We're here at the ASUS headquarters where they have sponsored a video for us
to take a look at their latest and greatest technologies. Now, there are
the new 5060 laptops and we'll briefly look at those, but what I think is a lot
more interesting is their new display stuff. We're going into their secret
tech demo room where we have some very nice displays and also a whole lot of
echo. Wow, I am so sorry about the audio
of this video, but I am not sorry about these displays, man. Look at these. I'm
not sure if you'll be able to tell after YouTube compression, but we have the
last gen Stricks G and the current gen.
And they have the same panel minus the coating. And the difference it makes is
incredible. They have a new ACR coating.
And apparently the reflectivity has gone down from 6% on the old one to 3% on the
new one. I really hope that you can tell just how apparent the difference is in
the rejection of my phone's flashlight when I'm shining it on these because it
is wild. And also, it helps so much with
being able to see details like this cat right here. The contrast on this display
is so much better. You can see a lot more detail in these sort of bluish
highlights compared to the last gen. And overall, it just looks a lot better with
nothing more than a different coating on top. Continuing with display
improvements that are incredibly important, but also very subtle, is the
Nebula Display HDR. Now, we already took a look at this on ShortCircuit, and it
is exceptional, but it and basically
every other HDR display on a Windows laptop have this problem where they
overblow all of the colors. Not so much
anymore. We can go in here, turn off
vivid mode, and go into true color HDR.
And man, it looks so much better. The
difference between looking like a real
leaf right here or some real grass and a
television that you look at in Best Buy is
exceptional. Here's the last gen panel. This one is,00 nits compared to the
12,200 nit one. And even though this one probably looks brighter and more
colorful to you, man, this one looks so
much better. Probably the highest praise that I could give to this display is
that with its new true color mode, I was able to compare it to a certain fruit
company's fourth iteration of their Pro laptop, and the display looks almost
identical. There's pretty much no higher
praise that you can give for an HDR display right now. But fortunately, not
only mobile devices get display upgrades. You do too for much less money
than previously. This right here is the Tough
Gaming and it is an exceptional value
probably depending on Terra stuff. But what we have right here is for probably
under $300 a 300Hz 1440p display that
covers 95% of DCIP3. And honestly, I
have been looking at it and it looks really freaking good for the price. In
the past, if you wanted 300 Hz on a display that wasn't super duper
expensive, it looked like hot. But fortunately though, this one right here,
like look at this. It isn't mindblowing
in the visual department, but it looks more than good enough. And
unsurprisingly, it is fantastic for gaming. This thing right here being 300
Hz of course is fantastic for playing shooters like CS:GO. As long as you're
not bad like myself and in the past for something that had this kind of visuals
and half the refresh rate, you'd be paying $600. That's what my monitor was.
This stuff is supposed to come out in
July. But maybe you're a true esports gamer and you can't just have 300 FPS
and you can't just have 600 FPS like their competitors have. No, ASUS has
taken their Super TN panel and overclocked it to an
astounding 610 FPS, beating the
competition by 1.6%. But honestly, this
thing is freaking sweet. You can probably tell watching this at 30 FPS,
the response times of this are wild. like just moving the mouse around on
this. I have such incredible control of
where it goes. It is insane to just look
at, but also it isn't too bad to look at
for a TN panel. Now, it doesn't look
amazing if we're totally honest, but compared to panels that are super highly
tuned for FPS that I've seen in the past, this thing is really quite good.
and they were able to achieve that by changing the way that the backlight is
done. So, as you might know, if you want incredibly crisp motion on your display,
you need to strobe the backlight so the backlight's only on when the pixels are
in their correct orientation. Basically,
you don't want to see the pixel changing colors while the backlight is on. This
can cause problems though on older monitors where they had a backlight that
goes all the way along the bottom which can for one just not look very good.
