Overclocked Desktop GTX 1080 LAPTOP?? - ASUS G701VI
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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the ASUS g701 VI may be
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300% as heavy and thick as the MacBook
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Pro but the g701 also houses
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1,300% the graphics horsepower so the
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way we see it if you're going to spend three grand on a laptop it might as well
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be capable of physically crushing the
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description it's not exactly hard to
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tell that the g701 vi is a gaming laptop
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the outside is brushed aluminum with red Lighting on the back that makes it look
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mean and ready for for business no not
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that kind of business gaming business
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with a 17.3 in screen and a 330 W power
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brick that could probably double as a bludgeoning device you don't even have
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to see the specs to know it's an absolute monster the io is a solid mix
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of more than you'll probably need plus a
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Thunderbolt 3 Port allowing up to three external 4K displays and inter internal
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highlights include a core i7 7820 HK
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processor don't know what that is no problem it's a high TDP mobile chip with
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support for overclocking and ASUS has cranked it up to a whopping 4.3 GHz and
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in addition to that we've got an overclocked desktop class GTX 1080 that
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sits at w seriously
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1923 MHz from our measurements that is
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faster than a a Founders Edition desktop
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card what the stuff and gaming performance is what you'd expect from
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this combo it destroyed everything in our test Suite yielding 120 FPS in
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several modern AAA titles on ultra settings at 1080P and never scoring
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below 60 FPS in anything the best part
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is you'll get to see all of those frames too if you get a model like ours with
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the 120z 1080p gsync panel it really
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gets a chance to flex its muscles in fast-paced FPS games like Doom now you
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probably won't care about how accurate the full srgb color space coverage is
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while you're spinning around smashing demon heads in but I'm pleased to report
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that the IPS panel does a good enough job in this regard with solid viewing
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angles and adequate brightness as a bonus and at no point during our testing
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did we feel like motion blur or input leg were a problem but this is the big
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question about laptops and portable devices in general can it maintain that
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level of performance under an extended load without resorting to Bulky or risky
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water cooling strategies in short yeah
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running firmar GPU stress test in extreme overclocking mode the GPU
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stabilizer at 79° while maintaining a
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very impressive 1923 MHz CPU cooling
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didn't blow us away to quite the same degree after it fell to a measly 3.8 GHz
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in ID to 64 after shooting up to 94° at
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its overclocked 4.3 GHz but In fairness
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we did never run into that issue in our non-synthetic tests and it topped out
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under 80° C in our gaming benchmark
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marks the g701 vi noise level while
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gaming is what I would describe as
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acceptable to its credit it avoids the
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high- pitched wine of smaller gaming laptops and is basically silent relative
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to the Sager np9873 when that thing is pushed to its
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limit but it still definitely lets you know it's there it's kind of like a hot
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air balloon parked above your neighbor's house one sore spot for me given the
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price tag is that up upgrading this thing is a bit of a pain in the ARs
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getting inside takes 14 screws and once
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you're in there half the RAM slots are on the underside of the motherboard and
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the same goes for the ssds only one of
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them can be easily accessed though that
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kind of thing won't come up that often so let's move on to day-to-day usability
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I'm not totally sure how I feel about the keyboard for typing the short travel
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distance in key spacing is fine and I
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easily got up to speed but there's more Flex than I'd like especially near the
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space bar and I just didn't find it that comfortable with that said the gaming
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tuned feel of the key switches and the shape of the space bar the five
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programmable macro keys and the keyboard back lighting bring my grade up to a b
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or at least they would if it included RGB back lighting I mean this is a
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gaming product for shame ASUS the
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trackpad is what I would consider very usable straight out of the box it's
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actually great but if your fingers get sweaty at all it turns into a bit of a
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Grime magnet and it's easy for your fingers to kind of skip across it which
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does hurt accuracy when you're trying to be very precise with it the odds that a
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wouldbe g71 VI Shopper will have a gaming mouse hooked up to it all the
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time though are pretty high I just think ASUS could have done better in this
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regard speakers are decent for a laptop with fair basee and no Distortion even
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at full volume although again if you're gaming you're probably going to have
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headphones plugged in but fortunately ASUS has you covered there too in the
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701 VI Sports an ESS sa DAC and amp
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getting up near external D quality and it's nice to see this included now of
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course everyone in the comments is probably saying this is stupid just buy
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our gaming desktop and honestly it's no
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secret that as a filthy casual grade gamer these days I run a thin and light
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but let's say you did want a full fat
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gaming experience that's portable have you ever carried a desktop as your
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carry-on on a plane I have and it's a
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massive pain and takes up all your space and weight allowances so if you
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regularly move around for work or school
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the g701 vi ticks all the right boxes for me as long as you have $3,500 to
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