By EVGA SC17, the video player that wants to overclock notebook

Although EVGA, a company founded in the components sector gamers for their video cards and motherboards, enters in the notebook sector for gamers, announcing the availability of the model SC17. The product design was fully developed in-house, managing to combine a thickness very content of considerable power components.
The chosen processor is an Intel Core i7-6820HK model solution quad core with unlocked and then easily configurable frequency multiplier for overclocking. The video subsystem sees the presence of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M GPU with 8 Gbytes of video memory, combined with a 17.3-inch diagonal screen with screen resolution 4K (3.840x2.160 pixels). I have 32 Gbytes that make up the system memory, while local storage combines an SSD of 256 Gbytes with M.2 interface to a mechanical hard drive of 1 terabyte of capacity.

EVGA has implemented in the bios of your notebook all the advanced controls to intervene overclocking the processor and system memory: frequency multipliers, power supplies, base clock frequency and memory timings are all selectable exactly as if you were to He is struggling with a desktop system.

The company went so far as to implement an overclocking mode directly in the operating system, speaking with two buttons on the keyboard to increase or decrease the clock frequency depending on the user's preference and the type of application that is performed. Each one has a button for resetting the CMOS, and then to restore the BIOS to default settings: This allows you to quickly return to the standard settings if you have gone too far with the system operating parameters in an attempt CPU overclocking.

The notebook EVGA SC17 is currently in pre-order and will be shipped from mid-April; the price is equal to $ 2,699.99 US plus tax, a figure that rises to purchasing it from € 3199.00 European EVGA site. At the present time is not provided for pre-order a version with Italian layout of the keyboard, but only German, French and UK.