A look Inside

After opening the XMG NEO 17, I'm actually quite in awe. What I found truly surprised me, since we find a rather empty chassis here, with the laptop's circuitry on a rather small board, with dual daughter-boards for the side ports.


We find a 97.5 WH battery installed fairly close to the middle, with the Samsung memory just above.


We find a retail-branded Samsung 980 PRO installed as a main drive; the secondary slot is right below the primary.


The two fans that are installed into the XMG NEO 17 aren't the same. This is common, yet important; the different design can lead to different acoustic profiles from the fans. They each have their own set of heatpipes to cool; the NEO 17 makes use of the space in this otherwise empty chassis for its cooling. There are four exhaust ports; two on the rear and one on either side.


In the middle of the mass of heatpipes that form the cooling solution is a pipe for the water from the OASIS LCS to travel through. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it works rather well at removing some of the heat generated on this really small PCB.


I did also find that there is a cooling plate for the M.2 slots. This will help hot PCIe 4.0 devices remain under decent operating temperatures and helps wick away that drive heat from other devices.