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Performance
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Features
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Price
Pros : Solid performance, no noise and heat, beautiful design, customizable lighting
Cons : Only 32 GB SSD
Bottomline : Asus ROG G20 is ultimate gaming PC that looks great and performs well. The machine enhances your gaming with its fine keyboard and its different lights adds beauty to it. While playing games like Thief, Shadow of Mordor, etc., there was no visible lag and it was silent and cool. This could be viable choice of people who are ready to spend such amounts.
Asus ROG G20 is not so small, but it is a beautiful gaming PC that stands out of the crowd. The space-saving 12.5-liter chassis has some design tweaks and lights on the front and bottom that can be configured as per your desire. It boasts a matte-black finish, aggressive lines and Mayan-inspired markings. It is designed with no visible exterior side exhaust vents. It has a thermal design that takes advantage of natural convection, with a hidden airflow channel. The beautifully designed PC packs powerful hardware to deliver performance.
The PC comes with a keyboard and mouse that has also got some design tweaks. Keyboard has a dedicated volume control button in bold round shape, additionally there are some blue lights placed on the keyboard which adds beauty in it.
Tools to customize your PC
ROG G20 runs on Windows 8.1, apart from regular Windows features, Asus also lets you customize the PC as per your needs. You can manage PC's power for different operations including normal, High and Max power saving. There is another option that makes your PC safe when kids are playing games on it. The Update option lets you upgrade PC, drivers and BIOS by connecting to the Asus server.
We liked its security feature that lets you clean the PC for optimum performance. It deletes temporary files and cookies etc. You can also keep back-up of your PC using the Back-up & Recovery feature which lets you store the backup data on a USB drive or DVD. Additional tools lets you configure lights, audio, etc.
The gamers' PC
Yes, Asus ROG G20 is meant for gamers, it is equipped with Intel i7-4790 3.6GHz (HD Graphics 4600), 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM and NVIDIA GTX745 4GB DDR3 graphic unit to enhance your gaming experience. To see the ROG G20' capability we installed some games like Thief, Shadow of Mordor, NFS and some other titles. Playing them on this PC was a pleasure. We didn’t notice any performance issue.
Though, it looks stylish and you cant see a heat vent, yet the PC was cool during the operations. We also didn’t notice any noise while playing the game that can cause distraction. In our benchmark testing, the PC scored well and resulted with P3456 on 3DMark and 3080 on PCMark Creative 3.0. We also used some graphic testing benchmark to test the GPU and here also we were happy with its performance. It scored 248.1 max and 20.4 min FPS on STALKER: Call of Pripyat benchmark, and 1179 on Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0.