Worlds FASTEST Watercooled Laptop
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,544 words · ~7 min read
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what would you do if your gaming machine
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overheated we've seen every solution from adding extra fans to cracking open
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the bottom panel to far sketchier
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methods than those but what if one of the world's most skilled and apparently
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insane teams of Engineers was presented with this problem well you might end up
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with a solution that looks a little something like this meet the ASUS G x800
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the world's most powerful water cooled
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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
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gx800 out of the included backpack and
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travel case are one this laptop comes in
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two pieces more on that later and two it
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looks flipping badass the matte black
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palm rests metal accents and strategically positioned lighting
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effects give it every bit as premium a
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feel and look as you'd expect for its
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whopping $6,000 price tag coming around the back
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is where things get really interesting though
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these Quick Connect fittings allow the gx800 to be easily docked and undocked
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from the included external water cooling unit so going from portable to
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Performance takes less than 10 seconds
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place the laptop down on these two pins
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then push down here to Lock and Load
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once engaged the docking station thanks to its second power brick doubles the
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available power to 660 ws and engages
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the pump and radiator fans turning this
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beast from a fox that might steal your chickens to like one of these
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things but what could be in this machine
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to Warrant all of this extra power and
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cooling well two overclock GTX 1080
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graphics cards in SLI you donk would you
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think there was going to be in there mobile hardware and the rest of the
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specs of this thing are absolutely banging too it's rocking three m.2
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drives in raid zero for 1 tbte of Blazing fast Solid State Storage 64 gigs
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of ddr4 RAM and a core i7 7820 HK that's
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overclocked to 4.4 GHz out of the box IO
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is similarly impressive with just about everything you could want in including
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Thunderbolt 3 DisplayPort and this
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funky Network antenna extendo thing so
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you could have like mad dope AF internet
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even when you're not plugged in or whatever they were trying to do with
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that and all of that power won't be
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wasted on a monitor that can't take advantage of it the gx800 has an 18in 4K
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60 HZ G sync IPS display which comes
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with all the benefits you might expect super sharp image quality in games and
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4K videos along with great viewing angles and variable refresh rate
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technology that makes lower frame rates appear smoother to the eye while
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eliminating screen tearing not that you'll be running into low frame rates
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very often the way this laptop stomped
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on everything we threw it it at Ultra details at 4K resolution is nothing
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nothing short of amazing with the terrain and Rise of the Tomb Raider
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looking proper stunning I mean so did everything else but what really sets it
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apart from the other balls to thewall
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laptops that we've checked out recently is that the gx800 is surprisingly good
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as a traditional laptop when it's
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undocked while it is a little on the chubby side it's not leg crushingly
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heavy like the predator 21x and the large properly positioned
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trackpad responds well with nice satisfying clicks on the discret right
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and left buttons it might look a little
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bit Over the Top If you roll up to the library and whip out one of these things
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but if you need on the-go productivity or gaming it is usable for a little
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while the mechanical style keyboard is reasonably comfortable to type and game
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on but it doesn't use Cherry Key
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switches like the Predator 21x so the feel will be mushier and less consistent
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I did find myself making more errors than usual with that said the nearly
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standard layout and the full number pad are nice touches but let's move on then
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from the Practical aspects of this beast and focus on answering the question
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you've all been waiting for how the
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actual F does water cooling in a laptop
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work well we're going to have to pop off the
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bottom to see and would you look at that
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the gx800 not only has a full air
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cooling setup with six heat pipes and two fans it also has this absolutely
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Bonkers fully custom water cooling Loop
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but there's some bad news in here unlike
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some high-end laptops the GX 800's GTX
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1080s are soldered to the motherboard
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meaning that there's no swapping them out in the event of a failure or for
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something else down the road though it should be noted that everything about
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this laptop is topof the line and it's
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unusual for future graphics cards on laptops anyway to be supported by the
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existing cooling system but can water
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cooling make enough of a difference in a laptop to compensate for those drawbacks
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to answer that we'll be comparing performance docked and undocked against
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a full-on desktop with similar
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hardware and hm it seems in our testing
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the extra juice both water juice and power juice well it doesn't make as big
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of a difference as you might expect with us observing about a 10% increase in
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performance on the maximum performance profile in ASUS's software this might
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make the Dock's usefulness seem Highly Questionable but I also have to point
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out that it makes the machine heaps quieter without the dock it's like every
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other Uber laptop louder than a tu of
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recital in the apartment above you but when it's docked it calms down I mean I
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wouldn't call it silent but it's low Roar isn't overly
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distracting there is some more bad news though rgpu ended up in the mid-60s
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underload on water cooling which is great but for some reason the cooling
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solution couldn't quite seem to keep up with our CPU with thermal throttling
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kicking in under heavy load in ASUS's extreme you know feed it power till it
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burns profile I suspect that this was a
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conscious effort that was made to direct cooling to the gpus because during
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gaming it's unlikely that the CPU will hit full load and so we didn't actually
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experience this thermal throttling in any of our gaming tests but if you
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wanted to use this thing as a video editing Powerhouse you might want to uh
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make some adjustments we were able to mitigate the problem to a
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degree by creating our own less aggressive overclock profile at 4.2 GHz
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which as disappointing as that might be it should still be noted is the fastest
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we've ever seen one of these mobile processors by 100 MHz making then the
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gx800 by every measure the fastest
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quietest gaming laptop we've ever tested
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while docked with the flexibility to carry most of its 4K gaming experience
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with you in a sort of normal-sized
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backpack so it comes down then to price
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and bulk would you spend $6,000 for the privilege of owning one
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