This extravagant gaming laptop could ruin other screens for you

这款奢华的游戏笔记本电脑可能会让你“嫌弃”其他屏幕

I still love OLEDs, but the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18’s ELMB Mini LED display is amazing. 我依然钟情于 OLED 屏幕，但华硕 ROG Strix Scar 18 的 ELMB Mini LED 显示屏实在令人惊叹。

My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as hell. 我的双眼已经见识过 PC 游戏的“应许之地”，那是一个明亮绚丽、毫无模糊感的世界。画面温暖、悦目且清晰得无可挑剔。当然，它的价格也贵得离谱。

I’ve dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which was recently announced ahead of Computex 2026. It’s a gigantic 18-inch gaming laptop that comes with a top-of-the-line 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX CPU and can be fully kitted out with an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and 128GB of RAM. Asus sent me a model to test that’s maxed out on all specs except storage (it’s got “just” 4TB). And of course, the company isn’t announcing any pricing yet — not even for a base RTX 5080 model. We all know, thanks to RAMageddon, it’s going to be gut-punchingly expensive. 我通过测试即将推出的华硕 ROG Strix Scar 18 的预生产版本，初次体验了这个领域。该机型近期在 2026 年台北国际电脑展（Computex）前夕发布。这是一款巨大的 18 英寸游戏笔记本电脑，搭载了顶级的 24 核 Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX 处理器，并可满配 RTX 5090 笔记本 GPU 和 128GB 内存。华硕寄给我测试的机型除了存储空间（“仅”有 4TB）外，其他配置均已拉满。当然，该公司尚未公布任何定价——甚至连基础款 RTX 5080 机型的价格也未透露。我们都知道，受“内存危机”（RAMageddon）影响，它的价格注定会贵到让人心痛。

But what makes the Strix Scar 18 especially unique is its screen: a 4K, 240Hz display with an anti-glare matte finish and a special feature called Extreme Low Motion Blur (ELMB). The Mini LED panel has over 2,000 dimming zones and up to 1,600 nits of peak brightness in HDR mode. It’s when you turn HDR mode off that the magic actually happens. This allows you to use ELMB and have all those dimming zones automatically split up the display into smaller horizontal bands of pixels, refreshing them row by row very quickly — kind of like a traditional CRT. 但 Strix Scar 18 最独特之处在于其屏幕：一块 4K、240Hz 的防眩光雾面显示屏，并具备一项名为“极限低运动模糊”（ELMB）的特殊功能。这块 Mini LED 面板拥有超过 2,000 个调光分区，在 HDR 模式下峰值亮度可达 1,600 尼特。而当你关闭 HDR 模式时，真正的魔法才会显现。这允许你开启 ELMB 功能，让所有调光分区自动将显示屏分割成更小的水平像素带，并以极快的速度逐行刷新——有点类似于传统的 CRT 显示器。

The result is an amazingly crisp picture that shows almost no motion blur during fast action in games. And it achieves this without black frame insertion — a more common method to reduce motion blur that causes a flicker effect and can negatively affect screen brightness. 其结果是呈现出惊人的清晰画面，在游戏的高速动作中几乎看不到任何运动模糊。它在实现这一点的同时，无需使用“黑帧插入”技术——这是一种常见的减少运动模糊的方法，但会导致闪烁效应，并可能对屏幕亮度产生负面影响。

And as you’d expect, this thing is an absolute beast when it comes to playing the most graphically demanding games. I loaded up Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K on Ultra settings with ray tracing turned on and DLSS set to Balanced, and it maintained a respectable (though beautiful) 45fps. That boosted to about 70fps with DLSS turned to Ultra Performance, but you could easily throttle down some other settings or engage frame generation for much higher frame rates. A less graphically demanding competitive shooter like Counter-Strike 2 could run at high settings and maintain 180 to 200fps. 正如你所预料的那样，在运行图形要求最苛刻的游戏时，这台机器简直是一头猛兽。我以 4K 分辨率、超高画质、开启光线追踪并将 DLSS 设置为“平衡”模式运行《赛博朋克 2077》，它保持了相当可观（且画面精美）的 45fps。将 DLSS 调至“超高性能”模式后，帧率提升至约 70fps；你也可以轻松调低其他设置或开启帧生成功能，以获得更高的帧率。像《反恐精英 2》这样对图形要求较低的竞技射击游戏，在高画质下可以保持 180 到 200fps。

It’s the “frames win games” kind of titles like Counter-Strike and even MOBAs like League of Legends that the ELMB display complements the most. If you want to have the fastest twitch-level response to what you see onscreen, you want the clearest picture possible — and that means a fast-moving image free of motion blur. But even if you’re not an esports player with god-tier reflexes, it’s quite satisfying to play fast-action games with this level of sharpness and clarity. And when you don’t need it, you can switch off ELMB and turn on HDR to get eye-searing levels of brightness during more cinematic games. 对于《反恐精英》这类“帧率决定胜负”的游戏，甚至是《英雄联盟》这样的 MOBA 游戏，ELMB 显示屏的加持效果最为显著。如果你想对屏幕上看到的内容做出最快的瞬时反应，你需要尽可能清晰的画面——这意味着高速移动的图像必须没有运动模糊。但即使你不是拥有神级反应的电竞选手，能以这种清晰度和锐度玩快节奏游戏也是一种非常令人满足的体验。当你不需要它时，可以关闭 ELMB 并开启 HDR，在体验电影感游戏时获得令人惊艳的亮度。