the ASUS g701 VI may be
300% as heavy and thick as the MacBook
Pro but the g701 also houses
1,300% the graphics horsepower so the
way we see it if you're going to spend three grand on a laptop it might as well
be capable of physically crushing the
other
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description it's not exactly hard to
tell that the g701 vi is a gaming laptop
the outside is brushed aluminum with red Lighting on the back that makes it look
mean and ready for for business no not
that kind of business gaming business
with a 17.3 in screen and a 330 W power
brick that could probably double as a bludgeoning device you don't even have
to see the specs to know it's an absolute monster the io is a solid mix
of more than you'll probably need plus a
Thunderbolt 3 Port allowing up to three external 4K displays and inter internal
highlights include a core i7 7820 HK
processor don't know what that is no problem it's a high TDP mobile chip with
support for overclocking and ASUS has cranked it up to a whopping 4.3 GHz and
in addition to that we've got an overclocked desktop class GTX 1080 that
sits at w seriously
1923 MHz from our measurements that is
faster than a a Founders Edition desktop
card what the stuff and gaming performance is what you'd expect from
this combo it destroyed everything in our test Suite yielding 120 FPS in
several modern AAA titles on ultra settings at 1080P and never scoring
below 60 FPS in anything the best part
is you'll get to see all of those frames too if you get a model like ours with
the 120z 1080p gsync panel it really
gets a chance to flex its muscles in fast-paced FPS games like Doom now you
probably won't care about how accurate the full srgb color space coverage is
while you're spinning around smashing demon heads in but I'm pleased to report
that the IPS panel does a good enough job in this regard with solid viewing
angles and adequate brightness as a bonus and at no point during our testing
did we feel like motion blur or input leg were a problem but this is the big
question about laptops and portable devices in general can it maintain that
level of performance under an extended load without resorting to Bulky or risky
water cooling strategies in short yeah
running firmar GPU stress test in extreme overclocking mode the GPU
stabilizer at 79° while maintaining a
very impressive 1923 MHz CPU cooling
didn't blow us away to quite the same degree after it fell to a measly 3.8 GHz
in ID to 64 after shooting up to 94° at
its overclocked 4.3 GHz but In fairness
we did never run into that issue in our non-synthetic tests and it topped out
under 80° C in our gaming benchmark
marks the g701 vi noise level while
gaming is what I would describe as
acceptable to its credit it avoids the
high- pitched wine of smaller gaming laptops and is basically silent relative
to the Sager np9873 when that thing is pushed to its
limit but it still definitely lets you know it's there it's kind of like a hot
air balloon parked above your neighbor's house one sore spot for me given the
price tag is that up upgrading this thing is a bit of a pain in the ARs
getting inside takes 14 screws and once
you're in there half the RAM slots are on the underside of the motherboard and
the same goes for the ssds only one of
them can be easily accessed though that
kind of thing won't come up that often so let's move on to day-to-day usability
I'm not totally sure how I feel about the keyboard for typing the short travel
distance in key spacing is fine and I
easily got up to speed but there's more Flex than I'd like especially near the
space bar and I just didn't find it that comfortable with that said the gaming
tuned feel of the key switches and the shape of the space bar the five
programmable macro keys and the keyboard back lighting bring my grade up to a b
or at least they would if it included RGB back lighting I mean this is a
gaming product for shame ASUS the
trackpad is what I would consider very usable straight out of the box it's
actually great but if your fingers get sweaty at all it turns into a bit of a
Grime magnet and it's easy for your fingers to kind of skip across it which
does hurt accuracy when you're trying to be very precise with it the odds that a
wouldbe g71 VI Shopper will have a gaming mouse hooked up to it all the
time though are pretty high I just think ASUS could have done better in this
regard speakers are decent for a laptop with fair basee and no Distortion even
at full volume although again if you're gaming you're probably going to have
headphones plugged in but fortunately ASUS has you covered there too in the
701 VI Sports an ESS sa DAC and amp
getting up near external D quality and it's nice to see this included now of
course everyone in the comments is probably saying this is stupid just buy
our gaming desktop and honestly it's no
secret that as a filthy casual grade gamer these days I run a thin and light
but let's say you did want a full fat
gaming experience that's portable have you ever carried a desktop as your
carry-on on a plane I have and it's a
massive pain and takes up all your space and weight allowances so if you
regularly move around for work or school
the g701 vi ticks all the right boxes for me as long as you have $3,500 to
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