Razer Blade 17 Gaming Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti - 12th Gen Intel 14-Core i7 CPU - 17.3" QHD 240Hz - 32GB DDR5 RAM - 1TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 - Chroma RGB - Thunderbolt 4 - SD Card Reader

I'm glad i was able to get this laptop used and discounted since it was out of stock pretty much everywhere (3080 Ti 16GB Vram laptop is much better than a 4070 with 8GB Vram). However, the laptop runs hot like my previous HP envy did, and while I don't game everyday to truly wear out the system I think it should last another 4yrs. I'll update my review if anything changes, but so far it's able to run palworld max settings at 60fps, and higher with DLSS or reduced shadows. Note, if you have one of these you're going to want it at an incline for more air, temps dropped by about 10c when I did so. You also don't want to put the power brick on the carpet as it got super hot to the touch when I did so, I'm assuming that's why some other reviews claimed their brick broke.

This will likely be the last Razer device I've purchased. I really want to remain loyal to the company but I've recently bought things such as keyboards, mice and others that just didn't cut the mustard. For whatever reason though, I decided to drop 4k on a top of the line laptop to replace my 6 year old Origin PC. That was a mistake.Let's start however, with the positives.The computer is slick. I bought a Blade 17 with 32gb of RAM and a 3080TI. It's super thin, easily 40% thinner than my 6 year old Origin and very light for a 17 inch laptop (comparatively speaking). The screen is beautiful, crisp and bright and you definitely notice the 240hz in QHD. It's fantastic.It's also surprisingly quiet. I expected more fan noise but there is very little to be honest. I bought a laptop cooler just in case because I wanted to protect my new baby from overheating but it seems to do well on it's own. I've never seen the GPU heat go above 58 degrees Celsius in any game thus far.When I got it ready and got my games installed, I was very pleased. The computer could easily push 140 FPS in the most demanding games and still didn't feel hot to the touch. It crushed anything I loaded and I briefly debating using this in lieu of my personally built desktop with a 3070 and 32gb of ram because I felt this laptop was outperforming it in many regards. Unfortunately, that lasted about two weeks.Suddenly I started seeing artifacts and flickers in games. Previous experience instantly told me that is not a good sign. My FPS dropped dramatically. Whereas in my favorite shooters I was seeing between 70 and 120 FPS, I now see 40 at the most, usually 35 or less. Nothing I do changes this. Every game looks great but runs awful.I ran additional benchmarks on the computer to see what was wrong. The GPU is now benchmarking at ZERO percent after just two weeks. Either I got a lemon of a GPU or perhaps the chassis cooling is not what i's cracked up to be. Either way, spending four THOUSAND dollars on what should be a premier gaming laptop and it lasting all of two weeks is beyond unacceptable. Spending 4000 dollars on anything should all but guarantee and near perfectly functioning device. Sadly, that is not what I received.I received something that performed slightly above where I expected for about two weeks. However, after two weeks, my 6 year old Origin PC with a GTX 570 can actually play my favorite games at a higher FPS than this computer.It would appear that Razer's QC is once again lacking. I would stay away from this laptop and consider a different brand.Edit:6 Months later. Razer fixed the problem with the FPS. It took 3 months and required them to send me a new power brick because the one I had was the problem and not feeding sufficient power to the computer. Fast forward another 2 months and the touchpad stopped working. Because Razer makes trash, low quality products with no QC.STAY AWAY!

UPDATE1: Had to lower rating to one star after continuing to get no resolution as it relates to the required new 280 watt charger availability. Razer has been selling the $4000, Razer 17 (2022) since the beginning of the year and still has no 280 watt chargers available, which is UNACCEPTABLE! My recommendation for those on the fence is to NOT PURCHASE this product until replacement chargers are available or else you’ll be extremely sorry when you lose or break it and cannot replace it.Great computer for gaming, but when it comes to getting replacement parts such as the new 280 watt laptop charger for the Razer Blade 17, you will leave disappointed. Multiple complaints about this charger not being sold by Razer, but apparently, they thought it was a good idea to not sell them or order enough to sell. So, what happens when you lose your 280 watt laptop charger when traveling with your computer? You're out of luck with no laptop charger available to purchase AND you will not be able to use your Razer 17 until they decide to sell it to their customers! Multiple accounts online of people having dead Blade 17's they can't use because Razer says they don't have the 280 watt chargers in stock, but they will try to sell you a 230watt one to "get you by" until their 280 watt powers supplies become available some day! Nothing like severely lowering the performance of a $4000 computer just to power it on with the wrong sized charger! This is crazy in 2022 and another reason Razer should have used a standard charger plug with their computers, not some proprietary crap they don't even sell for those of us that travel frequently!