The new GeForce GTX for laptops featuring Max-Q Design technology was unveiled by NVIDIA at Computex 2017 with the customary charming polish and passion from the company’s leather-clad CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang. To be honest, it sounded too good to be true. Huang compared the new ASUS ROG Zephyrus, a sub-5 pound computer that is only 17.9mm thick, to a vintage 10-pound boat anchor of a gaming notebook.
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At half the weight and a third of the thickness of its predecessor (powered by a mobile GeForce GTX 880), the new ASUS notebook with a GeForce GTX 1080 and Max-Q Design technology offers three times the gaming performance of its predecessor. It was a strong assertion made in the face of a striking contrast. And you know we’re the kind who like to test out big assertions…
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To that end, we’re currently stress-testing the brand-new ASUS ROG Zephyrus with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q Design. Even though we’re still in the early stages of setup and evaluation, we thought it might be entertaining to provide a sneak peek of our preliminary findings with you on this ultra-thin slice of technology, along with a few benchmark scores for good measure.
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The ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501VI-XS74 has the following quick specs: Intel Core i7-7700HQ Quad-Core Kaby Lake at 3.8GHz Max NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with Max-Q Design and 8GB GDDR5 16GB DDR4-2400MHz 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD 15.6″ FHD 1920×1080 Non-Touch, Anti-Glare AVHA, 120Hz Refresh w/ N
$2699 MSRP
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It’s clear from the off that this is a genuine ASUS ROG product, and first impressions really do matter. The Zephyrus is a stylish gaming laptop made primarily of machined metal and featuring a…unique…keyboard area. The graphics processing unit and central processing unit are housed in a wide, well-ventilated space right behind the keyboard and behind the monitor. This area and the chassis’s edge vents release hot air while drawing in cooler air from underneath. More on this in a moment, but for now, notice how the track pad has been relocated to the right and the keyboard has been squeezed into the bottom third of the usual palm rest region. Getting acclimated to it all will take time, but we’ll talk more about that and other concerns in our comprehensive review in the coming weeks. A rubber wrist rest pad is included in the ASUS package and fits flush in front of the keyboard for improved ergonomics.
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A little cam mechanism, clearly visible on the machine’s left and right sides, raises the bottom plate, creating a space through which the internal fans may draw in cool air. The Zephyrus has a plethora of I/O options, including a Gigabit Ethernet adapter, the more common 802.11ac WiFi, a Gigabit Ethernet dongle, and an HDMI 2.0 port.
Thermals, Noise, and Ventilation on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus
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Disassembling the ASUS Zephyrus: Bottom Plate Bottom Hinge for ASUS Zephyrus
In addition to the power supply, ASUS includes a small Phillips-head screwdriver for releasing the four screws holding the bottom plate in place. Each of these two ASUS AeroAccelerator fans has 71 blades and is constructed from a unique polymer that, according to the company, generates 33 percent more airflow with each turn.
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The fans and cooling system are surprisingly quiet, just as NVIDIA claimed they would be. We found the machine to be roughly in line with ASUS and NVIDIA’s claimed noise level of 40 dB. While we haven’t finished our testing yet, our first impressions are that there are louder gaming notebooks out there, especially given the hardware inside this one.
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We were also glad to note that the GPUs’ temperatures were kept under control even after lengthy benchmark iterations. The GPUs’ temperatures never went beyond 80 degrees Celsius, regardless of the benchmarks we ran. Again, we’re still in testing, but everything seems to be going well. While gaming, however, we measured surface temperatures of more than 117 degrees Fahrenheit on both the top vent and the bottom of the laptop. Put it somewhere other than a body part if you want to play games on it.
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We’ll summarize this fast so you can get back to testing and other laborious tasks on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus. The graphics processing unit in the ASUS ROG Zephyrus, a GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q Design, is around 6–12% more efficient than the typical mobile GeForce GTX 1070 implementation. When compared to a full-fledged GeForce GTX 1080 mobile GPU in a full-sized, 10-pound machine like the Alienware 17 that we’ll be reviewing in the coming days, its performance is about 10 to 15 percent slower. Obviously, you have to pay to play, as the MSRP is $2700, but the reduced weight and thickness of the chassis allow for significantly increased performance.
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That’s all we have for the time being, and we won’t make any final judgments until we’ve completed our full evaluation here at HotHardware. This is just a sneak peek, but you should get a good idea of what this new gaming sword from ASUS ROG is capable of and how NVIDIA’s new GeForce with Max-Q Design technology works. In the coming weeks, we will be posting our comprehensive assessment.
