Still, even a laptop as fancy as the GE76 Raider can’t defy physics, and I’d rather just slap on a headset than risk the alternative of slower fans and worse cooling. While running games, you can expect to deal with about 48dBA of whirring so says the RPS decibel-o-meter. The drawback is fan noise, which the GE76 Raider is all too happy to share. It’s mainly the ribbon of aluminium just above that gets toasty to the touch, hitting 45°c under sustained strain. According to my infrared thermometer, it doesn’t surpass a tolerable 38°c around WASD. For what it’s worth, downloads were still as fast as I’ve seen from my older, built-for-Wi-Fi-5 router.īack on the subject of cooling, the keyboard – a non-mechanical but firm, responsive and well-spaced design from SteelSeries – only gets slightly warm under load. Another perk of the Core i9-11980HK is that support for Wi-Fi 6E, though you’ll need to pair the GE76 Raider with a 6E-compatible router to get the most of its added speed. There’s a good mix of ports as well, including that Thunderbolt 4-ready USB-C port at the rear. You can customise these to be less showy, if you like. Although the 17.3in screen, top-end components and comprehensive cooling system preclude a thin and light frame, it’s not unreasonably chunky, and the only real gamerish facets of the design are the RGB keyboard and light bar across the front edge. Other than a teeny touch of flex to the screen, the GE76 Raider is finely crafted throughout. Already, that’s a lot of big brain stuff, so it’s reassuring that everything is contained in a sturdy and largely grown-up metal body.
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The Core i9-11980HK, by the way, is one of Intel’s first octa-core laptop CPUs that can handle PCIe 4.0, and it enables other high-end tech like Thunderbolt 4 (for display output up to 8K) and Wi-Fi 6E (an even faster/lower-latency upgrade to the Wi-Fi 6 wireless standard). This is a mad machine for the madly monied, from its 360Hz screen to its RTX 3080 GPU and PCIe 4.0 SSD storage.
The answer lies in a combination between what the Core i9-11980HK has to offer, even compared to earlier 11th-gen chips, and the sheer luxury of the GE76 Raider as a whole.
Intel have chosen an interesting time to launch the Core i9-11980HK, their latest top-of-the-line CPU for gaming laptops.