Asus’ Republic of Gamers brand of simply known as ROG has
always been a major part of Computex. Last
year, the brand released several products including the Maximus VI Formula
motherboard, the Poseidon Graphics card and a couple of Tytan laptops.
This year, the company announced even more products, which
includes a 4K gaming laptop, two Steam machines, several motherboards and a
number of gaming PC accessories.
Leading the charge of announcements is the GX500. The laptop
is based on the Asus NX500 laptop and packs a 15.6-inch 4K IPS display that can
show 100 percent of the NTSC colour gamut. It also comes with Asus’s
VisualMaster technology, an Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia GeForce 860M
graphics chip.
The laptop has a very thin profile at just 0.75 inches thin
and weighs just 4.9 pounds, making it one of the slimmest gaming laptops in the
market rivalling that of Razer’s Blade,
Maingear’s Pulse
17 and MSI’s GS70.
Thanks to its Nvidia graphics card, the GX500 boasts cool and nifty features that would make any gamer happy including automatic game optimization, ShadowPlay and the ability to automatically record segments of a game so users can later share them on their social networks. It also has Nvidia’s Battery Boost technology that maximizes the laptops 6-cell battery.
The ASUS ROG GX500 is set to ship sometime in Q3 2014 for a
little less than $2000.
Also on ROG’s menu at Computex are the ROG G20 gaming
desktop and the ROG GR8 console gaming PC. The ROG G20 sports an Intel Core i7
processor with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 graphics that is housed in a
12.5-liter case, making it an ideal solution for those with big gaming needs
but have small spaces.
The G20’s ventilation system takes advantage of natural
convection in order to cool the entire machine. The computer’s case uses a
thermal design with a hidden airflow tunnel that accounts for the G20’s efficient
heat management and low operating noise. ROG and Asus has also made the gaming
desktop extremely power efficient which only consumes 20W in Eco Energy mode.
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| ROG GR8 (Left) and ROG G20 (Right) |
Design-wise the computer’s case sports a sophisticated
design, Mayan stencilling and customizable lighting effects that shows up to 8
million colours across three different zones. Moreover the G20 also comes
equipped with Asus’s Aegis application that helps users monitor system
performance through a very gamer-friendly interface.
Then there’s the ROG GR8 console gaming PC which will support
SteamOS. The machine will be powered by an Intel Core i7 processor coupled with
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 750Ti GPU. It will also have SupremeFX audio output,
support for UHD graphics and Gigabit Ethernet networking.
ROG has also baked in a built-in Miracast receiver and WiDi
3.5 that allows the GR8 to mirror and stream content from supported Android
smartphones and tablets as well as Windows 8.1 devices.
