**The Performance and Experience of the NP98 7 U2G Laptop**

In recent years, laptops have made tremendous progress in terms of performance and cooling solutions. One notable example is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU-based laptop from Razer, which boasts impressive performance despite its compact size. However, not everyone is convinced that such high-performance laptops are feasible or practical.

I decided to test the NP98 7 U2G laptop myself to see if it lived up to the hype. While I have seen some impressive displays and power consumption numbers in my time as a tech enthusiast, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this particular device. One of my main concerns was its ability to maintain high frame rates while keeping the GPU cool enough to prevent throttling.

Fortunately, after running it side by side against a desktop test bench with the same hardware, I was able to see just how close the NP98 7 U2G's performance actually was. The results were impressive - literally exactly the same as my desktop configuration. This may come as no surprise to anyone who has seen the massive cooling solution inside this puppy, but still a portable device that still packs some serious punch.

However, while sheer FPS numbers are certainly important in certain contexts, they don't tell the whole story when it comes to laptop performance. There's also the issue of cooling and heat dissipation, which can be a major consideration for laptops running demanding workloads like 3D graphics rendering. The NP98 7 U2G does an excellent job here as well.

In my standard Crisis 3 Skybox thermal test, sitting on the table at room temperature, the R980 hummed along at a mere 70° while maintaining a rock solid boost clock of 1228 MHz. This is no wonder, given that the NP98 7 U2G's rear exhaust vents are quite toasty - but the keyboard and wrist rests stay cool, with the keyboard being the only part that's barely noticeably warm to the touch.

This is certainly not the case for every laptop out there - while I did enjoy sitting in front of this machine and tapping away at it for an hour or so without feeling overheated or strained, some users may find the rear exhaust vents a bit too much to handle. And if you were expecting the NP98 7 U2G to be quiet when it's under a 3D workload, then you'd be a little bit disappointed - but that's probably fair enough.

In terms of pricing, I have to say that the NP98 7 U2G is certainly not for the faint of heart. As configured, this machine costs well over $3000 US dollars. It's an expensive proposition, indeed - but one that may be justified by the sheer level of performance on offer.

What impresses me most about the NP98 7 U2G, however, is just how possible it is to create a laptop like this in the first place. Just a couple of years ago, my team and I were marveling at being able to take a mini PC from Shuttle with a Core i7 3960X, 16 GBs of RAM, and a graphics card with us to CES in a duffel bag with a 23-inch IPS monitor in someone's suitcase. Here we are now - a mere few years later, and we're able to do the same thing or better with a laptop.

**Repairing Your Own Devices: A Look at iFixit**

Finally, I want to talk about something that's not necessarily directly related to laptops themselves, but is still very relevant to our audience of enthusiasts. You may have noticed an offer code in the video: techtips. This code gives you $10 off your purchase of any device over $50 when you shop at iFixit.com.

iFixit is a company that's dedicated to making it easier for people to repair and maintain their own devices. They've got all kinds of fantastic guides available on their site, covering everything from tearing down tablets and notebooks to replacing batteries and upgrading storage. And one of the things I find particularly impressive about iFixit is the range of tools they offer - including a tool specifically designed to apply consistent heat directly to adhesive-laden case components.

This is something that's definitely useful for anyone who wants to get the most out of their device, whether it's by replacing parts or upgrading storage. And if you're new to DIY repairs and maintenance, then iFixit is an excellent resource to have in your toolkit.

