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Gigabyte AORUS 17X YD 17.3"

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The 2021 Gigabyte AORUS 17X YD is a flagship 17.3-inch gaming laptop. It packs significant improvements over its 2020 predecessor, chiefly the 11th-gen Intel Core i9-11980HK CPU and NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU with 16GB GDDR6.

Thanks to NVIDIA's new Ampere architecture, the RTX 3080 is significantly more powerful and efficient than the previous model. As a result, the new AORUS 17X YD only needs a single 330W power supply.

The calling card of the AORUS 17X is the full-size mechanical keyboard with per-key RGB lighting, 2.5mm key travel, and N-key rollover. The laptop also improves upon the previous WINDFORCE Infinity Cooling System. The same 300Hz IPS display is also carried over.

Naturally, the AORUS 17X YD also supports Thunderbolt 4 and PCI Express Gen4.

Alongside the AORUS 17X, Gigabyte also refreshed other models in its premium laptop lineup with Tiger Lake processors in May 2021.

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What we found

Pros

Powerful gaming performance
Excellent battery life
Excellent keyboard and touchpad

Cons

Bulky and heavy

What external reviewers found

External score 89%

Pros

Superb gaming performance
Excellent battery life
Excellent keyboard and trackpad

Cons

Quite heavy
No webcam

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t3^[1]

Reviewer score 89% (normalized by Neofiliac)

Reviewers from t3 have found:

The Gigabyte Aorus 17X is one of the most powerful gaming laptops on the market. It has an 11th-gen Intel Core i9-11980HK processor, 64GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU that is very happy running the most demanding games out there at the moment. The 17.3-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 pixel IPS LCD panel runs at an impressive refresh rate of 300Hz.

Pros

Superb gaming performance
Excellent keyboard and trackpad
Excellent battery life

Cons

Quite heavy
No webcam

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