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Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XD Gaming Laptop: i7 11800H, 4K, 1TB NVMe SSD, RTX 3070
$1,699
$1,999
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Newegg has Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XD Gaming Laptop (AERO 15 OLED XD-73US624SP) on sale for $1899 - $200 Gigabyte Rebate = $1699. Shipping is free.
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Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal
Note, limit one rebate per address.
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Specs/Key Features
Specs/Key Features
- Intel Core i7 11800H 8-Core 2.3 GHz Processor (11th Gen Tiger Lake)
- 15.6" 3840x2160 4K/UHD Thin Bezel AMOLED 60Hz Display w/ 100% DCI-P3 X-Rite Calibrated/Validated Color Accuracy
- 1TB M. PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD
- 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 Memory (3200MHz)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GPU
- Intel WiFi 6 AX200 w/ Bluetooth v5.0 + LTE
- Gigabyte Fusion RGB Per Key Backlit Keyboard
- Lithium Polymer 99 Wh
- Windows 10 Pro (64-Bit)
- Inputs
- 3x USB 3.2 Gen-1 (Type-A)
- Thunderbolt 4 (Type-C)
- Mini DisplayPort 1.4
- HDMI 2.1
- Inputs
- Typically includes a 1-year manufacture warranty w/ purchase
Editor's Notes
Written by Discombobulated | Staff- Price Research: Purchase this device today and save $200 Off (10.53% Savings) from the original sale price of $1899. The original listed price for this device is $1999. This is the best available price for this device and lowest its been within 30 days at Newegg
- Must submit/postmark your rebate no later than September 30, 2021 and must include all original required forms to qualify for rebate redemption
- Rebate is valid through August 31, 2021 or while promotion last
- High performance specs overall for this gaming/creator laptop
- Offer valid while promotion/supplies/rebate last
- Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated
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Newegg has Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XD Gaming Laptop (AERO 15 OLED XD-73US624SP) on sale for $1899 - $200 Gigabyte Rebate = $1699. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal
Note, limit one rebate per address.
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal
Note, limit one rebate per address.
Adorama also has Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XD Gaming Laptop (AERO 15 OLED XD-73US624SP) on sale for $1899 - $200 Gigabyte Rebate = $1699. Shipping is free.
Specs/Key Features
Specs/Key Features
- Intel Core i7 11800H 8-Core 2.3 GHz Processor (11th Gen Tiger Lake)
- 15.6" 3840x2160 4K/UHD Thin Bezel AMOLED 60Hz Display w/ 100% DCI-P3 X-Rite Calibrated/Validated Color Accuracy
- 1TB M. PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD
- 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 Memory (3200MHz)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GPU
- Intel WiFi 6 AX200 w/ Bluetooth v5.0 + LTE
- Gigabyte Fusion RGB Per Key Backlit Keyboard
- Lithium Polymer 99 Wh
- Windows 10 Pro (64-Bit)
- Inputs
- 3x USB 3.2 Gen-1 (Type-A)
- Thunderbolt 4 (Type-C)
- Mini DisplayPort 1.4
- HDMI 2.1
- Inputs
- Typically includes a 1-year manufacture warranty w/ purchase
Editor's Notes
Written by Discombobulated | Staff- Price Research: Purchase this device today and save $200 Off (10.53% Savings) from the original sale price of $1899. The original listed price for this device is $1999. This is the best available price for this device and lowest its been within 30 days at Newegg
- Must submit/postmark your rebate no later than September 30, 2021 and must include all original required forms to qualify for rebate redemption
- Rebate is valid through August 31, 2021 or while promotion last
- High performance specs overall for this gaming/creator laptop
- Offer valid while promotion/supplies/rebate last
- Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated
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Reasons why I returned it:
1. The Gigabyte control software for hardware functions is horrible, occasionally crashes, settings often randomly revert, the AI keeps turning itself back on.
1b. Did I say the Gigabyte software quality is horrible? So much so that it broke the built in Windows reset, and the Gigabyte specific reset in the Windows recovery menu would say it completed but didn't actually get rid of the data. I had to make a usb recovery drive with Gigabyte's USB Smart Backup Tool (which as far as I could tell isn't a backup tool but just a wipe the drive and reset to factory recovery tool) before I could finally return it to Best Buy. I reset the TPM chip to get rid of the bitlocker key on the windows partition before rewritting it with the tool.
The rest are much more minor complaints about the hardware:
1. The Intel CPU is decent but still not Ryzen-level, it ended up being power constrained pretty heavily. Cyberpunk 2077 would max all cores (perfectly playable but worrying for the future when my, all-be-it, desktop 3700x sits around 30-50% at 60 watts ish, Intel 11800 throttling to 45 watts ish in the upper 2Ghz or low 3Ghz range).
