Despite being relatively thin, light and monstrously powerful, Gigabyte has packed a huge 94Wh battery into the chassis. The ace up the Aero 14’s sleeve is battery life. As I haven’t seen one, I can’t say how, if at all, this more powerful processor will affect fan noise. While I haven’t tested this model, Kaby Lake will generally offer higher clock speeds and the faster memory will also help things along. The Aero 14 is now available with the latest 7th-gen “Kaby Lake” processors and slightly faster 2,400MHz memory for around £100 more. These are within safe limits, although my testing was conducted in a room with an ambient temperature of around 18 oC warmer homes will see higher internal temperatures, especially during long gaming sessions where the CPU and GPU actually affect room temperature. I measured peak CPU temperatures during the Tomb Raider benchmark at 80☌ and GPU temperatures of 74☌. I’d suggest gaming with it on some sort of lap tray to help with airflow – and to keep your knees cool. Heat-wise, the bottom of the Aero does become fairly toasty when gaming, which isn’t surprising. The fans don’t kick up any fuss until you push the PC hard, which is great news. There’s a very slight whine when idling, but it’s audible only in a dead silent room. The Aero 14 is about equal with the Razer Blade in this respect, and the speakers are more than loud enough to drown it out. At full pelt the fans are pretty loud, although not as bad as some high-spec, thin and light Aorus machines. You’ll get similar performance from other compact gaming machines such as the MSI GS43 VR, which weighs in at just 1.6kg, but that machine is hot, loud and has a smaller battery.Īs you’d expect, the only area of potential complaint for some people will be fan noise. That’s the long way of saying that this is a powerful machine, especially considering its sub-2kg weight. Whether you want to up the resolution to the screen’s native 1440p will be down to personal taste, but I found the extra performance from Full HD was worth it over the slightly higher fidelity but lower frame rates of a higher resolution. The Aero 14 put in a similar performance to the Razer Blade, beating it in the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark with an average frame rate of 68.9fps at the highest graphical settings with FXAA switched on, and it managed 90.8fps in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Loaded with 6GB of GDDR5 memory, this chip is capable of powering the latest games at Full HD resolution at High settings without breaking too much of a sweat. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card on board the Aero is close to identical to its desktop sibling, and performs similarly as well. A mix of capacity and speed makes this the ideal storage drive for this laptop. This model gets a blazing fast 512GB PCIe SSD that topped out at 1,790MB/s read speeds in the CrystalDiskMark benchmark. This performance shone through in the Geekbench 4 benchmark, in which the Aero 14 scored 4,229 and 12,903 in the single-core and multi-core tests respectively.ĭespite having the same processor as the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the Skylake-powered Razer Blade, the Aero beat both of them by a narrow margin. This helps in tasks such as video rendering and photo processing, as does the generous 16GB of 2,133MHz RAM (upgradable up to 32GB). The 6700HQ comes with Hyper-Threading, which allows processor-intensive applications to make better use of the four cores, effectively turning them into eight threads. Related: Intel Core i Processors Explained Performance, battery life and conclusion ReviewĮquipped with a quad-core Intel Core i7-6700HQ from the Skylake generation, in the processing department this is a powerful piece of kit.
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