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Asus-GX7002

IFA (remember CES, but with a lot more High german) runs this week from September 4 to 9, but if early press is whatsoever indication, Asus has but swept the testify. The company'south new GX700 laptop isn't only fast — it'southward overclocked and watercooled. If Asus hadn't distributed photos, nosotros might take thought the company was playing word games, and referring to a new estrus pipe design or CLLC (closed-loop liquid cooler) as a water-cooled design only to pulsate up some press. Nope. It's water-cooled, as a few additional shots fabricated clear.

The photo higher up doesn't actually practice a very proficient job of showing how large the h2o libation is compared with the residual of the laptop, but The Verge snapped a shot that frames the 2 components ameliorate.

Electric current high-end gaming laptops are often referred as desktop replacements, since they can weigh anywhere from 8-15 lbs and pack components with heat outputs that could sterilize a porn star. The GX700 puts an entirely new spin on that nickname. It doesn't just replace your desktop computer, it replaces your desktop. Boosted photos confirm that at that place are water pipe attachments at the dorsum of the unit for connecting to the external cooler.

Computerbase.de went a step further than almost and confirmed which hardware is running nether the hood. According to their reports, the system packs 64GB of RAM and utilizes an Intel Core i7-6820HK with a base frequency of 2.7GHz and a turbo frequency of 3.6GHz. The GPU is particularly interesting — it'south an as-yet-unreleased model from Nvidia. Currently, the tiptop-end GTX 980M packs 1,536 GPU cores, 160GB/southward of memory bandwidth, 96 TMUs, 64 ROPS, and a base clock of 1,308MHz. The GX700, in contrast, reports 2,048 cores, a 1,190MHz clock speed, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPS, and 160GB/due south of memory bandwidth.

Those specs put this new GPU in-between the GTX 980M and the standard desktop GTX 980. Information technology wouldn't surprise us if Nvidia is planning to unveil the first mobile Titan. Now that the brand is well-established, launching a mobile iteration of the compages could make sense — and while most laptops can't dissipate enough heat to make that applied, if whatever laptop e'er could, it'll be this one. Co-ordinate to Asus, the h2o cooler is used merely for the GPU, which could too hateful that the graphics carte is programmed for a much college boost clock when the h2o cooling module is enabled.

Information technology uses water cooling — just it doesn't have to

One primal business organization of many gamers is going to be whether or non the system has to use h2o cooling. Asus told Computerbase.de that it doesn't, but that hooking upward the h2o cooler and cranking upward clock speeds on both the CPU and graphics bill of fare can increase performance by as much as 80%. That's a very interesting claim — but the sheer size of that number gives us a flake of pause.

There's no uncertainty that overclocking a GPU with h2o can give you lot huge functioning boosts. When I reviewed the VisionTek CryoVenom R9 290, I saw that card outperform the air-cooled R9 290 past up to 20%. 20%, yet, is a far cry from 80% — and it implies that when you disconnect the water cooler, the GPU throttles downwardly hard to keep its own power consumption in check. So again, the GTX 980M has proven to be a remarkably expert mobile GPU, offering excellent performance with less throttling than we've seen in previous mobile hardware. This one could go either way, but the laptop can exist disconnected from its h2o cooler and transported.

No give-and-take on price yet, but we doubtable that if you have to ask, you can't afford it.