Dying to see the Scar 16 with a 4090. Seems like the perfect combo of price, screen and gpu.

This is the perfect gaming laptop of this generation. Thank you for showing it. I hope your channel keeps growing as much as it deserves!!

I am getting nightmares seeing the price tags in these laptops

I have ordered this laptop!! Best laptop in 2023!!

where's the Alienware M18 👀

I did some testing on the CPU voltage, and the difference between -0.100 and 0.-125 was 10k Cinebench score for me. CRAZY. I guess that's the sweet spot (for me at least) to keep throttling from kicking in. My -0.100 scores were really bad.

Think you could make a 15-ish minute review of this beast?

Asus Scar 18 stock 19936 (graphics 20986, CPU 15536) overclock 20559 (Graphics 21598, CPU 16159) Razer Blade 18 stock 20412 (graphics 21509, CPU 15838) overclock 21096 (graphics 22235, CPU 16351)

Hey Gizmo, so now that you've had a hands on review on all the 4090 Laptops how would you rank them? I'm especially interested in you ranking of the Scar-18 between all the other laptops.

Razer put the 13980HX config with 64GB up for sale, so I was finally able to order one! Looking forward to trying it out myself. Thanks so much for all the great reviews and comparisons of this years models, it really helped!

I find it odd they have a 4K display option on the 16 inch but not the 18 inch, where it would make more sense. It seems the Razer 16 and the GT77 are the only two laptops this gen with 4K displays at all. I prefer a 4K 120/144hz display because that matches the specs of my external monitor, making it a smooth transition between the two whether I'm extending or duplicating. It also makes for better video captures to know it'll be 4K no matter which screen I'm on.

I can't wait for the new Legion 7 review 🥲

I wish Razer offers a mini-led version...

beautiful laptop, i do agree with you on swapping out the 2TB, i would replace it with a 8TB as well if i keep up with it also im not a huge fan of the two fans that are without the side exit heat pusher but i appreciate you on why they did that, cause i see why just by how you explained it, they used up the sides wisely to install more ports and sound speakers, but even that could be an issue if over heated and i love how they have that cooler at the top, very handy

Hey, I bought the exact same Razer 18, but when I installed and opened MSI Afterburner on it, all the fan settings are greyed out and it won't allow me to change them. Anyone know why?

great overview! It feels like of all the RTX-4090 laptops, the Blade 18 has exceeded expectations the most because of the reasonable performance and thermals for the compact and clean design. Given that there is no sign of the 4090 on the M18, it looks like Blade 18 might be a good option. there was a comment on Reddit that the vents on the right of the M18 blow a lot of hot air out the side, which might be an issue if you use a mouse - I wonder if Alienware has run into some problems they're trying to resolve that is preventing the launch of the 4090? Looking forward to the full benchmarks on the Razer Blade - it'd be super useful if you could comment on whether you think battery bloat might be an issue with the Blade 18, thanks for all of the great content on the new gaming laptops!

I would like to see clamshell thermals and bechmarks included in these reviews with an external display connected.

Undervolting like that gives the notebook more life in the long term?

it is true that some of the plugs can act up when the laptop is overheated. even if u have issues with this laptop it will be as fun as playing on it. strangely, the most annoying things on a regular destop pc are the most captivating with this blade

That Razer Blade skin is fire 🔥. Where did you get it and how difficult was applying it?

Gizmo! Not sure why, but I'm just now seeing your reviews in searching for a laptop. Couldn't ask for a more professional presentation of ALL the information you provide, and I'm thankful there are reviewers that do their best to provide non-biased opinions regarding things that most people are wanting to know. SO... I've decided to purchase the 16" of the Blade, only because the size made more sense to me. I happened to catch the 4090 / mini-LED version on open box special for $3,000.69 (yes, I'm for real!!!) Anyway... your skin.... where'd you get it!? I don't see it on Razer's site and that thing looks incredible!!!! CHEERS!! and keep up the excellent work!

Specially recommended ways to set the laptop on your lap so that it's vents aren't blocked. Doesn't that sorta take away from it being a LAP "TOP"? If you be careful to not block the vents, it's more like a 30% of your Lap...top.

