At a trifling .66 inches thick and powerful enough to capably manage a number of the maximum traumatic games in the marketplace, Razer's new 14-inch Blade is probably the good piece of gadget I've ever performed a PC recreation on. It's without a doubt the freshest.

Once known for its mid-to-high-stop gaming peripherals, Razer has gotten to a point wherein I can now not discuss with them as an accent manufacturer. Between the original 17-inch Razer Blade, the Edge PC gaming pill, and now this ridiculously skinny splendor, the organization has clearly made an impression on the PC gaming market. With engineers pushing the envelope and management unafraid to sacrifice a decrease rate factor for a extra progressive product, Razer is one of the gutsiest companies building gaming machines these days.

Case in point, the new Razer Blade, the 14-inch gadget it is taking on the Blade name whilst its 17-inch predecessor is going seasoned. Prior to its debut in overdue May, Razer teased the unit with the tagline "thinner than a dime." As Kirk Hamilton pointed out during a write-up of his fingers-on time with the unit, perhaps "shorter than a dime" might were more suitable.

Another Razer marketing favourite is "impossibly thin," a much extra apt description of the brand new Blade, as I cannot see the way it performs as properly because it does with out exploding.

Crammed inner this glossy and horny aluminium housing is a Intel Core i7-4702HQ quad core processor going for walks at 2.2GHz (three.2 whilst Turbo Boosted) and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Cooling this kind of hardware is the very motive most devoted gaming laptops are huge and cumbersome.

Yet the 14-inch Razer Blade survives marathon gaming sessions of stressful games — I've run Metro: Last Light on the highest settings for 10 hours instantly — with out melting right into a puddle, and all of the outside cooling I can see is those two tiny fan vents on the lowest of the unit.

That does not imply the unit would not get hot. It gets damn hot — so hot that a extra traditional PC manufacturer might not have approved the design. What's super about the Blade's layout is where it receives hot. I promised myself I would not use stock pictures in this overview, but this one's unavoidable.

The Blade's unique thermal answer, as visible but possibly no longer understood within the image above, pipes all of the machine's warmth to the rear of the unit. On pinnacle, it is the region between the keyboard and the show. These areas get piping warm — not a lot that brushing your finger past them could burn you, but retaining them towards the metallic for any prolonged time is out of the question. This is not a gadget you'd need to bring with you into the rest room (that's what the Edge is for).

Unless you're making plans to play PC games solely on your naked legs, the warmth is little more than an annoyance, one effortlessly neglected in the light of the electricity packed into the Blade's slim, four pound frame.

I tested numerous famous PC games, each going for walks at their maximum possible settings at the Blade's local 1600x900 resolution. Tomb Raider averaged forty frames per 2nd. BioShock Infinite averaged within the low 40s as well. Metro: Last Light's benchmark gave me an average of 31 FPS, however the sport, as seen inside the video above, regarded to run much higher than the benchmark, without difficulty averaging forty five.

The numbers might not be dazzling compared to those of a excessive-give up PC full of one of the best huge portraits cards, but these are games strolling at ultra settings, on a machine that is handiest .66 inches thick. There is no other machine that comes close to pushing the amount of power the new Blade does in a similar shape element, length.

Even when now not engaged in a heated battle with annoying PC games, the new Blade is an outstanding gadget. The aluminum creation is impressively robust, the design understated, even with the ever-gift glowing inexperienced serpent emblem. The Killer wi-fi chip is pretty fast, critical in a system without a bodily community port. The integrated stereo audio system provide right sound, even though a pleasing set of headphones is favored. The trackpad is a trackpad — outside mouse for the win — without the customizable Switchblade interface keys of its bigger brother. That's probably for the best.

If I may want to enhance one component of the new Blade, it might be the display screen. It's quite lovely while you examine it simply right, but the viewing attitude isn't always incredible — count on ordinary modifications in case you shift approximately in your seat lots even as gambling. The battery existence might be higher as nicely. I may want to see getting the promised six hours out of it during ordinary use, but twine-unfastened gaming is not going to closing extra than an hour and a 1/2 before the system wishes more juice.

When Razer first got into the gaming PC business, trumpeting its rallying cry of "PC Gaming Is Not Dead," I changed into certain the business enterprise's plan to exchange the face of PC gaming was little more than marketing hype. Now that I've visible the original Blade, the Edge, and this not possible splendor, I'm not so positive.

With the new 14-inch Razer Blade, the corporation has created a gaming device the likes of which we may not have visible for at the least some other couple of years in any other case. This type of fearless innovation is exactly what the PC gaming hardware industry needs to take them past the big scary containers and into the hearts and homes of game enthusiasts everywhere.

The 14-Inch Blade is available for buy at Razerzone.com and Amazon.com.