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Used for: 6–12 months
Cold, quiet and utterly consistent
The ROG software is heavier than it needs to be
Eight months in and the numbers have not moved. Same temperatures under the same load, same frame rates, same silence at idle. That consistency is worth more to me than any headline figure, because the machine I replaced got noticeably slower and louder over its life as the paste dried out and the filters clogged. The only thing I would strip back is the bundled software. It wants to run four separate services to change the colour of some lights, and 3GB of memory sitting there doing nothing on a gaming machine is not a good trade.
Used for: 3–6 months
Does everything at once without a stutter
The lit logo cannot be dimmed independently
Game on one screen, work on the other, and it treats both as though neither existed
Used for: Less than a month
Straight out of the box and into the deep end
Came off a console I had been playing since school and the jump is hard to describe to somebody who has not done it. It is not just that things look better, it is that everything is instant. No install queue, no compressing, no waiting for a patch before you can start. The machine itself is a lovely object too. It sits beside the monitor rather than under the desk because I want to look at it, and the lighting through the mesh front is beautifully judged!
Used for: Less than a month
The case is a genuinely clever piece of design
The card sagged enough that I fitted my own brace
The case deserves most of the praise here. The whole side comes off in one movement, the top panel lifts without a tool, and there is a hinged cable cover that hides everything you do not want to see. Working inside it is the easiest I have known on any machine. What surprised me was that a card this heavy went in with nothing holding the far end. Within an hour of unboxing there was a visible droop at the bracket, and I ended up fitting a support of my own before I would leave it running unattended. Everything else about the build is meticulous, which makes the omission stranger. 30 seconds and a small plastic part would have solved it.