Liquid cooled: The GX700's docking station has an innovative liquid-cooling system to allow for extreme overclocking
Liquid cooling seems to be making a minor comeback in PCs but in laptops.
The latest to join ranks of liquid cooling is the Asus Republic of Gamers GX700.
However, the people at Asus didn’t just integrate a liquid-cooling system into the laptop – the GX700 works like a regular laptop with a fan and heatpipe cooling system when used by itself.
Connect it to its docking station, however, and a coupling system connects pipes to the back of the laptop and pumps liquid coolant throughout the GX 700’s system, carrying heat away from the laptop and back into the docking station to be dissipated by two very large fans.
Using the GX700 docked and attached to the ROG Hydro Overclocking System, as the docking station is called, allows for some major overclocking – Asus claims that users can overclock the CPU by up to 48% higher while the RAM can be overclocked by up to 43%.
Inside, the GX700 runs on the sixth gen Intel Core i7-6820HK processor (overclockable to 4GHz) with 64GB of DDR4 RAM (overlockable to 2,800MHz), 512GB SSD with RAID0 and NVMe support and a desktop-class Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 with 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
The laptop has a 17.3in anti-glare full HD 1080p IPS display which supports Nvidia G-sync and the whole machine without the docking system weighs 3.6kg. With the docking station, however, the machine will weigh a whopping 4.8kg.
Are you sitting down? Well, this kind of performance and engineering doesn’t come cheap – the Asus ROG GX700 has a recommended retail price of RM18,999 and is available now.
