
ASUS has also integrated a passive heat cooling system that will allow for the heat to release through the keyboard. The only intake vent found is on the bottom of the case and sits below the mouse pad where the RAM slots are rendering most Cooling Pads useless to help force air in to cool cpu/gpu. This is further compounded by the computers lack of intake ventilation grills on the case to feed the large exhaust grills on the side. Core Temps will often times hit between 83C to 90C decreasing the performance of the GPU considerably.

On “Ultra” settings and even “high” you will see the Nividia 860m throttle creating chop/screen tearing with FPS around 20 to 30. "if you plan on getting into GPU intensive gameplay such as Crisis or Tomb Raider you will be sorely upset with its performance.
