what would you do if your gaming machine
overheated we've seen every solution from adding extra fans to cracking open
the bottom panel to far sketchier
methods than those but what if one of the world's most skilled and apparently
insane teams of Engineers was presented with this problem well you might end up
with a solution that looks a little something like this meet the ASUS G x800
the world's most powerful water cooled
laptop we're opening up a new merch store you can check out some of our new
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description the first things you'll notice taking the two pieces of the
gx800 out of the included backpack and
travel case are one this laptop comes in
two pieces more on that later and two it
looks flipping badass the matte black
palm rests metal accents and strategically positioned lighting
effects give it every bit as premium a
feel and look as you'd expect for its
whopping $6,000 price tag coming around the back
is where things get really interesting though
these Quick Connect fittings allow the gx800 to be easily docked and undocked
from the included external water cooling unit so going from portable to
Performance takes less than 10 seconds
place the laptop down on these two pins
then push down here to Lock and Load
once engaged the docking station thanks to its second power brick doubles the
available power to 660 ws and engages
the pump and radiator fans turning this
beast from a fox that might steal your chickens to like one of these
things but what could be in this machine
to Warrant all of this extra power and
cooling well two overclock GTX 1080
graphics cards in SLI you donk would you
think there was going to be in there mobile hardware and the rest of the
specs of this thing are absolutely banging too it's rocking three m.2
drives in raid zero for 1 tbte of Blazing fast Solid State Storage 64 gigs
of ddr4 RAM and a core i7 7820 HK that's
overclocked to 4.4 GHz out of the box IO
is similarly impressive with just about everything you could want in including
Thunderbolt 3 DisplayPort and this
funky Network antenna extendo thing so
you could have like mad dope AF internet
even when you're not plugged in or whatever they were trying to do with
that and all of that power won't be
wasted on a monitor that can't take advantage of it the gx800 has an 18in 4K
60 HZ G sync IPS display which comes
with all the benefits you might expect super sharp image quality in games and
4K videos along with great viewing angles and variable refresh rate
technology that makes lower frame rates appear smoother to the eye while
eliminating screen tearing not that you'll be running into low frame rates
very often the way this laptop stomped
on everything we threw it it at Ultra details at 4K resolution is nothing
nothing short of amazing with the terrain and Rise of the Tomb Raider
looking proper stunning I mean so did everything else but what really sets it
apart from the other balls to thewall
laptops that we've checked out recently is that the gx800 is surprisingly good
as a traditional laptop when it's
undocked while it is a little on the chubby side it's not leg crushingly
heavy like the predator 21x and the large properly positioned
trackpad responds well with nice satisfying clicks on the discret right
and left buttons it might look a little
bit Over the Top If you roll up to the library and whip out one of these things
but if you need on the-go productivity or gaming it is usable for a little
while the mechanical style keyboard is reasonably comfortable to type and game
on but it doesn't use Cherry Key
switches like the Predator 21x so the feel will be mushier and less consistent
I did find myself making more errors than usual with that said the nearly
standard layout and the full number pad are nice touches but let's move on then
from the Practical aspects of this beast and focus on answering the question
you've all been waiting for how the
actual F does water cooling in a laptop
work well we're going to have to pop off the
bottom to see and would you look at that
the gx800 not only has a full air
cooling setup with six heat pipes and two fans it also has this absolutely
Bonkers fully custom water cooling Loop
but there's some bad news in here unlike
some high-end laptops the GX 800's GTX
1080s are soldered to the motherboard
meaning that there's no swapping them out in the event of a failure or for
something else down the road though it should be noted that everything about
this laptop is topof the line and it's
unusual for future graphics cards on laptops anyway to be supported by the
existing cooling system but can water
cooling make enough of a difference in a laptop to compensate for those drawbacks
to answer that we'll be comparing performance docked and undocked against
a full-on desktop with similar
hardware and hm it seems in our testing
the extra juice both water juice and power juice well it doesn't make as big
of a difference as you might expect with us observing about a 10% increase in
performance on the maximum performance profile in ASUS's software this might
make the Dock's usefulness seem Highly Questionable but I also have to point
out that it makes the machine heaps quieter without the dock it's like every
other Uber laptop louder than a tu of
recital in the apartment above you but when it's docked it calms down I mean I
wouldn't call it silent but it's low Roar isn't overly
distracting there is some more bad news though rgpu ended up in the mid-60s
underload on water cooling which is great but for some reason the cooling
solution couldn't quite seem to keep up with our CPU with thermal throttling
kicking in under heavy load in ASUS's extreme you know feed it power till it
burns profile I suspect that this was a
conscious effort that was made to direct cooling to the gpus because during
gaming it's unlikely that the CPU will hit full load and so we didn't actually
experience this thermal throttling in any of our gaming tests but if you
wanted to use this thing as a video editing Powerhouse you might want to uh
make some adjustments we were able to mitigate the problem to a
degree by creating our own less aggressive overclock profile at 4.2 GHz
which as disappointing as that might be it should still be noted is the fastest
we've ever seen one of these mobile processors by 100 MHz making then the
gx800 by every measure the fastest
quietest gaming laptop we've ever tested
while docked with the flexibility to carry most of its 4K gaming experience
with you in a sort of normal-sized
backpack so it comes down then to price
and bulk would you spend $6,000 for the privilege of owning one
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