When you're doing serious overclocking, especially in the tight confines of a laptop body, pushing air over your components using fans just doesn't cut it. Water cooling systems run tubes of cold water through your PC, taking heat away. Water cooling is quieter and more effective, but you'll be paying more for it.For decades, Windows PC gamers have come to accept screen tearing, stutter and input lag as unfortunate side effects of even the best graphics technology. Despite advances in gaming hardware over the years, it was only recently that NVIDIA was able to eradicate such long-standing nuisances at long last.G-SYNC redefines gaming graphics by synchronizing a compatible display to the output of the GPU, rather than the other way around. The result? Smoother, breathtaking desktop gameplay with sharper, more vibrant, artifact-free graphics.But why should this kind of innovation be limited only to the desktop? Enter ORIGIN PC, who has just introduced G-SYNC to laptop gamers with the innovative new EON17-X and EON15-X powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card.

Hailed as a game-changing innovation by industry powerhouses ranging from Id Software co-founder John Carmack to Paradox developer Johan Andersson and Epic Games executives Tim Sweeney and Mark Rein, the arrival of G-SYNC support on laptops provides the best of both worlds, with up to 4K resolution from a 15- or 17-inch display while on the go, with the option to play on even larger screens back home.NVIDIA G-SYNC solves a major dilemma game makers have faced since the dawn of personal computing in the early ‘80s: The fact that screen refresh rates have been locked to 60Hz since television was first introduced in the United States.Although traditional CRT screens have given way to LCD and now LED displays over subsequent decades, hardware manufacturers continue to build gear around this antiquated method, syncing GPU graphics to the same fixed refresh rate.Naturally, this has created something of a conundrum for NVIDIA and others, because GPU frame rates tend to vary wildly, even during the same scene in a game. The customary methods of circumventing fixed refresh rates create their own problems with latency, resulting in many of the issues gamers face even today.

G-SYNC eliminates all of these downsides, making the gaming experience more responsive, with clearer, smoother graphics than gamers have ever thought possible.In addition to eliminating the eyestrain, headaches or migraines many players suffer after lengthy exposure to traditional VSync-enabled graphics, G-SYNC addresses the input lag found on most systems.For enthusiasts and pro gamers, G-SYNC makes any delay between what’s taking place on screen and your reaction simply unacceptable, and with many titles could mean the difference between life or death (or at the very least, who wins and who loses).ORIGIN PC’s new EON17-X and EON15-X laptops narrow this hair-trigger gap significantly, allowing a virtually undetectable delay between keyboard commands and on-screen action. The difference is so significant, players may even need to gain faster reflexes and tighten up their skills to keep up.

G-SYNC makes possible a whole new level of gameplay longtime players could only dream of until now — and ORIGIN PC is among the first to deliver NVIDIA’s latest and greatest graphics technology to laptops.It’s not just the impressive graphics performance that makes ORIGIN PC’s new EON17-X and EON15-X the ultimate laptop gaming platform — both models are equally powerful in all of the other areas where it counts as well.Powered by the latest Intel Core i5 or i7 Z97 quad core desktop processors, these laptops are also infused with ORIGIN PC’s award winning CPU overclocking up to 4.5GHz so they won’t miss a beat while crunching away on even the most processor intensive games and applications.Naturally, the core processor is paired with NVIDIA’s next-generation, state-of-the-art GeForce GTX 970M or 980M graphics, which can be custom configured to display either 1080p HD or 4K resolutions for hyper-realistic gameplay when coupled with G-SYNC.Most impressively, the EON17-X and EON15-X manage to contain this raw power and speed while remaining almost 40 percent thinner and 30 percent lighter than previous generation models.

Fluid gameplay, sharper graphics, lightning-fast refresh rates and faster reaction times all add up to a more extreme gaming and a competitive edge — all in a custom notebook package specifically tailored for you.As always, ORIGIN PC stands behind these laptops with free lifetime 24/7 US based phone and online support, which includes a one-year part replacement and 45-day free shipping warranty with free lifetime labor.Over the past year and a half, I’ve done at least a dozen standing VR demos. I’ve put on the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive and walked around a small room, taking delicate, careful steps to move around in virtual worlds. I haven’t tripped over a cable and embarrassed myself by falling down, or destroyed a headset by stepping on the cable and yanking it out of its mounting. Yet. It feels like an inevitability. When I have a VR headset in my own home, and I’m used to wearing it, I’ll relax. I’ll stop being careful. And I’m pretty sure I’ll break something. Hopefully not a $600 headset or a $1500 PC.

