Eurcom has unveiled a brand-new laptop called the Sky Z7 R2 and it is the world’s first laptop to feature PCIe 4.0 connectivity. This gaming laptop offers high-end PC gaming components and can be customized with your choice of desktop-level 11th generation processor along with other components.
The EURCOM Sky Z7 R2 gaming laptop offers the ability to be configured with various graphics cards and various processors ranging up to an Intel Core i9-11900K processor and use the Intel Z590 chipset. This laptop’s display can be configured to a refresh rate of 300 Hz and a 100% coverage of the sRGB color gamut.
Coming to the graphic card option, the Sky Z7 R2 can be configured with an RTX 3060 up to an RTX 3080 graphics card. Users can customize the amount of RAM as well, with the max configurable option being a 128 GB option with a RAM speed of either 2,666 MHz or 3,200 MHz.
The highlight feature of the laptop is the use of PCIe Gen 4 technology. It is the first laptop that features this technology. This laptop will offer PCIe 4.0 x4 support when using the 11th generation in one of its M.2 2280 SSD slots.
This PCIe 4.0 technology allows SSDs to offer significantly faster speeds thanks to double the bandwidth compared to a PCIe 3.0 SSD slot. Using a PCIe 4.0 slot, NVMe SSDs can offer read speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s.
Coming to the I/O ports, the Sky Z7 R2 has a wide range of options including one USB 3.2 Type-C port, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, three USB 3.2 Type-A ports, two miniDP 1.4, one HDMI 2.0 output, one RJ-45 LAN port.
This laptop will feature two different options for connecting your headphones/microphones, and it’ll feature one 2-in-1 Audio jack, which can be used to connect a headphone or a microphone, and one 2-in-1 Audio jack with support, which can be used to connect a microphone or connect a SPDIF optical device.
The laptop will also take advantage of the Z590 chipset’s faster USB 3.2 Gen2 x2 ports, offering a data transfer speed of up to 20 GB per second. The laptop is available to customize and purchase on Eurcom’s website here.
