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    News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    ASUS spills the full specs and publishes a launch video.
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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Nice but nothing beats building your own pc
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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    750ti and windows 8.x
    Not like I would have bought one anyway but those things have me less than interested

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Looking at the review of the MSI Domninator yesterday, they may have been better fitting a mobile CPU/GPU in there for better space saving (and gaming performance).

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Quote Originally Posted by Kovoet View Post
    Nice but nothing beats building your own pc
    You'd be hard pressed to build anything as compact as this, though. Still, it's too graphically under-powered for my liking, a consequence of such a small case, no doubt.
    Last edited by MrJim; 16-10-2014 at 05:09 PM.

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Can't really understand the 'console' PC. To me if it has a mouse and keyboard; its used at a desk so to me its a PC. A console gets a controller and lives in the living room. Maybe I is old mian!

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    The lack of an upgrade route would put me off. OK for consoles, as games are limited to the original console hardware for its entire lifecycle, but PC games constantly get more demanding.

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    I do like the way the PC market is now adapting and appealing to the console gamers. Goes to show there's something better then what they're using now! It may even get some of them to start learning about getting upgrades.

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    The thing is that the motherboard is not top of the line,also 1600mhz ram speed is pretty low.
    But with 4k 60p support it would be a good purchase

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Quote Originally Posted by MrJim View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Kovoet View Post
    Nice but nothing beats building your own pc
    You'd be hard pressed to build anything as compact as this, though. Still, it's too graphically under-powered for my liking, a consequence of such a small case, no doubt.
    Without a factory of high tech component assemblers, certainly, but it'd still be fun trying!

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    They should've gone with a more powerful mobile gpu

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    News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    Quote Originally Posted by skthegreat View Post
    They should've gone with a more powerful mobile gpu
    This, seeing it ship with an i7 makes it look so promising and then seeing that with a 750ti left me feeling somewhat deflated.
    Last edited by KeyboardDemon; 17-10-2014 at 09:28 AM.

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    i7 and 750ti? What the **** were they thinking?

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    ASUS do an "ITX" version of a couple of their cards, hopefully in time they'll do a 970 version eventually that would be a lot better than the 750ti

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    It would have to be priced under $400 to be comparable to a console, (IE a console killer) but with those components, I can see it priced upwards of $600.

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    Re: News - ASUS ROG GR8 console-inspired PC will be available this month

    We heard today that the "ASUS ROG GR8 will be available from December in the UK from PC World, Currys, Littlewoods, Very, ISME and Woolworths."

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