which gives it a very mechanical type of feel because it's very positive when you push it you got a real good feedback from the key it's not mushy and sloppy like a lot of keyboards are so it's actually a decent typing experience I personally hate typing on laptops but I actually don't have a problem typing on this it's not that bad at all obviously there's no optical drive I think a lot of laptop companies have done away with Optical drives I haven't seen a laptop at an opticle in a while at least not ones that I've got my hands on now let's do this let's fire it up let's play some games I mean I know like when it comes to traveling professional editing and all that stuff it can do it obviously but we care about the games right let's do it are you coming transition so this is the MSI Dragon Center and this is like a dashboard where you can control all the different things happening with your laptop and it comes pre-bundled and and most of the time I'm not cool with dashboard apps like this but this one's actually pretty good you've got a system monitor you can see what's happening in temperatures you can see what's happening with your fan speeds how much memory you're using the LED wizard allows you to change your LED back lighting under keyboard as we mentioned system tuner this one does not actually have unlocked overclocking for things like your CPU and your GPU however uh on one on laptops I do support it this is where you would do it but you could change your fan profile here your shift mode that's basically like your CPU power profile now the MSI true color is where you can control the color profile for your panel for different scenarios now remember this is not an IPS panel so the colors are not going to be as accurate so 94% color accuracy on this but if you see designer mode it turns a brightness way down holy crap let's see if we can turn that back up so you got designer mode you've got your srgb mode so that's your like your your color gamut anti-blue mode keeps turning the brightness all the way down that's crazy gamer mode did you do this did you make it so this no it's always been like that weird anyway um office mode movie mode but yeah there's that so we'll put it in gamer mode cuz you know I'm a wnab be gamer looks like it takes a lot of the the contrast out though looks very flat so this is the heaven Benchmark you can see see we're getting uh wow 123 is FPS right there it's boosted up to 1911 MHz temperatures currently at 65 we'll let this run for a minute and see what the temps kind of equalize at 61 FPS there so yeah this is 1080p right now with ultra settings tessellation on normal and 4x msaa four times msaa that's a lot to ask out of a GTX 1060 but yeah looks like our temperatures are hovering just under 70 so here's what we'll do we'll let this run for a minute minute and uh we'll let go in like another loop or two and then we'll see what the temps are so it seems like we've kind of equalized right around 75c now that's not bad at all for a laptop obviously especially with this thin thin form factor but here's what it sounds like it's a little bit on the noisier side but I mean you do have to give up something obviously when you do laptop gaming I've got a shotgun mic literally out of frame right here see I'm going touch it here we go um you might want to turn your speakers up a little bit right here I want you guys to kind of hear the pitch of the fans in this so you can kind of get an idea of what they sound like so we'll do that now all right we're going to do some Ghost Recon here it's a game that is definitely not as optimized as it could be but it's still a very good Benchmark of how strong your Hardware is so here we are in ghost Recons you can see we're sitting about 63 FPS our current settings are set to high so that's a high preset I don't think that's unreasonable for a game like this I feel like asking a laptop to play Ghost Recon on high settings is actually a lot to ask of of any laptop I like to make wheelies oh God okay oh crap he wants to fight no he doesn't want to fight sitting at 58 right now with all this vegetation no complaints here here boom yeah look at that that was very tactic cool this game is so pretty I've heard some people say they don't think this game looks very good I think they're on crack I'm out of here woohoo P the she oh God the tree whoa spiral of death it's a death spiral well I think Ghost Recon is definitely no problem for this no problem so earlier I called this a 7700 HK my bad it's actually a 7700 HQ um we got a 725 score on the first run I'm just doing this one more time for redundancy to see uh if we get some pretty consistent scores in this looking for like thermal throttling or anything like that but so far the temperatures have been kept really cool uh the CPU sticks right around 65c and the graphics card never got any hotter than 76c when gaming so that's definitely not bad for a a thin laptop like this and our second run with 706 it slowed down a little bit but hey still not bad for a laptop we'll save our score there so anyway let's go and talk about this and uh see what my final thoughts are I'm going to say this first of all you've got to give them credit for the amount of Hardware they've been able to put into this machine and the form factor and footprint they were able to maintain I mean yeah it's a 17.3 in mon laptop but it doesn't really feel like it cuz a lot of the 17.3 in screens on the on the market uh when you close the lid they kind of extend