Gigabyte P34W v3

The latest contender that paid a visit to our labs is Gigabyte P34W - a gaming notebook that looks nothing like a gaming notebook. It has “ultrabook” measurements, but that hasn’t stopped the Gigabyte engineers from squeezing in an Intel Core i7-4720HQ processor with a TDP of 47 watts and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M with power consumption of 81W. But that’s not all, Gigabyte P34W has a 14” IPS Full HD display, up to 16GB of RAM and 128GB mSATA storage combined with a 2.5” HDD. Everything mentioned so far goes into a 20.9mm thick laptop with weight of 1.8kg.One of the most interesting questions here is how the cooling system handles all that. We’re going to check that in detail, as well as our usual display and sound tests, PWM, CPU and GPU performance, battery life and everything that [...]