For gpu undervolting it’s way easier to grab a node and hit ctrl L to lock at that voltage and frequency

Your better off using balanced mode with high fan speeds and using x86 utility for undervolting. The custom side of razer software just sends more power to the chip set it doesnt raise the clock speed and it throws your fans into auto so u have no control over cooling really it just goes to its heat limit before it engages fans speeds to where they need to be. You get higher ghz in balanced with max fans speeds than in custom mode bc of thermals. I recommend upgrading your thermal pads on your vrms bc they scream hot in these bc of the cheap cooling pads on them. Better thermal paste on the cpu helps too (heat spreads through the laptop to whatever is cooler). Balanced mode will push the system just fine. I use a razer blade 2021 14 inch with a ryzen 9 and a rtx 3080. Im hitting 4.67ghz across my cores while gaming instead of the 4.2 it throttles at bc of high custom mode. I go from 80 avg fps in forza horizon on med settings with no ray tracing to 110 avg with high settings and ray tracing on medium in 2k resolution. They use a vapor chamber on the cpu and gpu. Custom mode with make the skin tempature above the keyboard so hot u wont want to even touch it. Cooling is better on these laptops over all for performance. Keeping all the components on the motherboard cooler makes this laptop perform so much better. While it will show your not hitting the 100c limit on the cpu its still causing performance issues on other parts of the motherboard. If u can keep this laptop around 80c on the most intense games u will see what i mean. The 2023 razer blade 18 laptop can hit 5.5ghz. My 2021 is pushing 145mhz to the gpu core clock and 250mhz to the mem clock with a -10mlv undervolt on the gpu. -14mlv on all cores on the cpu. I realize the 14 inch is smaller and such as follows so is the cooler. Same design still and software works the same. Balanced mode acts more like and auto clock and will reach the highest potential of the laptop. They lack motherboard options for overclocking so u gotta work around that to the best of your abilities.

Hi Gizmo, thank you for your incredibly informative videos, they are a major help for me what to look for in a good laptop. I had a blade 18 but I returned it because the touchpad was unusable, it ended up accidentally clicking and moving the cursor due to palm rejection failure. Did you experience similar issues? I am thinking of ordering the 4090 version instead, maybe I just ran into a dud.

I am really enjoying my blade 18 right now that I just got! Thanks for this very awesome video that walks over it very well!

Hey Gizmo, I noticed that you have increased the power limit on MSI. on my Blade I am unable to move the sliders for the power limit do you know why? Love the videos been following along & brought a blade thanks to your video. Cheers!

I ended up getting this one(4080 version) thanks to you. Any idea which SSD i should add(would like to get at least 2 TB, maybe 4 TB) and which RAM? Like which one exactly to add to 32 GB DDR5-5600, it has. Thanks again for all your reviews.

I'm watching this on 2021 16" MacBook Pro, which I find too heavy and clunky for a daily driver laptop, so every time I hear that Razer Blade 18 is small I'm like reallyy?! But seeing those monstrosities from Dell and MSI next to this, I can totally see where you're coming from! Good content, cheers!

Is the "new" razer blade 18 with i9 13980hx 64gb ddr5 5200mh much better than the razer blade 18 with i9 13950hx 32gb ddr5 5600mh?

do you have an idea when you're going to put this thru its paces? like the MSI 77? id like catch that live.

Would you pick this or the strix scar 18?

Getting mine on Saturday 😍

I will be pretty interested in this form factor in a other 2 generations when we have 15/16th gen intel cpu and rtx 60 gpus as well as potentially a solid state battery.

Any info about ASUS Tuf 2023 rtx 4060?

