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ASUS ROG shows off new notebooks for gamers

ASUS’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) division, which is very much focused on gamers, has announced two new notebooks which will be landing in South Africa in July.

The two notebooks are the ROG Flow X16 and the ROG Strix SCAR 17 Special Edition.

First up, the Flow X16.

This is a 16inch notebook sporting an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, up to 32GB of DDR5 memory at 4800MHz, up to 2TB of NVMe M.2 storage and either an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU.

The display, known as the Nebula display, boasts a QHD resolution in a 16:10 aspect ratio with a 165Hz refresh rate. The real draw here, however, is the fact that this is a mini LED display. The display covers 100 percent of DCI-P3 colour space and is also VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certified.

The Flow X16 looks very much like a notebook for the gamer and content creator on the move. The footprint of the notebook is as big as a 15inch notebook and the display can be rotated 360 degrees.

The ASUS ROG Flow X16 arrives in SA in July with prices starting at R39 999 for the RTX 3050 Ti iteration and R51 999 for the RTX 3070 Ti model.

Now for the bigger notebook, the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 Special Edition.

Here you will find an Intel Core i9-12950HX together with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU. All told, when this notebook is operating at full tilt the GPU and CPU have a TDP of 175W each. Now, ASUS says that the CPU running at 175W TDP can only be done for a limited time, but it’s enough to yield a Cinebench R23 score of 22 257 running on multiple cores.

Add DDR5 memory, support for a RAID 0 configuration and either a QHD 240z panel or a FullHD 360Hz panel and you have what we’d call, a beast of a notebook.

Seriously this is a disgusting amount of performance on offer here and it’s all in a 17inch notebook.

The Scar 17 Special Edition also has a bit of a gimmick although gimmick is a bit cruel considering how much work went into it. That gimmick is an invisible message on the lid of the notebook.

“Traditional invisible ink, commonly used on paper, wouldn’t stand the test of time when applied to the metal lid of the SCAR 17 SE. ROG’s research and development team painstakingly created a substance that perfectly blends in with the SCAR 17 SE’s metal lid. In normal lighting, this substance has a matte metallic texture, but with a UV flashlight, the ink appears green and blue,” ASUS writes in a press release.

It took six months and seven formulations to perfect, but this new invisible ink has passed a suite of wear and durability tests, giving gamers a unique pairing of function and form that is sure to dazzle. This cryptic text also holds clues to help beat SCAR Runner, a standalone first-person parkour game set in the ROG SAGA universe,” it adds.

SCAR Runner is free DLC for ASUS’ own game ROG Citadel XV. Thankfully the game is available for free on Steam so you don’t have to buy a ROG notebook to play it.

That’s good news because this notebook will not be cheap. When it arrives in South Africa in July the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 Special Edition will start at R75 999 depending on your exact configuration.

Is that worth it? On paper it looks good, but you can rest assured that we’re emailing ASUS right now to find out when we can play with its new toys.

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