A technical feat as impressive as it was cumbersome. But this idea doesn’t seem to be dead, since a Chinese laptop manufacturer has just presented a range equipped with the Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an RTX 4080 or 4090: the MECHREVO Kuang Shi X and Kuang Shi 16 Super. At present, these models appear to be available only in China
What’s special is that users can choose whether to have the classic cooling system, or a watercooling system in which most of the “machinery” is integrated into an external component.
XMG’s version, however, is based on the AMD GPU RTX 3080 CPU cutter, and appears to be of older design. But the principle remains the same: if you want to run your notebook at full power, you need to connect the external watercooling system, incorporating radiator and pump, via tubes that attach to the rear of the PC. This is the same method used on the XMG Neo 15, which uses an external solution called XMG OASIS.
Although both brands feature a dual-fan cooling system inside, an auxiliary system in contact with the CPU and GPU can be connected to a water circuit.