So what do you think? Would you be interested in repairing your own devices? Let us know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhuge laptops have never really been my thing as many of you know my daily driver is a Razer Blade 14 but it's not like I haven't noticed that as marvelous as a thin and light with a GTX 970m still is it thermal throttles it's loud and it still falls short of the True Performance of a desktop computer something that many people desire in a mobile system so it is for those people and the on who just like over-the-top Tech that I say stay tuned because the Seer NP 9870 u2g is the fastest laptop I have ever laid my hands on corsair's RMI series power supplies feature premium components for great performance with very low noise check out the link in the video description to learn more let's start with a look at the outside of this Beast of a machine on the top of the shell is a chromed plastic Sager logo and some software customizable lighting accents on the bottom is W that is a lot of ventilation holes there's one spot over here for the subwoofer but most of the rest of the bottom of the unit and even some of the front is mesh kind of like my Halloween costume that one year ioe I would describe as very good with dual killery 2400 GB land ports 3 USB 3.0 ports and dedicated headphone mic Optical and line out audio jacks on the left SD more USB 3.0 Thunderbolt 3 with a type-c connector yeah and a couple mini display ports on the right and finally HDMI and yet another USB 3.0 port on the back opening her up we find pretty much what we'd expect on a large all the bells and whistles gaming laptop the wrist rest and keyboard area are plastic but actually very sturdy the upward firing speakers are loud and actually sound pretty darn good and while I wish the touchpad was a little closer to the front edge the included fingerprint scanner is a nice touch and it tracks really well finally the keyboard with its software customizable RGB backlighting and macro functionality gets a solid B there's a bit more keycap wobble than I'd personally like and the travel action is a little mushy but it didn't affect my typing speed and it's very very quiet which brings us to the screen what can I say he nice this is a 17in 60 HZ IPS panel with Nvidia g-sync technology for a tear-free gaming experience and with a couple minutes of tinkering I had it running at 100 htz on this sample unit that Sager sent to me though your mileage may vary but if I'm going to say something outlandish like this is the most powerful laptop I've ever laid my hands on then I'd better be backing it up so let's crack her open and find out what treasures be inside first things first that is a desk top LGA 1151 socket hidden away under all of those heat pipes and connected to one of the three heat sink fin aays at the back of the laptop's Chassy friends and it is full of none other than a full desktop core i7 6700k Skylake quad core yep and the Holy balls doesn't end there prying up the keyboard reveals two 16 gig sticks of ddr4 memory giving this laptop a maximum capacity of 64 gigs portable workstation anyone and while I'm not a huge fan of systems that are preconfigured with the boot drives in raid zero that my friends is two of Samsung's Fancy Pants new 256 gig nbme 950 Pro drives that are tearing up the benchmarks all over the Internet two of them I mean using this thing is noticeably faster and more responsive than even a standard SSD something that made more sense to me when I finally ran Crystal dis Mark and realized that it was putting out sequential read and write speeds of 2 to 3 gabt per second holy actual flipping this puppy over things get even better hiding away in this corner are a couple of 2 and 1 half inch hard drivve slots that you can use to either configure the laptop with more storage directly from Seager or upgrade later and yes finally the centerpiece the desktop class GTX 988 gig that Luke showed off back at nvidia's event has made its way finally to us this is a really cool Unique Piece of hardware Ware first there's the fact that it's a non-standard width which precludes any possibility of shipping an SLI configuration in this chassi anyway even if Sager could figure out some way to power and cool it and second is something that's not as obvious to the naked eye the fact that it's really up to the individual notebook manufacturers to determine how to tune the GPU for performance they can limit its power or allow it to Thermal throttle a scenario that will still result in better performance than a lesser GPU or they can throw six heat pipes at it like Seager did in hopes of taming the Beast to the point where it runs exactly the same as a desktop card so I ran it side by side against a desktop test bench with the same Hardware to see just how close they got and while it might be surprising to anyone who didn't see the massive cooling solution inside this puppy I wasn't exactly floored to see it perform literally exactly the same as my desktop which doesn't take anything away from how impressive this kind of performance is in what is certainly larger and heavier than a MacBook Air but still a portable device but there's more to a laptop too than its sheer FPS and I need to talk about the experience as well in our standard Crisis 3 Skybox thermal test sitting on the table at room temperature r980 hummed along at a mere 70° while maintaining a rock solid boost clock of 1228 MHz I mean no wonder this machine scores were so darn close to the desktop ones and on top of that while the rear exhaust vents are quite toasty the keyboard and wrist rests stay cool with the keyboard being the only part that's barely noticeably warm to the touch sounds like a dream right I wouldn't know