out like they go farther but this one's done a really good job at having the hinge be the extremity of the footprint so it's actually not that bad um something else though that I really like about this laptop is I think the GTX 1060 was a perfect Sweet Spot in terms of discret GPU to give you good gaming performance but while keeping cost down yeah I mean obviously we' all love to have 1070s 1080s in our laptops but then obviously heat becomes an issue and the price obviously is going to go up quite a bit because as I mentioned this as it sits right now is about $1,549 now you can spec it up obviously with bigger ssds in fact if you want to you can even swap in your own SSD don't know what that would do to your warranty but most of you guys watching are very clever diyers and you could do that with no problems whatsoever um but it's not perfect and there's a couple things I want to mention one the brush delum looks nice but man is it a fingerprint magnet that's why there's always a rag nearby for the laptop I swear uh it here just constantly having to wipe off fingerprints and it doesn't M like I've washed my hands like to where I was almost rubbing the skin off to see if I could get enough skin oils off of my hands to keep there from being any fingerprint or oil transfer not happening no matter what you look at this laptop you think about touching this laptop and fingerprints are going to appear the other thing is obviously it's noisy what I mean by that is the fans have to spin very fast cuz they're very thin fans and so they have to spin fast to get enough air flow to keep it cool now the temps are good and you can obviously slow the fans down by controlling the fan curve inside the software I showed you but the trade-off is going to be potentially more uh temperature thermal throttling of the GPU and the CPU as the temps go up so it's a trade-off just like desktops too though noise to Performance my other complaint is the audio is not very good and instead of having the speakers built into like the bottom bezel here of the monitor where they can fire at you or even at the top of the keyboard or on the side of the keyboard like a lot of brands do they are actually downfire speakers on the bottom of the front right there so if you're putting this on your lap chances are you're going to kind of cork off the sound and it's going to sound extremely muffled and the sound you do get when you have it on a flat surface is bouncing off of a table which gives it a just not a very good sound so I'm assuming that's a trade-off with the form factor I don't know how easily they could have made them fire up out of the keyboard tray but nonetheless that is uh a complaint of mine but other than that it I don't have many other things to say about this that are that are negative I know a lot of you guys hate laptops and you just hate the idea of a laptop and you just feel like everyone should take their desktop with them everywhere they go and pack it up and wind up the cables and throw it in your trunk and take it to to anywhere you're going to go but the bottom line is these exist for a reason and I think this is doing a very good job at what it's meant to do give you a laptop that can kind of do it all productivity gaming and obviously portability which is some things we sacrificed uh with the the VR Titan anyway guys you tell me what you think about this guy right here while I wipe off the fingerprints which is just destined and doomed to have for the rest of its life I think $1,500 while although not cheap but still isn't ridiculously expensive you're getting a very well-rounded laptop experience for both The Traveling professional and gamer so sound off in the comments tell me what you guys think and as always I will see you in the next onewhat's up guys JSU sense here we're going to be taking a look at a new laptop now before you start saying blah blah blah it's just another laptop who cares it's overpriced piece of junk uh I get it I get it I I hear you guys I've got massive desktops myself and I've said it before these exist for a reason laptops are a part of our world and they're not going anywhere laptops are getting better than ever because of the efficiency and the power of the components we have today that was proven with the gt73 VR Titan we looked at a couple months ago with a GTX 1080 in there and a quad core i7 with hyperthreading and what was it 64 gigs of RAM something or ridiculous like that I don't even remember but this is a little bit more reasonable now I've had this for the last couple of months and Nick has been using it for the last several weeks as his primary uh laptop you've been carrying it around just well you already graduated but you were taking it like to my house to here you're playing games on it editing pictures you done some photo editing on this edit yeah a couple edits okay well anyway this guy right here it's still a 17.3in laptop but look at the form factor of this look at the footprint it is extremely thin coming in at just about an inch at its thickest point but it only weighs 5.9 lb now I know that still sounds kind of heavy when you compare it to things like a MacBook Air and whatnot but when you look at what this can do and what's in there and it maintains a 17.3in panel at that weight that's actually pretty amazing and it is a full metal construction it's a metal body uh brush aluminum to be exact unfortunately it's a fingerprint magnet so like as I do that you know it's the fingerprints get pretty bad