2. The 6GB of VRAM, size/bandwidth, was definitely a limiting factor in some scenarios against the 8GB GTX 1080. The 3060 mobile is still a great GPU, but it's sad to see it limited by that (and of course the 100 watt power limit).
3. No hardware MUX switch for the GPU output, meaning the internal screen will always be run physically from the i-gpu (10-20% performance hit in many games).
4. No USB C trickle charging and somewhat disappointing battery life, despite the 99WH battery and trying to minimize power usage (possibly due to the crappy Gigabyte software seemingly pulsing the dedicated GPU for no reason).
5. The hinge is a little wobbly and the fans are a bit high pitched.
Overall, I still liked the laptop but decided I could wait a while for other performance laptops with OLED screens at reasonable prices. If you need something now, the compromises on this aren't terrible.
PS: The 60Hz limitation wasn't nearly as bad as the consequential lacking of VRR/G-Sync. Still, turning VSync on if you can keep 60+ FPS mostly solves that.
I also did some comparisons between 1080p DLSS upscaling, Intel's integer upscaling, and native 4k on Cyberpunk. The quality difference isn't huge and I ended up settling on the integer upscaling for 20-30% more performance than DLSS (25fps ish DLSS to 35 fps ish integer)
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Reasons why I returned it:
1. The Gigabyte control software for hardware functions is horrible, occasionally crashes, settings often randomly revert, the AI keeps turning itself back on.
1b. Did I say the Gigabyte software quality is horrible? So much so that it broke the built in Windows reset, and the Gigabyte specific reset in the Windows recovery menu would say it completed but didn't actually get rid of the data. I had to make a usb recovery drive with Gigabyte's USB Smart Backup Tool (which as far as I could tell isn't a backup tool but just a wipe the drive and reset to factory recovery tool) before I could finally return it to Best Buy. I reset the TPM chip to get rid of the bitlocker key on the windows partition before rewritting it with the tool.
The rest are much more minor complaints about the hardware:
1. The Intel CPU is decent but still not Ryzen-level, it ended up being power constrained pretty heavily. Cyberpunk 2077 would max all cores (perfectly playable but worrying for the future when my, all-be-it, desktop 3700x sits around 30-50% at 60 watts ish, Intel 11800 throttling to 45 watts ish in the upper 2Ghz or low 3Ghz range).
2. The 6GB of VRAM, size/bandwidth, was definitely a limiting factor in some scenarios against the 8GB GTX 1080. The 3060 mobile is still a great GPU, but it's sad to see it limited by that (and of course the 100 watt power limit).
3. No hardware MUX switch for the GPU output, meaning the internal screen will always be run physically from the i-gpu (10-20% performance hit in many games).
4. No USB C trickle charging and somewhat disappointing battery life, despite the 99WH battery and trying to minimize power usage (possibly due to the crappy Gigabyte software seemingly pulsing the dedicated GPU for no reason).
5. The hinge is a little wobbly and the fans are a bit high pitched.
Overall, I still liked the laptop but decided I could wait a while for other performance laptops with OLED screens at reasonable prices. If you need something now, the compromises on this aren't terrible.
PS: The 60Hz limitation wasn't nearly as bad as the consequential lacking of VRR/G-Sync. Still, turning VSync on if you can keep 60+ FPS mostly solves that.
I also did some comparisons between 1080p DLSS upscaling, Intel's integer upscaling, and native 4k on Cyberpunk. The quality difference isn't huge and I ended up settling on the integer upscaling for 20-30% more performance than DLSS (25fps ish DLSS to 35 fps ish integer)
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Reasons why I returned it:
1. The Gigabyte control software for hardware functions is horrible, occasionally crashes, settings often randomly revert, the AI keeps turning itself back on.
1b. Did I say the Gigabyte software quality is horrible? So much so that it broke the built in Windows reset, and the Gigabyte specific reset in the Windows recovery menu would say it completed but didn't actually get rid of the data. I had to make a usb recovery drive with Gigabyte's USB Smart Backup Tool (which as far as I could tell isn't a backup tool but just a wipe the drive and reset to factory recovery tool) before I could finally return it to Best Buy. I reset the TPM chip to get rid of the bitlocker key on the windows partition before rewritting it with the tool.
The rest are much more minor complaints about the hardware:
1. The Intel CPU is decent but still not Ryzen-level, it ended up being power constrained pretty heavily. Cyberpunk 2077 would max all cores (perfectly playable but worrying for the future when my, all-be-it, desktop 3700x sits around 30-50% at 60 watts ish, Intel 11800 throttling to 45 watts ish in the upper 2Ghz or low 3Ghz range).
2. The 6GB of VRAM, size/bandwidth, was definitely a limiting factor in some scenarios against the 8GB GTX 1080. The 3060 mobile is still a great GPU, but it's sad to see it limited by that (and of course the 100 watt power limit).
