I didn't expect Aus to change much from the g750 that we reviewed way back when
dinosaurs roamed the earth I mean okay it was only 6 months ago but in the tech
world that's like an eternity because frankly the powerful brick-like desktop
replacement gaming machine Paradigm is fairly mature at this point but the g751
is kind of like the Cat in the Hat came back same animal some new tricks watch
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first up the Core specs get a shot in the ARM with the top tier models
available with the core i7 4860 HQ which
on paper doesn't look that much faster but seems to Turbo better than the older
4710 HQ and GTX 970m and 980m graphics
cards to replace the older 870m and 88m
with the same 5% over clock available through isusa GPU tweak utility thanks
to some non-standard power delivery componentry for the GPU which leads us
into the physical tour the overall size shape and weight didn't really get
altered so yeah I still really wouldn't want to carry its 4.8 kg bulk around
with me all day at school or anything but the finishing touches got some nice
little upgrades on our much better IMO
compared to its predecessor instead of a plain black back we get a nice metal
shield around the assus logo and sweet red accents on the rear vent covers that
hide an otherwise very similar dual fan cooling system which is a good thing by
the way because it's quiet underload near silent at idle and the entire
outside of the notebook stays super cool to boot on the bottom we find vents a
subwoofer and a doorway to another
dimension no just kidding it's a 2 and 1
half in hard drive bay and a PCI m.2
slot that can be removed if you wanted to add another 2 and 1 half in drive for
a raid or something not bad storage options but I feel like ASUS could have
done better with a little bit more effort here moving back up to the I/O on
the right side we got a standard Jack for the 230 W brick of a power supply
that feeds the 6,000 mAh battery
Ethernet with a say game first packet prioritization and bandwidth control
HDMI 1.4 Thunderbolt this is a great
feature for a creative Pro who wants to use this as a mobile workstation by the
way USB 3 and audio then on the left we
get USB 3 a Blu-ray Drive and an SD card reader well hold on a second there lonus
why would we want a Blu-ray drive on a gaming laptop do you expect me to watch
my movies on a groy TN panel no I don't
and neither does a seus apparently the 17.3 in matte finish screen is where the
the g750 series got upgraded in its
biggest most significant way other than the GPU moving to the
g751 the g751 Now features a 1080p IPS
panel that looks just great very even
backlight great viewing angles just fantastic no overly blurry motion
nothing like that yay which leads us to
the keyboard which still has correct laid out arrow keys and nice long travel
distances on the keys for a laptop but has actually changed a lot in other ways
some good stuff and some not so good stuff first The Good the white LED
backlight is now Rog red the space bar
is wider on the left now for a more relaxed WD posture speaking of WD the W
key now has a little tactile bump on it so you can find it without looking and
now for the bad stuff the number lock key has been replaced by an ASUS
gaming center launcher key that opens up a mostly useless Rog Metro UI thing I
don't mind the inclusion of the app because it does at least let you see
some system info and configure a couple different gaming profiles with different
settings for LCD appearance audio EQ and GPU overclocking and other than McAfee
and wild tangent games and some CyberLink slideshow maker thing the
system doesn't come with much bloatware but it didn't need a dedicated key and
it definitely didn't need to go where the number lock key should go and on top
of that ASUS seems to already know that we don't need some random game launcher
because they went and included a dedicated steam button that launches Big
Picture Mode for some reason because everyone likes Big Picture Mode on their
laptop and doesn't have steam set to open automatically when their system boots
up we also get a couple macro Keys up here though I prefer them on the left
but your mileage may vary having them on the top might be perfect for you and we
get a Shadow play button whose position
I actually hate worst of all I fired up GeForce experience quite a few times
reaching for escape and I'm sure that the last thing any streamer wants to do
is reach for escape to close a menu and terminate his Stream So this button
should really be somewhere really far away from the gaming Zone on the
keyboard but uh yeah I mean other than that the keyboard's fine and all this
stuff feels really well intentioned it's just it's kind of a little bit Half
Baked maybe next time they'll get the layout of that stuff just right speaking
of baking though now we get to move on to the best thing about the keyboard
there's no baking at all it's so cool
the Palm rest is only a couple degrees above the temperature of the table next
to the laptop the gaming Zone doesn't get much hotter and even the hottest
part of the top of the laptop stayed in the 40° CSUS and change range during my
stare at the flare and Crisis 3 test holy crap and the bottom of the laptop
was very similar to too I mean I guess there's something to be said for thick
gaming notebooks because cool and quiet is good for your ears and good for your
Hardware performance is a strong point of the notebook too we did a dedicated
video on this already which you can watch here but I'll throw the graphs
into this video anyway for your convenience the 98m handily beats out
the last gen 88m while costing the same delivering new features having lower
heat output and lower power consumption and therefore bettery battery life
bettery battery life better battery life
which leads us to battery Boost 2.0 compared to last gen's simple slider to
select a Target frame rate and control GPU power consumption version two tries
to better optimize the whole system's use of The Limited current that the
battery can provide usually about half of what the wall plug can do it also
allows separate in-game settings profiles to be configured for battery
and wall power within GeForce experience so that your frame rate target will be
easy to hit and you can use less of your GPU's horsepower and it all works
automatically now through GeForce experience as long as you launch the
game while on battery power it doesn't support just starting a game on the wall
and then pulling the plug unfortunately
I tried it out in Tomb Raider with a 45 FPS Target using the same settings just
for an Apples to Apples comparison at a frame rate that I personally find very
usable and it works I've actually seen
reports of much better battery life improvements deep into double digits and
less demanding games around the internet though so your mileage may vary with
this one as well but it's a very very cool
feature I guess that pretty much winds it up then doesn't it guys thank you for
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