ASUS's GX700 Laptop: Watercooled with 4K Display

[HKZeroFive]

The big announcement from ASUS though is a completely new gaming laptop called the GX700 series. This is a new flagship gaming laptop from the company and they have tried to pack in quite a few unique features to differentiate from the competition. Someone can correct me if I am mistaken here, but I believe this is the first modern gaming laptop to be offered with a closed loop liquid cooling system. We have seen what a dramatic difference this can make under load on the recently launched AMD Fury X GPU, and ASUS is just teasing us for the moment and will release more details about this later. It will feature a 3840x2160 17.3-inch display, and a yet to be determined GeForce GTX graphics system. The GX700 will feature the mobile K-series Skylake processors much like the G752 and will therefore support overclocking. With the water cooling system, this could make for a pretty powerful laptop. The GX700 will be released in Q4 as well but the price is not final yet.

Looks like something I'd stay clear from and just grab something a little less extreme. I'm really struggling to find a reason why you'd want to get this over other gaming laptops because that thing on the back looks like something you don't want to carry around, even though I believe that will be some sort of dock. Not going to attempt to imagine the pricing on this. But this is the first closed liquid cooling laptop I believe, so props to ASUS for that...

Sauce: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9585/asus-refreshes-rog-laptops-with-g752-and-liquid-cooled-gx700-series

More Info About The Dock

Just browsed around on Guru3D and found this:

This isn't your typical docking station — you won't be getting Ethernet or hooking up an external monitor by pushing down on the latch. 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. 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.

Obviously, this laptop and liquid cooling dock combination isn't for everybody, and ASUS doesn't expect it to be. ROG stands for Republic of Gamers, ASUS's gaming-focused line-up of laptops, desktops, and accessories. The GX700 fits that bill. It's technically a laptop and thus technically portable, but it's certainly not a machine you'd want to lug around on a regular basis. It's huge, it's heavy, and though we don't have specs on it, we don't expect the battery life to be phenomenal. This is a machine purpose built for hardcore gaming — it just makes it easier to pick up and go somewhere else to do that gaming if you have to. It's radically-designed, it'll be insanely expensive, and it's just so damn cool (in more way than one).

Sigh. This just spells disaster. More specifically, a 'coolant spilt all over the floor' disaster.

Dock Info Sauce: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-rog-gx700-laptop-has-liquid-cooling.html

[Finn the Potato]

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Looks like something I'd stay clear from and just grab something a little less extreme. I'm really struggling to find a reason why you'd want to this over other gaming laptops because that thing on the back looks like something you don't want to carry around. Not going to attempt to imagine the pricing on this. But this is the first closed liquid cooling laptop I believe, so props to ASUS for that...

Sauce: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9585/asus-refreshes-rog-laptops-with-g752-and-liquid-cooled-gx700-series

Surely the thing on the back is the watercooler... What if some old woman thought it was something that wasn't meant to be on there. Scissors. Snap! What would happen?

[Trik'Stari]

.......now that just doesn't make any sense. It's a laptop.

[FakezZ]

The thing is basically an expensive desktop with a screen strapped on it

[OAcesync]

Yeah no this imo defeats the purpose of a LAPTOP

[PineappleHolidays]

"Lemme just go watch some porn in the toilet"

NOPE water cooling

 

Really what's the point of a laptop if you can't use it while on the shitter ?

[kameshss]

Yeah no this imo defeats the purpose of a LAPTOP

Surely

[theninja35]

Didn't a user watercool his MSI laptop? He even got it into one of MSI's booths. I'll have to look at that later, because technically that's the first. This is the first manufactured, watercooled laptop.

 

I think it looks ugly, though. The back looks like some kind of mesh alienware thing.

[Maslofski]

laptop with booty

[Tycho]

[VerticalDiscussions]

Well at least like Asus said you can exercise pretty well with that laptop and ZenWatch 2 Monitoring.

[Geralt]

That's......a laptop?

 

I wanna see if you can put that on your lap man.

[Overkilled]

Do we know for sure that can't be taken off?

Might be the docking station for all we know

[HKZeroFive]

Can't tell who did it better; ASUS or Linus...

 

 

At this moment, I'm leaning towards Linus.

[Bouzoo]

Honestly, It reminds me of a tumor (not offending anyone). I'm really curious where do you plug this in?

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Looks like a fooking spider(lady) with dat ass...

 

[Thorium19]

I think that makes even a GT80 titan look portable, I'd steer clear of that by a long way.

[GoodBytes]

Wow! Look at this portability!

It will great to carry this every day to school, and take notes in class.

Or even using it on the plane. Planes has a nice tray for the water cooling unit, which is nice.

I also heard that you get a free trip to Guantanamo Bay when you bring this on the plane, a real bonus.

[Trik'Stari]

Wow! Look at this portability!

It will great to carry this every day to school, and take note in class.

Or even using it on the plane. Planes has a nice tray for the water cooling unit, which is nice.

I also heard that you get a free trip to Guantanamo Bay when you bring this on the plane, a real bonus.

That cooling loop has more than a certain amount of liquid? TERRORIST!

[PlayStation 2]

this really defeats the purpose of a laptop

[HKZeroFive]

Do we know for sure that can't be taken off?

Might be the docking station for all we know

Yep, it's detachable.

But in no way am I going to choose that over a simpler laptop and a gaming rig,

[Nup]

I like the concept, if they manage to make the laptop itself reasonably light it could be nice. Or it'll spur someone else to refine it farther. 

[Misanthrope]

-Bob: "We need a new laptop product"

-Bill: "No, actually we really do not"

-Bob: "Yeah we just have to differentiate and offer something impractical and stupid nobody else is offering"

-Bill: "Yeah we already saw a stupidly big laptop with a mechanical keyboard on it"

-Bob: "What? No but I like the way you think, no I mean watercooling!"

-Bill: "You wanna water cool a laptop? Defeating it's entire purpose of being portable by making it a walking liability or loosing all thermal benefits?"

-Bob: "Differentiate Bill, that's what we're doing!"

[HKZeroFive]

Some more information about the dock has been added to the OP. Looks like it's the mechanism that allows it to have liquid cooling, and in my honest opinion, asking to have coolant leaks. Technically, you could say this is a liquid cooled laptop, but WHAT IS THE DAMN POINT IN BUYING THIS OVER A REGULAR GAMING PC?!?

[GarnetDevil]

Stop merging laptop's purpose with desktop's. It's unlike merging mobile phone with tablet into phablet