ASUS G751 Gaming Notebook Review - better version linked in video description
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,540 words · ~7 min read
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I didn't expect Aus to change much from the g750 that we reviewed way back when
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dinosaurs roamed the earth I mean okay it was only 6 months ago but in the tech
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world that's like an eternity because frankly the powerful brick-like desktop
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replacement gaming machine Paradigm is fairly mature at this point but the g751
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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
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available with the core i7 4860 HQ which
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on paper doesn't look that much faster but seems to Turbo better than the older
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4710 HQ and GTX 970m and 980m graphics
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cards to replace the older 870m and 88m
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with the same 5% over clock available through isusa GPU tweak utility thanks
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to some non-standard power delivery componentry for the GPU which leads us
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into the physical tour the overall size shape and weight didn't really get
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altered so yeah I still really wouldn't want to carry its 4.8 kg bulk around
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with me all day at school or anything but the finishing touches got some nice
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little upgrades on our much better IMO
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compared to its predecessor instead of a plain black back we get a nice metal
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shield around the assus logo and sweet red accents on the rear vent covers that
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hide an otherwise very similar dual fan cooling system which is a good thing by
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the way because it's quiet underload near silent at idle and the entire
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outside of the notebook stays super cool to boot on the bottom we find vents a
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subwoofer and a doorway to another
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dimension no just kidding it's a 2 and 1
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half in hard drive bay and a PCI m.2
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slot that can be removed if you wanted to add another 2 and 1 half in drive for
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a raid or something not bad storage options but I feel like ASUS could have
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done better with a little bit more effort here moving back up to the I/O on
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the right side we got a standard Jack for the 230 W brick of a power supply
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that feeds the 6,000 mAh battery
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Ethernet with a say game first packet prioritization and bandwidth control
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HDMI 1.4 Thunderbolt this is a great
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feature for a creative Pro who wants to use this as a mobile workstation by the
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way USB 3 and audio then on the left we
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get USB 3 a Blu-ray Drive and an SD card reader well hold on a second there lonus
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why would we want a Blu-ray drive on a gaming laptop do you expect me to watch
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my movies on a groy TN panel no I don't
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and neither does a seus apparently the 17.3 in matte finish screen is where the
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the g750 series got upgraded in its
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biggest most significant way other than the GPU moving to the
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g751 the g751 Now features a 1080p IPS
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panel that looks just great very even
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backlight great viewing angles just fantastic no overly blurry motion
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nothing like that yay which leads us to
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the keyboard which still has correct laid out arrow keys and nice long travel
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distances on the keys for a laptop but has actually changed a lot in other ways
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some good stuff and some not so good stuff first The Good the white LED
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backlight is now Rog red the space bar
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is wider on the left now for a more relaxed WD posture speaking of WD the W
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key now has a little tactile bump on it so you can find it without looking and
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now for the bad stuff the number lock key has been replaced by an ASUS
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gaming center launcher key that opens up a mostly useless Rog Metro UI thing I
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don't mind the inclusion of the app because it does at least let you see
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some system info and configure a couple different gaming profiles with different
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settings for LCD appearance audio EQ and GPU overclocking and other than McAfee
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and wild tangent games and some CyberLink slideshow maker thing the
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system doesn't come with much bloatware but it didn't need a dedicated key and
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it definitely didn't need to go where the number lock key should go and on top
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of that ASUS seems to already know that we don't need some random game launcher
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because they went and included a dedicated steam button that launches Big
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Picture Mode for some reason because everyone likes Big Picture Mode on their
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laptop and doesn't have steam set to open automatically when their system boots
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up we also get a couple macro Keys up here though I prefer them on the left
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but your mileage may vary having them on the top might be perfect for you and we
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get a Shadow play button whose position
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I actually hate worst of all I fired up GeForce experience quite a few times
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reaching for escape and I'm sure that the last thing any streamer wants to do
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is reach for escape to close a menu and terminate his Stream So this button
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should really be somewhere really far away from the gaming Zone on the
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keyboard but uh yeah I mean other than that the keyboard's fine and all this
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stuff feels really well intentioned it's just it's kind of a little bit Half
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Baked maybe next time they'll get the layout of that stuff just right speaking
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of baking though now we get to move on to the best thing about the keyboard
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there's no baking at all it's so cool
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the Palm rest is only a couple degrees above the temperature of the table next
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to the laptop the gaming Zone doesn't get much hotter and even the hottest
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part of the top of the laptop stayed in the 40° CSUS and change range during my
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stare at the flare and Crisis 3 test holy crap and the bottom of the laptop
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was very similar to too I mean I guess there's something to be said for thick
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gaming notebooks because cool and quiet is good for your ears and good for your
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Hardware performance is a strong point of the notebook too we did a dedicated
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video on this already which you can watch here but I'll throw the graphs
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into this video anyway for your convenience the 98m handily beats out
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the last gen 88m while costing the same delivering new features having lower
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heat output and lower power consumption and therefore bettery battery life
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bettery battery life better battery life
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which leads us to battery Boost 2.0 compared to last gen's simple slider to
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select a Target frame rate and control GPU power consumption version two tries
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to better optimize the whole system's use of The Limited current that the
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battery can provide usually about half of what the wall plug can do it also
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allows separate in-game settings profiles to be configured for battery
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and wall power within GeForce experience so that your frame rate target will be
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easy to hit and you can use less of your GPU's horsepower and it all works
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automatically now through GeForce experience as long as you launch the
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game while on battery power it doesn't support just starting a game on the wall
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and then pulling the plug unfortunately
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I tried it out in Tomb Raider with a 45 FPS Target using the same settings just
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for an Apples to Apples comparison at a frame rate that I personally find very
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usable and it works I've actually seen
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reports of much better battery life improvements deep into double digits and
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less demanding games around the internet though so your mileage may vary with
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this one as well but it's a very very cool
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feature I guess that pretty much winds it up then doesn't it guys thank you for
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