Asus ROG GX700 test: high-end bolide with H2O cooling

The docking station accommodates water cooling and comes with a second power supply.


Unboxing: Asus ROG GX700VO


The Asus ROG GX700 is one of the extremely rare notebooks with air and water cooling. The latter is located in the large docking station. Once you have installed the GX700 in its brackets and connected to the 4.6 kg docking station, almost all performance components are water-cooled.


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This includes the Intel Core i7-6820HK, which is overclocked to 4 GHz, its chipset, 64 GB DDR4 RAM and a desktop instead of the slower mobile version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980. Only the 1 TB RAID 0 from two Intel- NVE-SSDs will remain outside.


Asus ROG GX700: details


In order for players to have as much as possible of the 3D power, Asus uses a matt and very bright 17-inch display with full-HD resolution and G-sync. Plus, you'll enjoy Gigabit LAN / WLAN, two USB 3.1 and three USB 3.0 ports, a card reader, and an HDMI and DisplayPort output.


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Asus also installs various tools that allow gamers to set various hardware profiles for the ROG GX700, define macro keys, or optimize network performance. The processing quality of the system is first-rate from the housings to the large, illuminated keyboard.


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More impressive is the performance. In the docking station, the Asus ROG GX700 surpasses 14,426 points in the 3D Mark Cloud Gate, 11,583 points in the Fire Strike test, and 8.05 CPU points in the Cinebench R11.5 even most of the game PCs. In addition, there are outstanding 4,661 points in the PC Mark 8 and the sensational readings of the SSD RAID 0 network of 3.1 TB / s.


All benchmarks in the overview


125 minutes


The only drawback: the water cooling underlines the player experience quite noise. So much power drains the 96-watt battery naturally fast. In the battery test was finished after 125 minutes. The GX700 is also not really intended for mobile use.


Who is the extremely expensive exceptional gaming notebook, does not come for a very long time in any performance gap. The sound development and the very high weight, however, express the evaluation.