Aorus 17

The new Aorus 17 is trying to change the framing of professional gaming laptops, by making them much faster.

Aorus is Gigabyte’s premium gaming brand and the Aorus

17 is the biggest and most powerful gaming laptop the company makes. This weapon can be fitted with an Intel Core i9-9980HK CPU, 32GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 2080 GPU if you go all out. But even the entry level Aorus 17 XA comes with an Intel Core i7-9750H CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a GTX 2070 GPU, which is more than enough for some fast paced Full HD gaming. High refresh rate, low latency screens are starting to become more accessible, and the advantages for competitive gamers is becoming more apparent. So it is an excellent time for Aorus to have introduced a 240Hz panel to its most premium device. The 17.3-inch FHD panel from AUO is one of the fastest refresh rates available, but interestingly its response time was 3ms, a little behind the 1ms you get from the highest performing professional gamer screens.

Both the Aorus 17 XA and the Aorus 17 YA have more than enough grunt to get games up and running fast enough to make the most of a 240Hz panel, though you are obviously likely to see a lot better results form the