The aesthetic design is one of the key things which differentiates the ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR 17 Special Edition from the regular variant, incorporating certain elements that are a nod to the history of the ROG line and have an old-school feel. We’ll go into the other functionality in greater detail under the Screen and Performance, Noise & Temperature sections below. This is purely to aid in backward compatibility and has no benefit otherwise. One unique feature we haven’t seen before is the Legacy DRM compatibility button on the home screen, which allows you to disable the e-cores (efficiency cores) within the CPU when playing older games that don’t support this feature.
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Most of these controls are under the Home section, where you can select from Silent, Balanced or Turbo presets, or create your own Manual custom profile where you can allocate wattage to the CPU and GPU, as well as set up fan profiles and save them so you can easily switch between them.
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Nevertheless, it does have a good degree of functionality and customization: whether you’re looking for maximum gaming performance when plugged in, maximum energy efficiency on battery, quiet fans whilst working, or simply want to turn on the MUX Switch for a highly recommended performance boost in-games (though this will require a full restart of the latpop).
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We say that because the software is a poorly laid out, busy mess, with far too much in the way of popups and menus which are essentially ASUS marketing. The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE comes with the usual ASUS Armoury Crate software, that all the company’s gaming laptops are saddled with. Note that the cheaper RTX 3070 Ti version does not come with the vapor chamber cooling solution.Īll versions of the laptop come with the Intel Core i9-12950HX, which is the most powerful retail laptop CPU money can buy. The max specced version of the Strix SCAR 17 Special Edition comes with a very impressive 175W TGP RTX 3080 Ti GPU, which is the most powerful graphics card you can get in a gaming laptop, as well as vapor-chamber cooling to enable it to run as fast as possible without thermal throttling. There’s also an upgradeable Wi-Fi 6e slot. There are two upgradable DDR5 compatible RAM slots, and ours came equipped with the maximum spec 32GB 4800MHz, though this can be upgraded to a maximum of 64GB down the line. The SSDs on this machine are extremely fast, coming in a RAID 0 setup that gives 12,295MB/s read speeds and 13,330MB/s write speeds. Inside there are two PCIe Gen 4 M.2 slots for SSD storage, which can be upgraded at a later date should you wish, though the whopping 4TB of storage ours came with (2x 2TB) should be more than sufficient. These can be disconnected and reconnected with care, but it’s difficult to do so, and requires a tweezer-like tool. Be careful when doing so not to tear the two connective ribbons which link the body of the laptop to the RGB strip on the bottom side of the case. Opening the back of the laptop required removing 11 Phillip’s Head screws and a bit of careful but firm prying (we recommend a slender prying tool for this job).