 Don't worry, we got this, we got this, we got this, we got this, we got this, we got this, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, oh no! It's been, oh my God, it's got two power bricks attached. It's been seven years since I have owned a laptop this thick, and I can't imagine going back to something like this, but here's the thing, people must buy these things, or Origin PC wouldn't keep sponsoring me to talk about them, which is what they did today. So who are you? Like, why do you need a full-on desktop CPU? Why do you need an RTX 3080 with 16 gigs of GDDR6 memory? Why do you need multiple M.2 storage drives running in RAID 0? And why do you need all of it in a laptop? Can you even call this a laptop? That's actually kind of a good question. If it's not a laptop, then I guess it means it doesn't have to compete with the portability of things like this. It competes more with the portability of things like what you're looking at now. So maybe that's the justification? Either way, let's take a closer look, shall we? We've talked a lot over the years about the way that mobile CPUs have dramatically narrowed the gap between themselves and their desktop counterparts, but in response to my question at the beginning of this video, that is one of the main reasons that someone might look at the EON 17X or a similar desktop replacement laptop, because inside this thing, you will find not a mobile CPU, but a full fat desktop Intel Core i9-11900K. That is not just eight cores, 16 threads of up to 5.3 gigahertz goodness, but it's actually overclockable, although I guess it remains to be seen just how far we'll be able to push it. Now, right now I'm actually running a single threaded benchmark, and we're gonna have a look at whether we can actually reach that 5.3 gigahertz mark. This is a very odd performance profile that they've got this thing tuned with. I mean, we've got six of our eight cores that are sitting up near five gigahertz, even though I'm only running a single threaded benchmark, and that fan, listen to it go, they're serious about keeping that thing cool. We're gonna have to open this thing up later. We did touch 5.3 gigahertz as advertised though. More importantly, I wanna see what we settle in that in terms of temps. Whoa, can you hear it taking off, Andy? We're headed straight to the moon. That's why Origin PC is space-themed. I guess now's as good a time as any to talk about I.O. and cooling. Because it's a desktop replacement, you are really looking at more of a desktop tier of I.O. On the right, you're gonna find dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, USB Type-A, we've got our dual power bricks here, and they really do put the brick in power brick. They're quite substantial. On the back, we've got, I love this, lots of display outputs. We've got a USB Type-C that can also be used for display port, two more mini display ports. So you could actually run a triple monitor setup at three by eight K. We've also got an HDMI 2.1, so you could do another eight K 30 Hertz display out of that one, two and a half gigabit ethernet. Then over on the left side, you've got an SD card reader, two more USB Type-As, a line-in jack, and a headphone microphone combo jack. Now, of course they would have packed more I.O. into it if they hadn't been busy packing in cooling. You just watch, Andy, this is soon to be an industry standard benchmark. Fill the sails. Look at this. Look how far away from it I am. As much as I might joke about it though, the fans are doing an absolutely outstanding job of keeping this thing cool. All the surfaces of this device are actually cool to the touch. Most importantly, the WASD section of the keyboard is one of the coolest sections. And you can see, even though we just finished our 10 minute stress test in Cinebench R23, we're running at 92 degrees, 4.4 gigahertz. Now you'll notice, see how it just jumped up to 4.5? So what it's doing is it's opportunistically turboing as high as it can. It's actually running up against a core power and core thermal limit, and then it's going back down to still a very respectable 4.4 gigahertz. That is kind of incredible. And you can, wow, now that the fans have turned down. Yeah, it's very quiet now. That is a full desktop grade, 14,000 points in Cinebench R23. Obviously, Origin sent over one of their custom HD UV prints. So this is actually printed directly onto the chassis of the laptop. It's not like a sticker or anything like that. And they've got all kinds of customization that they can do. So they're hydro dipping, laser etching. It's one of the things that sets them apart because obviously a lot of companies make gaming laptops, but if you want yours to look really different, this is definitely a way to go about it. It's also worth noting that Origin PC offers thin and light laptop solutions as well. And you can check out some of the special offers they're running at the link down below. Let's pop this puppy open. Removable battery. Ha, remember those? This is a 97 watt hour unit. So it's getting really close to the limit to what you can put in a laptop before you can't carry it on a plane anymore. But if you have to ask how long this thing goes on battery, then you probably aren't the correct customer for it. Just saying. Man, look at the size of these freaking fans here, Andy. I mean, it shouldn't surprise me given how much air they were moving, but still look at the length of these screws. Are you compensating for something? Is it really that easy? Holy crap. I don't remember the last time I saw a mobile device that was actually designed to have the bottom taken off that easily. That's awesome. Oh, wow. Hey, pet one. I know, right? So the side heat sinks are pretty small, but these back ones are huge. This back heat sink goes all the way from here to here. That is freaking enormous. And you got two of them. This one in particular is massive. It's that wide. Here's our MXM graphics card. And then our GPU memory is gonna be built right onto that. So this one right here has heat pipes going here, here. These are dedicated. And this one, oh my God, some of them wrap. This one wraps all the way around to this guy right here. These go all the way. So the CPU actually doesn't get any dedicated heat pipes. All