so we'll begin as always with a shout out to Squarespace thanks for allowing
us to be here at CES 2016 this my friends is the kind of
stuff I get really really excited about portability and performance with no
compromises I was trying to find another p word it didn't happen anyway this is
the Rog xg2 very creatively named the x
is for extrem the G is for gophers and
the two is for second generation none of which is obviously right it's external
Graphics I don't know what the two is maybe they had an internal project that
got Ken somewhere along the way but this one looks like it turned out pretty darn
well so in terms of the size I would say it's fairly comparable to that magma
thing that I checked out about 3 years ago in terms of the functionality it
Bears very very little similari so they've got one of those like badass
like uh plasma tube things going on in
the front this is a bit of a new look for them I'm not sure if that's going to
make it into the final product or not apparently yes that will make it into
the final product because this is not the final product look the whole thing
just like comes apart so there's a couple cooling fans in the top and what
they've got down there looks like a completely custom PCB that is converting
two external DC power bricks so in this case each of them is about a 220 watt
external brick into whatever connectors you want there's actually a 24 pin ATX
connector in there although I don't know what that would be for in this form factor but what's actually connected to
it now is two PCI Express power connectors and we have a GeForce
gtx980ti running in here and it looks like ASUS has pretty much gotten around
the restrictions in terms of space for gpus by just making the Box a little bit
bigger so you can have tall cards you can have long cards you can have rear
blower cards you can put in pretty much whatever you want but that doesn't mean
that the entire ecosystem will be totally open ASUS has not yet determined
If the product while being definitely not valid dated on other maker notebooks
will be compatible or whether it will be locked out and I personally feel pretty
strongly it shouldn't be locked out because if you're willing to buy the Box
you've already given ASUS your money so let us know in the comments if you agree
with me in the meantime let's move on a little bit further so it adds not just
display connectivity to your laptop it not adds not just more GPU horsepower
but it also acts as a USB hub and I wonder does it have a land port back
here or did you not manag to squeeze that in there looks like no l Port
unfortunately but that's okay so basically the way it works is it's using
a USB 3.1 type-c connector with
Thunderbolt 3 to get a PCI Express 4X
3.0 link to your graphics card which is by the way more than enough that's about
equivalent to a PCIe gen 1 160x slot
which is still not a bottleneck today so they're running all kinds of benchmarks
over here on a mystery system that quite frankly they're being total [ __ ]
about and here it is so they're getting a score of
14,000 in fire strike which is pretty darn respectable you'd probably have to
have a quad core CPU for that yeah turns out they do so they've got a Skylake
core i7 6700 HQ running on this machine
it's got 32 gigs of ddr4 memory a 512
gig NVMe PCI Express SSD it's got uh I
don't know what else is they won't tell me anything about it they're letting me
look at the system info in 3D Mark but
what they will not tell me they'll tell me that the processor the quad core like
3.3 GHz turbo processor they're telling me it doesn't throttle but they're not
telling me how the crap they are doing it um I don't believe them that it's an
early prototype blah blah blah project that doesn't even have a name it's
[ __ ] because the hinge on this thing is gorgeous the build quality of it is
immaculate this is not an engineering sample I don't buy it at all in terms of
I/O it's got a mini DisplayPort it's got two USB type- C's so one of those is
for data over to that external box and one of them is actually for uh for
charging power it's got uh headphone jack it's got a couple USB 3 point
probably ones I would guess but who knows they're probably not going to tell me that either it's got a m it's got an
SD card slot and this thing is gorgeous they're telling me the display is 1080p
I don't believe them because because it doesn't look it doesn't look like it
keyboard feels key okay okay the keyboard's a bit mushy maybe that's
something they still have some work to do on but basically if this is a quad
core that doesn't throttle in this form factor with that external box then they
basically nailed it now the one Holy Grail thing is whether it can survive
being unplugged without causing a system crash because you've effectively just
changed the graphics card of a system on
the Fly you've hot plugged a graphics card and let's give them a couple
seconds they're advertising that it is functionality that it will have they're
not necessarily saying that it works now so maybe it doesn't work yet ah yes well
I wasn't going to leave the ASUS Booth without breaking at least one demo so
there you go I broke it but they've got hopefully at least a few more months to
get that fixed and I think that pretty much wraps up the ASUS booth for me
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