The cable is still a big unsolved problem for VR. Especially for the HTC Vive, which first and foremost distinguishes itself from the Oculus Rift with room scale VR. I don’t know what the popular solution to this problem will be, but I did experience one amusing potential solution at Gigabyte’s showcase at CES last week: a laptop harness. Basically, I strapped a high-powered laptop to my back, put on an Oculus Rift DK2, and used a ridiculous plastic gun controller to play Star Wars Battlefront in VR. This felt very silly.Gigabyte designed a harness to fit its Aorus X7 DT gaming laptop, which had enough processing muscle to run Battlefront in VR. That’s largely thanks to its desktop-caliber GTX 980, which Nvidia introduced for laptops last fall. Despite being a beefy gaming laptop, the X7 DT felt surprisingly light on my back; it helped that the harness was stripped down to the bare essentials: a padded backing and a few straps to hold everything together. This made the rig smaller and lighter than the usual backpack you’d wear for such a large system.

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It was actually pretty cool to have an entire VR system on my back, and I can see the appeal of a fully portable high-end VR rig. I have friends who have taken the cable-free smartphone-based GearVR to family gatherings and had a blast with them. That’s just not going to work with a desktop, but it could work with a laptop. Battlefront wasn’t made for VR and the setup I tried used some third-party software to awkwardly map mouse controls to VR look (and a directional pad on the gun controller made moving doubly awkward), but paired with SteamVR, the system could be pretty cool.There’s just one little bitty problem: the laptop still needed a power cable. That desktop-caliber 980 is seriously power hungry, and without power the system would definitely throttle down and wreck the framerate. And when you lose frames in VR, the next thing you lose is your lunch.Okay, so Gigabyte’s laptop rig mostly felt like one of those amusing, never-actually-going-to-happen accessories that pops up around a hot new technology. That’s what CES is all about: someone has a "what if” idea that most of us would have a good laugh about, only they turn it into a real product, instead.

Maybe, though, the Aorus X7 DT will be powerful enough untethered from the wall to run the least demanding VR games. And if it’s not quite that powerful now, the march of laptop technology may make it viable in a year or two. That’s entirely likely. The other solution is a very powerful (and expensive) battery, which has already proven successful in some custom made Oculus Rift rigs. That’s not practical enough to be an affordable solution, but it’s still progress.For now, Gigabyte hasn’t solved the VR cable problem. But at least it got me a pretty funny picture.
If you like PC gaming on a laptop, good news: Nvidia's variable refresh technology, G-Sync, is coming to gaming laptops in the near future. If you like PC gaming on a G-Sync desktop monitor, good news: G-Sync now supports windowed mode. If you like good news, good news: this G-Sync stuff is pretty neat.Let's tackle laptops first: new systems coming from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Clevo will be the first to sport 75 Hz refresh G-Sync panels. All the laptops use Nvidia's latest series of mobile GPUs, ranging from the 965M to the 980M. Nvidia told me they'll have 12 models to show at CES, but only gave details on the following:Remember that Clevo's laptops are often modified and rebranded by other laptop companies, so don't be surprised to see a few more gaming laptops popping up with the same specs as those two above.

We don't know what kind of price premium will be attached to these G-Sync gaming laptops, but they shouldn't have the same kind of premium as Nvidia's desktop G-Sync monitors. Nvidia spent some time talking about the technology of G-Sync at a recent meeting, and pointed out that the G-Sync module used in their desktop displays isn't needed in laptops. That G-Sync module is a necessary hardware addition to monitors because their scalers weren't built to control refresh rates and color response the way Nvidia wants. But laptops don't have scalers, since they don't need to support a variety of input options. This allows a direct link between GPU and panel.The panels used in these laptops are still specifically selected and tested to ensure they can hit that 75 Hz refresh, so we won't be surprised if they cost a bit more than the vanilla models.Desktop users will also have the chance to use G-Sync in windowed mode with an upcoming driver update. Previously, G-Sync was limited to fullscreen mode, which allowed Nvidia to completely control the refresh rate of a game and control it at a variable rate up to 144 Hz. The Windows desktop would normally refresh at a static rate, like 60 Hz, but the update allows Nvidia to override that static rate and drive the refresh of Windows at the same rate as the game. Nvidia says there's no performance difference between G-Sync in fullscreen and windowed mode. I briefly demoed Grand Theft Auto 5 running in a window, and it did seem to run just as smoothly in a window as it did in fullscreen.

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To cap off the wave of G-Sync news, Nvidia also announced seven new G-Sync monitors on the way. You can read more about those here.
You can save over $500 on the 17.3-inch Asus ROG G751JT-DB73 gaming laptop right now. It's currently $1,378 on Newegg, which is a 27 percent saving on its usual price. And it's no junker: this is a configuration of our favorite gaming laptop, with a slightly weaker GPU than the top-end option. Weaker but not outdated: the GTX 970M is still one of Nvidia's top-end mobile chips.For the money you'll get a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 4720HQ processor, 16GB RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3GB GPU. As for storage it comes with a 1TB HDD and a 256GB SSD.

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