New release ASUS N552VX with Intel Core i7 Skylake


ASUS has also ascended to his house fair Computex in addition to various smaller laptops and 2-in-1 models its first high-end notebook with one of only towards the end of the year officially on the market anticipated Intel Core processors of the sixth generation. The ASUS N552VX is located in the popular 15-inch segment, offering a Oberklassse equipment and for the first time a USB Type-C 3.1 connection.

Visually, the N552VX the predecessors of the N500 series of the manufacturer, so that the changes are made almost exclusively in the port facilities and the platform used here. Because Intel has not yet officially announced its new chip, you stick with ASUS still covered in terms of CPU used here.

However, rumors among visitors of the exhibition say that here the Intel Core i7-6400T is in use, which is intended to be a working with 45 watt power dissipation quad-core chip with a base clock of 2.2 GHz. How much of the boost clock will turn out, is not yet clear. HyperThreading is here also supported, while the graphic representation of the Intel HD Graphics 530 is adopted, which provides one gigabyte of memory. More specific details are currently not yet available.

The 15.6-inch display uses an IPS panel that operates with a 4K resolution of 3840x2160 pixels. ASUS missed the N552VX beyond NVIDIA GTX950M graphics unit, which are two gigabytes own memory. In addition, up to 16 GB of memory and various HDD and HDD configurations with normal HDDs, RAID setups M.2 SATA SSDs and another connection standard are possible. Bluetooth, Gigabit-WLAN, a Blu-ray burner, several USB ports and a Gigabit Ethernet port, a display port and a full HDMI port and the first time a USB Type-C port are also on board.