Question 1

i have been on the fence with either the aorus, razer and ghost... i actually bought the razer 14" with the high resoluion touch screen, then returned thinking to much for a 14" and the build was freaking awesome..!!!...bought the asus 501 an add said it was aluminum ( plastic 99% aluminum 1% maybe?)  .. now everything else doesn't compare...i may go back to it .... unless the aorus has similar build quality as the razer? and then now the skylake cpu's are coming out??? any suggestions would be so helpful

Accepted Answer

I owned the X5 and loved the screen quality but went with a Gigabyte P35Xv4. Never owned the Razer. Both X5 and P35 are loud as heck. If I were to do it again, I might go X7 Pro since I would get even better gaming performance for the same "noise" and I don't actually carry this computer out of the house much if at all. In your shoes, I'd wait for Skylake. BTW, the P35X outperformed the X5 in my multiple runs of 3D Mark Firestrike @ 1080 esp in the combined score. That actually was the thing that bothered me most and why I kept the P35 over the X5.

Question 2

How are the drives configured? with raid 0,1, or as separate drives

Accepted Answer

raid 0 from the factory

Question 3

Can you disable Raid 0?

Accepted Answer

Yeah, you don't have to set it up in raid 0. The ssd's will just be two separate, smaller drives.

Question 4

What kind of drive is the 1TB, what kind of RAM is in it and what kind of M.2 drives are installed?

Accepted Answer

Hard drive is HGST HTS721010A9E630.
Memory is 1867 Mhz not sure on brand.
SSD's are Liteon IT L8T-256L9G.

Question 5

How is the cooling and fan noise doing so? I've heard that the x7 pro was notorious for loud fans so I was wondering if the cooling components have been optimized to dump more heat more quietly or if it's about the same as the x7 pro? thanks for any help on this.

Accepted Answer

I haven't had any problems so far, there's a fan control that works fine. 3 preset settings and also a customize-able setting, you can turn it down to quiet mode if you're working. The sound of the fan is not loud for me, even on high settings.

Question 6

what is the total memory of 2xgtx965 sli? is it 4gb or 8gb?

Accepted Answer

8 gb. Each Gtx 965m has 4 gb for a total of 8gb.

Question 7

Is the keyboard on the laptop backlit?

Accepted Answer

Yes no colors just a white with two brightness levels

Question 8

Is the 3rd m.2 ssd slot taken up by the streaming card?, and is it possible to remove it to add a 3rd ssd

Accepted Answer

I think it does take up a third spot and its probably possible to put a third SSD without to much evasive work as just swapping SSD's But i haven't tried it

Question 9

What are the accessories (if any) that come with the laptop?

Accepted Answer

comes with a pretty cool 8gb flash drive, manual, cleaning silk pad (useful cause the computer is so slim the screen tends to press on the keys it lives grease outlines of the keys), warranty info, pretty cool box.

Question 10

Can anyone confirm FPS on H1Z1 with very low settings? How is the FPS streaming on Twitch? Preferably the same game but any game is fine. Will this really hold up or is a desktop kinda mandatory to stream Twitch? Thanks to all in advance.

Accepted Answer

I Haven't played or live steamed H1Z1 but I can say the x5's x split gamecaster has been pretty good at live streaming without really to much drop on frame rate and for some games no drop in frame rate

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