Now this beast is the Samsung at Siri's seven, despite some calling 2017 is the notebook ought to see the company's first gaming laptop.

It was this that launched first, all the way back in 2000 and 12.

It started life on the European market but later made its way stateside with ordered specs.

The one we've got here is, of course, the European variants that originally sold for around £1400.

I pay 284 it last week.

Now, I wouldn't call this a laptop as much as I would a portable desktop PC because it's absolutely huge.

And carrying it around doesn't feel too dissimilar weight wise from carting about a traditional tower seriously at two inches thick, though well, it's no surprise.

At a time when other companies began trying to implement slimmer designs, it's clear that Samsung didn't get the memo or they just didn't care.

After all, if it looks like a beast on the outside, it surely must be a beast on the inside, too, right, featuring a quote call eight Threaded I.

7 26 70 q m am the Radio HD 69 70 M graphics and eight Gigs of RAM, as well as 8 120 gig SSD, which was likely a recent user upgrade on the one terabyte hard drive.

This machine was certainly geared toward those who wanted a top notch portable gaming experience.

The inclusion of a blue Ray drive also helped solidify its intentions as the ultimate on the go entertainment system.

The US version has a slightly different I seven as well as an NVIDIA GTX 675 m gpu instead.

So let's talk about the aesthetics a little more before we get to the gaming side of things, because there's a lot of cool stuff going on here.

Here on the edge of the hinge, we have a touch control panel for volume WiFi and backlighting, as well as this turbo button, which actually isn't a button it all that ties in.

With this turning this day, I will introduce a few changes represented by a different performance mode, green mode, library balanced and my favorite gaming.

The modes of quite self explanatory with balanced keeping things well balanced green, keeping the power consumption low library disabling the fans and gaming doing this, That makes me feel a little bit like James Bond every time.

Unfortunately, a lot of reviewers didn't feel the same, and this gimmick was slated by some.

After all, the gaming modes intentions are good with turbo boost being activated for the process, sir.

But the whole light show that comes with it wasn't always appreciated.

I think it's quite cool, really, because you get some nice keyboard lights and a couple of quickly accessible options.

Toe disable the mouse pad during gaming.

I'm a sucker for gimmicks, though, so using this thing is a pleasure.

The keyboard feels great in the 17 inch 1920 by 10 81 120 hertz display features rich, deep colors that really pop.

The speakers also do a very loud job, which doesn't necessarily mean they are good.

They are just some of the loudest speakers I've ever heard.

If we fire up Sin eventual 15 you'll see that the aging I seven still holds its own fairly well, and you'll have no trouble with everyday tasks.

Even today.

This chip is similar and performance to a desktop court by 5 34 50 which yourself is okay for a nice budget.

Best top set up.

The single core result puts this in close proximity to an ice 79 50 on old Skool chip, but one that can still handle itself fairly well in modern situations.

The 80 69 70 GPU, on the other hand, has two gigs of Judy are five a clock speed of 680 megahertz and 8 900 megahertz memory Cook with 960 Shade er's.

This mobile GPU was also used in Apple Macs of the Time to an irrelevant but perhaps mildly interesting piece of information there.

So what can it do in terms of gaming?

Well, unfortunately, there will be no multiplayer games in the benchmarks today just to let you know now because my Internet went down last night.

It's returned today, but it might as well be non existent, I say down.

But it's working a little bit, though at this point, Fred Flintstone probably had a faster connection in May.

It also would have been quicker to post this video to YouTube via Parcel Force.

Then it would be via the Internet.

So, yeah, you can sort of tell what I'm working with, uploaded this video from my phone anyway onto the single play again play benchmarks.

So in theory, this is a laptop that should be able to play all modern games by in reality.

Well, that's not exactly the case firing at Butterfield five, and the first thing the game says is that the drivers aren't supported.

This is the latest version of A and E's catalyst software we have installed with this mobile radio on card here, and unfortunately, the game doesn't really agree with it.

I started it up and we couldn't really get much further than these screen.

I don't know why, but it's like the keyboard just decided to deactivate itself on the mouse.

The game just jammed here every time.

Crisis also seemed to be incompatible with this hardware.

No, I thought the same was going to happen with far cry New Dawn in terms of how well it didn't work.

But despite taking ages to load and I mean really quite a long time, we were probably at the splash screen for three minutes, and then it took another two or three minutes to load up the benchmark Once that was done.

I fired up the benchmark at 10 a teepee with the lower in game settings, and we saw around 20 frames per second.

Once again with this laptop, we're seeing a case off the GPU aging worse than the CPU.

The I seven really isn't being utilized all that much in a lot of cases, but the DRI P U the 69 70 m does struggle quite a bit.

I often find that's the case with laptops.

Cp use.

They are capable for a very long time, but graphics hardware ages quicker, a lot like desktop versions.

A CZ well, dirt, really to always seems to be the saving grace in these situations here, a 10 80 p with the very low preset.

We were seeing pretty nice frame rates here.

Despite the aging hardware, I think these two pieces of hardware did quite a good job in dirt.

It's not the best experience in the world.

You can probably running a medium if you're happy.

With 30 frames per second and a few drops below, probably quite a few drops below.

But very low low seems to be the best graphical settings for this title, and it's really not that bad, providing you don't mind the graphical downgrade.

Now.

We actually run the witch or three at 7 20 p with the medium preset around.

I wanted to avoid, though, because this game looks absolutely standing on on this display more so.

It's a 120 hurt panel, and the colors of this thing really do pop.

I mean, playing the witch or three on this looks better than it does on my Dale gaming monitor.

It looks better than it does on my four K TV in terms of how the colors and the saturation works.

This is really an impressive display here.

This laptop still has that going for it, even if it's not that capable anymore.

Fallout fours Wasteland also looked absolutely fantastic as well.

The colors are a bit more dull in Fallout four, but everything still seems to stand out very nicely, despite the fact we were hitting around 30 to 40 frames per second.

For the most part.

Although we were able to run this one at 10 80 p, albeit with the low preset, we still had the highest anti Issing enabled because switching to FX, a really does give you a lot of jagged lines everywhere.

Finally, Grand Theft Auto five with a mixture of higher, very high and normal settings, ran with at least 30 frames per second to now.

The main thing here was to keep the shadows normal and turn the an S o tropic filtering down two times for instead of time 16 which I initially tried that one.

Sure, things continue to run relatively smoothly in a GT five, the maps rather large.

And, of course, it will defer the performance that is depending on where you are.

But for the most part, well, it was a fairly decent experience.

If you want 60 f p s, then I'd advise 7 20 p with all those settings across the bold.

So this has been the Samsung seven, Siri's gamer laptop.

The I seven in this thing still holds up pretty well.

I'll have to look into a little bit more as to whether the GPU can be upgraded.

I think it can be as well as the Ram, of course, and I think those two things would help to really improve the performance because, as I say, the four cause or eight threads off the court.

Seven are still going very strong, and if you are looking for a laptop and it's got one of those inside, then it would be a good purchase.

Just don't expect to play too many modern titles if it features a GPU like the 69 70 em.

All in all, though, the powerful process A combined with the gorgeous display on the very nice feeling cabled with the game mod gimmick makes this thing still worth purchasing.

In my opinion, if you're looking for a used laptop, if you can find it for under £300 dollars or euros, then I think it's still a decent enough by because it's still better than a lot of new laptops that you get that price, especially ones that feature things like a cellar or Pentium.

Though if you can find one close to that that features a rise in AP, you then obviously that would be the one to go for with all that sudden done Well, I hope you've enjoyed this video.

I certainly enjoyed checking out this Samsung laptop.

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