my ears are broken which is a little unfair at least it's not the same high-pitched fan noise of the blade 14 but this is no g750 one either either so if you were expecting the np98 7 u2g to be quiet when it's under a 3D workload then you'd be a little bit disappointed with your purchase but if you were expecting a few hundred watts of thermal dissipation to sound like a few watts of thermal dissipation and adjusted your expectations accordingly would you be happy with this laptop I sure think so assuming you can afford it as configured this machine costs well over 3,000 Us doll but even if it's pricey what impresses me the most is that it's possible at all it was only a couple of years ago that my team and I marveled at being able to take a mini PC from shuttle with a core i7 3960x 16 gigs of RAM and a graphics card with us to CES in a duffel bag with a 23in IPS monitor in someone's suitcase so that we could edit our videos quickly and in high quality on the road and here we are a mere few years later able to do the same thing or better with a laptop holy crap right speaking of holy crap you know what's amazing for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more you guys can go to ifixit.com Linus and enter the code techtips at checkout hold on a second line what's I fix it why would I want to buy anything there ah great question if you've ever wanted to repair a tablet or a notebook computer or phone and you've been like best guide for repairing device X the odds are excellent that you ended up over on ifixit.com they've got all kinds of fantastic guides for tearing down devices and repairing them replacing batteries to get the most out of the stuff that you paid your good hard money for and the thing that most people don't know and where the offer code comes in is that I fix it not only has these guides but they've got all the tools you need suction cups prying tools tweezers magnets hard to find screwdriver bits all that stuff available on their site they' even got they even invented a tool to apply consistent Heat directly to adhesive Laden case components so you can get them apart it's called the eye opener ha cuz it's for opening eye devices anyway um anyway don't worry about the jokes or the product names worry about heading over to ifixit.com Linus and entering code techtips at the checkout so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know where that button is but if it was awesome get subscribed if you're not already hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon and instructions are up there by buying a cool shirt like this one link up there or with a direct monthly contribution through our community Forum which gets you a little contributor badge now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out that little button in the top right corner to see a video where I build an 8 core desktop gaming rig with a CPU motherboard and 16 gigs of RAM for under $150 it's realhuge laptops have never really been my thing as many of you know my daily driver is a Razer Blade 14 but it's not like I haven't noticed that as marvelous as a thin and light with a GTX 970m still is it thermal throttles it's loud and it still falls short of the True Performance of a desktop computer something that many people desire in a mobile system so it is for those people and the on who just like over-the-top Tech that I say stay tuned because the Seer NP 9870 u2g is the fastest laptop I have ever laid my hands on corsair's RMI series power supplies feature premium components for great performance with very low noise check out the link in the video description to learn more let's start with a look at the outside of this Beast of a machine on the top of the shell is a chromed plastic Sager logo and some software customizable lighting accents on the bottom is W that is a lot of ventilation holes there's one spot over here for the subwoofer but most of the rest of the bottom of the unit and even some of the front is mesh kind of like my Halloween costume that one year ioe I would describe as very good with dual killery 2400 GB land ports 3 USB 3.0 ports and dedicated headphone mic Optical and line out audio jacks on the left SD more USB 3.0 Thunderbolt 3 with a type-c connector yeah and a couple mini display ports on the right and finally HDMI and yet another USB 3.0 port on the back opening her up we find pretty much what we'd expect on a large all the bells and whistles gaming laptop the wrist rest and keyboard area are plastic but actually very sturdy the upward firing speakers are loud and actually sound pretty darn good and while I wish the touchpad was a little closer to the front edge the included fingerprint scanner is a nice touch and it tracks really well finally the keyboard with its software customizable RGB backlighting and macro functionality gets a solid B there's a bit more keycap wobble than I'd personally like and the travel action is a little mushy but it didn't affect my typing speed and it's very very quiet which brings us to the screen what can I say he nice this is a 17in 60 HZ IPS panel with Nvidia g-sync technology for a tear-free gaming experience and with a couple minutes of tinkering I had it running at 100 htz on this sample unit that Sager sent to me though your mileage may vary but if I'm going to say something outlandish like this is the most powerful laptop I've ever laid my hands on then I'd better be backing it up so let's crack her open and find out what treasures be inside first things first that is a desk top LGA 1151 socket hidden away under all of those heat pipes and connected to one of the three heat sink fin aays at the back of the laptop's Chassy friends and it is full of none other than a full desktop core i7 6700k Skylake quad