ASUS
ROG GX700
Anybody
who's tried gaming with a laptop knows the biggest problem they face: heat
dissipation from a blazing-hot processor, GPU, and RAM. ASUS thinks they have a
solution for that with the ROG GX700: a combination of high-powered gaming laptop
with a crazy liquid cooling dock.
The
GX700 comes with an overclockable Intel Skylake processor, NVIDIA graphics, and
an exceptionally-sharp 17-inch 4K IPS LCD display. But the real star of the
show here is the liquid cooling, which comes courtesy of the enormous docking
station. This
gives you liquid cooling and nothing more. Think of it as the laptop equivalent
of an automotive radiator.
Seeing
as the dock is pumping liquid coolant through the laptop, you want a tight and
secure fit to avoid any leakage, and in our time with the GX700 we saw just
that. Pushing down on the latch slightly firmly the laptop in and connects the
conduits, expanding the cooling loop to the large radiator and fans in the rear
dock. If you're overclocking the processor, this seems to be a must, lest you
start melting your keyboard in the process. Undocking is a two-step process:
push down forcefully on the button close to the back of the laptop and then
lift up on the latch. Seems kind of necessary to us that it be difficult — we
wouldn't want to pick it up and have coolant pour out all over our desk.
