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| Source: Aftershock PC. The new Apex 15x EVO takes over as a flagship model. |
Aftershock PC, Singapore’s premier PC builder, has launched the Apex 15X EVO – one of the world’s first hybrid performance laptops aimed at pushing the limits of conventional portable offerings with a liquid-or-air-cooling design.
Representing a new generation of laptops, the flagship Apex 15X EVO combines an entirely new internal architecture with an external liquid-cooling module – the Aftershock Glacier Core – to extend its thermal capabilities for unprecedented compute performance in a mobile form factor. When liquid-cooling is enabled, the Apex 15X EVO operates at lower temperatures, decreased noise levels, and even better performance.
The Apex 15X EVO features a compact 186 x 203 x 75 mm partial-aluminium chassis and a 2.2 kg body. The laptop takes advantage of Intel’s new 12th Gen chipsets – ranging from the i7-12700K to i9-12900H – to push benchmark-breaking performances with its novel combination of performance-cores (P-Cores) and efficient-cores (E-Cores). Each core is optimised for different use cases, allowing the Apex 15X EVO to utilise P-Cores for demanding compute tasks while E-Cores maximise performance per watt for less taxing operations to offer better battery life.
In trial benchmarks, the new chipsets offered an overall 39% performance uplift in comparison to their 11th Gen counterparts, the most significant generational leap in recent iterations.
The 12th Gen CPUs are complemented by NVIDIA’s mightiest GPUs – the new RTX 3070Ti and RTX 3080Ti. The RTX 3070Ti has a 70% performance uplift over the previous-gen RTX 2070 SUPER, while the RTX 3080Ti packs even more extreme performance through its 16GB GDDR6 memory, outgunning even a desktop-class NVIDIA TITAN RTX.
Their output feeds into a screen that is in a league of its own: a brand-new QHD 240Hz Wide Color Gamut display. With a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, the Apex 15X EVO’s panel delivers outstanding clarity and colour precision at a 240 Hz refresh rate, enabling premium competitive play while staying faithful to colour accuracy for content creation needs.
In keeping with its flagship status, the performance laptop supports up to 64 GB of next-gen 4,800 MHz DDR5 memory and up to 4 TB of 7,000 mbps GEN4 SSD storage. Core features that make the Apex 15X series a favourite remain, including a per-key-RGB mechanical keyboard, 92 Wh battery, and an extensive selection of ports.
The Apex 15X EVO is the first-ever Aftershock PC notebook to support the Aftershock Glacier Core liquid-cooling module, which amplifies the laptop’s overwhelming performance with powerful heat dissipation and thermal regulation. The module houses a pump, fan and up to 210 ml of coolant that work together to drop temperatures by up to 20o Celsius even during the heaviest applications, resulting in lower fan speeds and far less operation noise.
In Aftershock's labs, Apex 15X EVO systems on liquid-cooling mode performed up to 9.8% better than on the air-cooling mode.
Aftershock PC, founded in 2012, redefines the way consumers build PCs. It has operations in Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.
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Pre-orders for the flagship laptop are available starting from S$2,899 at Aftershock PC’s webstore. For a limited time only, customers purchasing the Apex 15X EVO early can look forward to receiving a free upgrade to Intel’s i9-12900H chipset whilst stocks last.
