Hands on: Asus ROG Chimera G703 review

Last August we saw the first few gaming laptops with 120Hz displays hit the scene, alongside the introduction of Nvidia’s 10-series Pascal graphics. Now little more than a year later, Asus is upping the ante with the 144Hz ROG Chimera – and we don’t ever want to go back to the regular world of 60fps gaming.

The 17-inch gaming laptop from Asus is among one of the fastest in the world not only because of its high refresh display, but also thanks to the pairing of an Intel Core i7-7820HK processor with a Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU. Although Asus hasn’t revealed pricing or availability, you can expect to pay a pretty penny above $2,000 bucks for all this power.

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Design

Between Max-Q and all the slimmer gaming laptops we’ve seen over the year, it was almost mind boggling to see a thick gaming laptop that’s 2-inches (5.1cm) thick. The 17-inch Asus ROG Chimera is big honking machine and a clear descendant of the Asus ROG G752 with its titanium and copper color scheme.

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