The LEAST PORTABLE Laptop Yet! ASUS GX800
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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check them out at the link in the video description so I have to give ASUS
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credit for this they along with everyone
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else and their dogs built a laptop that
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is by any reasonable account not really
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very portable this is the gx800 but ASUS they thought gee how are
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people going to move this and they created the choice of
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Champions rolling luggage which lets you
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put your external water cooling solution for your gx800 laptop into a
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conveniently carriable or rollable carton that you can bring
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around with you wherever it is that you want to take this device now they also
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thought of this unlike some of the other ones we've checked out ASUS lets you
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actually disconnect the laptop
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itself do I have to wait a minute just pull up there we go look at that from
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the dock that contains two 120 mm water
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cooling radiators a bunch of LEDs a
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bunch of tubing a pump a power input
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which I'll explain a little bit more later and finally check that out oh look
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at that look at that sliding action right there right there is two quick
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disconnect fittings that actually come off of the water cooling pipes that are
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inside the laptop here to handle cooling the CPU and GPU letting it run
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Standalone so it's an 18 no 18in display
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4K so uh and I believe that is uh that's
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an IPS display looking good you guys I'm liking it in terms of IO you get SD you
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get two USB 3s and this is a funny one
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they have a little spot for an external antenna Accord to ASUS you don't have to
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use it again it's all about the options you can plug an external antenna in put
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it like somewhere else and you will get significantly improved Wireless
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performance pretty cool haven't tried it for myself but I plan to they're going to be sending one of these over right
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here they have created one of the most custom power plugs I've ever seen this
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is connected to a 330 W power brick that
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is under the table here and the reason that you need that and the second one
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that goes into the docking station is that the hardware and inside this baby
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is unreal first though gigabit Lan HDMI mini DisplayPort super speed type-c
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Thunderbolt type-c more USB 3 and dedicated microphone and headphone Jacks
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so inside here is a core i7 7820 HQ
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that's an overclockable skew 64 gigs of RAM 1 tbte of raid zero NVMe storage you
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got an additional Bay for a 2 and 1/2 in Drive some of these specs might be
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subject to change especially storage and RAM depending on the region because
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that's how these guys roll and you've also got two G GTX 1080s running in SLI
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so you get much of the performance with a single cable an option that most other
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SLI 1080 notebooks do not provide where
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they just have like a like a weird adapter and I don't know how they behave
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if you plug only one cable in and then you get full unrestricted performance if
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you plug in both bunch of other high-end
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stuff on this guy you've got a full individually back lit RGB keyboard as
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well as three different profile so you can save all your Macros save all your
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color schemes and all that good stuff and I guess gee what else would I even
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really say about it other than this thing is this thing is bananes I mean
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look at that interface at the back there's that power that custom power
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ring thing they got going on there's the guides there's the uh the quick
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disconnects which by the way only leave a mild dampness on either side so you
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can unplug and plug it in many many times over so there you have it it's
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heavy but it's powerful and from my
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experience with it so far it's actually quite quiet and it can be air or water
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cooled that's right my ARM's
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