ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501V

There has been a lot of buzz around the new NVIDIA Max-Q design and there's a big reason why. NVIDIA's new "fancy technology" finally allows implementing a powerful GPU inside a lean and portable chassis. And so the ASUS ROG Zephyrus notebook is one of the first to receive the GTX 1080 with Max-Q design resulting in really small trade-offs in performance and decent thermals under load. But in order to achieve that, ASUS used an unusual design similar to the Acer Predator Triton 700.Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Well, with Intel Core i7-7700HQ and a GeForce GTX 1080 (Max-Q) under the hood, the Zephyrus is able to run all of the latest games at high to maximum graphics settings without a sweat. When you add the 120Hz 15.6-inch IPS display and a speedy M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD for [...]