Kind of nails your contrast, but also it
doesn't allow them to have the kind of control that they have now. By putting
the back lightss along the sides, they've actually been able to have it so
that as your pixels refresh from the top to the bottom, the backlight is able to
strobe at the same time, which gives you
incredible motion clarity. They call this
ELMBB2, enhanced blur reduction, and it
works pretty freaking good. Combine that with their 0.8 8 millisecond input
latency and you have an exceptional gaming display for those hardcore gamers
out there. This ROG Stricks Ace is expected for around $800 and will be
launching in July. But maybe you're like me and not a true esports gamer and you
just want something that looks pretty darn good. Well, that's where the new
ROG Stricks OLED XG32 comes in with
their new true black glossy version. Or
maybe you want the semig gloss version. or maybe you want the matte version. As
we have already discussed in this video, the coding of your display can make a
huge difference to how those colors are going to be represented and the contrast
you're able to get. So, it's really nice to see that they have a bunch of
different options depending on what you want to do. So, maybe you're in a bright
room, get the matte one. Maybe you can't decide, go for the semig glossy one. Or
I really think you just get the true black glossy cuz man, like Glenn, just
have a gander at this display. It looks freaking exceptional. Now, we do kind of
expect HDR OLED displays to look pretty
darn good in 2025. I was particularly impressed. This one, depending on
tariffs and crop, is
$800. For that, you get 4K at 165 FPS.
Or, if you're more of a hardcore gamer, you can change it over to be 1080p at
330fps. That said though, I'd probably just
leave it on 4K because it is OLED, which
means that you get those incredible 0.03 millisecond response times because
each individual pixel just gets to turn on and off as it wants to. One neat
little feature about this display is that it has a proximity sensor. So,
you're able to have it so that your OLED display doesn't just continue displaying
stuff if you leave it alone. And also, I have had problems in the past with
laptops and stuff like that having their proximity sensors be way, way too
sensitive. So, I'll sort of turn, look away, come back. My laptop's locked. H
damn it. Well, here they have a tailored mode. So, I can come in here. How far do
I want to be? 88 cm. Oh, can I get 69,
72, 73,
66? Ah, I tried. I'm sorry. The Stricks
OLED XG32 is able to hit 1,300 nits. But
if you get an extra $150 laying around, you can spring for the version that does
4K 240 Hz or 1080p 480 for that wildly
fast gaming. But I don't know, I'd probably just go for the 165 if I'm
honest. Moving on from displays though, we do have new 5060 laptops. We have the
Tough Gaming A14. This right here was one of my favorite laptops of last year
and it does have a little bit of a price bump this year, but such is everything
in the world these days. Moving over, we also have some F-series laptops which
get you bigger displays and not quite as much chassis rigidity if I'm honest, but
they do have the new A18 right here which is a bit large and a bit floppy,
but at the same time for an 18-in gaming laptop is not too bad. In the interest
though of actually saving you a buck, ASUS has made this right here, the Tough
Gaming T500. It is somewhat like a normal compact
desktop, but if you look a little bit more closely, uh, what the heck is this?
What the heck is that? Well, what they have done is they have taken a mobile
CPU and slapped it onto a sort of
desktop motherboard thing. They did this because they realized that mobile CPUs
can actually be had for less than their desktop counterparts. Then if you just
throw a big old heat sink on it and give it a bunch more power and cooling, they
perform pretty darn well. This one right here with a 5060 Ti 16 GB is only $1299
with an i7, which is pretty darn good,
especially for a little compact desktop thing. And finally, we have the new Asus
G14. This guy right here is really quite
cool. so cool that I think I'm not going to look at it too much because I want to
do a full video on it in ShortCircuit with full Labs testing and it's going to
be pretty sweet I suspect. What we can
look at right now though is the difference between the 5080 version and
the new 5060 version. Unsurprisingly, a
5060 is a lot smaller than a 5080. You
can see it right here. There's just way less memory, way less VRM around it and
all of that goodness. That did mean that on the 5060 model here, we'll just slap
the SSD right there. Everything's good.
On the 5080 model, they had to have clearance for a couple of the power
modules and stuff here, which means that this SSD to be a little bit higher off.
The 5080 version also gets a larger heat pipe and an extra heat pipe contributing
a little bit to that thickness. And also the fans are a tiny bit bigger just to
deal with that extra cooling that they need to do. That logic doesn't apply to
every single laptop though. This right here is the Stricks G16 and no matter
what GPU you get, you get a vapor chamber on it. Meaning that your 5060
can be cooled really, really well. Your 5090 can be cooled really, really well,
and ASUS can be thanked really, really well for sponsoring this video. Huge
thanks for watching, guys. Hit like, get subscribed, and check the links down in
the description to see what ASUS has on sale. They have so much more stuff in
this booth that we just did not have time to cover, but does not mean that
it's not cool. See you later. Have a great day.