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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and today we're looking at the refreshed g7 5-2 that copper-colored beast from Asus it's being refreshed for the gtx 1070 let's take a look so 17 inch laptops tend to be big but this one's always been particularly big and it has an optical drive so it's designed to be more of a desktop replacement than a device that you carry around regularly in terms of his exterior very little has changed it's the same silver colored aluminum top panel silver colored bottom paneling but there's the big and bold copper accents that make this laptop very unique looking it's still not real copper it's still a polycarbonate but the overall build quality on this laptop is really good it's expensive a model with the gtx 1070 starts at $2,500 us but everything is built really nicely the screen hinge the rear exhaust the fit and finish of everything is great there's still some flex on the keyboard but it's a wide 17 inch laptop it just comes with the territory something I noticed this time around this laptop needs a big desk to use it comfortably if I use the laptop on a small desk where I'm forced to use it close to the edge of the desk this corner here will dig into your wrist and it's annoying but if I use it a more spacious desk where I can put my arms onto the desk as well it's a completely normal experience and that's how I use my laptop if you're interested in the g7 5 to make sure you have lots of room so you can place your arms onto the desk as well it has the same port selection as before so individual audio jacks Thunderbolt three port display outputs Ethernet for USB threes and an SD slot the keyboard and trackpad are unchanged they're pretty good the keyboard has macro keys you can program the backlighting is red which I don't love because I'm not a big fan of red I kind of wish that at this price point it had like RGB lighting or something but no you're stuck with red the trackpad is solid it's got physical buttons and tracking is very nice because it uses Windows drivers but overall everything about the inputs are exactly the same as the previous generation the internals are super easy to get to there's one screw and there's a pull tab to get in there this unit has 32 gigs of RAM it's actually factory overclocked a bit a one terabyte hard drive and an m2 SSD there's actually room for a second SSD which is nice drive speeds are good I'm glad they went with a fast SSD at this price point the CPU is a skylake 6820 HK so a bit faster than the super popular 6700 HQ and it's unlocked so you can overclock it I tried it just to see what it could do and the software is really simple to use but thermally I couldn't get it stable at even four gigahertz but seriously it's plenty fast at stock it has a gtx 1070 and the performance on this thing is awesome it still blows my mind as to how close these cards are to their desktop equivalents so running most games at 1080p is super easy on this card moderately demanding stuff like overwatch or black ops 3 or Mirror's Edge those are all around 100 frames per second at max graphics settings even something like doom on Ultra can break 100 frames per second the division runs at around 75 frames per second on Ultra a little bit less depending on the scene and something like Witcher 3 will be really close to 60 frames per second the screen on this model of the g7 5 2 has g-sync and has a refresh rate of 75 Hertz so all of these titles will be capped at 75 frames per second if you have g-sync enabled and that's the tech that kind of reduces visual stuttering and visual tearing but here's the deal I'm a filthy casual and to me 75 frames per second is plenty smooth but the thing is a gtx 1070 can push way more than 75 frames per second for the game at 1080p so I feel like you're wasting a lot of this machines potential by being capped at 75 frames per second the one really good thing though is that the next generation or two of games like as they become more demanding will still run smoothly on a 75 Hertz g-sync panel the panel is otherwise really nice matte finish great color accuracy good contrast viewing angles but I feel like the 75 Hertz panel is more suited to a GTX 1060 a 1440p panel would be pretty cool because when you hook that one up externally you still get awesome frame rates it's only the super demanding titles like Witcher 3 that drop below 50 frames per second when you're running at 1440p so thermally this thing is very well cooled it features a vapor chamber again temperatures are very comfortable fan noise however is a different story it's still quiet on idle but under load it's louder than most 17 inch laptops the benefit to these fans is that I'm experiencing no throttling even when running 3d marks so it's a very well cooled machine now with increased fan noise the speakers on this system are less enjoyable to use if you've seen my original review you'll remember that because of the positioning of the speaker's behind the screen there was already an issue where you lost some of the audio details in the upper frequencies but the overall sound was decent but now with the elevated fan noise coming from the same area the sound gets even more distorted and you have to crank the volume pretty high to overpower it so get some headphones you'll want them for games and movies the battery is 88 watt hours and I kind of have mixed feelings about it I feel like they could have gone to that 99 watt hour legal limit but it would have been heavier and realistically at this kind of laptop size you're probably not bringing around to be used on battery life anyways the AC adapter is pretty big it's 230 watts and it gets hot like really hot but that's going to be pretty standard with this kind of performance so overall I like this laptop it's a strong performer the gtx 1070 is a beast and i like the way that it looks it's a design that kind of gets better over time as you look at it more and more and that's pretty rare with gaming laptops but in terms of value you're not going to get amazing valley with this device but what you will get is a really good performer with really nice aesthetics and if that's what you're looking for this is a really good option that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it thumbs if you did subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you