ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17

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In the way ASUS product positioning for gaming laptops, the Zephyrus series launched in 2017 plays a very special role, because it is different from leading product lines like ASUS ROG The Flow X13 or ROG Mothership is highly experimental, Zephyrus series models are its “mainstream” commercial products in the high-end segment.

Therefore, this product line is always “carefully” with annual configuration upgrades along with a number of limited editions such as the recently launched ASUS Zephyrus G14 Alan Walker model.

In May, ASUS announced a new generation upgrade version with 11th-generation Intel CPUs with two versions of Zephyrus M16 and S17 in the world market, but due to the complicated epidemic situation, it was not always possible to buy a new version. Until recently, these two thin and light gaming laptop product lines have officially landed in the Asian market.

With a slight upgrade in terms of configuration, ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17 GX703 is not too different from the GX701 version launched last year.

The case is still made of aluminum alloy with the usual sharp machining of Zephyrus series laptops with the outer surface is electrostatically painted with diagonal lines and a diamond cut logo that divides the shell into two halves.

Visually, the overall size of this new version is almost unchanged compared to last year’s version, although ASUS says this year’s laptop model has been slightly shrunk compared to the previous version, only in size 394.9×264.3×19.9mm compared to 399x 272×18.7mm.

The weight of the machine remains the same at 2.6kg, quite light for a gaming laptop with a screen size of up to 17.3″.

The back is designed with many air intake holes for active and passive heat dissipation. Plus, this cover is easy to open for storage upgrades.

Open the bottom cover of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17, striking the viewer’s eye is a massive heatsink system with 6 separate heat pipes, which conducts heat from the CPU and GPU to two cyclone fans.

This design combined with liquid metal thermal paste provides strong heat dissipation, and is more impressive in the group of high-end gaming laptops today.

The machine board is quite small in size, but is still neatly arranged with upgradeable details such as memory slots, M.2 slot for SSD hard drives all on the back. Users can expand 2 more M.2 SSD hard drives in addition to the available hard drive from the manufacturer.

Proceed to open the machine, the most impressive thing for the writer is that the keyboard is slightly lifted to 5 degrees, creating a 12mm air intake from the top, helping to increase the amount of air for the cooling system similar to other models.

This raised angle also creates an extremely comfortable hand feeling for users when typing and playing games.

This is also the thinnest optical-mechanical keyboard on the market today, giving gamers a realistic typing experience and extremely low response time.

ASUS also equips ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17 with an IPS LCD screen with 1440p resolution and 165Hz refresh rate with the ability to cover a wide color range with most standard color ranges for image and video editing such as NTSC and DCI-P3.

Similar to other high-end laptops from ASUS today, this screen model is also color-aligned from the factory and meets the color standard confirmed by Pantone, enough to serve users in their needs professionally.

A rather special point for “movie fanatics” is that this screen also supports the Dolby Vision cinematic color standard with the ability to support 10bit color standards on new generation movies.

This is an extremely advanced color standard with an added metadata, helping the backlight system to increase and decrease the light source in a way that suits the director’s intentions, to create impressive movie and game scenes.

In terms of configuration, ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17 is equipped with today’s most advanced Intel® Core™ i9-11900H processor and NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card for laptops, promising impressive graphics performance for working people and gamers.

The machine configuration is quite strong, making it able to smoothly run the tests and strong games on the market today.

For example, the system scored 24,221 points with the 3DMark FireStrike test, and 11,296 points with the 3DMark Time Spy test, roughly equivalent to the desktop system using the ASUS Strix RTX 3070 8G GAMING graphics card.

With this power, the system easily carries Horizon Zero Dawn PC at Ultra settings at 87fps, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla at Ultra settings at 67fps or Battlefield V with Ray Tracing effects enabled at an average speed of over 60fps.

Overall, ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17 has quite enough power for gamers to fight heavy games at the highest settings and enjoy excellent image quality.

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