In these minutes, ASUS is broadcasting its ROG live stream to the digital CES 2021 out. Above all, new gamer notebooks are expected, which with a view to the new processors from AMD and Intel, but also to the graphics chips of the GeForce RTX – 30 – family should be updated. In the run-up to the presentation, ASUS spoke to a number of selected journalists about the sometimes far-reaching detail improvements that will be made this year, for example in the cooling or software.

More powerful Displays with more functions

One of the most important changes in the new line-up of ROG notebooks can be found in the displays. Like many other manufacturers, ASUS will offer its new player notebooks with new display options. So you don’t just get fast 360 – Offer Hz screens with full HD resolution at 3 ms, but also QHD panels with 165 Hz, which has not yet existed in this resolution. But that’s not all: In the 4K area, too, one will in the future be a 120 – Hz -Offer an option, which underlines how much you trust your hardware in terms of performance, because 4K is the supreme discipline even for the fastest graphics cards – it is not uncommon for current graphics crackers to fail on the magical 60 – FPS brand, not to mention 120 frames per second.

On top of that, ASUS will place increasing emphasis on color-calibrated screens in its ROG devices in order to make even the most demanding creative workers happy. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus family in particular is predestined for this thanks to its compact dimensions.

For many Devices used to be like this: either you did without adaptive sync or the automatic switchover from the dedicated to the integrated graphics solution. The advantages of both worlds could not be used so far. With the help of a new GPU switch, ASUS wants to make both possible in the future: The use of Adaptive Sync and the automatic changeover of the active graphics solution in order to save electricity and waste heat and thus battery power when idling.

In addition, ASUS will only use high-quality and efficient VRMs in its ROG devices in the future, which should also increase efficiency and ultimately increase performance, because theoretically higher clock rates are possible with the same power consumption and waste heat. In the future, liquid metal will be used between the heat sink and the chip in order to dissipate the waste heat from the graphics card and the processor even faster.

Adjustments to the power supply and cooling

ASUS has also revised the cell design of its batteries and will in future even include a second power supply unit on the W eg, which is much more compact than the main power supply. So you can go about your office work on the go without having to worry about the running times. ASUS has also revised the main power supply and designed it to be mostly more compact despite a higher output. In the future it will be instead of the usual 0235 – W power supplies on 240 – W model, the volume of which is almost a third less and its weight of about 650 g to only round 575 g drops . ASUS will also offer a quick charge function. Using Type-C, corresponding devices should in future be able to reach a charge level of around 50%.

The trend in recent years was clear: gaming notebooks in particular have become steadily more compact, but also more powerful. ASUS therefore had to constantly adapt and improve the cooling. You also want great progress 2021 do it again. The new fans now offer up to 84 fan blades that move much closer together with a distance of only 0.1 mm and thus require a lower overall height. Nevertheless, ASUS wants the air throughput by a proud 13%. The sound level should be a good 3 dB (A) lower. For comparison: 2014 ASUS was still on average at 53 Blades spaced 0, 53 mm.

There are also techniques, like Self Cleaning 2.0 or the anti-resonance design, which should improve the service life and efficiency of the fans. They also want to give the user more cooling options in the future. The new ROG devices now have different power modes in which the cooling acts differently, which of course has an influence on the temperatures and the volume. In the future there will even be a complete passive mode for several devices – up to now this was only possible with the most expensive offshoots.

For hardcore users, as ASUS describes them in the presentation, there will also be an extensive, manual mode with many configurable parameters. There are also acoustic improvements in the speakers. In order to increase immersion when playing, ROG devices will in future increasingly be using Dolby Atmos or two-way noise cancellation with AI in order to be able to automatically filter out annoying background noise in Teamspeak or on Discord servers.

What else?

The first devices with these new detail improvements will be the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G 15 and G14, the TUF Gaming A 15 / A 17 and brand new also the ASUS TUF Gaming Dash, but also the Strix family with the Scar 15 and 17 and the G 15 and G17 will. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 with a double display is getting software improvements. With a new UI and closer cooperation with third-party providers, such as Adobe for Photoshop and Premiere Pro, the use of the second display directly above the keyboard should become even more intuitive. We will examine more details on this in the coming days.

Depending on the product series it is also on the housings give some changes. These include highlights such as mechanical switches on the keyboard, extended RGB lighting, new color variations and patterns, but also completely customizable design elements. With so-called armor caps, the area behind the screen can be removed and replaced with another element. The scope of delivery includes, for example, different color variants for the ROG logo attached there. Using a 3D printer, you should be able to easily print such elements yourself and use them to completely customize your gaming notebook.

And of course don’t forget: ASUS will convert all of its ROG devices to the new hardware components and thus not only the upcoming H 45 – processors on Tiger- Use Lake-H base, but also the Ryzen processors of the 2021 generation and the GeForce RTX – 30 – Graphics cards from NVIDIA, some of which are only available in these few minutes as part of the digital CES 2021 will be announced. Corresponding individual messages with technical data on the new devices will therefore follow shortly. ASUS has big plans.