ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces ROG Mothership

2019/04/23

KEY POINTS

  • Revolutionary design: Upright orientation with kickstand, detachable per-key RGB backlit keyboard, thinnest desktop replacement at 29.9 mm
  • Advanced cooling: Liquid metal thermal interface for CPU, four heatsinks with 375 ultrathin 0.1 mm copper fins, anti-dust tunnels, intelligent fan modes
  • Factory overclocked, with RAID: Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK clocked at 4.7GHz, HyperDrive Extreme RAID array for 8.7GB/s read speeds, up to 64GB DDR4
  • The next visual frontier: Factory overclocked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, 144Hz / 3ms FHD or 4K UHD 100% Adobe RGB displays with G-SYNC

Markham, Canada (April 23, 2019) - ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the availability of ROG Mothership (GZ700), a new desktop replacement laptop that redefines the form factor for portable gaming machines. Instead of sitting flat like a normal laptop, ROG Mothership has an upright chassis that draws more air into its advanced cooling system. Its keyboard detaches and folds to fit different scenarios, giving gamers the freedom to find the perfect position, and the innovative design leaves enough room to put all the speakers right below the screen. The exquisitely machined aluminum chassis contains an ultrafast and ultra-detailed NVIDIA® G-SYNC® display powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ GPUs, and also houses an eight-core Intel® Core™ i9 processor coated with liquid metal thermal compound. Better cooling enables the CPU and GPU to be pushed beyond stock speeds and still sustain exceptional performance with demanding workloads. The factory overclocked core is complemented by an insanely fast RAID 0 disk array with three NVMe™ SSDs, plus next-gen networking that enables greater than gigabit speeds for both wired and wireless connections. A radical concept made real, ROG Mothership caters to connoisseurs who appreciate the engineering and craftsmanship that goes into premium PC hardware. This groundbreaking desktop replacement redefines what’s possible for portable gaming machines that take hardcore horsepower to go.

Revolutionary design

ROG Mothership introduces a detachable keyboard with a folding design that dramatically reduces the system’s overall footprint. This grants the flexibility to not only position the keyboard to suit the user's stance, but also replace it entirely without wasting desk space. Separating the keyboard and display makes it easier to situate the screen in multi-monitor arrays or on a shelf to achieve the optimal height for comfortable extended use.

When the bottom edge of the chassis touches a surface, a stepless kickstand pops out automatically to allow one-handed deployment. The hinge offers a range of angles for different setups, from standing straight and leaning back.

The unique design is so much better at cooling that the final thickness of the ROG Mothership chassis was reduced to only 29.9 mm — over 10 mm thinner than the first prototype.

The motherboard is meticulously shaped and painstakingly populated to make the most of the limited space on the circuit boards and maximize open space for the cooling, battery, and speakers. There are even cutouts to make room for the mechanism behind the kickstand hinge.

The main body pieces are machined from solid slabs of aluminum using a precise CNC milling process that ensures a perfect fit. The process steps through 114 individual tooling stages and takes nearly 20 hours to carve every little detail. Most of the keyboard housing is mach