The XPG Xenia 15 KC is a great 15-inch RTX 3070-based laptop, perfectly mated with a 165 Hz 2560x1440 screen and Intel Core I7-11800H. Add to that some of the fastest ADATA memory and SSDs and you've got one blazing-fast gaming laptop that's ready for the latest games. The XPG Xenia 15 KC is an Intel NUC product, so its design is shared between Intel and XPG, and the two combined make for a fantastic product worth its cost. Yet as an Intel NUC product, it also isn't just your standard laptop and comes with an interesting twist that helps it stand out from the rest.

Unbox and play with it and you have a nice 165 to 185 W laptop with a 100 W RTX 3070 and 65 W Intel Core I7 11800H at your disposal. It offers very good performance and remains nearly silent unless under full load, and even then remains one of the quietest laptops I have had the pleasure of using.

Then, should that not be enough and you want some added battery life rather than having to click through Windows to find the right menu or load an app, you simply double press a button by the power button and power use drops to 60 W for the CPU and a very modest 55 W for the GPU. Noise levels are even less, and performance is still good enough. Unplug the power cord and the laptop tries to match a 30 FPS target and limits the GPU further. You've gone from power dripping to power sipping, all done in the blink of an eye. That's with a double click... what about a single click?

Push that button and you've got the full 90 W of the CPU, and the GPU jumps up to 125 W, maybe a little more, and you can then turn the fans on full blast and watch that CPU's Turbo limit sky-rocket to 90 W for 90 seconds, and the GPU goes to 140 W if it will overclock that far, which suddenly has the 230 W power brick make a ton of sense. You can push that to its limit, too.

Pop into the BIOS and undervolting awaits you. You can overvolt as well, but there aren't any clock options worth mentioning, and its not like you really need them; the performance on tap is more than enough for gaming over 60 FPS, or a fixed 30 FPS, or you can push the limits of that 165 Hz screen, too. It's really all up to you.

Being given full control over the system's power consumption via a simple hardware button and allowing that button to make instantaneous changes to performance is something that really stands out here—it makes this laptop, the XPG Xenia KC 15, stand out from the rest in a way that really pleases me. Add undervolting and you've got a true enthusiast gaming laptop with enthusiast features and not just gaming, but high-end performance gaming in mind. Overclocked gaming in a laptop? How can that be bad? It can't, not when it's executed this well.