The Box and Packaging
There’s not much to say about the box and packaging. The design of the box is pretty nice, although it doesn’t give a way much in terms of specs.
Inside the box, you’ll find a HDMI cable, a power adapter and some mains cable (different countries), and of course a quick user guide and instruction manual.
The Asus ROG GR8 II
Once out of the box and powered up, the Asus ROG GR8 II does look amazing. I particularrly like the two-tone and angular design of the chassis. It looks veryfuturistic.
On the front of the system, you’ll find headphone and mic jack and 2 USB 3.0 ports. At the rear of the chassis, there’s headphone jack, optical-out, gigabit LAN, 3 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB-C, 1 x DisplayPort and 2 x HDMI (VR-ready).
A Closer Look
We decided to rip this chassis apart and see what’s inside … Right from the start, you can see it uses a proprietary motherboard. An Intel SSD is plain view, along with the SODIMM and wifi module.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is covered by a metal plate for shielding and comes with one fan. At this point, I couldn’t take the graphics card further apart in fear of damaging it.
Internally, there are 1 x M.2 for NVMe/SSDs and 1 x SODIMM slot which is already occupied by stick of 8GB Samsung DDR4-2400, which leads me to believe the motherboard may contain 8GB of integrated DDR4 ram already.
