Asus ROG GX800 review – ultimate Gaming Laptop

The best things in this world does not come for free, same is the case with the Asus ROG GX800 gaming laptop. Key high light is it supports 4K UHD, comes with liquid cooling system and using dual Graphics (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI.

Though gaming laptops are meant for performance and portability, this Asus ROG GX800 though can be moved around is not that light weight. Since this ROG gaming laptop comes with mechanical keyboard it increases the overall weight. The Laptop weight is 5.7 Kg with built in battery and the Cooling system weight itself is around 4.7 kg.

The Screen is 18.4 inches and resolution is 4K UHD. The hardware is very powerful and with dual graphics the games run buttery smooth, not to forget on a 4K  resolution. 

Asus ROG GX800 specifications

CPU : Intel® Core™ i7 7820HK Processor
Chipset : Intel® CM238 Express
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI , with 16GB VRAM
Screen : 18.4″ (16:9) LED backlit UHD (3840×2160) Anti-Glare Panel with 100% Adobe with G-Sync
RAM : DDR4 2800MHz SDRAM, up to 64 GB SDRAM
Storage : 1.5TB PCIE Gen3X4 SSD (RAID0)
Keyboard : Mechanical Keyboard W/ROG AURA
Other Feature  : Card reader, Mic, Headphone jack, USB 3.0, USB 3.1, HDMI, Mini Display, RJ45, docking port, 3W speaker, ASUS Sonic Studio, 8 Cells 74 Whrs battery
Connectivity : WiFi, Bluetooth, External Antenna
Weight : 5.37 Kg Laptop and Thermal Dock 4.7 Kg
OS : Windows 10 Home

	Standard	Optimised	Extreme	Manual
Power	Battery	330W	2x 330W	2x 330W
CPU	3.2GHz	3.6GHz	4.2GHz	4.4GHz +
RAM	2.4GHz	2.4GHz	2.4GHz	2.8GHz +
GPU	600MHz	1190MHz	1228MHz	1400MHz +
GDDR5X	5GHz	7GHz	7GHz	8GHz +

Asus ROG GX800 – design, build and screen

Without its dock, the GX800 weighs 5.7kg. No worries, though: Asus supplies a travel bag and a wheelie case for it and the dock, so all you have to worry about at LAN parties is the machine being surrounded by amazed onlookers.

You get a desktop-level number of ports around the outside of the GX800. There are three full-size USB 3 ports, two further USB 3.1 Type-C ports (one of which is Thunderbolt 3 compatible), a Mini DisplayPort 1.4 jack, an HDMI 2.0 port, separate 3.5mm jacks for headphones and a microphone, an SD card reader, a gigabit Ethernet port and an extra dedicated port for an optional external Wi-Fi aerial.

he screen takes the form of an 18.4-inch IPS panel. On my sample it was a Full HD screen, but in the final build this will be an Ultra HD 3,840 x 2,160 panel. This is one of those rare occasions where a laptop’s graphics hardware will be capable of driving a 4K screen. It’s ready for G-Sync, too: This is actually quite important because the ludicrous levels of performance means the GX800 will likely exceed the refresh rate of the screen on a regular basis, and G-Sync will keep it in line to prevent screen tearing.

The GX700’s keyboard was one of its weakest points. It was fine, but it was also a stock Asus ROG keyboard found on various different notebooks. It wasn’t very special and didn’t really match the extreme design of the rest of the machine.

Once finished, this could be one of the best keyboards on a laptop, although very few people will actually get to use one.

The rest of the design is standard Asus ROG fare, with soft-touch plastic, metallic highlights and a dark grey lid with LED highlights. It’s a classy machine made all the more impressive by liquid-cooling dock. The only area that some may find fault with is the shiny copper-coloured highlights, which feel like they’re from the HP Spectre 13, not an Asus ROG machine

As far as I can tell, the dock hasn’t changed a huge amount in terms of external design. This is a good thing; the connection mechanism feels as secure as ever and while the dock doesn’t exactly run quietly when the machine is under load, it’s not overbearing. Just a constant “whooshing”.

Internally, there have been some changes. The valves connecting the cooler to the laptop have been upgraded, while the pipes themselves have increased in size and the volume of coolant inside has also been increased to cope with the extra cooling demands of the CPU and two GPUs.