The Rog Strix Scar 16 And 18 Come With A Lid That Lights Up And More Rgb

Following a teaser past month, Asus’ latest ROG Strix Scar gaming laptops personification arrived and they’re leaning each nan measurement into nan gamer aesthetic. The 2025 Scar 16 and 18 recreation pinch RGB lights each nan measurement astir nan bottommost of nan chassis arsenic bully arsenic a user-programmable LED dot-matrix show connected nan lid, arsenic seen connected different ROG devices for illustration Asus’ gaming phones.

Beneath nan flashy exterior, nan Scar 16 and 18 tin beryllium maxed retired pinch an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. It tin too beryllium configured pinch up to 64GB of DDR5-5600 RAM and a 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD. The ROG Nebula HDR show comprises a 16:10 2.5K Mini LED expanse pinch a highest brightness of 1,200 nits and a 240Hz refresh rate. There are 2 Thunderbolt 5 ports included, and nan creation allows for easy entree to nan bottommost expanse for constituent upgrades.

The Strix Scar 16 and 18 personification each nan cooling tech you’d expect from a gaming laptop of this caliber, including an end-to-end vapor enclosure and sandwiched heatsink. Combined pinch nan Conductonaut Extreme liquid metallic curen connected nan GPU and CPU, Asus claims that it tin support instrumentality sound levels to a library-like 45dB, moreover during extended gaming sessions.

On apical of each that, nan ROG Strix Scar comes pinch nan aforementioned ray show. Asus calls it AniMe Vision, and you tin customize it to show personalized animations and sync it pinch immoderate different AniMe Vision devices you own. Download immoderate prebaked artwork aliases navigator up your ain utilizing Asus’ pixel editor — nan premier is yours.

The ROG Strix Scar starts astatine $2,599; Asus says its caller gaming laptops will statesman shipping successful February.