CPU bottleneck with Razer Core

[Ethan_27]

So I'm planning on getting the 2016 Razer Blade (not the stealth) which has a 2.5ghz quad core with turbo up to 3.5 ghz. I wanted to hook up the Razer core and run games at 4K. Using a GTX 1080. Is this possible or am I staring at a massive bottleneck?

 

[DonkeyOatie]

A laptop CPU, even an i7 6700HQ, is a bit limited wit its 45W TDP envelope. Although you have 2.6Ghz base and 3.5 Turbo, that turbo is only one core. Four core turbo is slower.

It will limit the 1080 in intense gaming, but how much is unknown ATM.

Do you have the Razer Core?

 

[Ethan_27]

No not yet but once I get the New Blade ( I have the 2015 model) I was hoping to order it and then see if I could go 4K. 1440 would be ideal but I want a massive monitor (console convert, can't take it all out). So I was hoping for a 4K 40 inch, not for this thread I know but would it look bad scaling down to a lower res on a 4K monitor (I can't find an answer anywhere). Thanks again.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

The Razer Blade benchmarks on the 6Gb 970m show both GPU and CPU limits with different games. I don't think that the CPU is up to 'full frontal' 4K on modern games. It will run if you turn down the wick some, but the $1500+ for the Core/GPU/monitor combination seems a bit much. You are not far from being able to afford a good dedicated 4K desktop