but anyway that's minor just keep a microfiber nearby I guess now I'm going to run through the specs quickly I don't want to spend a lot of time on the specs I want to spend time with gaming on this and doing some stuff to kind of show really what it's like using this thing now this version right here is actually 7th gen Intel uh core i7 so it's a 7700 HK you'll see 6700 HK is advertised but it this is a 7700 HK it's got 16 GB two 8 8 dim sticks of ddr4 2400 it's got a GTX 1060 6 GB the panel as I mentioned is a 17.3 in 1080p 120 HZ 5 millisecond 94% uh ntsc panel so although the color gamut is not quite as accurate or as wide as we would like it still is perfect for Middle Ground of content creators protot ity and gaming hard drive wise it's got a 256 GB SSD you can order them I believe with a 512 and it has a 1 terb 5400 RPM hard drive would have liked to have seen a 7200 RPM in there that's more or less for like mass storage 256 GB SSD will fill up very quickly especially with how big games are today what's Ghost Recon like 79 GB sounds about right yeah it's like 79 gigs so when you open it up and you look inside right here uh you can see we still have brushed aluminum finish on the inside surrounding the keyboard we've got our trackpad here which is lined up with the space bar which is kind of nice sometimes when they're in the middle it's kind of weird cuz that's not like where your hand is if you come straight down then you can use the trackpad that's kind of nice the keyboard is actually a steel series keyboard it's a membrane keyboard individual LED back lighting so you can customize the lighting profile to whatever you want it to be but the throw on there is really nice too it's about a 3mm throw which gives it a very mechanical type of feel because it's very positive when you push it you got a real good feedback from the key it's not mushy and sloppy like a lot of keyboards are so it's actually a decent typing experience I personally hate typing on laptops but I actually don't have a problem typing on this it's not that bad at all obviously there's no optical drive I think a lot of laptop companies have done away with Optical drives I haven't seen a laptop at an opticle in a while at least not ones that I've got my hands on now let's do this let's fire it up let's play some games I mean I know like when it comes to traveling professional editing and all that stuff it can do it obviously but we care about the games right let's do it are you coming transition so this is the MSI Dragon Center and this is like a dashboard where you can control all the different things happening with your laptop and it comes pre-bundled and and most of the time I'm not cool with dashboard apps like this but this one's actually pretty good you've got a system monitor you can see what's happening in temperatures you can see what's happening with your fan speeds how much memory you're using the LED wizard allows you to change your LED back lighting under keyboard as we mentioned system tuner this one does not actually have unlocked overclocking for things like your CPU and your GPU however uh on one on laptops I do support it this is where you would do it but you could change your fan profile here your shift mode that's basically like your CPU power profile now the MSI true color is where you can control the color profile for your panel for different scenarios now remember this is not an IPS panel so the colors are not going to be as accurate so 94% color accuracy on this but if you see designer mode it turns a brightness way down holy crap let's see if we can turn that back up so you got designer mode you've got your srgb mode so that's your like your your color gamut anti-blue mode keeps turning the brightness all the way down that's crazy gamer mode did you do this did you make it so this no it's always been like that weird anyway um office mode movie mode but yeah there's that so we'll put it in gamer mode cuz you know I'm a wnab be gamer looks like it takes a lot of the the contrast out though looks very flat so this is the heaven Benchmark you can see see we're getting uh wow 123 is FPS right there it's boosted up to 1911 MHz temperatures currently at 65 we'll let this run for a minute and see what the temps kind of equalize at 61 FPS there so yeah this is 1080p right now with ultra settings tessellation on normal and 4x msaa four times msaa that's a lot to ask out of a GTX 1060 but yeah looks like our temperatures are hovering just under 70 so here's what we'll do we'll let this run for a minute minute and uh we'll let go in like another loop or two and then we'll see what the temps are so it seems like we've kind of equalized right around 75c now that's not bad at all for a laptop obviously especially with this thin thin form factor but here's what it sounds like it's a little bit on the noisier side but I mean you do have to give up something obviously when you do laptop gaming I've got a shotgun mic literally out of frame right here see I'm going touch it here we go um you might want to turn your speakers up a little bit right here I want you guys to kind of hear the pitch of the fans in this so you can kind of get an idea of what they sound like so we'll do that now all right we're going to do some Ghost Recon here it's a game that is definitely not as optimized as it could be but it's still a very good Benchmark of how strong your Hardware is so here we are in ghost Recons you can see we're sitting about 63 FPS our current settings are