have you ever thought to yourself I've got very limited desk space but I simply
cannot bear to put my computer on the floor and run ever so slightly longer
wires okay so maybe that's not it but
whatever the reason giant Tower PCS for
enthusiasts are going away and these compact gaming machines are becoming
more and more common but it seems like
everything that I've seen so far has suffered from one flaw or another but
maybe it doesn't have to be that way meet the ASUS Rog
g20cb it's the best allaround mini
gaming PC I've seen yet and it has RGB
lighting dce
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video description no it's not quite
gaming console sized the Xbox One S is
less than half the size but the Rog
g20cb manages to pack much more gaming
power into its still very compact footprint it's got a COR i7 6700 quad
core with hyperthreading 16 gigs of ddr4
RAM a 512 gig SATA 3 SSD and a 1 TB hard
drive for a good balance of Speedy and spacious storage and it rocks an NVIDIA
GTX 1080 graphics card making it suitable for much more than the intense
full HD gaming that it advertises on the tacky sticker on the front in fact it
absolutely chewed through through every VR application we could throw at it and
made short work of our 4K gaming test Suite as well managing 45 to 60 plus FPS
across the board with most games running at or near Max details but that wasn't
the most impressive thing about it what blew me away was how quietly it did all
of this the g20cb is not just whisper
quiet when browsing the web it impressed the pants off me while I was running an
hourlong CPU stress test and doing the same thing in Doom at 4K and remember
this is coming from the same quiet freak who moved his computers into a separate
room to get away from fan and pump
noise so it turns out that the angled
shape of the case and the indent at the bottom are more than just style they're
part of an intentional acoustic management strategy the G20 is quiet
from a normal sitting position next to it at a desk but significantly louder if
you listen from the bottom or the top or the back the entire front of the system
other than the slim DVD drive looks like an air intake with a space AG Rog styled
Grill but it's actually blocked off to
keep noise inside the system cool air is
drawn up through the Bottom by custom blower Style fans and exhausted by the
rear blower on the video card and through this wide heat sink near the top
it works so well that even turning the video card fan up to 100% yielded only
an additional 50 MHz or so on the GPU in
Doom at 4K one of the biggest question marks
with any pre-built and especially a compact one though is upgradeability and
the g20cb is no exception here but if
you're willing to break the warranty sticker I was able to upgrade the 16 gig
single Channel memory to 32 gigs of dual Channel only removing about five screws
and if you're willing to dig a Little Deeper the video card can be swapped
ASUS includes an extra power cable for you for this and unlike its predecessor
the CB version has an empty m.2 slot under the optical drive that can be used
for an NVMe SSD so with rumor sites predicting that
both AMD and Intel's next Generation CPUs will perform marginally better at
best and the full stop in the trend
towards more power hungry video cards I don't expect either the motherboard or
the weird dual brick external power supply to hold back your gaming
experience for a few years at least so
in summary the G20 CB has some
unexceptional qualities the terrible lighting Control software treats your
inputs as mere suggestions the dedicated
second power plug for the GPU can be
accidentally yanked not that I speak from
experience and the included SK HX SSD
isn't the highest performance I've seen But at only a $200 premium over throwing
all the parts in a cart on New Egg and building it yourself for a super small
and Incredibly quiet gaming computer this one left me very
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and most importantly from the time that I've spent with it it is just playing
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