Every time I thought an undervolt was stable on my Legion, I'd run Prime 95 and it would BSOD lol. I mean it gamed and ran Cinebench fine at -0.125 but the actual completely stable prime small FFT torture test 16 hrs without BSOD was -0.79 and just to be extra safe I have my Lenovo 11980HK undervolted at -0.75. Hey it's still better than nothing, that's cache too, and it means I was able to overclock all core boost to 4.6ghz and it maintains them 198% of the time and no thermal throttle. Well sometimes it drops to 4.5 but it's at 86 degrees so that's power limiting. But still, all core on that chip factory is 4.5 and no laptop could actually sustain it back then at 100% cpu load except for the Scar 17 and the Legion 7i and to mostly actually hit 100mhz over factory on all cores under Cinebench is impressive for then, believe me. I get 5945 CBR20 for this which is insane for a 16" 8 core laptop. CBR23 was on par with some laptops with 12900H because they would throttle so bad. I recommend anyone who wants the ultimate stability to do this test. If prime is going to BSOD it usually does it fairly quickly so you should be able to fine tune the absolute max figure without too much hassle. OTOH I can not overclock the GPU at ALL, I got a stinker. The 3080. So that tells you that you never know what chip lottery you will get, and mine were both the absolute top laptop parts for both processor and GPU at the time.

i just bought a razer blade 18 4090 32gb 2tbssd for $3000

I have the Aorus 17x with i9-13950HX, it runs HOT when gaming, spikes from 80 to 90 on heavy use, can I use the same values for undervolting my cpu?

Hello Gizmo, I noticed a difference between the speaker left and the speaker right on my new razer blade 18 laptop when I was listening some music (kylie minogue : i was gonna cancel). The sound from the left speaker is less powerful, the trebles are less present and the sound is more "muffled", did you notice that too ?

hi, mind me ask whats your blade 18 manufacture date? Because i newly purchase one at march 29 and found out the windows install at 2022/9/16 is that normal? Afraid of all hardware are different if they have any new assemble model

Did you notice any speaker popping and crackling

How much difference between 13950HX vs 13980HX version? Is it really that much?

Great Video!! Have a question.... I can use XTU while I'm using balanced mode? I want to undervolt but also have control over the Fans

Was the fan noise in the 18 you got here quieter or similar to that of the Blade16?

Why did you choose to make this your laptop vs the scar 18?

Thank you for all Test and your opinion Later Your Review and test on Asus Scar 17 or zephyrus duo with new CPU Amd Dragon range 7945hx and Alienware too if possible :))))

In 2023 SK hynix is going crazy with brands

You played some games on it and yet it's still in a box? Do you put it back into this box after each use or what? 😆

Thanks for a great review. I just got my Blade 18. Question... any idea why Intel XTU is not remembering settings and not loading on restart? Works great until I reboot, then I have to put the settings back in again.

How did you unlock the power limit , temp limit and fan speed in msi after burner. It’s all locked for me

Can you name a laptop with an rtx 4090 that doesn't thermal throttle?

what's the name of the first song you played during the speaker test?

how did you get the blade 18 to confirm it is in Dedicated GPU mode, I have manually changed it in the Nvidia control panel and it doesnt update in Synapse.

Razer Blade 18 or Alienware M18?

i wish it wasn’t so expensive

Displayport for virtual Reality?

That " I love you like la la la la la la la la laaaa" song is rediculous horrible

Is the processor properly unlocked, i,e, can I disable E cores and change multipliers? I am sure we could get higher clocks on P cores if all wattage was devoted just to the 8 cores rather than the needless (for gaming) 24. In fact I'd only ever enable the e cores for massive multi core tasks like rendering.

Expensive $$$$

Hi, Do your Razer blade18 has charging light indicator in front(green light), as I newly bought it does not show up. Is this due to any issue?

I laughed so hard with the stickers behind the skin. I would probably make the same fcked up mistake thats why 🤣🤣 Can only imagine the reaction after trying to fit that skin perfectly and then you just realizing you forgot to remove the stickers 😂

i think the blade 18 has the best speakers for a windows laptop but a macbooks speakers can easily beat it

Cpu pulling ~40w in time spy. I consider that broken. So sustained GPU and CPU load is useless. Come on man! You got a golden sample, that is an extreme undervolt.. real world speeds would be 500mhz lower for most of us.

With rtx 4090

We are waiting for 4070 laptop. Since internet is flooded with there poor performance.

You still can't manage to show us Microsoft flight simulator, what a shame is the best game ever for millions not for you for sure

This thing seems like a waste of money with the Intel. The AMD cpus are so much more efficient and get less hot.

That skin is awful lol

Second

no numberpad on an 18 inch laptop... absolute jokers.