Gigabyte Aero 15X v8 (6 core 8750H, 144Hz, GTX 1070 Max-Q)

1. Introduction to Aero 15X v82. Testing and Performance3. Temperatures, noise and battery4. Closing thoughts and conclusion5. View All Pages

Temperatures
For stress testing we use AIDA64 to push the CPU and GPU to the limits. This is an artificial test as it loads the silicon to 100 percent however it is useful as it presents the worst case scenario for the laptop.

Cooling Performance.
Gigabyte has placed the exhaust vents on the bottom of the chassis, presumably to improve air flow through the cooling system. The consequence is that the hot exhaust air bounces off the surface on which the laptop is resting, which adds to noise levels and also means your legs are likely to get hot if you use the laptop as, you know, a laptop.

Cooling performance is marginal under extreme load when you use the laptop in a room around 20 degrees C as the CPU will throttle slightly. If you use the laptop in a cooler room or under regular loads you will avoid throttling problems. This is not a cause for concern as pretty much every laptop pushes the cooling package of the CPU and GPU close to the 90 degree limit.

Acoustics performance.
The two fans in the cooling system have 15 distinct speed levels and you can clearly hear them stepping up and down in speed. Once the laptop is running we didn’t hear the fans running below level four or five, and as the loads and heat inside the laptop rose, so too did the fans. It takes a stress test to push the fans all the way to level 15 but under regular gaming loads the fans are distinctly audible and annoying.

When you run a stress test the fans are just plain too loud. No doubt Gigabyte felt it necessary to run the fans hard to keep the CPU and GPU under control however we feel it would have benefited the Aero 15X if they had worked harder on the cooling system.

Battery life

Battery life is extraordinary, even though it is rated the same as the unit inside the Aero 15 v7 at 94.24Wh and 6200mAh. With the Aero 15 v7 we saw a battery test figure of three hours 36 minutes which equates to over seven hours in the real world.

By contrast the Aero 15X v8 lasted for four hours 44 minutes in the battery test which is about nine and a half hours of real world work. That is truly impressive.

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