Evga presents its new laptop 'gamer' sc17 1080

EVGA returns to the fray with a new flagship for the gaming laptop sector with the 17.3-inch SC17 1080.

SC17 1080, EVGA's renewed commitment to portable gamers

New CPU, new graphics and Thunderbolt 3 support. The new SC17 1080 notebook is thicker than its predecessors, but features higher performance thanks to the latest Intel Core i7-7820HK CPU, as well as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics processor. in its portable version. Like its predecessors, the SC17 has a 4K display and can be overclocked thanks to the Intel CPU being unlocked.

The first SC17 model was launched at the beginning of last year with the aim of conforming those enthusiastic users to be able to play on a laptop as they would on a computer. At that time, the graphics card used by EVGA was the GTX 1070 , so the performance was quite impressive at the time. With this step towards the GTX 1080 and the i7-7820HK processor, the new SC17 1080 model gains in performance, and also debuts the Thunderbolt 3 connection.

Thanks to the Thunderbolt 3 connection, it is possible to connect high-performance peripherals to this laptop, such as a new, more powerful graphics card.

Thicker but more powerful

SC17 1080 comes equipped with 32GB of G.Skill DDR4-2666 memory, 256GB of M.2 NVMe SSD storage capacity plus 1 1TB hard drive.

EVGA has had no problem going against the trends and making a thicker model in order to gain more performance with the SC17 1080, which will be costing about $ 2, 999.

Source: anandtech