core yep and the Holy balls doesn't end there prying up the keyboard reveals two 16 gig sticks of ddr4 memory giving this laptop a maximum capacity of 64 gigs portable workstation anyone and while I'm not a huge fan of systems that are preconfigured with the boot drives in raid zero that my friends is two of Samsung's Fancy Pants new 256 gig nbme 950 Pro drives that are tearing up the benchmarks all over the Internet two of them I mean using this thing is noticeably faster and more responsive than even a standard SSD something that made more sense to me when I finally ran Crystal dis Mark and realized that it was putting out sequential read and write speeds of 2 to 3 gabt per second holy actual flipping this puppy over things get even better hiding away in this corner are a couple of 2 and 1 half inch hard drivve slots that you can use to either configure the laptop with more storage directly from Seager or upgrade later and yes finally the centerpiece the desktop class GTX 988 gig that Luke showed off back at nvidia's event has made its way finally to us this is a really cool Unique Piece of hardware Ware first there's the fact that it's a non-standard width which precludes any possibility of shipping an SLI configuration in this chassi anyway even if Sager could figure out some way to power and cool it and second is something that's not as obvious to the naked eye the fact that it's really up to the individual notebook manufacturers to determine how to tune the GPU for performance they can limit its power or allow it to Thermal throttle a scenario that will still result in better performance than a lesser GPU or they can throw six heat pipes at it like Seager did in hopes of taming the Beast to the point where it runs exactly the same as a desktop card so I ran it side by side against a desktop test bench with the same Hardware to see just how close they got and while it might be surprising to anyone who didn't see the massive cooling solution inside this puppy I wasn't exactly floored to see it perform literally exactly the same as my desktop which doesn't take anything away from how impressive this kind of performance is in what is certainly larger and heavier than a MacBook Air but still a portable device but there's more to a laptop too than its sheer FPS and I need to talk about the experience as well in our standard Crisis 3 Skybox thermal test sitting on the table at room temperature r980 hummed along at a mere 70° while maintaining a rock solid boost clock of 1228 MHz I mean no wonder this machine scores were so darn close to the desktop ones and on top of that while the rear exhaust vents are quite toasty the keyboard and wrist rests stay cool with the keyboard being the only part that's barely noticeably warm to the touch sounds like a dream right I wouldn't know my ears are broken which is a little unfair at least it's not the same high-pitched fan noise of the blade 14 but this is no g750 one either either so if you were expecting the np98 7 u2g to be quiet when it's under a 3D workload then you'd be a little bit disappointed with your purchase but if you were expecting a few hundred watts of thermal dissipation to sound like a few watts of thermal dissipation and adjusted your expectations accordingly would you be happy with this laptop I sure think so assuming you can afford it as configured this machine costs well over 3,000 Us doll but even if it's pricey what impresses me the most is that it's possible at all it was only a couple of years ago that my team and I marveled at being able to take a mini PC from shuttle with a core i7 3960x 16 gigs of RAM and a graphics card with us to CES in a duffel bag with a 23in IPS monitor in someone's suitcase so that we could edit our videos quickly and in high quality on the road and here we are a mere few years later able to do the same thing or better with a laptop holy crap right speaking of holy crap you know what's amazing for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more you guys can go to ifixit.com Linus and enter the code techtips at checkout hold on a second line what's I fix it why would I want to buy anything there ah great question if you've ever wanted to repair a tablet or a notebook computer or phone and you've been like best guide for repairing device X the odds are excellent that you ended up over on ifixit.com they've got all kinds of fantastic guides for tearing down devices and repairing them replacing batteries to get the most out of the stuff that you paid your good hard money for and the thing that most people don't know and where the offer code comes in is that I fix it not only has these guides but they've got all the tools you need suction cups prying tools tweezers magnets hard to find screwdriver bits all that stuff available on their site they' even got they even invented a tool to apply consistent Heat directly to adhesive Laden case components so you can get them apart it's called the eye opener ha cuz it's for opening eye devices anyway um anyway don't worry about the jokes or the product names worry about heading over to ifixit.com Linus and entering code techtips at the checkout so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know where that button is but if it was awesome get subscribed if you're not already hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon and instructions are up there by buying a cool shirt like this one link up there or with a direct monthly contribution through our community Forum which gets you a little contributor badge now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out that little button in the top right corner to see a video where I build an 8 core desktop gaming rig with a CPU motherboard and 16 gigs of RAM for under $150 it's real\n"