of them contribute to cooling the GPU as well. And then you can actually see these heat pipes are connected to a vapor chamber. So you got your heat generation that gets spread out by a vapor chamber, then gets moved to all these four cooling elements by all these heat pipes. Dang. I'm curiously Origin doesn't specify how many Watts this GPU is rated for on their website, but that's okay. We should be able to figure that out fairly easily with some diagnostic tools. Now, before we get it opened up, let's have a look at what we've got in terms of drive expansion. So you can see two of our slots are occupied over here. We've got a couple of MP600 one terabyte drives, and those can be configured in RAID zero if you're into that sort of thing. They sent them to us not configured to RAID zero because we are not into that sort of thing so much. And then there's an additional two slots, one over here and one over here. So you could put a total of four M.2 drives in here. Absolute mad lads. Now this is curious. It looks like they've gone and applied thermal pads to the DRAM caches of these SSDs. So you can see that's how it's connected to this aluminum heat spreader here, but not to the controller. So I guess whether it's airflow through the chassis, which I don't really see of any around here or something else. They determined that the DRAM caches needed it more than the controller. The odds of encountering a situation where an SSD would thermal throttle meaningfully in the real world, pretty slim unless you're trying to kill your drive. And there it is. This is a maxed ass out 170 watt peak, typically sitting around 160 watt RTX 3080. And given that you can configure it with either a 4K 60 Hertz display, or as I actually preferred to go with a 1080p 300 Hertz display, you may actually be able to make use of all of that performance. Of course, given that each of these is good for 280 watts, surely it's equipped to hit the CPU and GPU at the same time. Let's see how much of the power it pulls away from the GPU in order to run that CPU full bore. Wait, 3.5. Oh wow, it gave everything to the GPU. Nope, there it goes. And there goes the other fan, CPU fans going. It's kicking. Now, obviously we can't a hundred percent trust the system's own reporting of how much power it's drawing, but it certainly gives us a rough idea. Oh, that's cool. Okay, so you can really see the power dynamics at play. There's just a limit to what you can do for power delivery in a device like this. So watch, if I put Furmark in the background, so CPU package power spikes up, GPU power goes down to something more conservative. Either way, we're able to get well in excess of 300 watts on the CPU and GPU alone, which explains why we need two 280 watt power bricks. Not because this thing can actually suck 560 watts, but because in addition to doing this, it's got to run the drives, the fans, the RGB lighting, all of that other stuff. It also has to be able to charge the battery while it's doing all of that. So it's not that you couldn't run it with a single power brick. Watch. It's going. It's just, there you go. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please forgive me. Let's take a look at what those power numbers look like running an actual game. So you want, I knew you were gonna want Flight Sim. What is with the obsession? Nobody actually plays that game. I didn't mean nobody uses it. Obviously it's a popular program. Just ain't no game, son. Here we go, ultra. I'm not even gonna be able to take the plane off, Andy. So do you hear this thing going? We are in a loading screen. Got some performance metrics up here. We're managing around 52 FPS, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, throttle control. To increase engine power gradually, press and hold F3. Oh, it's a good thing there's nobody on this plane cause otherwise we'd all be dead. To take off, gently press number pad eight, okay. Oh, gently. How do you gently press a button? Oh, look at this, anyone could do this. Hey, see you later Vancouver. To increase speed during climb. Okay, number pad two. And we're headed for the ground. Uh, do you know how to fly the plane? Oh my God, I'm in the wrong seat. I've moved to the co-pilot's chair. Anyone who actually knows how to Flight Sim is gonna be very unimpressed with me right now. This is your captain speaking. We are going to be visiting the 9th media group warehouse office thing. Sorry, I know origin. This is supposed to be about your laptop. It's kind of about your laptop. Like, look, you got your GPU power, hundred watts or whatever. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't worry, we got this, we got this. We got this, we got this, we got this. Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up. Oh no. So our GPU was anywhere from a hundred to a 120 watts. Our CPU was a toasty boy up around 80 degrees and our GPU was sitting at around 65, 66. That's not bad, it's not quiet, but it's not bad. Yes, this game runs on anything, but it doesn't run at 280 FPS on anything. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Da da da da da da da da da da da da. Man, where have 300 hertz IPS displays been all my life? The fans might be loud, but if the speakers can make up for it, then maybe we get away with one here. So there's your two stereo speakers and there's your subwoofer. Hold on, I think there's more in the tank. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. No, stop moving. Okay, I have three health. I need a health. I'm dead. Not the most amazing sounding speakers, but they're definitely loud. I mean, I guess that pretty much answers what we set out to answer. Is this a gaming laptop? Yes. Not cheap. The cold hard truth is if you're the kind of person who needs one of these, there's just nothing else quite like it. So go check them out at the link down below if you're one of those people for whom this is an absolute godsend, whether you're a mobile professional or just a gamer who wants a desktop-grade gaming experience in something that they can take with them on the go. They're obviously backed by Origin's lifetime support. So that's 24 seven support as their desktop PCs. And like I said before, up to an 11900K and RTX 3080 with 16 gigs of RAM. Freaking crazy, crazy machine.