Razer Blade 14"

[Rusko187]

14 days ago my wife gave birth to our first child, prior to this I had been speccing and pricing up to do a fresh desktop build.. I have since found that this would be impractical given my new circumstances and wouldn't be feasible locking myself away playing PC.

So after researching around the £1500 price range I have picked up the Razer Blade 14" i7 7700HQ, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB SSD and 1060GPU. I honestly don't know how well it will fare but at that price range this was the most reasonable I could find, predominately this will be used as my main gaming set up and intend to play mobile considerably.

I will be keeping monitor and peripherals and in time will invest in the Core V2 and use my existing desktop GPU in case I need more graphical power.

I'm wondering if anyone has one of these and what's been their thoughts? I have a friend with one who raves about it and have seen many videos too, they had a decent sale on the weekend and jumped at the opportunity. Looked at a few alternatives but anything in that price range I would have been trading off components, I think this build will fit me nicely.

 

[Vita]

I am too in the same boat to build a desktop build. Though with a little one, I'd expect it wouldn't last long, my main reason to build a desktop was to play some games, having said that, I am unfortunately, playing less and less so I've sort of written off building one.

I've been browsing for a small portable laptop, I've owned many gaming laptops such as Alienware 15R2/R3. Which I think are the best bang for your buck. Built like tanks, and if you can get past the looks I think they're amazing. Good deals can be had on the dell outlet. Only issue I had once was on the R3 that the motherboard failed during a bios update, which seemed common issue at the time. Dell were helpful but it did take 3 weeks for a new motherboard to be installed by the engineer as they hardly had any stock. No issues after that. My last gaming laptop was a Gigabyte Aero 14, which I found to be great also, though the spacebar had issues in that the slightest touch caused a space. I sort of fixed it but it would still occur.

On the Rainforest site you can pick up the blade 2017 for around £1259 (warehouse deal), so it does have some minor cosmetic damage but it's a steal at that price. I have been eyeing these up but I've read of that much horror stories with wifi issues/keyboard issues/thermal management, that it's totally put me off. I do feel that the machine is brilliant to look at, the keyboard is the type I prefer (never got on with the AW keyboard), but added to the issues that somewhat plague the system is the customer support from Razer. Again, many complaints on forums about this. To top it off, there are loads on the warehouse deal which says to me a lot of customers have returned theirs, most likely due to faults.

I look forward to reading how it fairs out for you, which hopefully it will be all ok. If you are looking for a small gaming laptop incase you do return the razer then the following are decent in my opinion;

Gigabyte Aero 14
Alienware 13 R3 (can come with an optional OLED, really beautiful)
Aorus X3-PlusV7

 

[Rusko187]

It came today, I've gave it a quick boot-up and had a very quick go on PUBG and I have to say it runs very well all round. Only point to note so far is the fan spools up and can be quite loud but this for me is not a deal breaker... it's easily resolved with headphones.

I have to Full HD IPS 1080p matt display and it's a really nice crisp picture, speakers are very good and it's ran PUBG at high settings with above 60fps.

 

[Vita]

The fans being loud is common. It's good to hear it's worked out the box and you've had no issues, hopefully it will stay like that.

 

[ninja2000]

Hey guys, they are noisy out of the box but to help you can:

Cap the frames at 60fps via rivatuner
Undervolt the gpu with msi afterburner
Undervolt the cpu with intel xtu

There is also an unlocked bios which allows you to set the undervolt in bios once you have found a stable undervolt in xtu