Asus ROG GX700 Water-cooled Gaming Notebook

Watercooling was once reserved for hardcore overclockers and gamers. Water cooling has traditionally been an exotic extra that gamers would append to their rigs to enhance their cooling setups, on the one hand, and to accredit themselves as hardcore enthusiasts, on the other.

Asus, believes watercooling should be a mobile experience. At the IFA trade show in Berlin, Asus is showing off its flagship 17-inch GX700 gaming notebook. Asus claims it’ll be the first 17-inch gaming laptop to sport a 4K resolution display. It’s reportedly powered by an Intel K-series Skylake CPU and Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics.

The system is loaded with an Intel i7-6820HK chip (base clock of 2.7GHz, turbo frequency of 3.6GHz), a whopping 64GB of RAM and an unreleased Nvidia graphics card that reports 2,048 cores, a clock speed of 1,190MHz, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPS and 160GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What makes the GX700 so unique it its “docking base,” which is actually a standalone watercooling solution. The notebook works perfectly fine without the additional cooling, making it just as portable as any other high-end gaming system. Attaching it to the cooling base, however, allows you to really push the hardware to the edge and can increase performance by as much as 80 percent according to Asus.

Asus plans to make the GX700 available by the end of the year. No word yet on how much it’ll cost although if you have to ask that question, it’s probably safe to assume it’s out of your price range.