Origin PC EON15 X Review

Lisa Gade reviews the Origin PC EON15-X, a 15.6” gaming and pro apps laptop with desktop CPUs and NVIDIA GTX 970M and 980M graphics card options. Origin PC is a “boutique” brand, or small build-to-order maker of gaming laptops and desktops, and it was founded by the same folks behind Alienware before Dell bought Alienware years ago. The laptop is shipped in a wooden crate, mostly because that’s cool. The EON15-X starts at $1,737, and our very high end configuration sells for $2,739. The machine is available with Intel Haswell E quad core desktop CPUs, and ours has the top of the line i7-4790K 4.0 GHz Devil’s Canyon over-clockable CPU (Skylake of course is in the future). The CPU is socketed and thus upgradable. The video card is in an MXM slot, so it too is upgradable.

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Despite the powerful internals, the machine is 1.4” thick (not bad for gaming notebook) and it runs fairly cool, though not terribly quiet. Our config has 16 gigs of RAM (32 is max), an M.2 240 gig PCIe SSD, 1 TB fast HDD, and dual band Intel WiFi AC7265. A 3 zone backlit keyboard, 2MP webcam and Creative Sound Blaster audio are standard. It’s available with a 1080p matte TN non-touch panel or a glossy PLS 4K panel with G-Sync.