Hands-on review: Computex: Asus ROG GX800

Hands-on review: Computex: Asus ROG GX800

By Kevin Lee

Hands-on review: Computex: Asus ROG GX800

Last year, Asus released an absolutely mental 17-inch liquid-cooled gaming laptop and now it has an updated model complete with a new RGB mechanical keyboard and two GPUs for even more graphical performance.

From the outside, there aren’t too many apparent changes. The GX800 looks almost completely identical to its 17-inch predecessor and the same goes for its liquid-cooling base.

Asus ROG GX800 review

The only difference you’ll really notice on the outside of the machine is the new multi-colored keyboard, which allows you to customize and tweak the keyboard backlight on a per key basis.

What’s more Asus has introduced its MechTAG (Mechanical Tactile Advanced Gaming) to give it a mechanical feel. There’s also anti-ghosting technology to prevent any of your keystrokes from falling through the cracks when inputting multi-key commands.

Asus ROG GX800 review

The power within

Now the bigger changes are on the inside with hardware upgrades. The ROG GX700 already seems plenty powerful with a desktop-grade Nvidia GTX 980, however, the GX800 introduces a second GPU along with Intel Core i7 K-series processors.

At a Computex 2016 press event, we got to play games at a silky smooth frame frame rate even at 4K. This …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac

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