Asus rog gx500

Shops can put random estimates sometimes. Will have to wait and see.

 

These guys didn't get the specs right either.

 

Yeah, I just found it interesting and wanted to share.

 

lol yeah the specs are quite off. Not really legit at all.

 

Yeah, especially the Hard Drive and Optical Disk Drive part. I guess we have to wait a bit longer for something a bit more legit.

 

I guess this will go within the 1800-2000€ range.
This means I'll go with Acer Aspire V Nitro Black 15" and build myself a 16TB NAS aswell.
I just hope the heat/noise management is decent on the Nitro

 

Heat is not something they are massively well known for dealing with.

 

the one thing acer does know the best is surely dealing with plastic

 

Kind of wish they would focus on a powerful 14 inch laptop rather than a slim laptop. I'm guessing this laptop won't support extreme processors then sigh

 

Linus Tech Tips was at PAX and when he was looking at the GX500 he was told that it's not even near production and is still 2-3 months away.

Just a heads up for people hoping for a release in the next few weeks, gonna have to wait quite a bit longer until mid-late November.

 

Dang. Looks like I'll snatch the UX303 to use in the meantime until this comes out. I was also considering the ghost, but wanted better battery life and I kept reading things about throttling.

 

Well, between this and the impending GM204 based mobile GPUs I think Asus lost my money. I'll probably wind up with some sort of refresh on the Gigabyte p34/p35, MSI GS60/70, or Aorus X3 series laptops. I liked what I saw of the build quality for the GX500, but it is too late to the game for what it is (unless they update the video card to a 9xxm). I might step up to a bulkier system with a 970m if no suitable thin/light systems are available.

Thus, the waiting cycle is extended.

A note to the vendors/users on these boards that love to jump on statements like the one above:

Please don't post a canned response with a hogwash statement in the vein of "buy based on what is available at the time...". It is good fiscal sense to maximize your investment by exercising a little patience in order to ensure you buy a laptop after major components experience a significant refresh. In the end all consumers have to strike a balance between budget, timeline, and system requirements that they can live with.

 

Interesting how he said it would have a touchscreen but the floor sample didn't have it yet. I wonder where he got his information because that was the Intel booth, not Asus.

 

Yeah, as ASUS didn't give us any information about it being touch screen in the announcement of the GX500.

 

Prototypes don't always have all features of course.

 

honestly ASUS FOR NOT RELEASING THIS IM SICK OF WAITING ALL THESE MONTHS NO NEWS GOD DAMN

 

lol internets are cool.

 

Asus's homepage for the GX500 now says late 2014.

 

Did they push the release back because NVIDIA might release a 900m series of graphics cards?

 

I think that's a safe assumption.

 

It's possible that QA found an issue they had to fix and it pushed it back, it only looks like the high end is being refreshed just now though on the GPU front.

 

Someone in the 970/980M thread mentioned a 3dMark score for a "Asus GX500JMC - GTX 980M" but assuming it is a GX500, wouldn't it be too thin for a 980M?
I have no idea if the source is a good one. Just adding (possibly) relevant info. Anyone else see more about that model?

 

I have a hard time believing it's real? Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4710HQ,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX500JMC

 

Well if it is I wouldn't mind forking over more than 2k for it! I just hope the chassis doesn't suffer too much from all that extra heat

 

Pretty much this ^

 

That score it's lower than the 870M in the GS60

 

it's lower than my OC'd 860m lol

 

Hmm didn't realize that I thought since the test couldn't recognize the card it would score it lower. I understood that the same thing occurred with the 860 when it came out.

 

Detection won't be great on new chips so we don't know exactly what is being used.

 

was the benchmark on extreme settings? since the 980m benchmark is on firestrike extreme settings.

 

4GB VRAM? Is that even possible?

 

Yeah, I've seen cards with 6gb

 

but in a laptop?

 

See here: http://www.aorus.com/x3.aspx

 

Pretty epic if a GTX980m can fit into it, but what is going to happen to the heat and the price?

 

This is the biggest mystery, I'm sure none of us want a portable grill. I'm really hoping Asus found some way to dramatically drop the heat radiated from the chassis!

 

There are even 880M with 8GB.

 

I think the 970M/980M thread states the new GPUs run a lot cooler. Which may be a reason Asus waited to release the GX500. Also, it'd be hard to get top dollar with an old GPU.

 

my interest would peak back up if they pack in a 980. not so much a 970.

 

The x7x series always offer an interesting mix of performance/price/heat though, can allow more compact designs than a full blown x8x series.

 

Someone at the Asus forums said December is likely and that the 4k display supplier is low.

 

Better than my Sony laptop I have now.. I got a white spot, so time to REPLACE!!! lol

 

I am wondering which is better... the NX500 or the GX500?

Found a couple of turn-offs for the NX500:
(1) The silver keyboard and key backlighting is utterly stupid and hardly readable
(2) It has almost no vents to suck in air implying much worse cooling
(3) Weaker GPU.

On the other hand the GX500 has some turn-offs as well:
(1) I don't like the "Republic of Gamers" Logo on the display cover. Not a single bit. Just keep the usual Asus logo, but nothing else. Especially not a stupid gamer-logo. No one needs that. Ever.
(2) The case surface looks like it has a matt grainy finish. Areas, which are touched often, will produce "glossy" spots, while other areas stay matte. You can see the same behavior on Touchpad coating. No amount of cleaning can solve this and it will soon look "worn-out". For a 2000$ laptop this is a bad joke.

Aside from that I find the red backlighting and keyboard from the GX500 much better than the NX500. Still... these gamer and coating gimmicks are really annoying.

 

to me the nx500 is a more attractive laptop even with the keyboard short comings but the performance abilities of the GX500 has me leaning towards it.

no one really knows enough about either laptop as they don't exist in the wild yet. so to make any comments about durability/longevity at this stage is futile.

 

I agree with you about the nx500, with the back light off you can see the letters fairly easy (at least from what I can tell in the pictures) and you'll really only use the back light in the dark. Of course the gx500 is way better in terms of performance. The other guy also mentioned how the nx500 doesn't have a heat exhaust but in fact it does, underneath the screen where it meets the chassis

 

It's still not an ideal cooling system. Maybe if it were exhaust only, but the problem is the intake is there as well. They should have put the intakes on the bottom like everyone else.

 

Don't the audio grills also act as an air intake?

 

It'd be a great mistake to put 980 or 880 in there; the heat is just too much for a chassis of this size unless they shove like 4 fans in there to blow all that heat out somehow. Look at all the current thin laptops with 870m, they're all grills. the razer blade 14, msi gs60 ghost pro, and all they do is heat upto 90+ degree Celsius and then throttle performance. I'd hate for that to happen to this laptop.

 

Interesting point. There was a preview here about the NX500 which assumed the air is taken from the middle (there under the display). The fan noise for common daily tasks was at 40dB which sucks compared to most laptops tested at notebookcheck.com (most of them having an average of 30dB). Of course measurement methods may vary... but it definitely looks like the cooling is subpar. I have faith though it's better on the GX500.

It would be nice, if the NX500 could change the keyboard backlighting color to something else than white. Anyways... it's about time some of these GX and NX get out and be tested... or are they waiting for the 950m/960m/970m release to put them in?

 

Personally I like black or dark laptops better. Most laptops are heat-constrained, and black dissipates heat better. There's a common misbelief that black absorbs heat and thus is hotter. Black actually acts like a heat conductor, while white acts more like an insulator.

e.g. If you have a white/silver can and black can filled with the same temperature water and leave them out in the sun, the black can heats more quickly. But if both cans are filled with the same temperature water and you put them in the refrigerator, the black can cools more quickly. Basically, black equalizes interior and exterior temperatures more quickly.

In other words, all other things being equal, a black laptop will run cooler than a white/silver one. Its external temperature may be higher due to the higher dissipation, but the internal temperature will be lower (unless you're using it out in the sun).

That would be my guess. The early announcements are trial balloons - gauge consumer interest by getting the conceptual specs out there and listening to what potential buyers say about it. And a lot of the early replies here were that unless it was available 2Q2014, they'd rather wait for Broadwell and more powerful Maxwell GPUs. The supposed problems they're having procuring enough 4k screens probably cemented it - delay it to give people what they say they want.

Be careful what you wish for...