Nvidia’s new Max-Q design for laptops is creating some seriously sleek, powerful Gaming machines. But, while a lot has been said about how thin they are, it’s the acoustic performance which is arguably more defining and the new Whispermode is going to make them even quieter.

Max-Q is making laptop GPUs great again, but what’s the best graphics card on the desktop? Allow us to delight and inform...

Nvidia have been at pains to explain their new Max-Q initiative isn’t about creating a new Ultrabook standard, isn’t about forcing laptop manufacturers into restrictive size or thickness constraints. I’ve seen Max-Q designs going from 15mm up to the 23mm of Gigabyte’s chunky Aorus X5 MD.