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  • (groan sound)

  • - That could've been incredibly bad.

  • I totally just stepped on this Thunderbolt cable

  • while it was still plugged in and slightly bent it.

  • That's okay, it won't affect the video.

  • Hey guys, this is Austin.

  • Thin-and-light laptops like this Dell XPS 13 are great,

  • but the graphics are never going to be the strong suit.

  • That's where this comes in.

  • This is the Razer Core X, and it is the latest

  • external GPU enclosure from Razer.

  • External graphics are nothing new.

  • I recently did a video on an Alienware laptop from 2014

  • that did have external graphics as an option.

  • More recently, we did a little gaming on a Mac comparison

  • where we used the Gigabyte Gaming Box

  • to be able to actually play decent games

  • over a Thunderbolt 3 interface on a MacBook.

  • The only issue is that doing external graphics over

  • Thunderbolt 3 can get pricey very, very quickly.

  • First of all, you're going to need

  • a computer with a Thunderbolt 3 port.

  • Ideally, you're going to have one that does have

  • a full four lanes of PCI-e, something that's

  • not always going to be advertised

  • particularly well by the manufacturer.

  • Next, you're going to need an enclosure such as

  • the Core X, although there are of course other options.

  • One of the most expensive parts is

  • always going to be your GPU.

  • Put this all together, and while it can be

  • a nice setup, it can get really expensive very quickly.

  • When it comes to the original Razer Core,

  • which is still going to be on sale, by the way,

  • you're going to be getting a lot of extra features

  • including USB ports, Ethernet, as well as

  • a second Thunderbolt out, but the issue is price.

  • $500, this can be as expensive as a lot of

  • really high-end GPU's that you would normally pick up,

  • which is where the Razer Core X comes in.

  • While you're going to be losing most of those features,

  • most importantly, you can still fit a full-sized

  • graphics card inside and it's going to be

  • a full $200 less.

  • Put the Core X side-by-side with the original

  • Razer Core as well as the tiny little

  • Gigabyte Gaming Box, and you'll see that it is,

  • well, it's a little bit large.

  • However, that is going to be for a reason.

  • It is a very generic-looking black box.

  • It is still going to be made out of aluminum,

  • but you're not going to have any of the

  • bells and whistles of the Core,

  • including stuff like Chroma RGB lighting.

  • Take a look around back and you'll see

  • it's about as simple as it gets.

  • You're going to find a single Thunderbolt 3 port

  • as well as your power connector.

  • However, use the tool-less mechanism

  • which is about as easy as it gets to open up

  • and you'll see why this guy is so big.

  • It does now support a full triple-slot graphics card.

  • That's not going to be super common.

  • However, some cards, especially the higher-end ones

  • with giant coolers, will need a little bit of

  • extra space, and the Core X does provide.

  • You're also going to find the upgraded power supply.

  • We now have a 600-watt unit as opposed to

  • the 500-watt in the previous Core,

  • and it's also now going to be a full ATX power supply.

  • That's going to be mostly useful if you

  • ever wanna upgrade in the future,

  • although with 600 watts of capacity,

  • that means that the graphics card itself is

  • going to be able to get 500 watts,

  • and there's going to be a full 100 watts available

  • for USB-C power delivery to your laptop.

  • It should be good enough for a while,

  • but there is that flexibility.

  • You're also going to find

  • a 120-millimeter fan for cooling.

  • Installing a graphics card is about as simple as it gets.

  • What you do is open up your enclosure

  • and then just drop it right into place,

  • just like you would with a standard desktop,

  • and it should clip in.

  • For power, you do have a pair of 6+2 pin connectors.

  • The cable management out of the box is a little bit tight,

  • so I had to undo that just to get a little bit more slack.

  • You just have to plug these guys in,

  • and then, if I can actually get it into place,

  • (clears throat)

  • use the little screw to make sure the whole thing

  • doesn't come flying out of the slot.

  • Then all you do is take the entire assembly,

  • line it up into the enclosure, slide it into place,

  • pop the handle, and you're gonna be good

  • for some external graphics action.

  • I am using Vega 64 for this demo,

  • but you can use the vast majority

  • of current AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards.

  • You should keep in mind that if you're going to be

  • using this on Mac, which is now supported,

  • you are going to be needing to use

  • an AMD graphics card if you want official support.

  • NVIDIA cards will work, but it requires

  • just a little bit more work.

