ASUS introduced a gaming notebook ROG Chimera G703 with a 144-Hz matrix

The price and timing of release of ASUS ROG Chimera G703 to the market remain unknown.

Exhibition of consumer electronics IFA 2017 will be remembered, among other things, a presentation of a plurality of prototypes of new laptops and other ASUS mobile devices — ultra-slim “2-in-1” to slot “monsters”. The latter include and model ROG Chimera G703. Laptop thickness 51 mm combines Quad-Core Intel Core i7-7820HK (2,9/3,9 GHz) overclocked, the video card GeForce GTX 1080 8GB memory GDDR5X, up to 64 GB of RAM SO-DIMM DDR4-2800, maximum two NVMe SSD’s in RAID 0 and one 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD.

It is necessary to highlight the screen of ASUS ROG Chimera. Used IPS-matrix has a diagonal of 17.3 inches and a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. Her response time is 7 MS at the transition from gray to gray refresh rate — 144 Hz. Technology support synchronize refresh rate with frame rate, NVIDIA G-Sync, coupled with the capabilities of the accelerator GeForce GTX 1080 will provide a comfortable gameplay.

The cooling system of the laptop G703 includes four radiator with thin plates, which achieves a higher heat dissipation area than previous ASUS laptops. According to the company, the total area of the radiator fins is increased by 16 %, and airflow resistance, on the contrary, has decreased — 7 %. A pair of centrifugal fans is capable of holding the temperature of the CPU and GPU in the range of 80 °C under load.

The weak point of the ROG Chimera G703, is likely to be the battery life — especially in the case of overclocking Core i7-7820HK to 4.3 GHz, as stated by the manufacturer, and when the battery consumption of “heavy” games. At the sides of the laptop among other available connectors USB 3.1 Type-C/3 Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 (4x), HDMI 2.0, Mini DisplayPort 1.4 a, RJ-45, memory card reader, jacks for headphones and microphone.

Audiosistema novelties includes four speakers with a total power of 10 watts, amplifier with Smart technology Amp (to maintain high sound quality at high volume) and ESS Sabre DAC. The software component represented by the utility Sonic Studio III, which can be used, in particular, to emulate a 8-channel surround sound on ordinary stereo headphones. Laptop keyboard in turn, is characterized by a 2.5-mm stroke, and a customizable RGB-backlit keys, as well as multimedia keys, shortcuts for a quick start of the gameplay recording, backlight control, application call ROG Gaming Center and Xbox Live.

Detailed specification, price and release date ASUS ROG Chimera G703 to the market remain unknown.

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