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Asus ROG GX700 Laptop has liquid cooling
Heat is a bit of an issue with laptops, well ASUS solved it by adding a liquid cooling loop. The GX700 comes with an overclockable Intel Skylake processor, NVIDIA graphics, and sharp 17-inch 4K IPS LCD display. But yeah, liquid cooling, which comes courtesy of the enormous docking station.
This isn't your typical docking station — you won't be getting Ethernet or hooking up an external monitor by pushing down on the latch. This gives you liquid cooling and nothing more. Think of it as the laptop equivalent of an automotive radiator.
Seeing as the dock is pumping liquid coolant through the laptop, you want a tight and secure fit to avoid any leakage. Pushing down on the latch slightly firmly the laptop in and connects the conduits, expanding the cooling loop to the large radiator and fans in the rear dock. If you're overclocking the processor, this seems to be a must, lest you start melting your keyboard in the process. Undocking is a two-step process: push down forcefully on the button close to the back of the laptop and then lift up on the latch. Seems kind of necessary to us that it be difficult — we wouldn't want to pick it up and have coolant pour out all over our desk.
Obviously, this laptop and liquid cooling dock combination isn't for everybody, and ASUS doesn't expect it to be. ROG stands for Republic of Gamers, ASUS's gaming-focused line-up of laptops, desktops, and accessories. The GX700 fits that bill. It's technically a laptop and thus technically portable, but it's certainly not a machine you'd want to lug around on a regular basis. It's huge, it's heavy, and though we don't have specs on it, we don't expect the battery life to be phenomenal. This is a machine purpose built for hardcore gaming — it just makes it easier to pick up and go somewhere else to do that gaming if you have to. It's radically-designed, it'll be insanely expensive, and it's just so damn cool (in more way than one).
At one point one must figure, just buy a PC ? Via Windows central.
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#5152499 Posted on: 09/02/2015 06:49 PM
My Sager with an i7 4770K (desktop CPU) and GTX 980m runs just fine without being significantly thicker then my older "gaming" laptop with an i7 4700Q (laptop CPU) and GTX 765M let alone with a huge cooling loop/radiator plugged into the back of it. I'm betting this ROG setup cost more too and isn't exactly portable....
My Sager with an i7 4770K (desktop CPU) and GTX 980m runs just fine without being significantly thicker then my older "gaming" laptop with an i7 4700Q (laptop CPU) and GTX 765M let alone with a huge cooling loop/radiator plugged into the back of it. I'm betting this ROG setup cost more too and isn't exactly portable....
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#5152511 Posted on: 09/02/2015 06:59 PM
To me id rather purchase the laptop from MSI that allows you to use desktop GPUs in them rather than this ugly looking thing.
To me id rather purchase the laptop from MSI that allows you to use desktop GPUs in them rather than this ugly looking thing.
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#5152539 Posted on: 09/02/2015 07:48 PM
Also, ASUS G751 gaming laptops have exceptional cooling already, offering good temperatures (including cool hand rest) at low noise. Seeing one in action on regular basis (Haswell quad core + 970M), I can hardly justify such solution.
My Sager with an i7 4770K (desktop CPU) and GTX 980m runs just fine without being significantly thicker then my older "gaming" laptop with an i7 4700Q (laptop CPU) and GTX 765M let alone with a huge cooling loop/radiator plugged into the back of it. I'm betting this ROG setup cost more too and isn't exactly portable....
Also, ASUS G751 gaming laptops have exceptional cooling already, offering good temperatures (including cool hand rest) at low noise. Seeing one in action on regular basis (Haswell quad core + 970M), I can hardly justify such solution.
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#5152559 Posted on: 09/02/2015 08:26 PM
Agree - I have one(4720HQ + 970m) and it's great machine - it's cool, quite, display is good(FHD IPS in my case), but it's a thick and heavy machine( 4 and a half kilos without the power brick - ouch).
Also, ASUS G751 gaming laptops have exceptional cooling already, offering good temperatures (including cool hand rest) at low noise. Seeing one in action on regular basis (Haswell quad core + 970M), I can hardly justify such solution.
Agree - I have one(4720HQ + 970m) and it's great machine - it's cool, quite, display is good(FHD IPS in my case), but it's a thick and heavy machine( 4 and a half kilos without the power brick - ouch).
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We all know for a long time a fact that laptop manufacturers, especially for gaming laptops (I would never buy gaming laptop neither for me or for some of my kids), are desperate to find good enough cooling solution that will do the job on a long run. Classic "fan or two + heatpipes" solution are simply not good enough after two or three years (oftenly even less then that) of use for most of gaming oriented laptop users who in most cases (read: rich kids) don't give a f.u.c.k about cleaning laptop cooling sistem once in a while. When dust accumulates inside + summer comes gaming laptops are choking to death because of too much heat, resets, BSOD's, sudden turn offs because of overheating... I saw that personally way to many times: usually some spoiled rich kids with 3000, 4000€+ gaming laptop clogged with insane amount of dust inside laptop after just 6 months or year of constant everyday (ab)use.
But this Asus attempt to make this liguid cooled ROG gaming laptop really makes me wanna
One day, maybe, (if mobile PC survives as a gaming platform) real gaming laptops will be more (OK, I'm not sure that'll ever happen) affordable, more compact and with some kind of new yet unreleased advanced cooling solutions. Until then attempts like this liquid cooling ROG gaming laptop are nothing more then waste of time and resources for Asus and any other manufacture who wish to make something simmilar and plain stupid like this.
Agree that the're trying to push the limits but this