3. No hardware MUX switch for the GPU output, meaning the internal screen will always be run physically from the i-gpu (10-20% performance hit in many games).
4. No USB C trickle charging and somewhat disappointing battery life, despite the 99WH battery and trying to minimize power usage (possibly due to the crappy Gigabyte software seemingly pulsing the dedicated GPU for no reason).
5. The hinge is a little wobbly and the fans are a bit high pitched.
Overall, I still liked the laptop but decided I could wait a while for other performance laptops with OLED screens at reasonable prices. If you need something now, the compromises on this aren't terrible.
PS: The 60Hz limitation wasn't nearly as bad as the consequential lacking of VRR/G-Sync. Still, turning VSync on if you can keep 60+ FPS mostly solves that.
I also did some comparisons between 1080p DLSS upscaling, Intel's integer upscaling, and native 4k on Cyberpunk. The quality difference isn't huge and I ended up settling on the integer upscaling for 20-30% more performance than DLSS (25fps ish DLSS to 35 fps ish integer)
1. the screen was defective, it would artefact like crazy every now and then
2. there was an incredible amount of coil whine
3. I hated the keyboard
I hope they at least fixed the coil whine in this generation. It was almost comical in my unit.
Reasons why I returned it:
1. The Gigabyte control software for hardware functions is horrible, occasionally crashes, settings often randomly revert, the AI keeps turning itself back on.
1b. Did I say the Gigabyte software quality is horrible? So much so that it broke the built in Windows reset, and the Gigabyte specific reset in the Windows recovery menu would say it completed but didn't actually get rid of the data. I had to make a usb recovery drive with Gigabyte's USB Smart Backup Tool (which as far as I could tell isn't a backup tool but just a wipe the drive and reset to factory recovery tool) before I could finally return it to Best Buy. I reset the TPM chip to get rid of the bitlocker key on the windows partition before rewritting it with the tool.
The rest are much more minor complaints about the hardware:
1. The Intel CPU is decent but still not Ryzen-level, it ended up being power constrained pretty heavily. Cyberpunk 2077 would max all cores (perfectly playable but worrying for the future when my, all-be-it, desktop 3700x sits around 30-50% at 60 watts ish, Intel 11800 throttling to 45 watts ish in the upper 2Ghz or low 3Ghz range).
2. The 6GB of VRAM, size/bandwidth, was definitely a limiting factor in some scenarios against the 8GB GTX 1080. The 3060 mobile is still a great GPU, but it's sad to see it limited by that (and of course the 100 watt power limit).
3. No hardware MUX switch for the GPU output, meaning the internal screen will always be run physically from the i-gpu (10-20% performance hit in many games).
4. No USB C trickle charging and somewhat disappointing battery life, despite the 99WH battery and trying to minimize power usage (possibly due to the crappy Gigabyte software seemingly pulsing the dedicated GPU for no reason).
5. The hinge is a little wobbly and the fans are a bit high pitched.
Overall, I still liked the laptop but decided I could wait a while for other performance laptops with OLED screens at reasonable prices. If you need something now, the compromises on this aren't terrible.
PS: The 60Hz limitation wasn't nearly as bad as the consequential lacking of VRR/G-Sync. Still, turning VSync on if you can keep 60+ FPS mostly solves that.
I also did some comparisons between 1080p DLSS upscaling, Intel's integer upscaling, and native 4k on Cyberpunk. The quality difference isn't huge and I ended up settling on the integer upscaling for 20-30% more performance than DLSS (25fps ish DLSS to 35 fps ish integer)
The overall build is good, almost perfect on specs at that time, but the accompany control software just a piece of sh*t. keep slowing down the whole system and wipe out all settings(keyboard color, charge limit, macro...) when update each time.
I used to posted some positive feedback a year ago when it's a well round laptop, but I'll eat my own word now, won't recommend it to anyone anymore after all these issues in a long run.
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1. Screen is gorgeous.
2. Keyboard is meh, but so is almost every laptop keyboard.
3. Build quality is fine.
4. Fans are a little high pitched, but I run in silent mode.
5. Got HDMI 2.1 running out of the Displayport through an adapter. Love that it works. Just need to swap cabled to pull it around to the actual HDMI port. Soon I'll output to two 4k HDR monitors.
6. Added my 2TB NVME to the second slot.
7. The build in 1TB is something gigabyte makes itself, and it's fast as hell. Twice as fast as my HP EX950 according to HD Tune.
I'd consider returning it and getting this version with the 3070, but since I haven't played a single game since I got the darned thing, why spend the $300? Better to just run a thunderbolt external when graphics cards come down to earth and have much better performance. Currently 6.6GB of free RAM.
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