The Asus ROG GM1000 is a Gaming PC With Holograms In Its Fans

As chill arsenic gaming PCs are, they beauteous overmuch each travel the aforesaid benignant of look – a elephantine metallic container with machine parts wrong that powerfulness machine games. The Asus ROG GM1000, debuting astatine CES 2026, mostly follows this look too, conscionable with a twist – holographic images projected by the lawsuit fans.

Both connected the solid broadside sheet and the beforehand of the laptop, the ROG GM1000 has what Asus is calling 'ROG AniMe Holo', which is fundamentally lights diffused done the fans successful a mode that lets them task animated holograms. It's not thing that comes done ace good successful inactive photos, but it looks unthinkable successful person, judge me.

But the hologram is much than conscionable immoderate throwaway GIFs that Asus is providing. When I saw this PC successful New York, I was told that users tin upload their ain GIFs and adjacent MP4 videos to customize it. So, you could person it loop a holographic mentation of Shark Tale if you truly wanted it to.

Beyond the fancy hologram lighting, however, the Asus ROG GM1000 is beauteous modular for a high-end gaming PC. It's a immense afloat operation packing up to an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, the erstwhile of which is cooled by a immense 420mm AIO cooler. So, adjacent without the fancy lighting, this would beryllium an expensive gaming PC. It besides weighs astir 90 pounds, truthful you're going to privation to marque definite you person idiosyncratic that tin assistance you assistance it onto your desk.

But of course, Asus hasn't shared pricing oregon the merchandise day for the Asus ROG GM1000. It should marque its mode retired implicit the adjacent fewer months, but you should expect it to beryllium rather expensive.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra