You scoffed when Intel said its new Skylake CPUs could be overclocked, but somehow you should have expected this. Asus just unveiled its flagship GX700 laptop at IFA, the German version of CES—a laptop that will be overclocked and water-cooled.
Details on the GX700 are very sparse but what we do know is it'll features a 17-inch 4K display, an overclocked quad-core Skylake mobile "K-series" chip, and yes, water-cooling.
The water cooler hardware must be that junk in the trunk—the gigantic bulbous butt—that sticks out the rear. Yes, yes, I'm sure you're wondering on what planet this qualifies as a "laptop" but I'm going to imagine that Asus has rigged some clever way for it to dock and undock. When on the road, you run at normal speeds, but once home, you dock your GX700, the flood gates open and you kick the GPU and CPU into overclocked heaven.
Undocked, it'll still be fast, but it won't be watercooled. We're hoping to get a hands on with the GX700 at IFA.
The other tease is the the laptop will feature a "GeForce GTX graphics (TBD)" card. That's essentially a double-handshake way of saying "new graphics card."
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