ROG Announces Esports-Ready Strix GA35 and GT35 Gaming Desktops
Tournament-level performance for competitive gaming with the flexibility to go beyond
January 6, 2020 ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced new Strix GA35 and GT35 gaming desktops that offer tournament-ready performance for competitive esports and beyond. Debuting at CES 2020, the ROG Strix GA35 and Strix GT35 are gaming desktops engineered to sustain smooth gameplay under serious pressure, and offer the flexibility to do everything from producing top-quality streams to developing games.
GPU power is crucial for maintaining an edge in multiplayer and rendering realistic visual effects that deepen immersion in AAA titles, so these Strix desktops feature up to an ROG STRIX GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti graphics card. For demanding workloads like content creation and heavy duty multitasking, the GA35 boasts up to a 16-core AMD® Ryzen™ 9 3950X CPU, while the upcoming GT35 will feature 10th Generation Intel® Core™ processors.
The graphics card’s massive triple-fan cooler stands tall in an optional vertical mount, while a 240-mm radiator chills the CPU with liquid cooling. They’re part of a comprehensive cooling system that includes a multi-zone chassis optimized for airflow. The all-new case is simple to open and upgrade, giving gamers the freedom to build upon their investment. Customization is easy with a deep suite of personalization features like Aura Sync lighting, Keystone II technology and Scenario Profiles.
Boosted by RTX graphics
Graphics are at the heart of the gaming experience. Amping up graphics detail in the modern games requires a powerful graphics card, especially at 4K resolution. Competitive esports players also need to saturate ultra-high-refresh displays that allow them to see and respond to actions within milliseconds.
Armed with up to an ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, the GA35 and GT35 delivers reliably high frame rates for the latest games. The GPU in this top-of-the-line card is based on the NVIDIA® Turing™ architecture, which mixes CUDA cores for traditional rasterization with RT cores for ray tracing, and Tensor cores for accelerated AI, including noise removal. When paired with compatible games like Battlefield V and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this combination enables faster antialiasing and higher-quality lighting, shadows and reflections.
ROG Strix elevates the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti’s graphics prowess with a huge 2.7-slot heatsink capped by three Axial-tech fans that help the card maintain high clocks in the heat of battle. In internal tests, the Strix GA35 pushed Overwatch up to 188 fps at 4K with Epic details, while Shadow of the Tomb Raider rendered at a smooth 73 fps in rich 4K Ultra detail.
Tournament-ready form factor
Convenient side features make the Strix GA35 and Strix GT35 ideal tournament machines. At esports competitions, games and player profiles are typically stored on 2.5-inch SSDs. Organizers need an easy way to load that data onto different systems, which is why the G35 has two hot-swap drive bays behind a spring-loaded door on the front of the chassis. These bays let players quickly add and remove SSDs without having to open the case or break out any special tools.
The chassis elegantly integrates a carrying handle strong enough to bear sustained force of up to 30 kgf, making them easier to carry. The slick hidden headphone hook helps keep tournament setups and battle stations clean; it’s tested to hold headsets up to 3 kg and can survive momentary force up to 10 kgf.
Serious 16-core power
The GT35 will feature the next generation of Intel Core processors, while the GA35 offers powerful 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen processors up to the Ryzen 9 3950X CPU.
Cutting-edge 7 nm technology lets the 3950X double the number of cores of the previous generation. With 16 cores and 32 threads, this beast of a CPU