Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS

Gigabite Oravas Master 16 is a gaming laptop, and it certainly looks like one. It is an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is surprised at RGB lighting, styling text, and curved plastic.

This Aurus Master offers powerful hardware and a beautiful high -raz, high refresh OLED display. This is the first of several laptops that we are reviewing with the Jeffor RTX 5080, with the second fastest laptop graphics card of this generation NVIDIA. At $ 3,100, it is actually a few hundred dollars less than Roger, Lenovo, and similar -like -like -like -like -like -like -likes of Asos, and is less than $ 1,000 from laptops with RTX 5090, NVIDIA’s fastest GPU.

But in return for being a bit cheaper than its direct rivals, the oras master Feels feel A little cheap, and its built -in software contains useless AI chat boot but no custom fan control. And they get fans Sharp.

Like Roger Blade 16, the Oravas Master comes with 16 inches 2560 x 1600 OLED display. And the panel of it is not as accurate as a blade. A little bit The lower color is about to please the eye – but it is just as bright and regular. It contains mum .l colors that are not mostly, and its 2.5K resolution and maximum 240Hz refresh rate enables games, websites and videos to look sharp and smooth.

On the contrary, the plastic screen bezel is slightly ugly, and the overall orange master is not more viewed. Its plastic blood is increasingly increasingly visible Lenovo Lashkar -e -7I or asus’ RGB bomb blast, with its wrapped light bar and dynamic LED matrix, with a slightly and slightly less farewell. And the lid opens easily with one hand, but the screen can rotate. And its trackpad looks like the ventures and branding line designs. It contains “Teamup -Fight On” for some reason written on the lid, and it also offers the back of the back to the fans and the Word Mark, which is here as much as it is. Doors of luxury cars.

When I make fun of the Aurs’ TRW Hard Design, Gigabytes get the attention to what is counting: Screens, GPUs, CPUs, ports, and even user upgrades upgrade ram and storage. Keyboards and track pads are solid, with good Superish feedback. The keyboard has a key journey and trackpad of 1.7 mm, while slightly high, easily clicks near the capture of it.

1080p webcam, built -in MIC, and the speaker are nothing special, but you find and look good in most lighting through video calls. Speaking music seems to be decent, but the dialog is flat. It can be a bit difficult to hear clearly speaking lines in sports against music and sound effects, especially since you will also compete with the fans.

The noise of fans is my biggest hang up with a laptop. Graphically in extreme sports like Monster Hunter Wildes Or Lashfel Photography SIM It is loud and disturbing that you find yourself cranking the volume of the game or reaching for a headphone couple.

My wife is accustomed to listening to gaming laptop fans at our Joint Home Office, but at one point and on, he turned to me and said, “What’s going on there?”

I was playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblonon Reclaimed 4K on the external monitor, and the fans were also hearing in the next room, especially during the initial shader. At the peak RPM, he looks like someone has run a small vacuum cleaner in the room. Fans of Razer Blade 16 and Rog Straits Scar 16 are significantly calm and less disturbing.

And unlike the razor synapse or asus Armory Crate, Gigabite’s gate software does not adapt to the fans’ curves, only chooses between the four presents. Changing the laptop from the game mode to balance, and fans can reach normal from performance. However, even in this mode, fans can go out loud whenever necessary. And the turbo mode is fully for masochists. It raises 100 % of the fans throughout the time.

The other features of the gate are worse, limited to the circle, and worse than the local solution within the GPU settings of Windows 11 and NVIDIA. Its operating methods are just shortcuts for windows power settings. In some cases, the Gate Microsoft easily opens the pilot or the NVIDIA control panel and the broadcast app. But when you plug the charger, the dialogue with its other apps is even higher and you are indicated to convert to integrated graphics and total apps, which says they are using GPU. This MUX switch is already handled by NVIDIA Advanced OptimusSo I’m not sure why the Gigabytes Brutter compels this way.

Another misconception, allegedly helps you improve your laptop. I asked me to tell me the difference between game mode and balance, and it just enabled the game mode. You can ask him to do basic things like Toggle Wi -Fi, but it takes more time to do it yourself. This may be useful to someone unfamiliar with the computer, but it is a gaming machine.

Putting aside software and noisy fans aside, Orawas Master is mostly a good actor. Its 24 -core Intel Core Ultra 9 275Hx CPU, RTX 5080 GPU, and 32GB of RAM easily handle multi -tasking in different production apps, though it cannot last more than six hours using power -saving mode. He fixed some heavy photo editing, but the battery was slowed down on two occasions on the power light room classic where I had to close it and resume – not ideal when you needed to edit it quickly.

In gaming performance, the Oravas Master is a similar CPU and GPU for $ 200, according to an Asus Rog Strix Scar 16. Oriss Master usually happens on equal or on a frame or two better 4K and 2.5K bench mark test Black Mutk: Wokong And Cyberpank 2077. And like ASUS, he put Gigabytes, 4,500 Roger Blade 16 in the flagship RTX 5090. In our tests, 5090 contested it with an average of just 3.5 FPS, without any frame generation, and with the frame generation up to 10 FPS. These are the least differences, which makes the mobile 5080 better price-at least, compared to the power of Blade 16, compared to 5090. We have not yet tested a laptop with 5090.

I average 143 fps in Obyovin re -created The 4K display was turned on in the game’s joke with high settings and frame generation. Withdrawing the frame general, it was dropped to an average of 9999 FPS. When I turned into ultra -settings in the open world, I saw an average of 50 FPS and 77 without any frame general. One thing I could not close was the constant noise of the fans.

If you always play with a headphone, you can reduce the biggest problem of gigabytes. But while Orsmaster 16 is one of the cheapest 5080 laptops, it has some other interesting competitors. Asus Rog Strix Scar 16For example, it looks cool and its fans. HP Oman Max And Lenovo Lashkar Pro 7i Both have OLED screens like gigabytes. I think I still prefer Gigabite’s OLED to Asus’ Mini LED, but I need to spend more time with ASUS before making this call. I will also test Lenovo and HP. Their OLED screens can make them close rivals to Gigabytes.

There is a lot to like in the Oravas Master 16, but it is not easy to love it. Its powerful hardware and excellent OLED display games are a behavior, but the unmanned software, the basic construction standard, and sometimes the noise of the fans feel as if someone is knocking the ice cream cone from your hand when you get it.

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