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I don't usually show off my PC cases but when I do the finance baby room for activities modularity strip it down all you want yeah no problem with the heat either know what I mean looking for an intimate moment define s is something sexy hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Hardware Canucks and we hope you enjoyed that pre-roll give us a like if you did then let us know if you want to see more similar things down the pipeline in the future but let's get on with the review because this is one kick-ass gaming machine incorporating some amazing hardware to play your games this is the first notebook that we review incorporating a g-sync panel I'm very excited to share my experience with gaming on g-sync on mobile and has some very unique physical character like all the Aces not notebooks do so without any further ado let's Sahlins get into it this is gonna be a good one so you're looking at the asus g7 51 our model shipped with an i7 4720 HQ with turbo up to 3.6 gigahertz 24 gigabytes of ram a gtx 980m with 4 gigabytes of vram and 256 q by PCIe SSD and the one terabyte 7200 rpm Drive so this thing is fully decked out for gaming but I you the type of person who is either willing or able to spend $2,500 or $3,000 on laptop and that would be the main deciding factor if the g7 51 sells or not it features top-of-the-line Maxwell M GPU and without a g-sync so you can finally play without tearing lag or stutter on a notebook the display is 17.3 inches with 1920 by 1080 p resolution that looks fantastic and I initially thought it was a higher res display just because of how crisp everything looked but why not a 3k display for this size and price it isn't IPS panel toe without standing colours wide viewing angles and because of g-sync it is a 75 Hertz panel instead of the normal 60 Hertz that we get on non g-sync notebooks the slight refresh upgrade sounds minor but is definitely noticeable with extra response times for games it is one of those things that once you try it'll be difficult to go back because tearing and games is now eliminated and things just feel so much smoother when you let the display refresh match the GPU frame output and so the Asus g7 51 is a desktop replacement no doubt about that the combination of rubberized matte surface and brushed aluminum adds a certain gaming visual element but without going over the top and I still think the machine looks gorgeous with the red illuminated logo on the lid the red accented vents on the back and the beautiful red backlight on the keyboard the sheer size and weight of this thing would make any gamer on the go really unhappy with themselves of carrying 8.4 pounds on their back and in size comparison to this eurocom m5 pro you can see just how thick that 7:51 is but I'm not saying it's a bad thing in fact the opposite I'm tired of seeing terrible cooling and extremely loud operation with really thin notebooks so a soos takes this to the next level of giving us the best notebook cooling on the market that is also the quietest which is possible with the added thickness of the chassis aside from the ventilation and the ROG logo at the back all the ports are located on the sides on the left side we find the King's interlock two USB 3.0 a blu-ray drive which I am surprised to see but there is no reason why it shouldn't be included and finally an SD card reader on the other side we find the power input VGA out Gigabit Ethernet HDMI 2.0 and Thunderbolt port so you can daisy chain a bunch of things drives monitors whatever you decide and then there are two more USB 3 ports and finally the audio jacks opening the lid notifications and activity LEDs are right in front of the trackpad visible when necessary but nicely discreet with caps lock LED on the actual key very much appreciated and the keyboard is one of the best notebook keyboards that I've typed and gained on the smooth rubberized surface is pleasant it hides the handling marks pretty well and seriously the added thickness of the chassis leaves room for proper travel distance for the keys with satisfying smooth and light actuations with immediate rebounds the elevated rear portion of the notebook sets a comfortable angle so there are no irritating edges and I also like the addition of illumination for the lost keys so they stand out a bit and the space bar on the left side is extended giving your thumb larger surface area to press I was surprised to not see any media keys aside from changing the volume just because Asus could have incorporated these into the numpad however there are a few unique keys in the top left corner starting with three macro keys that you can assign to do whatever you want there's a dedicated steam key shows that this is a truly a gaming machine and then there's a dedicated streaming key that launches xsplit and if you Stream you'd be happy to know that an unlimited recording license is included with an old book which is usually a $10 monthly subscription so you can utilize the 1.2 megapixel webcam while gaming the trackpad is well placed it's got a large tracking surface with excellent individual left and right clicks that are light enough to press without needing to readjust your hand and the surface is smooth for comfortable navigation nothing negative to say here although I wish it was glass for the price of this machine I was pleasantly satisfied with the speakers on the g7 51 this wall excellent base response and overall full sound reproduction let's take a listen when it comes down to the upgrade potential removing the plate underneath reveals the two and a half inch drive and the PCIe SSD right beside it where a second tuna 1/2 inch drive can be installed but only if the PCIe SSD is removed because they sort of overlap each other and lastly our RAM slots a total of four to a which are on the other side of the motherboard and are inaccessible from this location but with twenty four gigabytes installed you should be okay and I love that this cover is removable with just a single screw to help upgrading your drives or the RAM if it comes down to it much easier and finally let's talk performance we compared the Asus g7 51 to the eurocom m5 Pro that has a 970 m to the gigabyte p35 kv-3 with a 965 m and the new razor blade pro that has a 960 m and we have all individual reviews of those notebooks as well so make sure to check that out but man the gtx 980m just eats through demanding games with very impressive averages for enjoyable gaming and really high minimums too compared to the 970 m the 965 m and the 960 m and for mobile GPU this is an absolute powerhouse and so this is what the machine sounds like after four hours of gaming and literally just sat down started playing for four hours and then you can hear the fans start to spin up a little bit from the wholly silent operation but check this out it sounds almost absolutely silent the birds outside my window are louder than this machine at load which means the cooling system on this machine is very good with comfortable noise levels even that load if you put your ear to the back of the machine you can hear the fans and you can feel the hot air coming out but from the very front absolutely silent so let me move the microphone around so you can hear what the exhaust sounds like very quiet indeed very quiet which brings us to temperatures and not only are the idle temps impressive considering the CPU on all these notebooks the same but the load temperatures on both the CPU and the GPU remain below a DC with such a quiet fan noise I was also impressed at the battery life with its 88 watt our 8 cell battery lasting me 2 hours and 43 minutes in our standardized browser usage scenario and so here is the bottom line for the asus g7 51 it's heavy and bulky for reason to allow the cooling system to do its job without sounding like a jet engine and yes you do sacrifice the portability factor but this being a desktop replacement you wouldn't want it any other way and this truly feels like a republic of gamers product designed to deliver the performance we would expect for today's games and now with added g-sync 75 Hertz display to eliminate tearing and stuttering and from now on it will be difficult for me to game on a non g-sync mobile machine just because g-sync smooth is out your gameplay and things in their mid 40s feel like they're in their 60s and that's it's a good thing to experience things are more fluid but what does this machine and who is it for if you have the means and the funds to afford twenty five hundred to three thousand dollars depending on the model then yes however of course you can make the argument that with that much money you could allocate that funds to building yourself a kick-ass gaming machine as well however keep in mind that nothing would be to match the portability factor and the ole inclusiveness factor of this because this is of course a g-sync monitor sort of built into a notebook excellent keyboard trackpad and so it encompasses the entire sphere all the elements are done right and therefore you are buying into that totally inclusive experience not just for gaming but as a desktop replacement in general and that's why we're giving it the Harbour Canucks damn good award so this concludes this review we wanted to be thorough so give us a like if you want to see more g-sync notebook reviews in the future and make sure to subscribe me home because we have a lot of cool things coming very soon and we'll see you in the next one hello my friends this is FPS Tasha wait a second wrong video wrong video not a fake accent oh not a pig I said hello my friends this is Dmitry with Harbour Canucks and this is one kick-ass game machine