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The trend in mainstream laptop design is to make it equally unrealistically thin as possible, even if that means sacrificing battery life and operation. Improvements in mobile CPUs have fabricated super-thin laptops much faster than they once were, but what if that's not enough? For the discerning on the get gamer, Asus has announced a new version of its monstrous GX700 gaming laptop called the GX800 at Computex 2022. It has all the latest hardware with a giant liquid-cooling docking station. It takes the phrase "desktop replacement" seriously.

This is a big, big laptop, even without the liquid cooling dock. The display is 18.4-inches diagonally with 4K resolution and support for Nvidia G-Sync. To power that display the GX800 will have a pair of Nvidia GPUs configured in SLI, but Asus has only said they are unannounced GPUs — it was the same deal last time with the GX700. The version of the GX800 on brandish at Computex had dual GTX 980 GPUs. However, concluding year's GTX700 turned out to have a GTX 980. Either the production version of this laptop will come up with a newer GTX one thousand-based GPU, or the "unannounced" aspect is simply that now there are 2 GPUs in SLI.

The GX800 will include the latest Intel Core-i7 chip clocked at 4.4GHz and memory clocked at 3.8GHz. In combination with the GPUs, non only will you be able to play games at incredibly high native resolution, but the 1000-Sync display refresh rate will by synchronized to the GPU to reduce violent and lag. This laptop needs 2 330W power supplies to continue all that hardware running, simply it gets fifty-fifty more powerful when plugged into that massive water cooling dock.

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You can't usually overclock laptops very much, but the GX800 is designed for that very thing. When you connect the laptop to the water cooling dock, information technology is capable of overclocking the GPUs equally much every bit 236%. The docked GX800 can also push the CPU to its maximum clock without fright of overheating. If it's annihilation similar the GX700, the liquid from the cooling dock doesn't actually circulate through the entire laptop when you plug it in. That would interfere with cooling when the dock wasn't fastened. Instead, the compressor moves liquid through a smaller loop that pulls rut away from the components via a more conventional heat pipage. Information technology'll run fine without the dock, but non as fast.

The larger frame of the GX800 has also allowed Asus to upgrade this year's gaming powerhouse laptop with a custom mechanical keyboard. Laptops are plagued by flimsy, depression-travel keys, but Asus says this one volition make gamers quite happy. It uses switches Asus designed in-business firm called MechTAG (Mechanical Tactile Avant-garde Gaming). The company didn't go into item, but the keys are raised from the surface of the laptop, indicating they take a good amount of travel. The "tactile" role of the name suggests the MechTAG switches volition have a slight tactile bump like MX browns on total keyboards. The GX800 likewise has full RGB backlighting in the keyboard.

The GX800 is expected to launch in August, just the price is unknown. Fix yourself for sticker shock, though. The GX700 retailed for over $3,000 when it came out.