  • From here, it's pretty straightforward.

  • Just take the Thunderbolt 3 cable

  • and plug it into your laptop.

  • You will wanna use an external monitor,

  • so I'm just gonna hook up the DisplayPort cable

  • to the back of our graphics card.

  • You actually don't have to do this,

  • but it will give you much better gaming performance

  • when you're not having to fight between

  • the graphics card sending video back and forth

  • to the internal laptop display.

  • Something like this going out over DisplayPort

  • is going to give you much better performance.

  • But with that, we have our full

  • Thunderbolt 3 setup ready to game.

  • When it comes to gaming, of course the graphics card

  • and the actual CPU that is inside your laptop

  • is going to make a huge difference.

  • Something like Vega 64 is honestly a little bit overkill,

  • but we are still going to see a huge, huge

  • performance gain over playing on integrated graphics.

  • Using the Vega 64 as well as the Core i7-8550U

  • that's going to be inside this guy,

  • we're getting, on full epic settings at 1080p,

  • around 70 to 80 frames-per-second.

  • You're always gonna be giving up some performance

  • when you're using Thunderbolt 3 as opposed to

  • an actual, dedicated solution, but if you put it

  • side-by-side with something like integrated graphics

  • as opposed to 720p on low settings at 30 frames,

  • this, at full epic settings,

  • is just a totally different-looking game.

  • Although, one of the slight downsides to

  • most Thunderbolt enclosures is that

  • the Thunderbolt 3 cables have to be

  • fairly small, which means that ...

  • I'm getting cooked right now by the graphics card.

  • I guess I could just do that. (laughs)

  • So again, you will definitely wanna

  • use an external display.

  • Right now, we're actually recording it using an

  • HDMI capture card, so we're not affecting the performance.

  • But this is gonna be super playable.

  • Framerate's jumping around a little bit, but it's generally

  • in the 70 to 80 frame-per-second range.

  • (yells) No, why?

  • (laughs) I didn't have anything yet.

  • Why?

  • Let's try Fortnite round two, which of course is

  • the game that I'm playing, as if somehow you're

  • watching this video without knowing

  • the game Fortnite exists.

  • Because of course you do have to have

  • a Thunderbolt 3 port, it does mean that you're

  • not exactly going to be using this with

  • a super old-school laptop, but I actually would

  • recommend either an 8th-gen Core i5 or i7.

  • The previous dual-cores will be fine,

  • but when you have a full quad-core CPU,

  • it actually does make a pretty big

  • difference to gaming performance.

  • Next up, we have PUBG.

  • This is another game that is absolutely

  • no problem to run with something as

  • high-end as a Vega 64 card.

  • At 1080p with everything maxed out,

  • we're averaging in the 70 to 80 frame-per-second range.

  • It's really cool when you consider that with

  • a single Thunderbolt 3 port, we're turning a

  • thin-and-light ultrabook into a proper gaming PC.

  • Sure, you're gonna need some other stuff

  • like a monitor and a mouse, although not technically,

  • but it makes your game a lot better.

  • But it's so cool to be able to have a small,

  • thin-and-light laptop that you can carry around all day,

  • have no problems with, and then when you get home,

  • hook it up and turn into a full, dedicated gaming PC.

  • Of course the Razer Core is also going to be

  • supported on macOS.

  • Support is a little bit odd right now,

  • mostly because a lot of games aren't going to be

  • particularly well-optimized on the Mac.

  • We tried Fortnite; it didn't really wanna load.

  • I'm gonna show that.

  • However, Rocket League is faring a bit better.

  • On full, maxed-out settings, we're somewhere around

  • 70 frames-per-second, but we're getting

  • this weird text thing.

  • You can game on the Mac, but not super well.

  • Although if you wanna know more about that,

  • we did an entire video on why gaming on a Mac

  • is a questionable idea.

  • But the Razer Core does work, and it's mostly just

  • on software to actually support it.

  • At $300, the Razer Core X actually is going to be

  • pretty reasonably-priced as far as these

  • Thunderbolt 3 enclosures go.

  • Yes, you do need a little bit of extra hardware,

  • but if you do have a Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac,

  • or especially an ultrabook, it's a great way of

  • turning it into a pretty decent gaming laptop.

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RazerのコアXは、あなたのラップトップをSuperchargeします。 (The Razer Core X Will Supercharge Your Laptop)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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