could be done without are the
optional drive and to some degree
the mechanical drive as well. Just
the weight savings on those two
would help bring the P57X v6 under
the 6.6Lbs / 3Kg mark. However,
one must concede as well that this
isn’t an outright gaming notebook
and in those remote instance and
areas, there are people who still use
optical media and do use magnetic/
mechanical storage regularly. It is
fortunate however that the optical
drive can be removed entirely or
substituted in for an additional SSD
or what have you.
Performance wise, there’s no
RADI storage configuration here so
you’re looking at single drive M.2
performance. It isn’t as fast as say
what you’d get on an AORUS gaming
notebook, but it is sufficiently fast
that it will not in any way frustrate
you doing any kind of operation.
Startup is quick and so are all
windows operations and application
launches. The synthetic numbers
of course show that this is a single
drive middle of the road solution,
but again given that what you’re
paying it isn’t a bad tradeoff in the
least.
What makes you forget all about
this is the in game performance
once you’ve loaded up your gaming
title. Easily stated, the GTX 1070 is
powerful, exceedingly so especially
when compared to the previous high
end GTX 980, let alone the 980M
which is just further embarrassed
by the GTX 1070. On paper in fact it
is more capable than the desktop
GTX 1070. However, as a result of
thermal and power limitations (not
exclusive to this notebook mind
you) and clock speeds, it more
often than not only matches the
Founder’s edition desktop GTX
1070 and in some cases comes out
slightly behind. Still, that is mighty
impressive for a notebook offering
as we are talking the bleeding edge
of performance on the desktop here.
The 67600HQ is more than capable
of keeping the GPU fed so gaming
performance is stellar in almost all
if not all context and settings.
Normally a GTX 1070 would be
used for 1440p gaming, but as you
may or may not know the P57X
v6 is an FHD notebook. That isn’t
necessarily a bad thing and in fact
it is actually advantageous for the
following reason.
When you’re dealing with
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notebooks where people do not
upgrade the graphics cards. The
native resolution of the panel is
going to be the biggest performance
limiter at present and increasingly
so going forward. There are
many 13” or 14” notebooks with
the so called 3K or 4K panels.
These notebooks are powered by
GPUs that are simply incapable of
powering such pixel densities. So
form the beginning the notebooks
are already looking at poor
performance that is only to get
worse with each passing month.
The P57x v6 has somewhat a
reversed situation. Since the GPU is
largely overkill for the 1080p 60Hz
panel. The GPu has a lot in reserve
that isn’t being utilized. So it would
not be surprising to finds that this
GPU is still capable of providing high