set to high so that's a high preset I don't think that's unreasonable for a game like this I feel like asking a laptop to play Ghost Recon on high settings is actually a lot to ask of of any laptop I like to make wheelies oh God okay oh crap he wants to fight no he doesn't want to fight sitting at 58 right now with all this vegetation no complaints here here boom yeah look at that that was very tactic cool this game is so pretty I've heard some people say they don't think this game looks very good I think they're on crack I'm out of here woohoo P the she oh God the tree whoa spiral of death it's a death spiral well I think Ghost Recon is definitely no problem for this no problem so earlier I called this a 7700 HK my bad it's actually a 7700 HQ um we got a 725 score on the first run I'm just doing this one more time for redundancy to see uh if we get some pretty consistent scores in this looking for like thermal throttling or anything like that but so far the temperatures have been kept really cool uh the CPU sticks right around 65c and the graphics card never got any hotter than 76c when gaming so that's definitely not bad for a a thin laptop like this and our second run with 706 it slowed down a little bit but hey still not bad for a laptop we'll save our score there so anyway let's go and talk about this and uh see what my final thoughts are I'm going to say this first of all you've got to give them credit for the amount of Hardware they've been able to put into this machine and the form factor and footprint they were able to maintain I mean yeah it's a 17.3 in mon laptop but it doesn't really feel like it cuz a lot of the 17.3 in screens on the on the market uh when you close the lid they kind of extend out like they go farther but this one's done a really good job at having the hinge be the extremity of the footprint so it's actually not that bad um something else though that I really like about this laptop is I think the GTX 1060 was a perfect Sweet Spot in terms of discret GPU to give you good gaming performance but while keeping cost down yeah I mean obviously we' all love to have 1070s 1080s in our laptops but then obviously heat becomes an issue and the price obviously is going to go up quite a bit because as I mentioned this as it sits right now is about $1,549 now you can spec it up obviously with bigger ssds in fact if you want to you can even swap in your own SSD don't know what that would do to your warranty but most of you guys watching are very clever diyers and you could do that with no problems whatsoever um but it's not perfect and there's a couple things I want to mention one the brush delum looks nice but man is it a fingerprint magnet that's why there's always a rag nearby for the laptop I swear uh it here just constantly having to wipe off fingerprints and it doesn't M like I've washed my hands like to where I was almost rubbing the skin off to see if I could get enough skin oils off of my hands to keep there from being any fingerprint or oil transfer not happening no matter what you look at this laptop you think about touching this laptop and fingerprints are going to appear the other thing is obviously it's noisy what I mean by that is the fans have to spin very fast cuz they're very thin fans and so they have to spin fast to get enough air flow to keep it cool now the temps are good and you can obviously slow the fans down by controlling the fan curve inside the software I showed you but the trade-off is going to be potentially more uh temperature thermal throttling of the GPU and the CPU as the temps go up so it's a trade-off just like desktops too though noise to Performance my other complaint is the audio is not very good and instead of having the speakers built into like the bottom bezel here of the monitor where they can fire at you or even at the top of the keyboard or on the side of the keyboard like a lot of brands do they are actually downfire speakers on the bottom of the front right there so if you're putting this on your lap chances are you're going to kind of cork off the sound and it's going to sound extremely muffled and the sound you do get when you have it on a flat surface is bouncing off of a table which gives it a just not a very good sound so I'm assuming that's a trade-off with the form factor I don't know how easily they could have made them fire up out of the keyboard tray but nonetheless that is uh a complaint of mine but other than that it I don't have many other things to say about this that are that are negative I know a lot of you guys hate laptops and you just hate the idea of a laptop and you just feel like everyone should take their desktop with them everywhere they go and pack it up and wind up the cables and throw it in your trunk and take it to to anywhere you're going to go but the bottom line is these exist for a reason and I think this is doing a very good job at what it's meant to do give you a laptop that can kind of do it all productivity gaming and obviously portability which is some things we sacrificed uh with the the VR Titan anyway guys you tell me what you think about this guy right here while I wipe off the fingerprints which is just destined and doomed to have for the rest of its life I think $1,500 while although not cheap but still isn't ridiculously expensive you're getting a very well-rounded laptop experience for both The Traveling professional and gamer so sound off in the comments tell me what you guys think and as always I will see you in the next one\n"