How has EVERYONE overlooked this?? - ASUS Strix Scar II 240Hz - CES 2019
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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protection here we are ASUS hasn't even set up yet
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in here in fact this is like they kind of pulled me aside from the pre-briefing
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thing and they were like okay yeah that stuff's really cool but like
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come on in here we got this and i was like
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that's an rog strix scar two
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why are you pulling me in here for this everything about this
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is like basically normal strict scar
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stuff so you got a bunch of ventilation for your cooling you got a bunch of heat
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pipes and you got a bunch of heat sinks because you got powerful graphics six
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core 8750h processor you got like a bunch of io sd
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card reader and you know RGB backlit
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keyboard and is this individually backlit yeah individually backlit cool
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that's good stuff all right so okay so we got we got RGB you know ASUS living
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up to their reputation clearly no Thunderbolt but lots of display we
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got you know wired networking and all that cool stuff and they're like
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no no no no hold on a second lioness don't walk away yet because i was half i
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was halfway i was halfway out of the room i'm like look you guys don't even
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respect me enough to put away your packing materials before
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see all right our say seuss rep is hiding he's hiding back there because
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he's like oh no i'm gonna get in all kinds of trouble for this but he's like
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no come back come back because this thing is what i have been asking for for so
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long so first of all they've added some better rigidity so the thing with strix
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for ASUS is they can't seem to decide if it's a premium brand or if it's kind of
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like their value brand because they've got rog
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like the high end rog and then strix was like kind of this value one but then
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they're like no no it's like it's for gaming it's premium and they're finally
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taking that seriously so they've added more metal to the bottom of the chassis
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so this is now a really rigid chassis like it makes the overall device feel
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quite a lot better still a little flimsy up here room for improvement there but
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you know baby steps right but the big thing the big thing i've been asking for
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is watch this holy
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crap so for years now i've been saying the
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same thing that actually apple's been saying and we don't agree on everything
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for sure but you don't need higher resolution once you get to the point
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where you can't distinguish the individual pixels and so while 4k
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displays make a ton of sense if you got a 32 inch monitor because at the
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distance you'd sit you would easily be able to make out the pixels on qhd or
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something like that for laptops this this race to 4k has just been
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frustrating for me we're sucking up extra battery we're making the screens
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dimmer because the closer you pack the pixels actually the harder it is to push
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the backlight through them like we're doing all these counterproductive things
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when what we should be focusing on is refresh rate this
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to my knowledge is the first laptop in
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the world with a 240 hertz display and not just that but
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check this out so it's using a sharp exo panel that has
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among the best anti-ghosting that i have
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seen certainly the best i've seen on a laptop look at this like it's hard to
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appreciate at 30 frames per second through a youtube compression
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filter but i can read this text as i'm
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moving it around on the screen that would have been
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unthinkable on anything but a crt in the
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past i mean maybe a high-end tn panel but but
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that's not what this is this is this is an exo panel it's not like just like bad
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viewing angle junk check this out
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so this is the closest thing i've ever seen to a
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zero compromises mobile gaming experience because high refresh rate is
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a true competitive advantage where higher resolution is not and speaking of
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competitive advantage unfortunately they had to have like
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someone directly over my shoulder the entire time to make sure that i didn't
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run any of these tantalizing benchmarks over here but this is actually going to
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be equipped with an rtx 2080 max q
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design or whatever NVIDIA's latest you know
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nomenclature for that is now ASUS can't tell me under pain of death
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what kind of performance we could expect for this compared to a regular rtx 2080
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but if i had to go out on a limb i'd say well the max q1's last gen were about 10
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percent lower so i wouldn't be surprised
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if we saw something along those lines now there's still room for improvement here this webcam bad
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terrible not only is it on the bottom it's off-center clearly they expect
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absolutely no one to use it but other than that the keyboard feels better than
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last gen track pad acceptable could be bigger but this is looking pretty
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freaking sick so my stylist fell out but
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it should be noted that that is the only damage that my phone sustained so this
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is the dbrand grip it features super clicky buttons it's really grippy it's
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got precise cutouts for all your various things be they fingerprint sensors
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cameras or whatever the case may be and of course
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fantastic impact resistance as you might expect for dbrand every grip case has a
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customizable spot on the back so you can put any dbrand skin you'd like on the
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back and then as for the front their prism screen protector
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is kind of unbelievable so it feels very
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glassy on the front but it's not glass
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like there's this demo they had me do that made me feel very uncomfortable
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hammering nails in with a phone that had a prism installed on the front and
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somehow the screen survived i thought
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like i love dbrand there are bros but i thought they must have kind of fudged it
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a little bit when they did the demo but they didn't
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and it's you should just go check it out at the
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link in the video description
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