Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a laptop for games, and it seems definitely one. It is thick inch, weighing 5.5 pounds, and is mowarded in RGB lighting, anchoring text, and curved plastic.

This Aorus Master provides powerful devices and high -resolution OLED screen. It is the first among many laptops that we review with Geforce RTX 5080, the second best laptop graphics card from NVIDIA in this generation. At a price of $ 3100, in fact a few hundred dollars are lower than Razer, Lenovo and ASUS, and more than a thousand dollars less than laptops with RTX 5090, the fastest NVIDIA graphics processing unit.

But in exchange for being a little cheaper than Her direct competitorsMr. Eurus Feel It includes a slightly cheap compact software, but there are no fans of controls for fans. And these fans get High.

like Razer Blid 16AORUS Master 16 comes with an OLED 2560 x 1600 screen. Aorus panel is not quite accurate like the blade – with slight Less color cloning – but it is completely bright and out of the eye for regular use. It contains uncomfortable pierced colors, 2.5 kbi and a maximum rate of 240 Hz, which allows games, websites and videos to look sharp and smooth.

On the contrary, the plastic screen frame is a little ugly, and Master Aorus as a whole is not many scenes. Its slow structure is dated and few bilateral times compared to Lenovo Legion Pro 7i or the comprehensive bomb of RGB of Asus’ Rog Strix ScarWith the twisted light tape and the LED animation on the cap. The Aorus cover easily opens one hand, but the screen can be swayed. And designs of the tilted font in the ventilation holes and brands via their tracking plate. He was “team”. Fighting “written on the cover for some reason, and even displays the WordMark mark under the rear exhaust fans, which is the same as it Luxury cars doors.

While I will make fun of Aorus’ Trahard, Gigabyte gets credit to focusing on what matters: screen, GPU, CPU, ports, even RAM and upgrade storage. The keyboard and tracee plate, with good touch reactions. The keyboard has a switch with a capacity of 1.7 mm and the tracking plate, while loudly loudly, easily clicks even near its upper hinges.

A 1080 -pixel web camera, compact microphones, and loudspeakers are not distinctive, but you will get good video calls in most lighting. The loudspeakers look full of music, but the dialogue is flat. It may be somewhat difficult to hear spoken lines in games against loud music and sound effects, especially since you will also compete with AORUS fans.

The fan noise is my biggest suspension with a laptop. In intense games graphic like Wild Hunter monster or Lushfoil Photography SIM It is high and annoying enough to find yourself moving the size of the game or reaching a pair of headphones.

My wife used to hear the fans of laptops for games in our joint office, but at one time she made her aus resorting to me and saying: “What happens against hell?”

I was playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion RemasterD On an external screen, the fans were heard even in the adjacent room, especially while assembling the initial shading. At the height of a cycle in the minute, it looks like a person running a small vacuum cleaner throughout the room. Fans on Razer Blade 16 and ROG Strix Scar 16 is quieter and significantly less disturbing.

Unlike Razer Synapse or ASUS Armory Crate, the Gigabyte’s GEIOTE does not allow you to adjust the fan curves, choose only between four priorities. The laptop can be transformed from the game mode to a balanced, and fans from performance to normal can slightly reduce noise with minimal sacrifice to tires. Nevertheless, even in this situation, fans can still rise when necessary. The turbo position is only for the Mazushis. The masses link 100 percent all the time.

Other GIMATE features are scattered and limited in their scope, and worse than the original solutions in Windows 11 and NVIDIA GPU settings. Its operating modes are just Windows. In some cases, Gerimate simply opens Microsoft Copilot or Nvidia Control Panel and Broadcast App. But its interactions with other applications become more strange when you separate the charger and ask you to switch to integrated graphics and kill applications that they say use the separate graphics processing unit. This Mux switch function is already treated with NVIDIA’s Advanced OptiusSo I am not sure why Gigabyte suspends it in this way.

AI Chatbot, another imbalance, claims to improve the laptop. I asked for this to tell me the difference between the game mode and its balance, and only enabled the game mode. You can ask this to do essentials such as Wi-Fi switching or turning off, but it takes longer than doing it yourself. This may be useful for an unfamiliar person for computers, but this is a game machine.

Bad software and fans are aside, as Aorus Master 16 is often well. Intel Core Ultra 9 27HX, GPU RTX 5080, and 32 GB RAM of RAM easily to multiple tasks across various productivity applications, although it cannot last more than six hours, even using energy saving mode. It was good with some huge photo editing, but on two occasions on the classic Lightroom Battery slowed down to the point where you had to close and restart – not perfect when you need to edit quickly.

In the performance of the games, Aorus Master is in line with ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 using the same central processing unit and GPU for another $ 200. Aorus is usually an equal foot Black Legend: Wonding and Cyberpunk 2077. Like ASUS, this puts Gigabyte within reach RTX 5090 pioneering in Razer Rande Code 16 dollars, in our tests, it managed from among 5090 with an average of 3.5 frames only a second without generating a frame, with a limit of 10 frames per second with the frame generation. These are significantly minimal differences, which makes the mobile 5080 much better-at least, compared to 5090 Blade 16.

Average of 143 frames per second Forgetting Remasted On a 4K screen with high settings and tire generation is running at the front of the game. Turn off the GEN frame, drop it into 99 frames on average. When I turned into superior settings in the open world, I saw an average of 50 frames per second without the GEN frame and 77 with. The only thing that I could not stop is the constant fan noise.

If you are always playing with headphones, you can reduce the biggest problem with Gigabyte. But while Aorus Master 16 is one of the cheapest 5080 laptops, there are many interesting competitors for a little more. the Asus Rog Strix Scar 16For example, she looks cooler and has quieter fans; the HP OMEN MAX and Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Both OLED screens like Gigabyte. I think I still prefer OLED Gigabyte on LED Mini Asus, but I need to spend more time with ASUS before making this call. I will test Lenovo and HP; OLED screens can make competitors closer to Gigabyte.

There is a lot you like about Aorus Master 16, but it is not easy to love. Its strong devices and the great OLED screen are a treatment for the game, but dull software, and the basic quality of construction, sometimes the noise of fans look crazy like a person knocking the ice cream cone from your hand immediately after obtaining it.

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